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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

De Fortune me doi pleindre et loer
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
De Fortune me doi pleindre et loer,
Ce m'est avis, plus qu'autre creature;
Car quant premiers encommencay l'amer,
Mon cuer, m'amour, ma pensée, ma cure
Mist si bien à mon plaisir
Qu'à souhaidier peüsse je faillir,
N'en ce monde ne fust mie trouvée
  Dame qui fust si tres bien assenée.

Car je ne puis penser n'imaginer
Ne dedens moy trouver qu'onques Nature
De quanqu'on puet bon et bel appeller
Peüst faire si parfaite figure
De celui ou mi desir
Sont et seront à tous jours sans partir;
Et pour ce croy qu'onques mais ne fut née
  Dame qui fust si tres bien assenée.

Lasse! or ne puis en ce point demourer,
Car Fortune qui onques n'est seüre
Sa roe veut encontre moy tourner
Pour mon las cuer mettre à disconfiture.
Mais en foy, jusqu'au morir
Mon dous amy vueil amer et cherier,
Qu'onques ne dut avoir fausse pensée
  Dame qui fust si tres bien assenée.

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), "De Fortune me doi pleindre et loer" [vocal trio or vocal quartet], ballade [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Fortune I must both complain of and praise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 155

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