O Lord God, receive my prayer

Which is according to your holy will,

For if it does not please your great majesty

I will be condemned to a half-life.

Alas Lord, I am going over old ground,

Weary already if your great goodness

Did not strengthen my frail will,

Through your virtue, to leap the barrier.

You wish, Lord, to be master of my heart;

Come, therefore, Lord, and make your home there.

For in banishing love and rancour

Good and evil, removing all concern and care

Leaves only me reaching out to you,

Penitently with constancy and faith.

Give, O give me, Lord, patience,

And strengthen my too frail faith

So that your spirit leads me according to your law.

And safeguard me from falling through rashness.

Give, O give me, Lord, constancy,

In good and bad times, and perseverance,

All my hope concentrated in you,

And from my heart remove all vanity;

No longer acquiescing with the misguided world,

But all pleasure I reject except in you.

Deliver me from all passions,

From anger, from error and all other vices,

And provide me with gentleness and justice

Of a devout heart and saintly actions.

Ronsard, if your good and kind natured heart

Misleads you, out of consideration for the few benefits

That in your younger years you received from the King,

From your King, bound to you by common law,

I do not call you coward or taint you as avaricious,

But, in my opinion, you are worthy of the name courageous prince.

Alas! Do not write of his deeds, nor his greatness,

But that he wished to prevent misery.