Ct 8 (King James)

¹ O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
² I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
³ His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
⁴ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
⁵ Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
⁶ Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
⁷ Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
⁸ We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
⁹ If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
¹⁰ I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
¹² My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
¹³ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
¹⁴ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Ct 8 (Vulgate)

¹ [Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, sugentem ubera matris meæ, ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, et jam me nemo despiciat ?
² Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ : ibi me docebis, et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.
³ Læva ejus sub capite meo, et dextera illius amplexabitur me.
⁴ Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, donec ipsa velit.
⁵ Quæ est ista quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum ? Sub arbore malo suscitavi te ; ibi corrupta est mater tua, ibi violata est genitrix tua.
⁶ Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, ut signaculum super brachium tuum, quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, dura sicut infernus æmulatio : lampades ejus lampades ignis atque flammarum.
⁷ Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam.
⁸ Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet ; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est ?
⁹ Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea ; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.
¹⁰ Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.
¹¹ Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos : tradidit eam custodibus ; vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.
¹² Vinea mea coram me est. Mille tui pacifici, et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.
¹³ Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant ; fac me audire vocem tuam.
¹⁴ Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.]