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The Great Bible 1539
| 7:1 | My sonne, kepe my wordes, & laye vp my commaundementes by the. |
| 7:2 | Kepe my commaundementes and my lawe, euen as the apple of thyne eye, and thou shalt lyue. |
| 7:3 | Bynde them vpon thy fyngers, and wryte them in the table of thyne hert. |
| 7:4 | Saye vnto wysdome: thou art my syster, and call vnderstandynge thy kynswoman: |
| 7:5 | that they maye kepe the from the straunge woman, and from the harlot which geueth swete wordes. |
| 7:6 | For out of the wyndowe of my house I loked thorowe the latysse, |
| 7:7 | & behelde the symple people: and amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole, |
| 7:8 | goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house, |
| 7:9 | in the twylight of the euenynge, when it beganne nowe to be nyght & darcke. |
| 7:10 | And beholde, there mett hym a woman wt open tokens of an harlot, onely her herte was hyde, |
| 7:11 | She was full of loude wordes, & redy to daly: whose fete coulde not abyde in the house, |
| 7:12 | nowe is the without, now in the stretes, and layeth abayte in euery corner, |
| 7:13 | she caught the yongeman, kyssed hym, and was not ashamed, sayinge: |
| 7:14 | I had a vowe of peace offerynges to paye, and thys daye I perfourme it. |
| 7:15 | Therfore came I forth to mete the, that I myght seke thy face, and so I haue founde the. |
| 7:16 | I haue deckte my bed with couerynges and clothes of Egypte. |
| 7:17 | My bed haue I made to smell of Mirre, Aloes, and Cynamon. |
| 7:18 | Come lett vs ly together, and take oure pleasure tyll it be daye lyght: and we wyll enioye the pleasures of loue. |
| 7:19 | For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of. |
| 7:20 | He hath taken the bagge of moneye with hym: And will retourne home at the appoynted solempne feste? |
| 7:21 | Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with her flatterynge lyppes she entysed hym |
| 7:22 | sodenlye to folowe her: as it were an oxe led to the slaughter, & lyke as it were a foole that laugheth when he goeth to the stockes, to be punyshed, |
| 7:23 | so longe tyll she had wounded hys lyuer with her dart: lyke as yf a byrde hasted to the snare, not knowynge that the parell of hys lyfe lyeth ther vpon. |
| 7:24 | Heare me nowe therfore, O my chyldren, and marcke the wordes of my mouth. |
| 7:25 | Let not thyne herte wandre in her wayes, and be not thou disceaued in her pathes. |
| 7:26 | For many one hath she wounded and cast downe, yee many a stronge man hath bene slayne by the meanes of her. |
| 7:27 | Her houses are the waye vnto hell, and brynge men downe into the chambers of death. |
The Great Bible 1539
The Great Bible of 1539 was the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Thomas, Lord Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General. In 1538, Cromwell directed the clergy to provide "one book of the bible of the largest volume in English, and the same set up in some convenient place within the said church that ye have care of, whereas your parishioners may most commodiously resort to the same and read it."