8 — Canticle of Canticles

1Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?Chi ti darà a me, fratello mio, succhiante le mammelle della madre mia, ond'io fuori ti ritrovi, e ti baci, e nissuno più mi disprezzi?VVHO shal giue to me thee my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may finde thee without, and kisse thee, and now no man despise me?Quis mihi det te fratrem meum, / sugentem ubera matris meæ, / ut inveniam te foris, et deosculer te, / et jam me nemo despiciat ? 2I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.Io ti prenderò, e ti condurrò nella casa di mia madre; ivi tu sarai mio maestro, e io darotti bevanda di vino aromatico, e il mosto delle mie melagrane.I wil take hold of thee, and wil bring thee into my mothers house: there thou shalt teach me, and I wil giue thee a cuppe of spiced wine, and new wine of my pomegranats.Apprehendam te, et ducam in domum matris meæ: / ibi me docebis, / et dabo tibi poculum ex vino condito, / et mustum malorum granatorum meorum. 3His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.La sinistra di lui sotto il mio capo, e la destra di lui mi abbraccerà.His left hand vnder my head, and his right hand shal embrace me.Læva ejus sub capite meo, / et dextera illius amplexabitur me. 4I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.Io vi scongiuro, o figliuole di Gerusalemme, che non rompiate il sonno della Diletta, e non la facciate svegliare fino a tanto che ella il voglia.I adiure you ô daughters of Ierusalem, that you rayse not vp, nor make the beloued to awake til herselfe wil.Sponsus. Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem, / ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam, / donec ipsa velit. 5Who is this that cometh up from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I raised thee up: there thy mother was corrupted, there she was defloured that bore thee.Chi è costei, che ascende dal deserto ricolma di delizie, appoggiata sopra del suo Diletto? Sotto l'arbore di melo io ti suscitai: ivi fu corrotta la madre tua: ivi fu violata la tua genitrice.Who is this, that cometh vp from the desert, flowing with delightes, leaning vpon her beloued? Vnder the appletree I raysed thee vp: d there thy mother was corrupted, there she vas defloured that bare thee.Chorus. Quæ est ista quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, / innixa super dilectum suum ? / Sponsus. Sub arbore malo suscitavi te; / ibi corrupta est mater tua, / ibi violata est genitrix tua.

6Put me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy as hard as hell, the lamps thereof are fire and flames.Pommi come sigillo sopra il cuor tuo, come sigillo sopra il tuo braccio: perocché forte come la morte ell'è la dilezione, duro lo zelo quanto l'inferno: le lampadi sue sono lampadi di fuoco, e di fiamme.Put me as a seale vpon thy hart, as a seale vpon thyne arme: because loue is strong as death: ielousie is hard as hel, the lampes thereof lampes of fyre and flames.Sponsa. Pone me ut signaculum super cor tuum, / ut signaculum super brachium tuum, / quia fortis est ut mors dilectio, / dura sicut infernus æmulatio: / lampades ejus lampades ignis atque flammarum. 7Many waters cannot quench charity, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, he shall despise it as nothing.Le molte acque non poterono estinguere la carità, né le fiumane la soverchieranno: quando un uomo desse per la dilezione tutte le sostanze della sua casa, le disprezzerebbe come un niente.Manie waters can not quench charitie, neither shal floudes ouerwhelme it: if a man shal giue al the substance of his house for loue, as nothing he shal despise it.Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, / nec flumina obruent illam. / Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, / quasi nihil despiciet eam. 8Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?La nostra Sorella è piccola, e non è giunta a pubertà, che farem noi alla nostra Sorella in quel giorno, in cui dovrà farsi parola con lei?e Our sister is litle, and hath no breasts. What shal we doe to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken vnto?Chorus Fratrum. Soror nostra parva, / et ubera non habet; / quid faciemus sorori nostræ / in die quando alloquenda est ? 9If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.Se ella è una muraglia, edifichiam sopra di essa baluardi d'argento: se è una porta, fortifichiamola con tavole di cedro.If she be a wal, let vs build vpon it bulwarkes of siluer: if she be a doore, let vs ioyne it together with bordes of ceder.Si murus est, / ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; / si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis. 10I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.Io muraglia, e il mio petto qual torre, fin da quando dinanzi a lui son io come quella, che ho trovata la pace.I am a wal: and my breasts are as a towre, since I was made before him as one finding peace.Sponsa. Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, / ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens. 11The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.Il pacifico ebbe una vigna nella popolosa (città): la diede ai vignaiuoli: uomo porta del frutto di essa mille sicli d'argento.The peacemaker had a vinyard, in that which hath peoples: he deliuered the same to keepers, a man bringeth for the fruite thereof a thousand peeces of siluer.Chorus Fratrum. Vinea fuit pacifico in ea quæ habet populos: / tradidit eam custodibus; / vir affert pro fructu ejus mille argenteos.

12My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.La mia vigna mi sta davanti. Mille (sicli son) tuoi, o pacifico, e dugento per quelli, che ne custodiscono i frutti.My vineyard is before me. A thousand are thy peacemakers, and two hundreth for them, that keepe the fruites thereof.Sponsa. Vinea mea coram me est. / Mille tui pacifici, / et ducenti his qui custodiunt fructus ejus. 13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.O tu, che abiti negli orti, gli amici ascoltano: fa, che oda io la tua voce.Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the frends doe harken: make me heare thy voice.Sponsus. Quæ habitas in hortis, amici auscultant; / fac me audire vocem tuam. 14Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.Fuggi, o mio Diletto: sii tu simile al cavriolo, e al cerbiatto sui monti degli aromati.Flee, ô my beloued, and be like to the roe, and to the fawne of harts vpon the mountaines of aromatical spices.Sponsa. Fuge, dilecte mi, et assimilare capreæ, / hinnuloque cervorum super montes aromatum.