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by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253)

De nouiau mestuet chanter
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
De nouiau mestuet chanter
el tens que plus sui marriz
quant ne puis merci trouer
bien doi chanter a enuiz
ne ie nos ali parler
de ma chancon fas message
que tant est cortois et sage
que ne puis aillors penser

Se ie peusse oublier
sa biaute et ses bons dis
et son douz uis esgarder
bien peusse estris garis
mais nen puis mon cuer oster
espoir sai fait grant folage
mais moi lestuet en durer

Chascuns dit quil muert damer
mais ie nen quier morir
melz aim soufrir ma dolor
uiure et atendre et languir
quele me peut bien merir
mes max et ma consiuree
naime pas adroit qui bee
que len porroit auenir

Dame quia grant paor
souuent lestuet esbahir
et penser atel folor
dont ie ne me puis tenir
sil est auostre plaisir
siert bien ma poine sauuee
que seul dela desirree.
me fait mon cuer resbaudir

Nus ne puet grant ioie auoir
sil ne rades maus apris
qui touz iors fait son uoloir
apoines ert ia fins amis
por ce fait amors doloir
quele ueut guerredon rendre
ceus qui bien seuent atendre
et seruir a son uoloir

Dame de tout mon pooir
motroi auos sans contendre
que sans uos ne me peut rendre
nus biens ne ne puet ualoir

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Text Authorship:

  • by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253) [author's text not yet checked 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 Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770) , "Chanson" [an adaptation] ; composed by Alban Cocural Dorcy, Édouard Moullé, Napoléon-Henri Reber, Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Ein Sonnet", subtitle: "Aus dem 13ten Jahrhundert" ; composed by Johannes Brahms, Johann Peter Cornelius D'Alquen, Albert Fuchs, Moritz Hauptmann, Fanny Hensel, Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, Mathilde von Kralik, Oskar Raif, Benedikt Randhartinger, Karl Friedrich Zelter.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-03-25
Line count: 43
Word count: 213

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