1I am the rose of the fielde, and the lilie of the valleys. 2As the lily among thorns, so [is] my love among the daughters. 3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so [is] my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit [was] sweet to my taste. 4Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me. 5Stay me with flagons, and comfort me with apples: for I am sicke of loue. 6His left hande is vnder mine head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me. 7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not, nor awake [my] love, till he please. 8The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. 9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, gazing himself through the lattice. 10My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way. 11For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over [and] gone; 12The flowers appeare in the earth: the time of the singing of birdes is come, and the voyce of the turtle is heard in our land. 13The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away. 14O my dove, [that art] in the clefts of the rock, in the secret [places] of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet [is] thy voice, and thy countenance [is] comely. 15Take for us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines [have] tender grapes. 16My welbeloued is mine, and I am his: hee feedeth among the lilies, 17Until the day shall break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.