My lefe is faren in a lond
Alas! why is he so?
And I am so sore bound

I may nat com her to
He hath my hert in hold,
Where-ever he ride or go,

With trew love a thousandfold.

MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATION


My love has left for a faraway land
Alas! - why would he do this?

And here I am so tied and bound
I cannot go where he is
So he holds my heart in his hands

Wherever he comes or goes
And with my true love a thousandfold