The original: Fitzwilliam work list: 1876 ... designed five subjects from the Song of Solomon - for paintings on panel some day Inscribed at the top: SURGE. PROPERA AMICA. MEA. IAM. ENIM. HYEMS. / TRANSIT. IMBER. ABIIT ET RECESSIT: SURGE. / AMICA. MEA. SPECIOSA. MEA ET VENI. From the Vulgate Song of Solomon 11-13 Trasnlates as "For Lo, The Winter is Past... Rise up my love, my fair one and come away"