1<\/sup>My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Now therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.<\/span> <\/p>\n