Capital from the Song of Solomon in Winchester Cathedral. (Image via Wikipedia)
Song of Solomon 7:6, 7, 5a, 4a, 11a, 12 [Latin]
6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
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Quam pulchra es (c. 1410-1453) by John Dunstaple (or Dunstable) (1390-1453)
Performed by Trio Triumvirum at the Church of Notre Dame, New York City
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