8. If you do not know [where your lover is], O you fairest among women, run along, follow the tracks of the flock, and [amuse yourself by] pasturing your kids beside the shepherds' tents.
9. O my love [he said as he saw her], you remind me of my [favorite] mare in the chariot spans of Pharaoh.
10. Your cheeks are comely with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.
11. We will make for you chains and ornaments of gold, studded with silver.
12. While the king sits at his table [she said], my spikenard [my absent lover] sends forth [his] fragrance [over me].