The Bride

The bride asks to be set as a seal upon the beloved's heart and arm, because love is as strong as death and jealousy as fierce as the grave. She says its flashes are like blazing fire and that many waters cannot quench love, nor rivers sweep it away, and that no wealth can purchase it, making love both enduring and beyond valuation.

S⁶et me as a seal over your heart, ⁷Mighty waters cannot quench love;