Even if the person who pays the fee of a thousand pieces of silver is Solomon himself, it is she who owns her vineyard. In other words, she is saying, Keep your money O king, except what you owe your employees (two hundred pieces of silver), the keepers of the vineyard.
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Multiplying wives means forfeiting the true peace and wholeness to be found in a single-hearted commitment between one man and one woman.2
The silver
(kesep) that symbolizes throughout Song of Solomon 8:8–12 the possession of the female by the male is evidently despised by the young woman. Money has nothing to do with true love (see Song of Solomon 8:7). She will not be possessed by any man other than the one she has chosen and who has chosen her (Song of Solomon 8:6).3
12 My vineyard, my very own, is before me; you, O Solomon, may have the thousand, and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.