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- I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I gathered my myrrhe with my spice: I ate mine hony combe with mine hony, I dranke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, and make you mery, O welbeloued.
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- I sleepe, but mine heart waketh, it is the voyce of my welbeloued that knocketh, saying, Open vnto mee, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for mine head is full of dewe, and my lockes with the droppes of the night.
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- I haue put off my coate, howe shall I put it on?
I haue washed my feete, howe shall I defile them?
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- My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore, and mine heart was affectioned toward him.
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- I rose vp to open to my welbeloued, and mine hands did drop downe myrrhe, and my fingers pure myrrhe vpon the handels of the barre.
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- I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not.
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- The watchmen that went about the citie, founde me: they smote me and wounded me: the watchmen of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.
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- I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if you finde my welbeloued, that you tell him that I am sicke of loue.
- 9
- O the fairest among women, what is thy welbeloued more then other welbeloued?
what is thy welbeloued more then another louer, that thou doest so charge vs?
- 10
- My welbeloued is white and ruddie, the chiefest of ten thousand.
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- His head is as fine golde, his lockes curled, and blacke as a rauen.
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- His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels.
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- His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe.
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- His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs.
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- His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
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- His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.
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