1. Do not oblige me to excess in tending passion
And I fulfill only less than what is due

2. If you were a witness and the house brought us together
And the union knit and affection drawn near

3. No, but equal affection and his love for me
As though it were kinship, nay beyond kinship

4. Feeling at ease with what our hearts conceal
On chastity and tending affection we accompany one another

5. If yearning erased the excess of intimacy or we were ungracious
The intimacy of the gallant is to be playful if they are serious

6. So we do not defend with estrangement, for it is
Lest our disgrace not disappear, a fearful hump

7. I saw a lofty position in circumstance
And a rank too short for its prestige

8. In a chastity we vie lest touched by
The evil of suspicions or marred by doubt