1. O you who in love strayed far from sanity
No blame in ending lies, or in parting company

2. A prey he roused, but snares of love ensnared him
Woe to him seeking death with his own hand so bare him

3. The prey the hunter made, he made undone
In madness, when they met, and in chase outrun

4. The slain who aimed no dart, no guilt had he
While his killer feared no law of equity

5. A glance shot random’s arrow through his heart
And sealed within his breast the glance’s dart

6. With empty blame for what he felt no smart
He chides in love, with no such love his part

7. He shows his noble birth who noble birth can claim
As though from his own neck he had the gems to frame

8. O you whose lips so clear, how with your lips you kill
Those maddened by love’s heat for your cool rill

9. Would he but act to me as his true passion bid
And show the love his heart within so deep lies hid

10. Deprived of his sweet pearls I pine away
His work, though prized and precious, no help can say

11. When we parted, spies spread talk of suspected ill
But we parted - the crowd condemns as it will

12. Still bent against me, those with whom he came
No mourner he, though I was sore defamed

13. Would we had met in spirit and in heart
Were my body not his, nor his flesh my part!