1. Tell the nightingale's son, why hast thou erred
Thou, while a brave nightingale, did chirp.

2. Whence comes a father to the whistling air
Whose sire is a nightingale with goodly note?

3. A lineage contradicting the surname,
None like it becomes thee.

4. Thou hast ignored what was in them both,
No excuse of thine can be accepted.