1I have come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drank my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved. 2I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night. 3I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4My welbeloued put in his hand by the hole of the doore, and mine heart was affectioned toward him. 5I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands flowed [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. 6I opened to my welbeloued: but my welbeloued was gone, and past: mine heart was gone when hee did speake: I sought him, but I coulde not finde him: I called him, but hee answered mee not. 7The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I [am] sick with love. 9What [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, O thou fairest among women? what [is] thy beloved more than [another] beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10My welbeloued is white and ruddie, the chiefest of ten thousand. 11His head [is as] the most fine gold, his locks [are] bushy, [and] black as a raven. 12His eyes are like doues vpon the riuers of waters, which are washt with milke, and remaine by the full vessels. 13His cheekes are as a bedde of spices, and as sweete flowres, and his lippes like lilies dropping downe pure myrrhe. 14His hands as rings of gold set with the chrysolite, his belly like white yuorie couered with saphirs. 15His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 16His mouth is as sweete thinges, and hee is wholy delectable: this is my welbeloued, and this is my louer, O daughters of Ierusalem.