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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Loyauté vueil tous jours maintenir
Language: French (Français) 
 Loyauté vueil tous jours maintenir
 Et de cuer servir
 Ma dame debonnaire.

 Mon cuer y vueil et mon desir
 Mettre sans retraire
 Ne ja ne m'en quier departir,
 Ains vueil toudis faire
 Son tres dous voloir sans repentir
 Et li obeir
 Comme amis, sans meffaire.
 Loyauté.

 Mais Amour fait mon cuer languir
 Et si m'est contraire
 N'elle ne me daingne garir,
 Ne je ne puis plaire
 A la bele que j'aim et desir,
 Qui à son plaisir
 Me puet faire et deffaire.
 Loyauté vueil tous jours maintenir.

 Las! si ne sçay que devenir
 Ne quelle part traire,
 Quant aler ne puis ne venir
 Au tres dous repaire,
 Où celle maint qui me fait morir,
 Quant veoir n'oïr
 Ne puis son dous viaire.
 Loyauté vueil tous jours maintenir
 Et de cuer servir
 Ma dame debonnaire.

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), "Loyauté vueil tous jours maintenir", 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: 29
Word count: 135

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