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| [1]O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. |
[1]O that I might finde thee without and kisse thee, whom I loue as my brother whiche suckt my mothers brestes, and that thou shalt not be dispised |
| [2]I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. |
[2]I wyll leade thee and bryng thee into my mothers house, that thou myghtest teache me, and that I myght geue thee drynke of the spiced wine, and of the sweete sappe of my pomegranates |
| [3]His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. |
[3]His left hande shalbe vnder my head, and his ryght hande shall imbrace me |
| [4]I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. |
[4]I charge you O ye daughters of Hierusalem that ye wake not vp my loue, nor touche her, tyll she be content her selfe |
| [5]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 she brought thee forth that bare thee. |
[5](What is she this that cometh vp from the wildernesse, and leaneth vpon her loue?) I wake thee vp among the apple trees where thy mother conceaued thee, where thy mother [I say] brought thee into the worlde |
| [6]Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. |
[6]O set me as a seale vpon thine heart, and as a seale vpon thine arme: for loue is myghtie as the death, and gelousie as the hell |
| [7]Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. |
[7]Her coales are coales of fire, and a very vehement flambe [of the Lorde]: so that many waters are not able to quenche loue, neither may the streames drowne it: Yea yf a man woulde geue all the good of his house for loue, he shoulde count it nothyng |
| [8]We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? |
[8]Our sister is but young and hath no brestes: what shall we do for our sister when she shalbe spoken for |
| [9]If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. |
[9]If she be a wall, we shall builde a siluer bulwarke thervpon: yf she be a doore, we shall fasten her with boordes of Cedar tree |
| [10]I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. |
[10]I am a wall, and my brestes lyke towres, then was I as one that hath founde fauour in his syght |
| [11]Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. |
[11]Solomon hath a vineyarde at BaalHamon: and this vineyarde deliuered he vnto the kepers, that euery one for the fruite therof shoulde geue hym a thousande peeces of siluer |
| [12]My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. |
[12]My vineyarde which is myne, is in my syght: thou (O Solomon) must haue a thousande, and the kepers two hundred, which kepe the fruite |
| [13]Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. |
[13]Thou that dwellest in the gardens, O let me heare thy voyce, that my companions may hearken to the same |
| [14]Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. |
[14]O get thee away my loue, and be as a roe or a young hart vpon the sweete smellyng mountaynes |