John Trapp on Proverbs 5:19

Verſ. 19. Let her bee as the loving Hind, &c.] The Hind and the Roe are the females of the Hart and Roebuck: of which creatures it is noted,Inter utrum que ardor amoris ſummus, ut Oppianus de cervis agens ſcribit. that of all other beaſts they are moſt inamoured (as I may ſo ſpeak) with their mates, and even mad again in their heat, and deſire after them. This being taken in a good ſenſe, may ſet forth the ardent affection that husbands ſhould bear to the wives of their boſomes; ſo they are called too, becauſe they ſhould be as dear to them, as the hearts in their boſomes. A wife is the moſt proper object of love, Col. 3.18. above Parent, Friend, Childe, or any other, though never ſo dear to us.

And bee thou raviſhed alwaies] Heb. Erre thou alwaies in her love: Mercer. velut extra te ſis & rerum aliarum obliviſcare. It implies (ſaith one) a lawful earneſt affection, ſo as, firſt, to overſee ſome blemiſhes and defects! Love is blind. In facie naevus cauſa decoris erit. Secondly, ſo highly to eſteem her,Ovid. and ſo lovingly to comport with her, that others may think him even to dote on her. Howbeit muli[illegible: 1 letter]roſity muſt bee carefully avoided, as a harmful errour: and that ſaying of Hierome duly pondered and beleeved, Quiſquis in uxorem ardentior eſt amator, adulter eſt. As a man may bee drunk with his own drink, and a glutton by exceſſive devouring of his own meat: ſo likewiſe one may bee unclean by the intemperate or intempeſtive abuſe of the marriage-bed: which ought by no means to bee ſtained or diſhonoured with ſenſual exceſſes.