Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Canticles 5:1-5 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat the fruit of his apple trees. I am come into my garden, O my sister, my spouse, I have gathered my myrrh, with my aromatical spices: I have eaten the honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends, and drink, and be inebriated, my dearly beloved.

2. I sleep, and my heart watcheth; the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

3. I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?

4. My beloved put his hand through the key hole, and my bowels were moved at his touch.

5. I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.