Truest love of mine, sweetest love of mine!

Save, O save, I pray, save the prisoned lad!”

Swiftly then exclaimed that belovèd maid:

“Come, attendant! Come! Come, my faithful nurse!

Servant faithful, you that long have faithful been,

Bring the golden key, bring the key with speed!

Ope the treasure chests, open them in haste;

Golden treasures bring, bring them straight to me:

Ransom him, I say, ransom the good lad,

He is my beloved, of my heart beloved.”