1. The loveliest of all in tents and in vales am I,
Who Iraq, Syria, and Yemen traversed have and gone by.

2. Of all the fair ones of mankind most fair is she I've ta'en,
Brighter than sun at noon, or moon of night that just doth wane.

3. While life remains she still is hid who garreth me lament.
Of grief and cheerless days, forsooth, I've wearied me and faint.

4. A comrade evil is like leprosy that striketh skin
And spreadeth here and there what while it crawleth deep within.

5. He will reveal his fellow's faults and nakedness detect,
Yet aught of good he witnesses he carefully will check.

6. A worthless horse, if thou desire his points to recognise,
Urge him to speed, or firmly rein him in, he straightway flies.

7. If still that fellow lives, hold thou aloof from him afar;
Or, should he die, frequent thou not his tomb, nor burial mar.