1. Ask me, for I have wearied of endless love
And bearing sorrows and afflictions untold

2. Give me solace, if you're able, otherwise
Revive me with wine, as the wise have told

3. Perhaps in wine there lies a cure
For lovers' burning heart and spirit bold

4. Reason fails even the wise when faced
With what fools manage with words so bold

5. In my lover's company I've no place
With her estrangement and coldness untold

6. She gave me a cup that made my heart melt
Doing to me what wine does, I was told

7. Her wine made me drunk with desire's joy
Flowing through my bones, taking hold

8. My passion cannot decrease, I know
How can what's increasing start to fold?

9. Daily my love, yearning, passion grow
And my devotion and madness take hold

10. No trick can diminish my fervent love
Save tears of sadness coursing uncontrolled

11. Seek relief in weeping, let it flow
Tears help lovers bewildered, I was told

12. If love's my ailment, know for sure
It's a sickness that makes the noblest fold