John Trapp on Proverbs 22:17

Verſ. 17. Bow down thine ear and hear] Here begins, ſay ſome Interpreters, the third book of Solomons Proverbs (as the ſecond began at Chap. 10.) And indeed hee here ſeems to aſſume a new kinde of beſpeaking his ſon, different from his diſcourſe in the twelve preceding Chapters; and much like that in the nine firſt.

And apply thy heart, &c.] q. d. Call up the ears of thy minde to the ears of thy body, that one ſound may pierce both at once; otherwiſe thou wilt bee like the Wolf in the fables thou wilt never attain to any more divine learning, than to ſpell Pater, and when thou ſhouldeſt come to put together, and to put thy heart to it (as Solomons phraſe here is) inſtead of Pater thou wilt ſay Agum, thy minde running a madding after profit and pleaſures of the world, as hath been once before noted.