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8 Kepe thy waye farre from her, and come not nye the dores of her house.
9 That thou geue not thy strength vnto other, & thy yeares to the cruell.
10 That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, and that thy laboures come not in a straunge house.
11 Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and lusty greane youth)
12 and then saye: Alas, why hated I nourtoure: why did my herte despise correccion?
13 Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, and herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?
14 I am come almost into all misfortune, in the myddest of the multitude and congregacion.
15 Drincke of the water, of thyne awne well and of the ryuers that runne out of thyne awne springes.
16 Let thy welles flowe out abroade, that there may he ryuers of water in the stretes:
17 but let them be onely thyne awne, and not straungers with the.
18 Let thy well be blessed and be glad with the wyfe of thy youth.
19 Louinge is the hynde, and frendly is the Roo: let her brestes alwaye satisfye the, and holde the euer content with her loue.
20 My sonne, why wylt thou haue pleasure in an harlot, & embrace the bosome, of another woman?