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I haue compared thee, O my loue, to a company of horses in Pharaohs chariots.

A bundle of myrrhe is my welbeloued vnto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

My beloued is vnto me, as a cluster of Camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

1611 marginal noteOr, Cypres.

My beloued is like a Roe, or a yong Hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh foorth at the windowe, shewing himselfe through the lattesse.

1611 marginal noteVerse 17.

1611 marginal noteHeb. flourishing.

The fig tree putteth foorth her greene figs, and the vines with the tender grape giue a good smell. Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come away.

Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: turne my beloued and be thou like a Roe, or a yong Hart, vpon the mountaines of Bether.

1611 marginal noteOr, of diuision.

1611 marginal noteChap.4.6

1611 marginal noteChap.8.14.

It was but a litle that I passed from them, but I found him whome my soule loueth: I helde him, and would not let him goe, vntill I had brought him into my mothers house, and into the chamber of her that conceiued me.

King Solomon made himselfe a charet of the wood of Lebanon.

1611 marginal noteOr, a bed.

¶ Behold, thou art faire, my loue, behold thou art faire, thou hast doues eyes within thy lockes: thy haire is as a flocke of goats, that appeare from mount Gilead.

1611 marginal noteOr, that eate of, &c.

1611 marginal noteChap.1.15 and 5.12.

1611 marginal noteChap.6.5, 6.

Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe that are euen shorne, which came vp from the washing: whereof euery one beare twinnes, and none is barren among them.