When the parents of a woman with whom he had been conversing secretly heard about it and forbade it.

かずならばかからましやは世中にいとかなしきはしづのをだまき

kazu naraba kakaramashi ya yo no naka ni ito kanashiki wa shizu no odamaki

If I were as other folk, then I would not be treated so! In this mundane world A thread of sorrow winds on The bobbin of my sorry lot!

Consultant [Ono no] Takamura