1. With the mask of old age, still alluring
The most beautiful, leading pleasure by the reins

2. He has lived fully but not fully, since the spring of youth
As though it were but a dream behind his eyelids

3. Had I known fate would reward me thus
With woe, I'd not have chosen to receive its gifts

4. And an envier whose secret was that I began with him
Once sure I'd have revenge on him one day

5. He sought my loss, so I excelled, and he
Showed health's greatest proof is illness and decay