Fairest, if it be your pleasure

C. Salzedo

Fairest if it be your pleasure

To enrich me by your treasure

Of sweet comfort and deliciousness

I will serve thee as my mistress

Let me not die, nor from thee sever;

For no desire have I but fully

Thee to serve most loyally

Myself to spare no pain or sadness

Fairest if it be your pleasure

To enrich me by your treasure

Of sweet comfort and deliciousness

If it should please thee to accomplish

And for me alone to banish

With your most sweet and gentle youth

This denial which wounds in truth

Thou can'st heal me by your treasure

Fairest if it be your pleasure.