If thou shalt not know for thyself, O fair one among women, come forth for thyself at the heels of the flock, and feed thy kids by the shepherds' tents.

I will arise now, and I will go round about in the city; in the streets, and in the broad places I will seek him whom my soul loved. I sought him, and I found him not

All of thee beautiful, my friend, and no blemish in thee.

They are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens no number.

I knew not my soul set me the chariots of my willing people.

I said, I will go up upon the palm tree, I will hold fast upon its branches: and now thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the odor of thy nose as apples.

The mandrakes gave an odor, and upon our entrances all precious things, new also old, my beloved, I laid up for thee.

I will lead thee, I will bring thee to the house of my mother; thou wilt teach me: I will give thee to drink from spiced wine from the new wine of my pomegranate.

A little sister to us, and no breasts to her: what shall we do for our sister in the day it shall be spoken for her?