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¹ Mi sone, perseyue thou my wisdom, and bowe doun thin eere to my prudence; that thou kepe thi thouytis,² and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman;³ for the lippis of an hoore ben an hony coomb droppinge, and hir throte is clerere than oile;⁴ but the last thingis ben bittir as wormod, and hir tunge is scharp as a swerd keruynge on ech side.⁵ Hir feet gon doun in to deeth; and hir steppis persen to hellis.⁶ Tho goon not bi the path of lijf; hir steppis ben vncerteyn, and moun not be souyt out.⁷ Now therfor, my sone, here thou me, and go not awei fro the wordis of my mouth.⁸ Make fer thi weie fro hir, and neiye thou not to the doris of hir hous.⁹ Yyue thou not thin onour to aliens, and thi yeeris to the cruel;¹⁰ lest perauenture straungeris be fillid with thi strengthis, and lest thi trauels be in an alien hous;¹¹ and thou biweile in the laste daies, whanne thou hast wastid thi fleschis, and thi bodi; and thou seie,¹² Whi wlatide Y teching, and myn herte assentide not to blamyngis;¹³ nether Y herde the voys of men techinge me, and Y bowide not doun myn eere to maistris?¹⁴ Almest Y was in al yuel, in the myddis of the chirche, and of the synagoge.

¹⁵ Drinke thou watir of thi cisterne, and the floodis of thi pit.¹⁶ Thi wellis be stremed forth; and departe thi watris in stretis.¹⁷ Haue thou aloone `tho watris; and aliens be not thi parceneris.¹⁸ Thi veyne be blessid; and be thou glad with the womman of thi yong wexynge age.¹⁹ An hynde moost dereworthe; and an hert calf moost acceptable. Hir teetis fille thee in al tyme; and delite thou contynueli in the loue of hir.²⁰ Mi sone, whi art thou disseyued of an alien womman; and art fostrid in the bosum of an othere?²¹ The Lord seeth the weie of a man; and biholdith alle hise steppis.²² The wickidnessis of a wyckid man taken hym; and he is boundun with the roopis of hise synnes.²³ He schal die, for he hadde not lernyng; and he schal be disseyued in the mychilnesse of his fooli.