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thou hast doues eyes, beside that which lyeth hid within: Thy heerie lockes are lyke the wooll of a flocke of goates that be shorne vpon mount Gilead.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thy teeth are like a flocke <FI>of sheepe<Fi> of the same bignesse whiche went vp from the washing place, where euery one beareth two twinnes, and not one vnfruitfull among them.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Thy lippes are lyke a rose coloured ribande, thy wordes are louely, thy cheekes are like a peece of a pomegranate within thyne heeres.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thy necke is like the towre of Dauid buylded with costly stones, lying out on the sides wherevpon there hange a thousande shieldes: yea all the weapons of the giauntes.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thy two breastes are lyke two twinnes of young Roes, whiche feede among roses.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>O that I might go to the mountaine of myrre, and to the hil of frankencense, til the day breake, and til the shadowes be past away.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Thou art all fayre (O my loue) and no spot is there in thee.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Come to me from Libanus (O my spouse) come to me from Libanus: looke from the top of Amana, from the top of Sanir and Hermon, from the lions dennes, and from the mountaines of the leopardes.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Thou hast <FI>with loue<Fi> bewitched my heart O my sister my spouse, thou hast bewitched my heart with one of thyne eyes, and with one chayne of thy necke.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>O howe fayre are thy breastes, my sister, my spouse? Thy breastes are more pleasaunt then wine, and the smell of thyne oyntmentes passeth all spices.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thy lippes, O my spouse, drop as the hony combe, yea mylke and hony is vnder thy tongue, and the smell of thy garmentes is like the smell of Libanus.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A garden well locked is my sister, my spouse: a garden well locked, and a sealed well.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The fruites that are planted in thee, are lyke a very paradise of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as Camphire, Nardus,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><FI>(4:13)<Fi> & Saffron, Calamus, Sinamom, with all sweete smellyng trees, Myrre, Aloes, and all the best spyces,<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><FI>(4:13)<Fi> a well of gardens, a well of liuing waters which runne downe from Libanus.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><FI>(4:14)<Fi> Up thou north winde, come thou south winde and blowe vpon my garden, that the smell therof may be caryed on euery side: yea that my beloued may come into his garden, and eate of the sweete fruites <FI>that growe therein.<Fi><p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Bishops' Bible of 1568<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../songs/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Song of Solomon 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../songs/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Song of Solomon 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Song of Solomon 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>