Song of Solomon 2:6

Her mother's sons have made it impossible for her to avoid this, treating her with that arbitrary tyranny which male relatives so often display in the East. 'I have known an ill-natured child,' says Doughty, 'lay a stick on the back of his good cherishing mother': cp. 1 Samuel 17:28. Her own vineyard, her complexion, she was forced to leave uncared, for.