There the nightingale, the traitor,

Lingered on his giddy way;

And these words of hidden treachery

To the dove I heard him say:

“I will be thy servant, lady,

I will ne’er thy love betray.”

But no English translation, however fine, can possibly do justice to this beautiful lyric:

Fonte frida, fonte frida,

Fonte frida, y con amor,

Do todas las avezicas