1. You would have disgraced yourself had you been an honest man
You would have known right from wrong

2. You would have stopped insulting me without malice
And not implicated the innocent

3. But your soul refused to heed the prohibition
Of determination, excellence, and success

4. You opened the door of insult upon me until
The hidden wickedness in you was exposed

5. So strive and say, do not leave a sincere man
Who insults a wise and capable man

6. You blame me in a lofty café
An antidote brought from Babylon

7. If he had seen it, he would have fallen in love
And bowed to Satan in vain

8. O evil of dawn whose beginning is all evil
And the pilfering of the glutton

9. Leave your honor and flee, and leave me be
O fool, with what I love, for it is fleeting