Giles Farnaby - Witness, ye heavens - текст песни (слова)

Witness ye heav'ns, I vow to love the fairest, 
 to love, but how? For virtue, not for lust, for virtue. 
 Why? Because she is the rarest. 
 Come life, come death, in her I only trust;
 hap death, hap life, I force not which betide me, 
 by her I live, from death I cannot hide me.