Holy Scripture
Proverbs 5:18
A church father on this verse
“"Let your fountain be blessed," etc. Maintain such temperance with the woman you married in your youth, even in old age, that by faithful chastity you may rightly gain a blessing in your offspring. "A loving doe, a graceful fawn." Let her always be your beloved spouse, who, like a doe that avoids serpents, shuns harlo…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
18Let thy fountain of water be truly thine own; And rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
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16Let not waters out of thy fountain be spilt by thee, But let thy waters go into thy streets.
17Let them be only thine own, And let no stranger partake with thee.
— Proverbs 5:18 —
19Let thy loving hart and thy graceful colt company with thee, And let her be considered thine own, and be with thee at all times; For ravished with her love thou shalt be greatly increased.
20Be not intimate with a strange woman, Neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.