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by Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304)

Amours, que vous ai meffait
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Amours, que vous ai meffait
Que suis amie non amée ?
Au dous plaisant m'avez fait,
Lasse, et point ne li agrée.
Et de quelle eure [fui]1 née
Quant je n'ai loial ami ?
Amours douce et desirrée,
Enamourez le de mi.

J'ai grant paour que il n'ait
Allieurs mise sa pensée ;
Quar tant est de dous atrait
Sa guise si savourée,
Qu'aucune autre enamourée
L'a atrait, ce croi, à mi.
Amours douce et desirrée,
Enamourés le de mi.

Ses regars m'a du cors trait
Mon cuer ; ainsi m'a navrée
Doucement ; très bien me plait.
Dex ! s'ausi m'avoit donnée
S'amour, plus beneurée
Ne seroit : pour ce vous pri.
Amours douce et desirrée,
Enamourez le de mi.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Tiersot 

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Confirmed with Chansons, ballades et rondeaux de Jehannot de Lescurel, Paris, P. Jannet, 1855, number 5, page 17. Note: this edition adds square brackets around the word "suis" in stanza 1, line 2; around the final 'e' of stanza 2, line 4, word 4 ("savouré[e]"), and around the first 'r' of stanza 2, line 6, word 2 ("at[r]ait").

1 Tiersot: "sui"

Text Authorship:

  • by Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304), no title [author's text checked 2 times 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 Mario Bruschettini (b. 1896), "Enamourez-le de mi", 1930, published 1930 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "Plainte de celle qui n'est pas aimée" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants de la vieille France: 20 mélodies et chansons du XIIIè au XVIIIè siècles, no. 3, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927) [an adaptation] ; composed by Julien Tiersot.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 115

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