但爱情授予的一般奖品是，
那足以抵消巨大辛酸的丝丝甘甜；
虽然狄朵女王长眠地下，
虽然伊莎贝拉遇到的是极大痛苦，
虽然罗伦索没有用温暖的印度丁香
涂尸防腐，但真理依然是真理——
即使蜜蜂，那些春花丛中的受施舍者，
也知道只有在毒花里才存有最丰饶的蜜汁。

But, for the general award of love,
The little sweet doth kill much bitterness;
Though Dido silent is in under-grove,
And Isabella’s was a great distress,
Though young Lorenzo in warm Indian clove
Was not embalm’d, this truth is not the less —
Even bees, the little almsmen of spring-bowers,
Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.