Annotations upon the five bookes of Moses, the booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, or, Canticles VVherein the Hebrevv vvords and sentences, are compared with, and explained by the ancient Greeke and Chaldee versions, and other records and monuments of the Hebrewes: but chiefly by conference with the holy Scriptures, Moses his words, lawes and ordinances, the sacrifices, and other legall ceremonies heretofore commanded by God to the Church of Israel, are explained. With an advertisement touching some objections made against the sinceritie of the Hebrew text, and allegation of the Rabbines in these annotations. As also tables directing unto such principall things as are observed in the annotations upon each severall booke. By Henry Ainsworth.

CHAPTER I.

The Song of Songs, which is Solo∣mons. [unspec 1]

LEt him kisse me, with the [unspec 2] kisses of his mouth, for thy loves are better, then wine. For the savour, of [unspec 3] thy good ointments; thy name, is an ointment powred-forth: therefore, the Virgins love thee. Draw me, wee will runne after thee: the King hath [unspec 4] brought me into his chambers; wee will be glad, and rejoyce in thee, wee will remember thy loves, more then wine; the upright, love thee.

I am blacke, and comely; ô ye daugh∣ters of Ierusalem: as the tents of Ke∣dar, [unspec 5] as the curtaines of Solomon. Looke not upon me, because I am [unspec 6] blackish; because the Sunne hath look∣ed downe upon me: the sonnes of my mother have beene angry with mee; they made me the keeper of the Vine-yards, my Vineyard which is mine, I have not kept.

Tell me, ô thou, whom my soule lo∣veth, [unspec 7] where thou feedest, where thou makest to rest at noone: for why should I be, as one that turneth-aside, unto the flockes of thy companions.

If thou know not, ô thou fairest [unspec 8] among women: goe thy way forth, by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kiddes, besides thy shepheards tents.

I have compared thee, ô my love, to [unspec 9] the company-of-horses in the charrets of Pharaoh. Thy cheekes are come∣ly [unspec 10] with rowes, thy necke with chaines. We will make for thee rowes of gold; [unspec 11] with speckes of silver.

While the King sitteth at his round∣table, [unspec 12] my spikenard, giveth forth the smell thereof. A bundle of myrrh, is [unspec 13] my welbeloved unto me: he shall lye∣all-night, betwixt my breasts. A [unspec 14] cluster of Cypres is my wel-beloved un∣to me; in the Vineyards of Engedi.

Behold thou art faire, my love; be∣hold [unspec 15] thou art faire, thine eyes are as doves.

Behold thou art faire, my beloved, [unspec 16] yea pleasant; also our bed is greene. The beames of our houses, are Cedars; our galleries, of Brutin-trees.