Ecce gratum........................ Behold, the pleasant et optatum..........................and longed-for Ver reducit gaudia,................ spring brings back joyfulness, purpuratum..........................violet flowers floret pratum,......................fill the meadows, sol serenat omnia...................the sun brightens everything, Iamiam cedant tristia!..............sadness is now at an end! Estas redit,........................Summer returns, nunc recedit........................now withdraw hyemis sevitia..................... the rigours of winter. Ah!
Iam liquescit...................... Now melts et decrescit........................and disappears grando, nix et cetera;..............ice, snow and the rest, bruma fugit,........................winter flees, et iam sugit........................and now spring sucks at summer's breast: ver estatis ubera;..................a wretched soul is he illi mens est misera,.............. who does not live qui nec vivit,......................or lust nec lascivit........................under summer's rule. Ah! sub estatis dextera.
Gloriantur..........................They glory et letantur........................ and rejoice in melle dulcedinis,................in honeyed sweetness qui conantur,...................... who strive ut utantur..........................to make use of premio Cupidinis:.................. Cupid's prize; simus jussu Cypridis................at Venus' command gloriantes..........................let us glory et letantes........................ and rejoice pares esse Paridis................. in being Paris' equals. Ah!