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¶ The song of songs, which is Solomons.

Let him kisse mee with the kisses of his mouth: for thy Loue is better then wine.

1611 marginal noteHebr. thy loues.

1611 marginal noteChap.4.10.

Because of the sauour of thy good ointments, thy name is as ointment powred forth, therefore doe the virgins loue thee.

I am blacke, but comely, (O ye daughters of Ierusalem) as the tents of Kedar, as the curtaines of Solomon.

Looke not vpon me because I am blacke, because the Sunne hath looked vpon me: my mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine owne vineyard haue I not kept.

Tell me, (O thou whom my soule loueth) where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flocke to rest at noone: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flockes of thy companions?

1611 marginal noteOr, as one that is vailed.

¶ If thou know not (O thou fairest among women) goe thy way forth by the footsteps of the flocke, and feede thy kiddes beside the shepheards tents.

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

Thy cheekes are comely with rowes of iewels, thy necke with chaines of golde.

Wee will make thee borders of golde, with studdes of siluer.