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 III.

VPon my bed, in the nights, I sought [unspec 1] him whom my soule loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. I will rise now, and goe about in the [unspec 2] citie, in the streets, and in the broad∣places, I will seeke him whom my soule loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. The watchmen that goe-about [unspec 3] in the Citie, found mee: Saw yee, him whom my soule loveth? It was but a [unspec 4] little that I had passed from them, but I found him whom my soule loveth: I held him, and would not let him goe: untill I had brought him into my mo∣thers house; and into the chamber, of

her that conceived mee. I adjure you, [unspec 5] ô daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes; or, by the Hindes of the field: if ye stir, and if yee stirre-up the Love, untill it please.

Who is this that commeth up, out of the wildernesse, like pillars of smoak∣perfumed [unspec 6] with myrrh, & frankincense, with all powder of the Merchant?

Behold, his bed which is Solomons, threescore mightie-ones are about it: [unspec 7] of the mighty ones of Israel. They [unspec 8] all, hold the sword; being expert in war: every-man hath his sword upon his thigh, because of feare in the nights.

King Solomon, made him-selfe a [unspec 9] charret, of the wood of Lebanon. He made the pillars therof, of silver; the [unspec 10] bottome thereof, of gold, the covering thereof, of purple: the midst thereof, being paved with love, of the daugh∣ters of Ierusalem. Goe forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and see King Solo∣mon: [unspec 11] with the crowne wherewith his mother crowned him, in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladnes of his heart.