Away - Mediaeval Baebes

My lefe is faren in a lond

Alas!

why is he so?

And I am so sore bound

I may nat com her to

He hath my hert in hold,

Where-ever he ride or go,

With trew love a thousandfold.

MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

My love has left for a faraway land

Alas!

— why would he do this?

And here I am so tied and bound

I cannot go where he is

So he holds my heart in his hands

Wherever he comes or goes

And with my true love a thousandfold