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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Aymi! dame de valour
Language: French (Français) 
Aymi! dame de valour,
Que j'aim et desir,
De vous me vient la dolour
Qui me fait languir.

Tres douce creature,
Comment puet vo fine douçour
Estre vers moy si dure,
Quant mon cuer, mon corps et m'amour
Vous ay donné sans retour
Et sans repentir?
Or me tenez en langour
Dont je criem morir.
Aymi! dame.

Et tout par enmesure,
Gentil dame, pleinne d'onnour,
Sui je à desconfiture;
Car onques ne quis deshonnour
Vers vous, ains ay sans sejour
Fait vo dous plaisir
Et feray sans mauvais tour
Jusques au morir.
Aymi! dame de valour.

Mais vo douce figure,
Vo fine biauté que j'aour
Et vo noble faiture
Parée de plaisant atour
En plour tiennent nuit et jour,
Sans joie sentir,
Mon cuer qui vit en tristour,
Dont ne puet garir.
Aymi! dame de valour,
Que j'aim et desir,
De vous me vient la dolour
Qui me fait languir.

Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [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 Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Aymi! dame de valour", monophonic virelai [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 34
Word count: 150

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