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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Hé! dame de vaillance
Language: French (Français) 
 Hé! dame de vaillance,
 Vostre douce sanlance
 M'a pris sans deffiance,
 Mais au penre sans lance
 M'a navré durement.

 Car vostre dous riant vair oueil
 Et vostre simple chiere
 Et vostre gracieus accueil
 Plein de plaisant maniere
 Ont fat par leur puissance
 Que m'amour, m'esperance,
 Ma joie, ma plaisence
 Et toute ma fiance
 Maint en vous seulement.
 Hé! dame.

 Autrement ne vous puis mon vueil
 Dire, ma dame chiere,
 Pour ce que, quant descouvrir vueil
 M'amour et ma priere,
 Paour me fait deffense
 De dire ma grevance
 Et Desdains, qui se lance
 En vous, vostre presence
 Par Dangier me deffent.
 Hé! dame de vaillance.

 Si que, tres belle sans orgueil,
 Que j'aim d'amour entiere,
 Pour vous si grant doleur recueil,
 Quant einsi m'estes fiere,
 Que je sui en doubtance
 D'estre en desesperence;
 Et si sui en balance
 De morir, s'aligence
 N'ay de vous temprement.
 Hé! dame de vaillance,
 Vostre douce sanlance
 M'a pris sans deffiance,
 Mais au penre sans lance
 M'a navré durement.

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), "Hé! dame de vaillance", 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: 39
Word count: 164

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