My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
Ver. 1. My son, attend unto my wisdom.] Aristotle a could say that young men are but cross and crooked hearers of moral philosophy, and have much need to be stirred up to diligent attendance. Fornication is by many of them held a peccadillo; and Aristotle spareth not to confess the disability of moral wisdom to rectify the intemperance of nature; which also he made good in his practice, for he used a common strumpet to satisfy his lust.
a Ethic., lib. vii. cap. 3,4.