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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Who shall give thee to me for my brother, sucking the breasts of my mother, that I may find thee without, and kiss thee, and now no man may despise me?",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "I will take hold of thee, and bring thee into my mother's house: there thou shalt teach me, and I will give thee a cup of spiced wine and new wine of my pomegranates.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "His left hand under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love till she please.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "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?",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "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 of cedar.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 8:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "I am a wall: and my breasts are as a tower since I am become in his presence as one finding peace.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "The peaceable had a vineyard, in that which hath people: he let out the same to keepers, every man bringeth for the fruit thereof a thousand pieces of silver.",
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "My vineyard is before me. A thousand are for thee, the peaceable, and two hundred for them that keep the fruit thereof.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the friends hearken: make me hear thy voice.",
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Flee away, O my beloved, and be like to the roe, and to the young hart upon the mountains of aromatical spices.",
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