For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Ver. 26. For by means of a whorish woman.] See Trapp on " Pro 5:10 " These creatures know no other language but that of the horse leech's daughter, Give, give, and may fitly be compared to the ravens of Arabia, that, fully gorged, have a tunable, sweet record, but empty, screech horribly; or to carrion crows, that flock to a dead carcase, not to defend it, but to devour it; and no sooner have they bared the bones but they are gone. Thus dame Alice Peirce, King Edward III's concubine, served him while he lived; all was here as she would; and when this king lay dying, she packed away what she could snatch, even to the rings on his fingers, and so left him. a
“ Corpus, opes, animum, famam, vim, lumina, scortum
Debilitat, perdit, necat, aufert, cripit, orbat."
Will hunt for the precious life. ] As Potiphar's wife did for Joseph's. Gen 39:14 And surely it was a great providence of God that, upon her false accusation, he had not been presently put to death. Into prison he was thrown, and so laden with fetters, that "the iron entered into his soul" Psalms 105:18 - i.e., ate into his flesh, and all by means of this whorish woman, whose lust turned into hatred. Aut te ardenter amat, aut te capitaliter odit. b See Trapp on " Pro 5:11 "
a Daniel's Chronicle.
b Mantuan.