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Matthew's Bible 1537
| 8:1 | O that I myght fynde the without, and kisse the, whom I loue as my brother whiche sucked my mothers brestes: and that thou woldest not be offended, |
| 8:2 | if I toke the, and broughte the into my mothers house: that thou mightest teache me, & that I might geue the drinke of spiced wyne and of the swete sappe of my pomgranates. |
| 8:3 | Hys left hand lyeth vnder my head and hys right hande embraceth me. |
| 8:4 | I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem. that ye walke not vp my loue, nor touch her, tyll she be content her self. |
| 8:5 | What is she this, that commeth vp from the wyldernes, and leaneth vpon her loue? I am the same that waked the vp among the apple trees, where thy mother bare the, where thy mother brought the into the world. |
| 8:6 | O set me as a seale vpon thyne herte, and as a seale vpon thine arme: for loue is mightye as the death, and gelousy as the hell. Her cooles are of fyre, and a very flamme of the Lord: |
| 8:7 | so that many waters are not able too quenche loue, neither may the streames droun it. Yea, if a man wolde geue al the good of his house for loue, he should counte it nothinge. |
| 8:8 | When our loue is tolde our yong syster, whose brestes are not yet growen, what shal we do vnto her? |
| 8:9 | If she be a wall, we shall buylde a siluer bulwerke there vppon: if she be a tower, we shall fasten her with borders of Cedre tree. |
| 8:10 | If I be a wall, & my brestes like towres, then am I as one that hath founde fauoure in hys sight. |
| 8:11 | Salomon had a vyneyarde at Baal Hamon, thys vyneyarde delyuered he vnto the kepers: that euery one for the frute thereof should geue hym a thousand peces of siluer. |
| 8:12 | But my vyneyard, O Salomon, geueth the a thousand, and two hundreth to the kepers of the frute. |
| 8:13 | Thou that dwellest in the gardens, O let me heare thy voyce, that my companyons may herken to the same. |
| 8:14 | O get the awaye, my loue, as a roo or a yong hert vnto the swete smellynge mountaynes. |
Matthew's Bible 1537
The Matthew Bible, also known as Matthew's Version, was first published in 1537 by John Rogers, under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew". It combined the New Testament of William Tyndale, and as much of the Old Testament as he had been able to translate before being captured and put to death, with the translations of Myles Coverdale as to the balance of the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, except the Apocryphal Prayer of Manasses. It is thus a vital link in the main sequence of English Bible translations.