# Song of Songs (Vulgate "Canticum Canticorum," cited "Cant"), chapter 8.
# Verses 5-10 only -- transcribed from what was already pulled for the
# Assumption's octave day 8 Matins reading (Divinum Officium, Monastic
# Tridentinum 1617, live prayMatutinum query 2025-08-22), not the whole
# chapter.
book: cant
chapter: 8
verses:
  - n: 5
    text:
      la: "Quæ est ista quæ ascendit de deserto, deliciis affluens, innixa super dilectum suum? Sub arbore malo suscitavi te; ibi corrupta est mater tua, ibi violata est genitrix tua."
      en: "Who 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."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
  - n: 6
    text:
      la: "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."
      en: "Put 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."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
  - n: 7
    text:
      la: "Aquæ multæ non potuerunt extinguere caritatem, nec flumina obruent illam. Si dederit homo omnem substantiam domus suæ pro dilectione, quasi nihil despiciet eam."
      en: "Many 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."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
  - n: 8
    text:
      la: "Soror nostra parva, et ubera non habet; quid faciemus sorori nostræ in die quando alloquenda est?"
      en: "Our sister is little, and hath no breasts. What shall we do to our sister in the day when she is to be spoken to?"
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
  - n: 9
    text:
      la: "Si murus est, ædificemus super eum propugnacula argentea; si ostium est, compingamus illud tabulis cedrinis."
      en: "If she be a wall: let us build upon it bulwarks of silver: if she be a door, let us join it together with boards or cedar."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }
  - n: 10
    text:
      la: "Ego murus, et ubera mea sicut turris, ex quo facta sum coram eo, quasi pacem reperiens."
      en: "I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace."
    status: { la: verified, en: verified }