‖: Cease :‖ (×3) these false sports, ‖: haste :‖ (×3) away!
Love’s made a truant by your stay.
‖: Good-night! :‖ yet ‖: virgin- :‖ bride!
‖: But look ere day, :‖ ere day be spied
You change that fruitless name,
Lest you your sex defame.
Fear not Hymen’s peaceful war,
‖: You’ll conquer :‖ (×3) though you subdued are.
‖: Good night! and ere the day be old,
Rise to the sun, rise to the sun,
Rise to the sun, to the sun,
To the sun a marigold. :‖
Hymen, O Hymen, bless this night,
That ‖: Love’s dark works :‖ may come to light.