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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 7:1 | My sonne, kepe my wordes, and lay vp my commaundements by the. |
| 7:2 | Kepe my commaundementes and my lawe, euen as the apple of thyne eie, and thou shalt liue. |
| 7:3 | Bind them vpon thy fingers, and wryte them in the table of thyne herte. |
| 7:4 | Saye vnto wysdome: thou art my sister, and cal vnderstandyng thy kynswoman: |
| 7:5 | that she may kepe the from the starnge woman, and from the harlot which geueth swete wordes, |
| 7:6 | For out of the window of my house I loked thorow the trealesse, |
| 7:7 | & beheld the simple people: and among other yong folkes I spyed one yonge fole |
| 7:8 | going ouer the stretes, by the corner in the way toward the harlots house |
| 7:9 | in the twylight of the euening, when it beganne now to be nyght and darke. |
| 7:10 | And beholde, ther met him a woman in an harlots apparel, |
| 7:11 | a dysceatful, wanton & vnstedfast woman: whose fet could not abide in the house, |
| 7:12 | now is she without, now in the stretes, lurketh in euery corner, |
| 7:13 | she caught the yonge man, kyssed hym, & was not ashamed, sayinge: |
| 7:14 | I had a vowe to paye, & thys daye I perfourme it. |
| 7:15 | Therfore came I forth to mete the, that I mighte seke thy face, and so I haue founde the. |
| 7:16 | I haue deckte my bed with couerynges & clothes of Egypte. |
| 7:17 | My bed haue I made to smell of myrre, Aloes, and Cynamon. |
| 7:18 | Come let vs lye together, and take our pleasure tyll it be daye lyghte. |
| 7:19 | For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of. |
| 7:20 | He hath taken the bagge of money with hym: who can tell when he commeth home? |
| 7:21 | Thus with many swete woordes she ouercome hym, and with her flatteryng lippes she wanne hym. |
| 7:22 | Immediatly he folowed her, as it were an oxe led to the slaughter (& lyke as it were to the stockes, where foles are punyshed) |
| 7:23 | so longe tyll she had wounded hys lyuer with her dart: like as if a byrde hasted to the snare not knowyng that the parell of his lyfe lieth therupon. |
| 7:24 | Heare me now therfore (O my sonne) and marke the wordes of my mouth. |
| 7:25 | Let not thyne herte wandre in her wayes, & be not thou disceyued in her pathes. |
| 7:26 | For many one hath she wounded and cast doune yea, many a stronge man hath she slayne. |
| 7:27 | Her house is the waye vnto hell, where men go doune into the chambers of death. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.