| A Seeker is Stronger than a Keeper | |
| I valorously seek (without falling silent, | |
| always every day) a girl. | |
| Deceitful Eiddig keeps | |
| 4 | his little lively girl, gifted with good sense. |
| He watches oppressively [with] a violent look; | |
| stronger is he who seeks, through a blade and a frown, | |
| than he who keeps from a mischievous lad | |
| 8 | his beautiful girl on the brow of a green vale. |
| It's not easy to keep a splendid fair girl | |
| from a thief [who's] looking craftily. | |
| When I watch, my occupation | |
| 12 | (aiming [my] gaze) is the same as a thief's. |
| Obstinately (it was an admission) | |
| he keeps her (it was wretched); | |
| more obstinately (deep wound of violence) | |
| 16 | am I trying about a girl. |
| A lover, because of his admitted position, | |
| if he seeks that which he loves, he will not sleep. | |
| A watcher's pain, dull early–riser, | |
| 20 | he'll be sleepy, [with] a mind refusing [to concentrate]. |
| I am very similar (because of the boon of a great gift, | |
| a great and proud gem) as regards Morfudd | |
| to the horse who sees the oats from his enclosure | |
| 24 | and does not see the hedge. |
| I for my part without avoiding the enemy | |
| see the chastest girl | |
| and do not see (boldest claim) | |
| 28 | her black partner (fair and bejewelled [is she]). |
| May God not see the man of rigid words, | |
| he for his part will never see me. | |
| A pupil will not be more crooked | |
| 32 | in the head of a king, a land's ruler. |
| I am stronger, where a blue pike is raised, | |
| than him, he's been frightened. | |
| I shall visit ([girl] of the most radiant lineage) | |
| 36 | the houses of my darling while I live. |
| May I suffer cold if I stay away from | |
| [a girl of] radiant colour, a summer sun, | |
| (an armed occupation for a payment of presumption) | |
| 40 | because of him who keeps her, golden and beautiful forehead. |