1. If a slave flees though none pursue
His lord, himself the fugitive,

2. Show him the mercy that is meet
From one who hears his sad descriptive.

3. I swear I flee because I live
From drawing favors that accrued.

4. Your service, masters, weighs me not.
Indeed, but salary is a load!

5. So loving you is my heart’s charge.
My heart’s so full of thickening large!

6. Religion’s judges left no chance
Of gaining your proximity.

7. Exalted be who sings your glory!
Yet I’m the scribe and bard this story!