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A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs…
A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by Thomas for Thomas Man, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Stolen waters are sweet, and hid bread is pleasant. Verse. 17
Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant. Verse. 17
This verse containeth an event that followeth their yielding to follies allurements, that at the first they find delight and pleasure, and great contentation in their entertainment.
This verse containeth an euent that followeth their yeelding to follies allurements, that at the first they finde delight and pleasure, and great contentation in their intertainement.
He alludeth, as it seemeth, to the disorders that are wont to be in harlots houses, wherein at the meeting of companions they use to have a feast, and all the provision is of stolen stuff. Either servants filch from their masters, or otherwise they steal from their neighbours, hens, and geese, and ducks, ⟨p. 41⟩and connies, and venison, and such things as they can come by: which is called hid food, because as they cannot justify it, so they dare not let it be seen, but dress it covertly, and eat it secretly in the middest of the night, in the most inward and closest room of the whole house. And whatsoever is so gotten, and there made ready is very delicious unto them, though it were but bread and water.