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CAP. VIII.

[verse 1] The vois of patriarkis, of Crist. Who to me ȝyueth thee, my brother, soukende the tetes of my moder, that I finde thee alone withoute forth, and kisse thee, and now me no man dispise? [verse 2] I shal take thee, and leden in to the hous of my moder, and in to the bed place of hir that gat me; there thou shalt teche me, and I shal ȝyue to thee drinken [drinke A.] of spiced win, and of the must of my poumgar|netes. [verse 3] The lift hond of hym vnder myn hed, and the riȝt hond of hym shal clippe me. The vois of Crist, of the Chirche. [verse 4] I adiure ȝou, ȝee doȝtris of Jerusalem, ne rere ȝee, ne maketh [make A.] to waken my leef, to the time that she wile. The vois of the sinagoge, of the Chirche. [verse 5] What is she this, that steȝeth vp fro desert, flow|ende

delices, faste cleuende vpon [to E pr. m.] hir leef? The vois of Crist to the sina|goge [sinage AH. linage G.] , of the holi cros. Vndir an apil tree I rerede [herde C.] thee; there shent is thi moder, there defoulid is she that gat thee. [verse 6] Put me as a brooche vpon thin herte, as a brooche vpon thin arm; for strong is as deth looue, hard as helle ie|lousnesse [gloriousnes A.] ; the laumpis of it the laumpes of fir, and of flaumes. [verse 7] Manye watris shul not moun quenchen out charite, ne flodis shul not throwen it doun. If a man ȝeue al the substaunce of his hous for looue, as noȝt he dispisith it. The vois of Crist to the sinagoge [sinage AGH.] , of the holi [Om. AEGH.] Chirche. [verse 8] Oure [My E pr. m.] sister a litil child, and tetes she hath not; what shul wee do to oure sister, in the dai whan she is to ben spoken to? [verse 9] If a wal she is, bilde wee vp `on it [to hir A.] siluerene pynaclis; if a dore she is, ioyne wee it with ceder tables. [verse 10] The vois of the Chirche answerende. I a wal, and my tetes as a tour; sithen I am mad befor thee as pes resceyuende. [verse 11] The sinagoge of the Chirche seith. A vyne she was to the pesible; in hir that hath puples, she toc it to the keperes; a man taketh awei for [fro A.] the frut of it a thousend siluer [siluerene AEGH.] plates. Crist to the

Chirche seith. [verse 12] My vine bifor me is; a thousend thi pesiblis, and two hundrid to them that kepen the frutis of it. [verse 13] The whiche dwellist in gardynes, frendis herknen thee [me A.] ; mac me to heren thi vois. The vois of the Chirche to Crist. [verse 14] Flee thou, my leef; be thou licned to a capret, and to an hert calf of hertes, vp on the mounteynes of swote spices.