1. It is time for the ignorant to learn
And awaken from his heedless sleep

2. A passion that faded after sixty years
So it is with every fleeting desire

3. So do not let your heart be deceived by false beauty
You have been tricked by worthless adornment

4. You are not mine if you extend a rope
And I avoid you after this lure

5. The eyes of the tempting do not pierce hearts
And reason has no access without them

6. So say to the coquettish and their idols
The arrows and archers have missed their mark

7. When I return to my morals
I disdain what the critic disparages

8. My friends tyrannized their servant
But their tyranny is just

9. How they judged him against whom they judged
And how heavily they weighed him against whom they weighed

10. And when they saw his superiority manifest
They wept in sorrow that he is virtuous

11. By God, I will not indulge people
Who excel in kindness if they befriend

12. When I join them they cut me off
And when I cut them off they join me