The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin

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Title: The canticles or balades of Salomon, phraselyke declared in Englysh metres, by William Baldwin
Publication: [Imprinted at London :: By William Baldwin, seruaunt with Edwarde Whitchurche],; M. D. XLIX [1549]
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Subject terms: Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Paraphrases, English -- Early works to 1800.
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¶The Argument.

AFter that Christe at his Spouses requeste, hath bene with her in the fielde, and lodged with her in the vylla∣ges, and that so long that they haue there wunne a new com∣pany to the belyef of the gospel: he as she desyred hym, cum∣meth with her now to see the vines and pomegranades, whe∣ther they be fruitfull or no. And whan the Churche hath wel beheld them, she smelleth the Mandrags, that is the doctrine and preachyng of the faythful, and delyted therwith, sheweth Christ therof, syngyng.