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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Foy porter
Language: Latin 
Our translations:  ENG
Foy porter,
Honneur garder
Et pais querir,
Oubeir,
Doubter, servir
Et honnourer
Vous vueil jusques au morir,
Dame sans per.

Car tant vous aim, sans mentir,
Qu'on porroit avant tarir
La haute mer
Et ses ondes retenir
Que me peüsse alentir
De vous amer,
Sans fausser;
Car mi penser,
Mi souvenir,
Mi plaisir
Et me desir
Sont sans finer
En vous que ne puis guerpir
N'entroublier.

Foy porter,
Honneur garder
Et pais querir,
Oubeir,
Doubter, servir
Et honnourer
Vous vueil jusques au morir,
Dame sans per.

Il n'est joie ne joïr
N'autre bien qu'on puist sentir
N'imaginer
Qui ne me samble languir,
Quant vo douceur adoucir
Vuet mon amer.
Dont loer
Et aourer
Et vous cremir,
Tout souffrir,
Tout conjoïr,
Tout endurer
Vueil plus que je ne desir
Guerredonner.

Foy porter,
Honneur garder...

Vous estes le vray saphir
Qui puet tous mes maus garir
Et terminer,
Esmeraude à resjoïr,
Rubis pour cuers esclarcir
Et conforter.
Vo parler,
Vo regarder,
Vo maintenir
Font fuir
Et enhaïr
Et despiter
Tout vice et tout bien cherir
Et desirer.

Foy porter,
Honneur garder
Et pais querir,
Oubeir,
Doubter, servir
Et honnourer
Vous vueil jusques au morir,
Dame sans per.

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), "Foy porter", monophonic virelai [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "To keep faith", 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: 68
Word count: 195

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