Song of Songs 1:1-7 The Ballet of Ballettes of Solomon, called in Latin, Canticum Canticorum. [Song of Solomon

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ The Ballet of Ballettes of Solomon, called in Latin, Canticum Canticorum. [Song of Solomon ² O that he would kisse me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy loue is more pleasaunt then wine ³ and that because of the good and pleasaunt sauour of thy most precious baulmes. Thy name is a sweet smelling oyntment when it is shed foorth, therfore do the maydens loue thee ⁴ Drawe thou me [vnto thee] we wyll runne after thee. The kyng hath brought me into his priuie chaumbers: We wylbe glad and reioyce in thee, we thinke more of thy loue then of wine: they that be righteous loue thee ⁵ I am blacke (O ye daughters of Hierusalem) but yet fayre and well fauoured, like as the tentes of the Cedarenes, and as the hanginges of Solomon ⁶ Marueyle not at me that I am so blacke, for why? the sunne hath shined vpon me: my mothers chyldren haue euyll wyll at me, they made me the keper of the vineyardes, but mine owne vineyarde haue I not kept ⁷ Tell me O thou whom my soule loueth, where thou feedest the sheepe, where thou makest them rest at the noone day: for why shall I be like hym that goeth wrong about the flockes of thy companions