Cantico 8

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meae, ut inveniam te foris et deosculer te, et iam me nemo despiciat?	1 Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?
2 Apprehenderem te et ducerem in domum matris meae; ibi me doceres, et darem tibi poculum ex vino condito et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.	2 I will take hold of thee, and bring thee Into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.
3 Laeva eius sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexatur me.	3 His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.
4 Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, ne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.	4 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.
5 Quae est ista, quae ascendit de deserto innixa super dilectum suum? Sub arbore malo suscitavi te; ibi parturivit te mater tua, ibi parturivit te genetrix tua.	5 Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.
6 Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus aemulatio; lampades eius lampades ignis atque flammae divinae.	6 Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.
7 Aquae multae non potuerunt exstinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam; si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suae pro dilectione, quasi nihil despicient eum.	7 Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.
8 Soror nostra parva et ubera non habet; quid faciemus sorori nostrae in die, quando alloquenda est?	8 Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?
9 Si murus est, aedificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.	9 If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar.
10 Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris; ex quo facta sum coram eo quasi pacem reperiens.	10 I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.
11 Vinea fuit Salomoni in Baalhamon. Tradidit eam custodibus; vir affert pro fructu eius mille argenteos.	11 The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.
12 Vinea mea coram me est; mille tibi, Salomon, et ducenti his, qui custodiunt fructus eius.	12 My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.
13 Quae habitas in hortis, amici auscultant, fac me audire vocem tuam.	13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.
14 Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreae hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.	14 Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.