Bible ~~- Older Testament ~~- Song of Solomon ~~- chapter 3 of 8 (11 verses.)

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The Shepherdess Dreams Of Her Shepherd-Boy
1 [Back in the palace, Shepherdess tries to jump out of the window. The City-Girls grab her. They pull her back in. She struggles against their hands. She kicks and screams. They thrust her back inside the concubines' chamber. Her head thwacks the marble floor. The City-Girls haul her delirious to her bed. They strap her down on it. In flashes, she passes nights of tossing, turning in angst while the City-Girls laugh at her.] SHEPHERDESS: Night [after night] on my bed [in Solomon's palace], my [eyes] search [through my window-bars] for the one my soul loves. I seek him [in tortured dreams]. But I never find him.
Shepherdess Escapes & Searches The City
2 [The shepherdess pries her hands free from her bed-belts. She jumps up. She wrenches the bars out from her wall.] She wanders the city streets in her nightgown. She [evades guards]. She searches the city squares. [She asks commoners if they've seen her] soul-beloved. [They laugh at her.] She never finds the shepherd-boy.
3 Watchmen circling the city find the Shepherdess. [They shove their swords at her face. She pulls a small golden treasure from her bra, holds it out to bribe the guards. Their eyes light up.] She asks them, β€œHave you seen my shepherd-boy? I love him with all my life-breath.” [The guards snatch the golden treasure. They knock her down into the mud. They stomp on, laughing.]
Shepherdess Finds Her Lover, Takes Him Home
4 Shepherdess crawls on past the [guards]. She finds her soul-beloved, [the shepherd-boy]. She holds him. [He sees guards approaching. So he tries to wiggle out of her grasp.] She refuses to let him go. She grabs his hand. They run hand-in-hand away from the soldiers. She sneaks him [through fields … through forests. He whispers to her, β€œWhere are you taking me?”] She answers, β€œMy mother's house.” [He whispers, β€œWe can't outrun Solomon's spies!”] She answers, β€œThen I'll die in your arms in the [bed] chamber [where] my mother conceived me.” [They run into the overgrown ruins of a house. She leans in to kiss her shepherd-boy. In rush Solomon's guards. They handcuff the shepherd-boy, shackle him to a post. They drag Shepherd-girl back to Jerusalem.]
Guards Throw The Shepherdess Back Into Palace
5 [Guards haul Shepherdess into the palace. They throw her into the concubines' hall. She looks up from the marble floor at the City-Girls laughing at her. Nice City-Girl leans down. With her nightgown, she wipes the blood and mud off of Shepherd-Girl's face.] [SHEPHERDESS:] Seven times I warn you, you sluts of Jerusalem, you gazelles and does [romping] in [Solomon's] fields β€” never agitate nor awaken passion until [true love] smiles [on you].
City-Girls Try To Tempt Shepherdess
6 [City-Girl looks out the window. She sees Solomon riding into the city, flanked by thousands of his screaming fans. CITY-GIRL:] Who is this [man-god storming] out of the wilderness? [City-Girl:] He's like pillars of smoke perfumed with myrrh and frankincense. [Shepherdess sees a train of camels and carts trailing into the distance behind Solomon. CITY-GIRL: He packs] all the powders a pusher [can push]! [SHEPHERDESS: I don't care.]
7 [CITY-GIRL: Wait 'til you] see Solomon's bed [room]! 60 valiant men, the [most] courageous [warriors] in Israel, surround it! [You've never felt safe 'til you're in the Emperor's bed, with his huge royal … arms holding you.]
8 [CITY-GIRL:] All [Solomon's boudoir guards] wield swords. They're experts in war. Every man has his sword [strapped] on his thigh to [respond to any] alarm in the night.
9 [CITY-GIRL: Inside,] King Solomon {Peace-Man} made himself a [bed shaped like a] chariot, [built from] the white-forest woods of [the mountains of] Lebanon. [CITY-GIRL: And we get that chariot ROLLING'!]
10 [CITY-GIRL:] He made [the bed's] pillars of silver, with bottom-rails of gold, covered in [royal] purple [silk]. And the middle is studded with [us, the hottest] girls in Jerusalem, loving on him.
11 [CITY-GIRL:] Come outside, Zion-girls! Look at king Solomon. [BAD CITY-GIRL: First one of us he calls gets to bed him!] [CITY-GIRL: I'm gettin' a royal baby tonight!] [The concubines rush out of the chamber, down the stairs, to the patio. They gaze at Solomon. He gloriously parades into the palace grounds. Shepherdess peeks over the concubines' shoulders. Even she's impressed. NICE CITY-GIRL:] His mother [Bathsheba] set that crown [on his head] on the day of his [first] wedding, back when his heart was happy.
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