them is myrrh, which is used once by the woman to describe the man (1:13), and is also clearly used once by the man to refer to the woman (4:14). In addition, myrrh is used twice by the man in contexts that make it seem symbolic of the woman (4:6; 5:1) and twice by the woman when she realizes that her lover is gone (5:5). Once it is found in an enigmatic verse in which neither speaker nor referent is clear, although the NIV assigns it to the friends (3:6). Incense is used to parallel myrrh in two