I charge you, O daughters, &c.— I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved—What should you tell him, but that I am sick of love? Thus we have at beautiful aposiopesis, which is lost in the common translation. Houbigant gives part of these words to the virgins, thus; What should we tell him? SPOUSE. That I am sick of love.
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Song of Solomon 5:8
8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.