Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,

侘傺乎吾求息死兮，

As to behold desert a beggar born,

睹芳草生而萎賤；

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,

何蕭艾而扈芷兮，

And purest faith unhappily forsworn,

豈精誠而悔捐。

And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,

赧修名之枉授兮，

And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,

哀貞女之遭罹；

And strength by limping sway disabled,

雖信姱而替詬兮，

And art made tongue-tied by authority,

蹇駑傷夫騏驥。

And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,

And simple truth miscalled simplicity,

夫黨人之蔽美兮，

And captive good attending captain ill:

偽學愚弄乎繩墨；

  Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,

諑夷道以簡微兮，

  Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.

恒淩善而諂惡。

已矣哉！吾將去此以流亡，

若余之死兮惟靈修之獨傷。