Epithalamium, or Solomons Song Together with the Songs of Moses, Exod. 15 & Deut. 32. ... Digested into a known and familiar meeter, by Samuel Slater |
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 | CHAP. VII. Epithalamium, or Solomons Song |  |
CHAP. VII.
1.
O thou that Princes daughter arthow beautiful to see
Are even both thy feet, with shooes,
the which upon them be?
The joints likewise even of thy thighs which
are like to jewels rare;
The work of cunning workman
his hand doth well prepare.
2.
Thy Navel like round goblet is,wherein liquor is found;
Thy Belly like an heap of wheat
beset with lillies round.
3.
And as for thy two Brests likewiseI do them both compare
To Roes that are both young, and twins,
they very even are.
4.
Like to a Tower of Ivory,so is thy neck for state:
Like Heshbons fish-pools are thine eyes
neer to Bath-rabbim gate.
Thy Nose also is like unto
the Tower that hath place
Upon the mount of Lebanon,
and doth Damascus face.
5.
Thine head on thee like Carmel isthe hair upon thine head
Like purple is, in Galleries
the king is held and staid.
6.
How fair art thou? How pleasant ekedost thou to me appear?
Even for delights, O thou that art
my love, my only dear.
7.
This stature wch thou hast attain'd,doth like a Palm-tree show;
Thy Brests like clusters of fine grapes
which on the Vine do grow.
8.
Then did I say that now I willunto the Palm-tree go,
And will take hold upon the boughs
that thereupon do grow:
And now like clusters of the Vine,
even so thy Brests shall be,
And eke the smelling of thy Nose,
like Apples of the tree.
9.
The roof and Palate of thy mouththat also shall appear
Even like unto the choycest wine,
for my beloved dear.
Such wine (I say) as goeth down
most sweetly, and doth make
And cause the lips of them that are
asleep, to move and speak.
10.
I am my well-beloveds, andto me a right hath he;
And as for his desire, even that
is also towards me.
11.
Come my beloved, let us gointo the fields abroad:
and there make our aboad.
12.
Up to the Vinyards let us goearly, that we may see
If that the Vine do flourish, and
if tender grape there be.
Pomgranates also, whether they
their buds put forth and show;
And there will I give out my loves,
and them on thee bestow.
13.
The mandrakes smell, and at our gatesall pleasant fruits there be,
Both new and old, which (O my love)
I have laid up for thee.
| CHAP. VII. Epithalamium, or Solomons Song | |