God! how good to look upon her!

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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG FIN ITA

Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
La gracieuse bonne et belle ;
Pour les grans biens que sont en elle	
Chascun est prest de la loüer.

Qui se pourroit d'elle lasser ?
Tous jours sa beauté renouvelle.
Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !
La gracieuse bonne et belle !

Par deçà, ne de là, la mer
Ne sçay dame ne damoiselle
Qui soît en tous bien parfais telle.
C'est ung songe que d'i penser :
Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder !

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Confirmed with Aimé Champollion-Figeac, ed., Les Poésies du Duc Charles d'Orléans, Paris, J. Belin-Leprieur fils, 1842, Page 28.

Text Authorship:

by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Chanson VI" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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God! how good to look upon her!

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Language: English after the French (Français)

God! how good to look upon her!
The gracious one, good and beautiful;
For the great virtues that are hers,
All are wont to praise her.

Who could become weary of her?
Her beauty ever renews itself.
God! how good to look upon her,
The gracious one, good and beautiful!

Neither here nor across the sea
Do I know a lady or maiden
Who is so perfect in every virtue.
It is a dream to think of her.
God! how good to look upon her!

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Translations of titles:
"Chanson VI" = "Chanson VI"
"Chanson Ancienne" = "Old Chanson"
"Dieu ! qu'il la fait bon regarder" = "God! How good to look upon her"
"Madrigal à deux voix pour soprano et violoncelle" = "Two-voice nadrigal for soprano and cello"
"Odelette de Charles d'Orléans" = "Odelette of Charles d'Orléans"

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