It is not the weet that wearies me;

Nor is it the frost that freezes fell,

But I love a lad, and I dare not tell.

Oh, faith is gone, and truth is past,

And my true love's forsaken me;

If all be true that I hear say,

I 'll mourn until the day I die.

Oh, if I had nere been born,

That to have died, when I was young;

Then I had never wet my cheeks