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THE CANTICLES, OR SONG OF SONGS opened and explained. (Book 3)
THE TEXT. CHAP. 3. (Book 3)
BY night on my bed I sought him whom my soule loveth, I sought him, but I found him not.
[verse 2] I will rise now, and goe about the city in the streetes, and in the broad wayes, I will seeke him whom my soule loveth: I sought him but I found him not.
[verse 3] The watch-men that go about the city found me, to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soule loveth?
[verse 4] It was but a little that I 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 mothers house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.