Canticum Canticorum 8

VULGATA	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat ?	1 O that you were like a brother to me, that nursed at my mother's breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.
2 Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ : ibi me docebis, et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.	2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the juice of my pomegranates.
3 Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.	3 O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!
4 (Sponsus)Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.	4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please.
5 (Chorus)Quæ est ista quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum ? (Sponsus)Sub arbore malo suscitavi te ; ibi corrupta est mater tua, ibi violata est genitrix tua.	5 Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.
6 (Sponsa)Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus æmulatio : lampades ejus lampades ignis atque flammarum.	6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame.
7 Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam.	7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, it would be utterly scorned.
8 (Chorus Fratrum)Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet ; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est ?	8 We have a little sister, and she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister, on the day when she is spoken for?
9 Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea ; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.	9 If she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver; but if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
10 (Sponsa)Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.	10 I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who brings peace.
11 (Chorus Fratrum)Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos : tradidit eam custodibus ; vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.	11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
12 (Sponsa)Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.	12 My vineyard, my very own, is for myself; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
13 (Sponsus)Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant ; fac me audire vocem tuam.	13 O you who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice; let me hear it.
14 (Sponsa)Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.	14 Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices.