Behold you are fair; dove’s eyes; our couch is shaded
Again the Bridegroom’s speech is directed to her, and he says: Behold, you are fair, my neighbor; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves. She says to the Bridegroom: Behold, you are fair, my brother, and graceful. Our couch is shaded; the beams of our houses are cedar, our paneling cypress. We must consider how both Bridegroom and Bride are called fair. The Bridegroom is fair according to divinity; the Bride fair according to way of life and virtues. Her eyes are called doves’ because the Holy Spirit descended in the form of a dove, and those who see spiritually look with dove-like eyes. The shaded couch: a soul strewn with flowers of virtues receives Christ. Cedar and cypress: incorruptible woods, because faith and hope and love do not rot.
Latin
Rursum sponsi ad eam sermo dirigitur et dicit: Ecce es speciosa, proxima mea; ecce es speciosa; oculi tui columbae. Illa dicit ad sponsum: Ecce es speciosus, fratruelis meus, et decorus. Lectulus noster floridus; tigna domorum nostrarum cedrina, laquearia nostra cypressina. Considerandum quomodo et sponsus et sponsa speciosa esse dicantur. Sponsus speciosus est secundum divinitatem; sponsa speciosa secundum conversationem et virtutes. Oculi eius columbae dicuntur, quia Spiritus sanctus in specie columbae descendit, et qui spiritaliter vident, columbinis oculis intuentur. Lectulus floridus: anima floribus virtutum strata Christum suscipit. Cedrina et cypressina: incorruptibilia ligna, quia fides et spes et caritas non putrescunt.