- 1. An excellent song which was Salomons.
- 2. Let him kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is better then wine.
- 3. Because of the sauour of thy good ointments thy name is as an ointment powred out: therefore the virgins loue thee.
- 4. Drawe me: we will runne after thee: the King hath brought me into his chabers: we will reioyce and be glad in thee: we will remember thy loue more then wine: the righteous do loue thee.
- 5. I am blacke, O daughters of Ierusalem, but comely, as the tentes of Kedar, and as the curtaines of Salomon.
- 6. Regard ye me not because I am blacke: for the sunne hath looked vpon mee. The sonnes of my mother were angry against mee: they made me the keeper of ye vines: but I kept not mine owne vine.
- 7. Shewe me, O thou, whome my soule loueth, where thou feedest, where thou liest at noone: for why should I be as she that turneth aside to the flockes of thy companions?
- 8. If thou knowe not, O thou the fairest among women, get thee foorth by the steps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes by the tents of the shepheards.
- 9. I haue compared thee, O my loue, to the troupe of horses in the charets of Pharaoh.
- 10. Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of stones, and thy necke with chaines.
- 11. We will make thee borders of golde with studdes of siluer.
- 12. Whiles the King was at his repast, my spikenard gaue the smell thereof.
- 13. My welbeloued is as a bundle of myrrhe vnto me: he shall lie betweene my breasts.
- 14. My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.
- 15. My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.
- 16. My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:
- 17. The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.
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