Quant je sui mis [au]1 retour 
 De veoir ma dame, 
 Il n'est peine ne dolour 
 Que j'aie, par m'ame. 
  Diex! c'est drois que je l'aim,
  sans blame, de loial amour.
 
 Sa biauté, sa grant douçour
 D'amoureuse flame,
 Par souvenir, nuit et jour
 M'esprent et enflame. 
  Diex! c'est drois que je l'aim,
  sans blame, de loial amour.

 Et quant sa haute valour
 Mon fin cuer entame,
 Servir la [vueil]2 sans folour
 Penser ne diffame. 
 [Diex]3 ! C'est drois que je l'aim,
 sans blame, de loial amour.

P. Cardy sets stanzas 1:1-4, 2:1-4, 3

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¹ Cardy: "en"
² Cardy: "weil"
³ Cardy: "Dieus"

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 Patrick Cardy (1953 - 2005), "Quant je sui mis", first performed 1990, stanzas 1:1-4, 2:1-4, 3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Quant je sui mis au retour" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Patrick Cardy) , "When I return", copyright © 1990, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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