Quam pulchra es (Song of Solomon 7:6,7,5,4,11,12) – John Dunstaple

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)

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