Their lord rejoiced and emptying the cupgave the girls to drink. Then he signed to the yellow girl and said to her'O sun of the daylet us hear some pleasant verses.'So she took the lute and preluding after the goodliest fashionsang as follows：
I have a loverwhenas I draw him nighHe bares upon me a sword from either eye.
May God avenge me some whit of him！ For loHe doth oppress me，whose heart in 's hand doth lie.
Oft though'Renounce himmy heart，'I sayyet it Will to none other than him itself apply.
He's all I ask forof all created things；Yet jealous Fortune doth him to me deny.
The man rejoiced and drank and gave the girls to drink；then he filled the cup and taking it in his handsigned to the black girlsaying'O apple of the eyelet us have a taste of thy fashionthough it be but two words.'So she took the lute and preluded in various modesthen returned to the first and sang the following verses to a lively air：
O eyesbe large with tears and pour them forth amainForlo，for very love my senses fail and wane.
All manner of desire I suffer for his sake I cherishand my foes make merry at my pain.
My enviers me forbid the roses of a cheek；And yet I have a heart that is to roses fain.
Ayonce the cups went round with joyance and delight And to the smitten lutesthe goblets did we drain，What time my love kept troth and I was mad for him And in faith's heaventhe star of happiness did reign.
But lohe turned away from mesans fault of mine！ Is there a bitterer thing than distance and disdain？
Upon his cheeks there bloom a pair of roses redBlown ready to be plucked；ah Godthose roses twain！
Were't lawful to prostrate oneself to any else Than GodI'd sure prostrate myself upon the swain.