Tu me voi crudel lassare
E partir cotanto amore
Hor che mhai furato el core
Tu me voi abandonare
Queste sonno le parole
Li speriuri e sacramenti
Questo di che gia dir sole
Con suspir tante cocenti
Questi sonno i sacramenti
Che sentivi per mio amore
Queste e quel constante core
A crudel comei poi fare
Tu me voi crudel lassare
Io credea chel to core"
gia non fosse come foglia
hor cognosco chiar lamore
mi portasti o finta doglia
e mutata la mia voglia
mi mostravi in altra parte
e pero da me ti sparte
per che voi un altro amare
Io so ben che non fui degno
de seguir tant' alta impresa
per che havevei el cor impregno
e mia mente seco accesa
non potena far diffesa
che in tue man era mia vita
hor voi far da me partita
come mai potrai durare
Pensa prima quel che stato
intra noi gia tant'anni
io ver te non ho peccato
ma tu trovi mille inganni
per machiar mie bianchi panni
pero pensa hora crudele
quanto a te io fui fidele
da poi fa quel che a te pare
English translation
You want to cruelly leave me
And leave so much love
Now that you have stolen my heart
You want to abandon me
These are the words,
The hopes and holy things,
of which I have only spoken
With so many burning sighs.
These are the holy things
you felt because of my love,
These and my constant heart.
How then do you cruel
want to cruelly leave me.
I believed your heart
was no longer like a leaf.
Now I know clearly: The love
you brought me or feigned, brought pain
and changed my desire.
You put me in second place
and thus you separate from me,
as you love another
I know well that I was not worthy
of pursuing such a high enterprise.
But you had imbued my heart
and enkindled my mind with Love,
And I could not defend myself.
In your hands was my life.
Now you make me depart.
How can you do this.
Think first what has been
between us for so many years.
I have not sinned against you,
but you find a thousand deceptions
to stain my white clothes.
So think now, cruel,
how faithful I was to you.
After that do what you think is right.
Italian text
English translation