John Trapp on Proverbs 5:1

CHAP. V. Verſe 1. My Son, attend unto my Wiſdome.]

ARiſtotle could ſay, that young men are but croſs and crooked hearers of moral Philoſophy, and have much need to bee ſtirred up to diligent attendance. Ethic. lib. 7. cap. 3, 4. Fornication is by many of them held a peccadillo: And Ariſtotle ſpareth not to confeſs the diſability of moral wiſdome to rectifie the intemperance of nature: which alſo hee made good in his practice; for hee uſed a common ſtrumpet to ſatisfie his luſt.