Una ninfa de Diana vio a Cupido
Durmiendo con la tea a su costado;
Tomó el fuego de amor, y apresuróse
A arrojarlo del valle en fuente fría,
Que inflándose en el sagrado fuego
Hirvió con un calor inextinguible
Y transformose en baño en que buscamos
Cura soberana a extraños males.
Mas la tea de amor volvió a alumbrarse
De mi amada en los ojos, y a encenderme,
Y el baño saludable me procuro,
Enfermo destemplado y sin remedio,
Remedio sólo hallara en esos ojos
Que a la tea amorosa dieron flama.

Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love,
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I, sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distempered guest,
But found no cure, the bath for my help lies
Where Cupid got new fire; my mistress' eyes.