3:1
in lectulo meo per noctes quaesivi quem diligit anima meaquaesivi illum et non inveni

3:2
surgam et circuibo civitatem per vicos et plateas quaeramquem diligit anima mea quaesivi illum et non inveni

3:3
invenerunt me vigiles qui custodiunt civitatem num quemdilexit anima mea vidistis

3:4
paululum cum pertransissem eos inveni quem diligit anima meatenui eum nec dimittam donec introducam illum in domum matrismeae et in cubiculum genetricis meae

3:5
adiuro vos filiae Hierusalem per capreas cervosque camporumne suscitetis neque evigilare faciatis dilectam donec ipsavelit

3:6
quae est ista quae ascendit per desertum sicut virgula fumiex aromatibus murrae et turis et universi pulveris pigmentarii

3:7
en lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt exfortissimis Israhel

3:8
omnes tenentes gladios et ad bella doctissimi uniuscuiusqueensis super femur suum propter timores nocturnos

3:9
ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon de lignis Libani

3:10
columnas eius fecit argenteas reclinatorium aureum ascensumpurpureum media caritate constravit propter filias Hierusalem

3:11
egredimini et videte filiae Sion regem Salomonem indiademate quo coronavit eum mater sua in die disponsionisillius et in die laetitiae cordis eius

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003:001
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

003:002
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

003:003
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

003:004
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

003:005
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

003:006
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

003:007
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

003:008
They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

003:009
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.

003:010
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

003:011
Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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