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chapter 8
1
Who
shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I
may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?
2 I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my
mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced
wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall
embrace me.
4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir
not up, nor awake my love till she please.
5 Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing
with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up:
there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy
arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof
are fire and flames.
7 Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the
floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love,
he shall despise it as nothing.
8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall
we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
9 If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of
silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar.
10 I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I
am become in his presence as one finding peace.
11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath
people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit
thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee,
the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends
hearken: make me hear thy voice.
14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and
to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.
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