How sweet I roamed from field to field,

And tasted all the summer’s pride,

Till I the Prince of Love beheld,

Who in the sunny beams did glide!

He showed me lilies for my hair,

And blushing roses for my brow;

He led me through his gardens fair,

Where all his golden pleasures grow.

With sweet May dews my wings were wet,

And Phœbus fired my vocal rage;