5Song of Songs 5

CHAP. V. / 1 Christ awaketh the Church with his calling. 2 The Church hauing a taste of Christes loue, is sicke of loue. 9 A description of Christ by his graces.

1I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse, I haue gathered my Myrrhe with my spice, I haue eaten my honie combe with my hony, I haue drunke my wine with my milke: eate, O friends, drinke, yea drinke abundantly, O beloued!Select Song of Songs 5:1

2I sleepe, but my heart waketh: it is the voyce of my beloued that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my loue, my doue, my vndefiled: for my head is filled with dewe, and my lockes with the drops of the night.Select Song of Songs 5:2

3I haue put off my coate, how shall I put it on? I haue washed my feete, how shall I defile them?Select Song of Songs 5:3

4My beloued put in his hand by the hole of the dore, and my bowels were moued for him.Select Song of Songs 5:4

5I rose vp to open to my beloued, and my hands dropped with myrrhe, and my fingers with sweete smelling myrrhe, vpon the handles of the locke.Select Song of Songs 5:5

6I opened to my beloued, but my beloued had with drawen himselfe, and was gone: my soule failed when hee spake: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gaue me no answere.Select Song of Songs 5:6

7The watchmen that went about the citie, found me, they smote me, they wounded me, the keepers of the walles tooke away my vaile from me.Select Song of Songs 5:7

8I charge you, O daughters of Ierusalem, if ye find my beloued, that yee tell him, that I am sicke of loue.Select Song of Songs 5:8

9What is thy beloued more then another beloued, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloued more then another beloued, that thou doest so charge vs?Select Song of Songs 5:9

10My beloued is white and ruddy, the chiefest among tenne thousand.Select Song of Songs 5:10

11His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and blacke as a Rauen.Select Song of Songs 5:11

12His eyes are as the eyes of doues by the riuers of water, washed with milk, and fitly set.Select Song of Songs 5:12

13His cheekes are as a bed of spices, as sweete flowers: his lippes like lillies, dropping sweete smelling myrrhe.Select Song of Songs 5:13

14His hands are as gold rings set with the Berill: His belly is as bright iuorie, ouerlayd with Saphires.Select Song of Songs 5:14

15His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the Cedars.Select Song of Songs 5:15

16His mouth is most sweete, yea he is altogether louely. This is my beloued, and this is my friend, O daughters of Ierusalem.Select Song of Songs 5:16