When You Love

when you Love, or speak of it,

Make no serious matter on it,

It will make but subject for her wit

And gain her scorn in lieu of Grant.

Sneering, whining, dull Grimasses

Pale the Appetite, they’d move;

Only Boys and formal Asses

Thus are Ridicul’d by Love.

while you make Mystery

Of Your Love and awful flame;

Young and tender Hearts will fly,

Frighted at the very name;

Always brisk and gayly court,

Make Love your pleasure not your pain,

It is by wanton play and sport

Heedless Virgins you will gain.

當你戀愛

當你戀愛，或談論愛情，

千萬別把事情當真，

它只能成為女士機智的笑柄，

受到她的輕視，而不是應允。

譏笑、牢騷、枯燥的苦相

淡化欲望——本該刺激的欲望;

只有稚童和講究褥節(jié)的蠢驢

才會如此被愛情調(diào)戲。

當你使它萬分神秘——

你的愛和如火如荼的情欲;

年輕和嬌弱的心靈即會逃避，

威懾于愛情這個名字;

永遠快活吧，嬉戲地追逐，

使愛情成為樂趣而非痛楚，

正是因為你逢場作戲，

你將得到毫不提防的處女。