Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 4:5

5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lillies .

Another part in which beauty consists, Ezek. 16. 7. By which some understand the two Testaments, or the two Sacraments: but these are rather Christs than the Churches Breasts. Others, the Churches servent Love to Christ, and to all the Saints, for the Breasts signifie Love, Prov. 5. 19. Cant. 1. 13. Others her fruitfulness, both in good Works, and in bringing up Children unto Christ, like a Nurse with her Breasts. But the following similitude seemeth not to respect the use of the Breasts, or the Love which is signified or manifested by them, but their comeliness. And therefore this is generally to be understood of the Churches Beauty in all parts, as hath been said.

i. e. In the fields where Lilies grew, as is evident both from Mat. 6. 28. where they are called the Lillies of the field, and from other Scriptures, and from the Testimony of other Writers. The Lillies being white and swelling, and the Roes of a reddish colour, and their Bodies being hid from sight by the Lillies, their Heads only appearing above them, bear some resemblance to the red nipples appearing in the top of the lillie white Breasts. But we must remember that this Book is a sacred Pastoral, and the Bridegroom is represented as a Shepherd and the Bride as a country▪Maid, and therefore such similitudes are used as are agreeable to Persons of that Quality, and such are usual in prophane Writers of this kind, as the learned have observed. They are compared to Roes for their loveliness, of which see Prov. 5. 19. to young ones for their smallness, which in breasts is a beauty; to Twins for their exact likeness.

Marginal references: Ch. 7. 3.