Proverbs 7:18-27 ▼

18 Come let vs take our fill of loue vntyll the morning, and let vs solace our selues with the pleasures of loue.

19 For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of.

20 He hath taken the bagge of money with hym, and wyll returne at the appointed solempne feast.

21 Thus with many sweete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flattering lippes she entised hym.

22 Sodainly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, and lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes to be punished,

23 So long tyll she had wounded his lyuer with her dart: lyke as if a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowing that the perill of his life lieth thervpon.

24 Heare me now therfore O my chylde, and marke the wordes of my mouth:

25 Let not thyne heart wander in her wayes, and be not thou deceaued in her pathes.

26 For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yea many a strong man hath ben slaine by the meanes of her.

27 Her house is the way vnto hell, and bryng men downe into the chaumbers of death.