Being your slave, what should I do but tend

Upon the hours and times of your desire?

I have no precious time at all to spend,

Nor services to do, till you require.

Nor dare I chide the world-without-end hour

Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you,

Nor think the bitterness of absence sour

When you have bid your servant once adieu;

Nor dare I question with my jealous thought

Where you may be, or your affairs suppose,

But, like a sad slave, stay and think of nought

Save, where you are how happy you make those.

So true a fool is love that in your will,

Though you do any thing, he thinks no ill.

既然是你奴隸，我有什么可做，

除了時時刻刻伺候你的心愿？

我毫無寶貴的時間可消磨，

也無事可做，直到你有所驅遣。

我不敢罵那綿綿無盡的時刻，

當我為你，主人，把時辰來看守；

也不敢埋怨別離是多么殘酷，

在你已經把你的仆人辭退后；

也不敢用妒忌的念頭去探索

你究竟在哪里，或者為什么忙碌，

只是，像個可憐的奴隸，呆想著

你所在的地方，人們會多幸福。

　　愛這呆子是那么無救藥的呆

　　憑你為所欲為，他都不覺得壞。