Male lover
“I adjure you!
O daughters of Jerusalem!
Do not stir up love!
Do not awaken love
Until it is ready!”
The male lover responds as he did in chapters 2 and 3 by asking that the daughters of Jerusalem keep him from his lover until the right time, until her love is ready. Love should simmer and sleep. Then it awakens. However, here there is no mention of gazelles or wild does. He is swearing or adjuring to the daughters of Jerusalem to hold him back from his desires.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 