1   
Whither is thy beloued gone? O thou fairest among women, whither is thy beloued turned aside? that we may seeke him with thee.

2   
My beloued is gone downe into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lillies.

3   
^noteI am my beloueds, ∧ my beloued is mine: he feedeth among the lillies.

4   
¶ Thou art beautifull, O my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusalem, terrible as an armie with banners.

5   
Turne away thine eyes from me, for they haue ^note ouercome me: thy haire is ^note a flocke of goates, that appeare from Gilead.

6   
Thy teeth are as a flocke of sheepe which goe vp from the washing, wherof euery one beareth twinnes, and there is not one barren among them.

7   
As a piece of a pomegranat are thy temples within thy lockes.

8   
There are threescore Queenes, and fourescore concubines, and virgins without number.

9   
My doue, my vndefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her: The daughters sawe her, and blessed her; yea the Queenes and the concubins, and they praysed her.

10   
¶ Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, faire as the moone, cleare as the sunne, and terrible as an armie with banners?

11   
I went downe into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranats budded.

12   
^noteOr euer I was aware, my soule ^note made me like the chariots of Amminadib.

13   
Returne, returne, O Shulamite; returne, returne, that we may looke vpon thee: what will yee see in the Shulamite? as it were the company ^note of two armies. 678

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