'What if a day' - old English folk song

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Lyrics:
What if a day, or a month, or a yeare
Crown thy delights with a thousand sweet contentings?
A thousand sweet contentings?
They not the change of a night or an howre
Crosse thy delights with as many sad tormentings?
As many sad tormentings?

Fortune, honor, beauty, youth
Are but blossoms dying;
Wanton pleasures, doating love,
Are but shadowes flying.
All our joyes are but toyes,
Idle thoughts deceiving;
None have power of an howre
Of his live bereaving.

The earthes but a point of the world, and a man
Is but a point of the earthes compared centure:
The earthes compared centure:
Shall then a point of a point be so vaine
As to triumph in a seely points adventure?
A seely points adventure?

All is hassard that we have,
Here is nothing biding;
Dayes of pleasure are as streames
Through faire meadowes gliding.
Weale and woe, time doth goe,
Time have more returning:
Secret fates guide our states,
Both in mirth and mourning

#folksong #folkmusic #english #england
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This is actually quite sad and beautiful.

esserman
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That's not what the Dutch people could actually think about

MemellandGeneral
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Hmmm, is this tune related to 'Merck toch hoe Sterck'?

esserman
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damn I need an Old English to English translation

Jasi-Mori
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The English are basically the islander Dutch.

dernochjungenoergler
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why is it showing england with the UK haroldric flag?

tumblerinamoe
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that is England and Wales you are showing there btw, not just England. Just letting you know. Also the haroldric flag of the UK shouldn't really be used if you're specifying England

significantwyvern
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Sorry to say this, but this is not Old English. Very misleading title.

OrthodoxGB