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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Bele Yolanz en chambre coie
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
Bele Yolanz en chambre coie
sor ses genouz pailes desploie :
cost un fil d'or, l'autre de soie.
Sa male mere la chastoie.
  «Chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.

Bele Yolanz, je vos chastoi :
ma fille estes, faire lo doi.»
«Ma dame mere, et vos de coi ?»
«Je le vos dirai par ma foi:
  chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.»

«Mere, de coi me chastoiez ?
Est ceu de coudre ou de taillier,
ou de filer ou do broissier ?
Ou se c'est de trop somillier ?»
  «Chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.

Ne de coudre ne de taillier
ne de filer ne de brissier,
ne ceu n'est de trop somillier ;
mais trop parlez au chevelier.
  Chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.

Trop parlez au conte Mahi,
si en poise vostre mari :
dolanz en est, jel vos affi.
Nel faites mais, je vos en pri.
  Chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.»

«Se mes mariz l'avoit jure,
et il et tot ses parentez,
mais que bien li doie peser,
ne lairai je oan l'amer.»
  «Chastoi vos en, bele Yolanz.»

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Antología de Textos de Literaturas Románicas. I. Románicos medievales: siglos XII-XIII, ed. by Victoria Cirlot, Facultad de Filología, Universidad de Barcelona, 1984, pages 292-293. A note beneath the text references K. Bartsch, Altfranzösische Romanzen und Pastourellen, Leipzig, 1870, page 9.


Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, 12th century [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

  • by Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "La Belle Yolande", 1924, published 1937, first performed 1935 [ vocal duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano ], Éd. Sociales Internationales [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-10-14
Line count: 30
Word count: 177

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