Sweet honey sucking bees why do you still Surfeit on roses pinks and violets As if the choicest nectar lay in them Where with you store your curious cabinets? Ah make your flight to melisuavia's lips There may you revel in ambrosian cheer Where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit There may you revel in ambrosian cheer Where smiling roses and sweet lilies sit Keeping their springtime graces Keeping their springtime graces all the year Yet sweet take heed All sweets are hard to get Sting not her soft lips Oh beware of that For if one flaming dart Come from her eye Was never dart so sharp Ah then you die Was never dart so sharp Ah then you die You die