under my head, and that his right hand embraced me!” says the woman in 2:6. In 3:1–5 the woman searches the city for her groom. She asks other women and the city guards where he is. She becomes desperate. Then she finds him, and their reunion is sweet and passionate. But notice what she says in verse 5: “Do not stir up or awaken love until it is ready!” What? This woman has been running crazy around the city looking for this man, and then tells us not to awaken love until it is ready? She tells us this