1. You burden me, though you
Do not know I'm frailer, more bent

2. I wished you’d carry today
Upon your back some of my weight

3. But you refused, and preferred
Greedily, cowardly, to abstain

4. So by unanimous accord
You now are better for me, than I

5. And I've not been cheated, but you
Have by this shown clearer cheating

6. I've not done wrong, but rather
I've thought well, though suspecting ill

7. I thought you for one brought low
A helper, and in fear, safety

8. Till I found you were like words
Without in them any meaning