Song of Solomon 8:2

Who would instruct me— literally, Thou shouldest be constantly with me: so Houbigant. The next clause refers to the Hebrew custom of mixing aromatic drugs with their wine. Russel in one place observes, that there are three sorts of pomegranates at Aleppo, the sour, the sweet, and another betwixt both; and in another place, that they are wont to give a graceful acidity to their sauces by pomegranate or lemon-juice. Liquors of the kind above, mentioned, leaving out the wine, which the Mahommedan religion forbids, are very common in the East to this day. See Observations, p. 193.