Delight so drove me, eye and ear;
melted to madness my mortal mind;
when I saw my Precious, I would be there,
beyond the stream though she were held.
Nothing, methought, might hinder me
from fetching birr and taking off,
and nought should keep me from the start,
though I there perish'd swimming the rest.
But I was shaken from that thought;
as I widly will'd start a-stream,
I was recall'd from out that mood;
it was not pleasing to my Prince.