Song of Solomon 1:6

6. Look not upon me Supply thus. She accounts with frank simplicity for her swarthiness, and in half-playful style tells how, while getting her complexion, she lost her heart. A glimpse is given of the family of the speaker, how she was under the control of stern and careful brothers, jealous of the family honour, which now (perhaps from the father’s premature death) seems to have come into their keeping. These, to divert her mind from an attachment which they disapproved, set her to a task not unusual to Eastern women of lower rank. There is a slight double sense in the sentence,

Mine own vineyard have I not kept It may mean, with almost Attic wit, I had never done such work for myself, or, I had been so silly as to fall in love.