RONDEL

Goodbye! the tears are in my eyes;

Farewell, farewell, my prettiest;

Farewell, of women born the best;

Good-bye! the saddest of good-byes.

Farewell! with many vows and sighs

My sad heart leaves you to your rest;

Farewell! the tears are in my eyes;

Farewell! from you my miseries

Are more than now may be confessed,

And most by thee have I been blessed,

Yea, and for thee have wasted sighs;

Goodbye! the last of my goodbyes.

FRANCOIS VILLON, 1460