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wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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thou [art] fair; thou [haft] doves' eyes within thy locks thy hair [is] as a flock of goats, that ap2 pear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth [are] like a flock [of fheep that are even] fhorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none 3 [is] barren among them. Thy lips [are] like a thread of fcarlet, and thy fpeech [is] comely: thy temples [are] like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck [is] like the tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all 5 fhields of mighty men. Thy two breafts [are] like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the 6 lilies. Until the day break, and the fhadows flee away,

I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill 7 of frankincenfe. Thou [art] all fair, my love; [there 8 is] no fpot in thee. Come with me from Lebanon, [my] fpoufe, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions dens, from the mountains of the 9 leopards. Thou haft ravished my heart, my fister, [my] fpoufe; thou haft ravished my heart with one of 10 thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. How fair is thy love, my fifter, [my] fpouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the fmell of thine ointments II than all fpices! Thy lips, O [my] fpoufe, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the fmell of thy garments [is] like the 12 fmell of Lebanon. A garden inclofed [is] my fifter, 13 [my] fpoufe; a spring shut up, a fountain fealed. Thy

plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with plea14 fant fruits; camphire, with fpikenard, Spikenard and faffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincenfe; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief

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15 fpices: A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and ftreams from Lebanon.

16 Awake, O north wind; and come thou fouth; blow upon my garden, [that] the fpices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

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AM come into my garden, my fifter, [my] fpoufe; I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

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2 I fleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [faying,] Open to me, my fifter, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the 3 night. I have put off my coat; how fhall I put it on? 4 I have washed my feet; how fhall I defile them? My

beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door,] and 5 my bowels were moved for him. I rofe up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers [with] fweet fmelling myrrh, upon the 6 handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, [and] was gone: my foul failed when he fpake: I fought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no anfwer. 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they fmote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls 8 took away my veil from me. I charge you, O daughters of Jerufalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] fick of love.

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What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou doft fo charge. 10 us? My beloved [is] white and ruddy, the chiefeft 11 among ten thousand. His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven,

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12 His eyes [are] as [the eyes] of doves by the rivers of 13 waters, washed with milk, [and] fitly fet. His cheeks [are] as a bed of fpices, [as] fweet flowers: his lips 14 [like] lilies, dropping fweet fmelling myrrh. His

hands [are as] gold rings fet with the beryl: his belly 15 [is as] bright ivory overlaid [with] fapphires. His legs [are as] pillars of marble, fet upon fockets of fine gold: his countenance [is] as Lebanon, excellent as 16 the cedars. His mouth [is] moft fweet: yea, he [is] altogether lovely. This [is] my beloved, and this [is] my friend, O daughters of Jerufalem.

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HITHER is thy beloved gone, O thou faireft among women? whither is thy beloved 2 turned afide? that we may feek him with thee. My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of fpices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. I [am] my beloved's, and my beloved [is] mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

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Thou [art] beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerufalem, terrible as [an army] with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me thy hair [is] as a flock of goats that appear 6 from Gilead. Thy teeth [are] as a flock of theep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and [there is] not one barren among 7 them. As a piece of a pomegranate [are] thy temples 8 within thy locks. There are threefcore queens, and

fourscore concubines, and virgins without number, 9 My dove, my undefiled is [but] one; fhe [is] the [only] one of her mother, fhe [is] the choice [one] of her that bare her. The daughters faw her, and bleffed her; [yea,] the queens and the concubines, and they 10 praised her. Who [is] fhe [that] looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the fun, [and] I terrible as [an army] with banners? I went down into the garden of nuts to fee the fruits of the valley, [and]

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to fee whether the vine flourished, [and] the pomegra12 nates budded. Or ever I was aware, my foul made 13 me [like] the chariots of Ammi-nadib. Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will you fee in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

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CHAP. VII.

OW beautiful are thy feet with fhoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs [are] like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning work2 man. Thy navel [is like] a round goblet, [which] wanteth not liquor: thy belly [is like] an heap of 3 wheat fet about with lilies. Thy two breafts [are] like 4 two young roes [that are] twins. Thy neck [is] as a tower of ivory; thine eyes [like] the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nofe [is] as the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head upon thee [is] like Carmel, and the hair

of thine head like purple; the king [is] held in the 6 galleries. How fair and how pleafant art thou, O 7 love, for delights! This thy ftature is like to a palm 8 tree, and thy breafts to clusters [of grapes.] I faid, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now alfo thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the fmell of thy nofe like apples; 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the beft wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] fweetly, caufing the lips of those that are asleep to fpeak.

10 I [am] my beloved's, and his defire [is] toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let 12 us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the

vineyards; let us fee if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud 13 forth: there will I give thee my loves. The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates [are] all manner of pleafant [fruits,] new and old, [which] I have laid for thee, O my beloved.

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CHA P. VIII.

THAT thou [wert] as my brother, that fucked the breafts of my mother! [when] I fhould find thee without, I would kifs thee; yea, I fhould not be 2 defpifed. I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's houfe, [who] would inftruct me: I would - cause thee to drink of fpiced wine of the juice of my 3 pomegranate. His left hand [fhould be] under my 4 head, and his right hand fhould embrace me. I charge

you, O daughters of Jerufalem, that ye ftir not up, 5 nor awake [my] love, until he please. Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there fhe brought thee forth [that] bare thee.

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Set me as a feal upon thine heart, as a feal upon thine arm: for love [is] ftrong as death; jealoufy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, 7 [which hath] a moft vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the fubftance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

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We have a little fifter, and fhe hath no breafts: what fhall we do for our fifter in the day when she shall 9 be fpoken for? If the [be] a wall, we will build upon her a palace of filver: and if the [be] a door, we will 10 inclofe her with boards of cedar. I [am] a wall, and

my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one 11 that found favour. Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon: he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thoufand [pieces] 12 of filver. My vineyard, which [is] mine, [is] before me: thou, O Solomon, [must have] a thousand, and 3 thofe that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. Thou that dwelleft in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: caufe me to hear [it.]

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Make hafte, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of fpices.

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