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| [1]Fili mi, custodi sermones meos, et præcepta mea reconde tibi. |
[1]My son, keep my words, and hide my commandments with thee. |
| [2]Fili, serva mandata mea, et vives; et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui: |
[2]Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes. |
| [3]liga eam in digitis tuis, scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui. |
[3]Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the table of thine heart. |
| [4]Dic sapientiæ: Soror mea es, et prudentiam voca amicam tuam: |
[4]Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister: and call understanding thy kinswoman, |
| [5]ut custodiant te a muliere extranea, et ab aliena quæ verba sua dulcis facit. |
[5]That they may keep thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger that is smooth in her words. |
| [6]De fenestra enim domus meæ per cancellos prospexi, |
[6]As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my window, |
| [7]et video parvulos; considero vecordem juvenem, |
[7]And I saw among the fools, and considered among the children a young man destitute of understanding, |
| [8]qui transit per plateam juxta angulum et prope viam domus illius graditur: |
[8]Who passed through the street by her corner, and went toward her house, |
| [9]in obscuro, advesperascente die, in noctis tenebris et caligine. |
[9]In the twilight in the evening, when the night began to be black and dark. |
| [10]Et ecce occurrit illi mulier ornatu meretricio, præparata ad capiendas animas: garrula et vaga, |
[10]And behold, there met him a woman with an harlot's behavior, and subtle in heart. |
| [11]quietis impatiens, nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis; |
[11](She is babbling and loud: whose feet cannot abide in her house. |
| [12]nunc foris, nunc in plateis, nunc juxta angulos insidians. |
[12]Now she is without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner) |
| [13]Apprehensumque deosculatur juvenem, et procaci vultu blanditur, dicens: |
[13]So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him, |
| [14]Victimas pro salute vovi, hodie reddidi vota mea; |
[14]I have peace offerings: this day have I paid my vows. |
| [15]idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum, desiderans te videre, et reperi. |
[15]Therefore came I forth to meet thee, that I might seek thy face: and I have found thee. |
| [16]Intexui funibus lectulum meum, stravi tapetibus pietis ex Ægypto; |
[16]I have decked my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt. |
| [17]aspersi cubile meum myrrha, et aloë, et cinnamomo. |
[17]I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| [18]Veni, inebriemur uberibus, et fruamur cupitis amplexibus donec illucescat dies. |
[18]Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us take our pleasure in dalliance. |
| [19]Non est enim vir in domo sua: abiit via longissima; |
[19]For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a journey far off. |
| [20]sacculum pecuniæ secum tulit; in die plenæ lunæ reversurus est in domum suam. |
[20]He hath taken with him a bag of silver, and will come home at the day appointed. |
| [21]Irretivit eum multis sermonibus, et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum. |
[21]Thus with her great craft she caused him to yield, and with her flattering lips she enticed him. |
| [22]Statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam, et quasi agnus lasciviens; et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur: |
[22]And he followed her straight ways, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, and as a fool to the stocks for correction, |
| [23]donec transfigat sagitta jecur ejus; velut si avis festinet ad laqueum, et nescit quod de periculo animæ illius agitur. |
[23]Till a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger. |
| [24]Nunc ergo, fili mi, audi me, et attende verbis oris mei. |
[24]Hear me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the words of my mouth. |
| [25]Ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua, neque decipiaris semitis ejus; |
[25]Let not thine heart decline to her ways: wander thou not in her paths. |
| [26]multos enim vulneratos dejecit, et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea. |
[26]For she hath caused many to fall down wounded, and the strong men are all slain by her. |
| [27]Viæ inferi domus ejus, penetrantes in interiora mortis. |
[27]Her house is the way unto the grave, which goeth down to the chambers of death. |