Her song was tedious and outwore the night,
For lovers' hours are long, though seeming short:
If pleased themselves, others, they think, delight
In such-like circumstance, with suchlike sport:
Their copious stories oftentimes begun
End without audience and are never done.
夜不能耗歌冗贅,
久戀之情恨時短:
情寄人歡情自慰,
躍躍情歡人所願:
情話娓娓初有始,
聽者寥寥終無止。