T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
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¶ The .iij. Chapter.
¶ The voyce of the Church which is chosen
out of the Heathen.
A By night in my bedde I soughte
hym, whome my soule loueth:
yea, diligently soughte I hym,
but I founde him not. I will
get vp (thought I) ∧ go aboute
the citie, vpon the market ∧ in all the stretes
will I seke him whome my soule loueth: but
when I sought hym, I founde him not. The
watchemen that go aboute the citie, founde
me.
¶ The Church speakyng of Christ.
B Sawe ye not him whom my soule loueth?
So when I was a litle past them, I founde
hym whom my soule loueth. I haue gotten
holde vpon him, ∧ will not let hym go, vntil
I bryng hym into my mothers house, and into
her chambre that bare me.
¶ The voyce of Christ.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem,
by the Roes ∧ Hyndes of the felde, that
ye wake not vp my loue nor touche her, tyll
she be content her selfe.
¶ The voyce of the Synagoge, marueyilng
in it self at the Church of Christ.
C Who is thys þt; c&obar;meth out of the wildernesse
lyke pylers of smoke as it were a smell
of Myrre, franckencence and al maner spyces
of the Apotecary?
¶ The voyce of the Church.
Behold, aboute Salomons bedstede ther
stande .lx. valea&ubar;t men of the myghty in Israel.
Thei holde swerdes euery one ∧ are experte
in warre. Euery man hath his swerde
vp&obar; his thygh, because of feare in the nighte.
D Kynge Salomon hath made him selfe a bedstead
of the wood of Libanus, the pilers are
of syluer, the coueryng of golde, the seate of
purple, the ground pleasauntly paued for þe;
daughters of Ierusalem.
¶ The church speaking of Christ.
Go forth (O ye daughters of Si&obar;) and beholde
Kynge Salomon in the crowne wherwyth
his mother crowned him in the day of
his mariage, and in the daye of the gladnesse
of hys herte.
T. Matthew [1549], The Byble, that is to say all the holy Scripture: In whych are c&obar;tayned the Olde and New Testamente, truely ∧ purely tr&abar;slated into English, ∧ nowe lately with greate industry ∧ dilig&ebar;ce recognised. [Edited by Edmund Becke.] (Imprinted by... Ihon Daye [etc.] and William Seres [etc.], London) [word count] [B05000].
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