Canticum Canticorum 8

VULGATA	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 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 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 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 Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.	3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
4 (Sponsus)Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, 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 (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 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 (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 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 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 the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
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 hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 Si murus est, ædificemus 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 (Sponsa)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 (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 unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring 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, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13 (Sponsus)Quæ 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 (Sponsa)Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, 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.