1   VVho ^note shal giue to me thee my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may finde thee without, and kisse thee, and now no man despise me?

2   I wil take hold of thee, and wil bring thee into my mothers house there thou shalt teach me, and I wil giue thee a cuppe of spiced wine, and new wine of my pomegranats.

3   His left hand vnder my head, and his right hand shal embrace me.

4    ^noteI adiure you ô daughters of Ierusalem, that you rayse not vp, nor make the beloued to awake til herselfe wil.

5    ^noteWho is this, that cometh vp from the desert, flowing with delightes, leaning vpon her beloued? Vnder the appletree I raysed thee vp: ^note there thy mother was corrupted, there she vas defloured that bare thee.

6   Put me as a seale vpon thy hart, as a seale vpon thyne arme: because loue is strong as death: ielousie is hard as hel, the lampes thereof lampes of fyre and flames.

7   Manie waters can not quench charitie, neither shal floudes ouerwhelme it: if a man shal giue al the substance of his house for loue, as nothing he shal despise it.

8    ^noteOur sister is litle, and hath no breasts. What shal we doe to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken vnto?

9   If she be a wal, let vs build vpon

it bulwarkes of siluer: if she be a doore, let vs ioyne it together with bordes of ceder.

10    ^noteI am a wal: and my breasts are as a towre, since I was made before him as one finding peace.

11   The peacemaker had a vinyard, in that which hath peoples: he deliuered the same ^note to keepers, a man bringeth for the fruite thereof a thousand peeces of siluer.

12    ^noteMy vineyard is before me. A thousand are thy peacemakers, and two hundreth for them, that keepe the fruites thereof.

13   Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the frends doe harken: make me heare thy voice.

14    ^noteFlee, ô my beloued, and be like to the roe, and to the fawne of harts vpon the mountaines of aromatical spices.

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