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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Je vivroie liement
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je vivroie liement,
Douce creature,
Se vous saviés vraiement
Qu'en vous fust parfaitement
Ma cure.

Dame de meinteing joli,
Plaisant, nette et pure,
Souvent me fait dire: "aymi"
Li maus que j'endure
Pour vous servir loyaument.
Et soiés seüre
Que je ne puis nullement
Vivre einsi, se longuement
Me dure.

  Je vivroie liement,
  Douce creature,
  Se vous saviés vraiement
  Qu'en vous fust parfaitement
  Ma cure.

Car vous m'estes sans mercy
Et sans pité dure,
Et s'avés le cuer de mi
Mis en tel ardure
Qu'il morra certeinnement
De mort trop obscure,
Se pour son aligement
Merci n'est procheinnement
Meüre.

  Je vivroie liement,
  Douce creature,
  Se vous saviés vraiement
  Qu'en vous fust parfaitement
  Ma cure.

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), "Je vivroie liement", monophonic virelai [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "I would live happily", 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: 33
Word count: 114

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