Clavis cantici, or, An exposition of the Song of Solomon

The thirteenth and fourteenth verses contain the last part of this kindly conference, that hath been betwixt these two loving parties, and express their farewell and last suits, which each of them hath to the other. He speaks in this verse, and being to close, as a kind husband, leaving his beloved wife for a time, he desires to hear frequently from her till he return; this is his suit: And she, like a loving wife, entreats him to hasten his return, in the next verse, and this is the scope of both these verses. That the words in this thirteenth verse are spoken by him, appears by the title he gives the Bride, Thou that dwellest, in the Gardens, which in the Original, is in the feminine gener, as if one would say, thou woman, or, thou bride, or, thou my wife▪ Or, take it in one word, as it's in the Original, it may be rendered, O inhabitress of the Gardens; which can be applied to none other, but ⟨p. 474⟩to her; and therefore, these words must be spoken by him to her, and thus the scope laid down is clear.

The thirteenth and fourteenth verses contain the last part of this kindly conference, that hath been betwixt these two loving parties, and expresse their farewel and last suits, which each of them hath to the other. He speaks in this verse, and being to close, as a kind husband, leaving his beloved wife for a time, he desires to hear frequently from her till he return; this is his suit: And she, like a loving wife, intreats him to hasten his return, in the next verse, and this is the scope of both these verses. That the words in this thirteenth verse are spoken by him, appears by the title he gives the Bride, Thou that dwellest, in the Gardens, which in the Original, is in the feminine gener, as if one would say, thou woman, or, thou bride, or, thou my wife Or, take it in one word, as it's in the Original, it may be rendred, O inhabitresse of the Gardens; which can be applyed to none other, but