1. The heart was disturbed - was there for it a consoler?
Or was there for his old love an obtainer?

2. Passion inclined towards him and accustomed him,
The madness of youth with a burning heart.

3. His time had clear adversity,
And love - whoever hungers for it sickens.

4. He hung passion from his heart for a fawn,
A driver of yearning, of lovely creation.

5. She passed the toothstick over the sweetest gap-toothed mouth,
Of sweet lips, delicious in taste like a drink.

6. She said to a maid of hers: say to him
A saying of one who complains but doesn't complain.

7. And I knew well that if I listed his sins
He would claim that he hadn't sinned.

8. Tell me, I love one who is reproached
Lowly in status and not highborn.

9. If he had avoided me as he said, he wouldn't
Have persisted in harming me and avoiding me.

10. So I made her swear sincerely, an oath not lying,
That your love still increases in me

11. And I watch for you what you don't watch for.