KJV ¹ How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

VULC ¹ [Quid videbis in Sulamite, nisi choros castrorum ?
Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui in calceamentis, filia principis !
Juncturæ femorum tuorum sicut monilia
quæ fabricata sunt manu artificis.

KJV ² Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

VULC ² Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis,
numquam indigens poculis.
Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.

KJV ³ Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

VULC ³ Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli,
gemelli capreæ.

KJV ⁴ Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

VULC ⁴ Collum tuum sicut turris eburnea ;
oculi tui sicut piscinæ in Hesebon
quæ sunt in porta filiæ multitudinis.
Nasus tuus sicut turris Libani,
quæ respicit contra Damascum.

KJV ⁵ Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

VULC ⁵ Caput tuum ut Carmelus ;
et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis
vincta canalibus.

KJV ⁶ How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

VULC ⁶ Quam pulchra es, et quam decora,
carissima, in deliciis !

KJV ⁷ This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

VULC ⁷ Statura tua assimilata est palmæ,
et ubera tua botris.

KJV ⁸ I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

VULC ⁸ Dixi : Ascendam in palmam,
et apprehendam fructus ejus ;
et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineæ,
et odor oris tui sicut malorum.

KJV ⁹ And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

VULC ⁹ Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum,
dignum dilecto meo ad potandum,
labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.

KJV ¹⁰ I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

VULC ¹⁰ Ego dilecto meo,
et ad me conversio ejus.

KJV ¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

VULC ¹¹ Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum,
commoremur in villis.

KJV ¹² Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

VULC ¹² Mane surgamus ad vineas :
videamus si floruit vinea,
si flores fructus parturiunt,
si floruerunt mala punica ;
ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.

KJV ¹³ The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

VULC ¹³ Mandragoræ dederunt odorem
in portis nostris omnia poma :
nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.]

KJV 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.

VULC ¹ [Quis mihi det te fratrem meum,
sugentem ubera matris meæ,
ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te,
et jam me nemo despiciat ?

KJV 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.

VULC ² Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ :
ibi me docebis,
et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito,
et mustum malorum granatorum meorum.

KJV ³ His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

VULC ³ Læva ejus sub capite meo,
et dextera illius amplexabitur me.

KJV ⁴ I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

VULC ⁴ Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem,
ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam,
donec ipsa velit.

KJV 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.

VULC 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.

KJV 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.

VULC 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.

KJV 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.

VULC ⁷ Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem,
nec flumina obruent illam.
Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione,
quasi nihil despiciet eam.

KJV 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?

VULC ⁸ Soror nostra parva,
et ubera non habet ;
quid faciemus sorori nostræ
in die quando alloquenda est ?

KJV 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.

VULC ⁹ Si murus est,
ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea ;
si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis.

KJV ¹⁰ I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

VULC ¹⁰ Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris,
ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens.

KJV 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.

VULC ¹¹ Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos :
tradidit eam custodibus ;
vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.

KJV 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.

VULC ¹² Vinea mea coram me est.
Mille tui pacifici,
et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus.

KJV ¹³ Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

VULC ¹³ Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant ;
fac me audire vocem tuam.

KJV ¹⁴ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

VULC ¹⁴ Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ,
hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.]