Will more than pay the price of my past anguish;

Beware, O cruel fair, how you smile on me,

’Twas a kind look of yours that has undone me.

Love has in store for me one happy minute,

And she will end my pain, who did begin it;

Then no day, void of bliss, of pleasure, leaving,

Ages shall slide away without perceiving:

Cupid shall guard the door, the more to please us,

And keep out Time and Death, when they would seize us:

Time and Death shall depart, and say in flying,