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I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, who would instruct me. I would cause you to drink spiced wine and of the juice of my pomegranates.

[Then musingly she added] Oh, that his left hand were under my head and that his right hand embraced me!(A)

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you never [again attempt to] stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

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