Epithalamium, or, Solomons song together with the songs of Moses, Exod. 15, & Deut. 32, the Song of Deborah, Judges 5, the Song of Hannah, I Samuel 2, the Churches song, Isa. 26 / digested into a known and familiar meeter by Samuel Slater.

1. How beautiful are thy feet with shooes (O Princes daughter) the joynts of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

2. Thy Navel is like a round goblet which wanteth not liquor; thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lil∣lies.

3. Thy two Brests are like two young Roes that are twins.

4. Thy Neck is as a Tower of Ivory, thine eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: Thy Nose is as the Tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.

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Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple, the King is held in the galleries▪

6. How fair and how pleasant art thou O love for delights?

7. This thy stature is like to a Palm-tree, and thy brests to clusters of grapes.

8. I said I will go up to the Palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs there∣of; now also thy Brests shall be as clusters of the Vine, and the smell of thy Nose like Apples,

9. And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, for my beloved, that go∣eth down sweetly, causing the lips of them that are asleep to speak.

10. I am my beloveds, and his desire is towards me.

11. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the

field, let us lodge in the Villages.

12. Let us go up early to the Vinyards, let us see if the Vine flourish, whe∣ther the tender grape ap∣pear, and the Pomegra∣nates bud forth, there will I give thee my loves.

13. The Mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of plea∣sant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.