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¹ My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, & incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.² That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.³ For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.⁴ But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.⁵ Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell.⁶ She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.⁷ Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.⁸ Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,⁹ Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:¹⁰ Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,¹¹ And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)¹² And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!¹³ And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!¹⁴ I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

¹⁵ Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.¹⁶ Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.¹⁷ But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.¹⁸ Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.¹⁹ Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.²⁰ For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?²¹ For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.²² His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.²³ Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.