Adam Clarke on Proverbs 6:13
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Proverbs6:13
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers - These things seem to be spoken of debauchees, and the following quotation from Ovid, Amor. Iib. i., El. iv., ver. 15, shoots the whole process of the villany spoken of by Solomon:
Cum premit ille torum, vultu comes ipsa modestoIbis, ut accumbas: clam mihi tange pedem.
Me specta, nutusque meos, vultum que loquacemExcipe furtivas, et refer ipsa, notas.
Verba superciliis sine voce loquentia dicamVerba leges digitis, verba notata mero.
Cum tibi succurrit Veneris lascivia nostrae,Purpureas tenero pollice tange genas, etc., etc.
The whole elegy is in the same strain: it is translated in Garth's Ovid, but cannot be introduced here.
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