Shanpoyang, selected from “The Dream Interrupted” from The Peony Pavilion
（白）蓦地游春转，小试宜春面。春吓春！得和你两留连，春去如何遣？咳，恁般天气，好困人也！
（唱）没乱里春情难遣，
蓦地里怀人幽怨。
则为俺生小婵娟，拣名门
一例一例里神仙眷。
甚良缘，把青春抛的远。
俺的睡情谁见，
则索要因循腼腆，
想幽梦谁边，和春光暗流转。
迁延，这衷怀哪处言。
淹煎，泼残生除问天。
(Narrate) Preparing to tour the garden’s vernal splendours, I applied only the faintest touch of rouge. Oh spring! Spring! You and I linger, but spring, once gone, can never be recovered. A spring day like this – how sleepy it makes a person.
(Sing) How can my troubled heart bear the melancholy spring?
All at once, my bosom is filled with gloom and bleak complaint.
The time is nigh for me to wed, and a beauty such as I might grace any noble house.
But while I wait for a match,
my own youth is passing away from me.
But who can hear these sleep-drunken thoughts?
My lot is to carry on dreaming, shyly,
of someone with whom to wander in the dimming light of spring.
Oh, to whom might I speak my thoughts?
What torment is this bitter fate! What answer from the heavens?