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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Tres douce dame que j'aour
Language: French (Français) 
 Tres douce dame que j'aour,
 En vous vueil tout mon temps user,
 Sans departir ne nuit ne jour,
 Et vous vueil loyalment amer
 Com cils qui ne saroit penser
 Fors à vo dous service faire,
 Tant com je vivray, sans meffaire.

 Car je vous ay donné m'amour
 Pour vous loyaument honnourer,
 Et de cuer, de corps, de vigour
 Vueil tous jours vostre honnour garder;
 De servir je me vueil pener
 De vrai cuer, humble et debonnaire,
 Tant com je vivray, sans meffaire.

 Quant je voy vostre grant douçour,
 Et mon cuer vient, par desirer,
 Une ardeur qui le fait en plour
 Moult parfondement souspirer,
 Car je ne vous ose monstrer
 La doleur qu'humblement vueil traire,
 Tant com je vivray, sans meffaire.

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), "Tres douce dame que j'aour" [duet or vocal trio], ballade [
     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: 21
Word count: 122

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