1. With soft words of tender diction
And sweet scent of perfumed cheeks

2. You show mercy to one slain by love for you
Though no connection remains that we'd abhor

3. Tell me not how I've endured your charm
For with you, from all people, I'm now bereft

4. It's not like you to shun one whose eyelids
Are swollen with tears that start and ebb

5. One who finds no champion against you
Since your eyes gained rule and conquest

6. Woe to me, so lightly deemed by one
Who unjustly slays me, no blood outpoured

7. By your rosy cheeks and escaping curls
And the batting lashes of a fawn, a trickster

8. If not for a love in you time doesn't end
And in my heart, a burning agony

9. You'd not have unjustly chosen my torment
Nor had power to seek my demise