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- O the fairest among women, whither is thy welbeloued gone?
whither is thy welbeloued turned aside, that we may seeke him with thee?
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- My welbeloued is gone downe into his garden to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
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- I am my welbeloueds, and my welbeloued is mine, who feedeth among the lilies.
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- Thou art beautifull, my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusale, terrible as an army with baners.
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- Turne away thine eyes from me: for they ouercome mee: thine heare is like a flocke of goates, which looke downe from Gilead.
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- Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.
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- Thy temples are within thy lockes as a piece of a pomegranate.
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- There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines & of the damsels without nober.
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- But my doue is alone, and my vndefiled, she is the onely daughter of her mother, and shee is deare to her that bare her: the daughters haue seene her & counted her blessed: euen the Queenes and the concubines, and they haue praised her.
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- Who is shee that looketh foorth as the morning, fayre as the moone, pure as the sunne, terrible as an armie with banners!
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- I went downe to the garden of nuttes, to see the fruites of the valley, to see if the vine budded, and if the pomegranates flourished.
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- I knewe nothing, my soule set me as the charets of my noble people.
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- Returne, returne, O Shulamite, returne: returne that we may behold thee.
What shal you see in the Shulamite, but as the company of an armie?
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