Бёрд Уильям - Who likes to love - текст песни (слова)

Original text:  
 Who likes to love let him take heed,
 and wot you why?
 Among the Gods it is decreed
 that love shall die,
 and every wight that takes his part
 shall forfeit each a mourning heart.
 The cause is this as I have heard
 a sort of dames
 Whose beauty he did not regard
 Nor secret flames
 Complained before the gods above
 That gold corrupts the God of love.
 The gods did storm to hear this news
 and there they swore
 that sith he did such dames abuse
 he should no more
 be god of lovem but that he should
 both die and forfeit all his gold.
 His bow and shafts they took away
 before their eyes
 and gave these dames a longer day
 for to devise
 who should them keep, and they be bound
 that love for gold should not be found.
 These ladies, striving long, at last
 they did agree
 to give then to a maiden chaste,
 whom I did see,
 who with the same did pierce my heart
 her beauty's rare and so I rest.