1. After your company, other friends are worthless.
And life's joy is fleeting and transient.

2. The morning after you left, I saw my conscience
And thought: the time of sorrow is now at hand.

3. Oh essence of purity! Oh chief of masters!
Your sweetness delights, your goodness astounds.

4. You are a goblet and a purse of virtues -
For friendship with you, no price is too high.

5. I gave you my candor and affection,
A treasure for which base coins suffice.

6. So answer me now, or failing that,
Answer me later, for this urging suffices.