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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Et ou porroit on querir
Language: French (Français) 
Et où porroit on querir
La joie qui amenrir
Ne puet ne finer
Et qui ne fait que doubler
En joieus plaisir?
Tous li mondes, sans mentir,
N'en porroit finer,
Sans la dame qui n'a per
Amer et chierir.

Mais ame ne puet perir
N'à dampnation venir
Qui son temps user
En li servir et loer
Vuet sans repentir;
Car qui siens, sans retollir,
Vuet tous demourer,
Et gloire l'estuet regner
Qui ne puet faillir.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Et ou porroit on querir", from Le Lai de la Fonteinne, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-04-14
Line count: 18
Word count: 75

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