1. My heart's torment for your love is my undoing
Have mercy, for this pain is hard to bear

2. Hear my plea, my darling, I'm so lowly
Won't you be kind to me in my despair?

3. How long must I be lost in love for you?
While death is better than a life so bare

4. They attack me with their hate and scorn me
Why do they envy my love and care?

5. For you my longing and my pain define me
Like a sad dream that fills me with despair

6. I'm worn from sighs and wasted with my grief
My body wasted and my health laid bare

7. My secret love, its pain I hid from kin
My family, though we're close, they're unaware

8. I kept it hidden, though my eyes betrayed me
I wouldn't speak it, though my tears laid bare

9. Should I still hope, when you've been so unkind?
No, leave while some small dignity I bear

10. You've torn the veil of discretion from me
On a night I'll remember with despair

11. I'm weak with love, though wise men call me fool
Counting each breath, in darkness and bare

12. Have mercy on me, generouse one, I've come
To your door, though the road was hard to bear