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So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other:
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For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her.
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And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
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Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out they departed one from another.
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And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust; and then they agreed upon a time, when they might find her alone.
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And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
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And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves and were beholding her.
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So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
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And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
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Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
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Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.