1It is unbelievable how great a longing for you holds me. 1The cause is first my love, and then that we are not used to being apart. 1That is why I spend a great part of the nights lying awake with your image before me; 1that is why by day, at the hours when I used to visit you, my feet themselves, as is most truly said, lead me to your room; 1why, finally, sick and sad, like a man shut out, I come away from the empty threshold. 1One time alone is free of these torments: when I am being worn down in the forum and in my friends' lawsuits.
2Judge for yourself what my life is like, when I find rest in toil and comfort in wretchedness and cares. 2Farewell.