Canticum Canticorum 8

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat ?	1 Ah, why are you not my brother, nursed at my mother's breast! Then if I met you out of doors, I couldkiss you without people thinking il of 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 should lead you, I should take you into my mother's house, and you would teach me! I should give youspiced wine to drink, juice of my pomegranates.
3 Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.	3 His left arm is under my head and his right embraces me.
4 (Sponsus)Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.	4 LOVER: I charge you, daughters of Jerusalem, do not rouse, do not wake my beloved, before shepleases!
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 coming up from the desert leaning on her lover? I awakened you under the apple tree, whereyour mother conceived you, where she who bore you conceived you.
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 BELOVED: Set me like a seal on your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is strong as Death,passion as relentless as Sheol. The flash of it is a flash of fire, a flame of Yahweh himself.
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 Love no flood can quench, no torrents drown. Were a man to offer all his family wealth to buy love,contempt is al that he would gain.
8 (Chorus Fratrum)Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet ; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est ?	8 Our sister is little: her breasts are not yet formed. What shal we do for our sister on the day she isspoken for?
9 Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea ; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.	9 If she is a rampart, on the crest we shal build a battlement of silver; if she is a door, we shal board herup with planks of cedar.
10 (Sponsa)Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.	10 I am a wal , and my breasts represent its towers. And under their eyes I have found true 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 entrusted it to overseers, and each one was to pay himthe value of its produce, a thousand shekels of silver.
12 (Sponsa)Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.	12 But I tend my own vineyard myself. You, Solomon, may have your thousand shekels, and those whooversee its produce their two hundred.
13 (Sponsus)Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant ; fac me audire vocem tuam.	13 You who dwel in the gardens, my companions listen for your voice; let me hear it.
14 (Sponsa)Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.	14 Haste away, my love, be like a gazel e, a young stag, on the spice-laden mountains.