Cantico 8

NOVA VULGATA	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meae, ut inveniam te foris et deosculer te, et iam me nemo despiciat?	1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
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 would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3 Laeva eius sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexatur me.	3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 Adiuro vos, filiae Ierusalem, ne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.	4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he 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 wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare 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 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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 love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
8 Soror nostra parva et ubera non habet; quid faciemus sorori nostrae in die, quando alloquenda est?	8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 Si murus est, aedificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.	9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of 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 like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 Vinea fuit Salomoni in Baalhamon. Tradidit eam custodibus; vir affert pro fructu eius mille argenteos.	11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 Vinea mea coram me est; mille tibi, Salomon, et ducenti his, qui custodiunt fructus eius.	12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 Quae habitas in hortis, amici auscultant, fac me audire vocem tuam.	13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
14 Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreae hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.	14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.