4Draw me after you, let us make haste. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. After the heading to the book in verse 1—for which see the Introduction—we listen to the passionate longing of a girl for the joy that love will bring to her. It has been suggested that throughout the book it is a recently married couple who are sharing with us the ecstasy and the tensions of the first months of their