Proverbs 5:5-20

⁵Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.

⁶She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

⁷Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

⁸Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

⁹Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

¹⁰Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

¹¹And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

¹²And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

¹³And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

¹⁴I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

¹⁵Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

¹⁶Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

¹⁷But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

¹⁸Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

¹⁹Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

²⁰For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?