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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Tuit mi penser
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Tuit mi penser
Sont sans cesser
En vous amer
Et honnoureur,
Tres douce creature.

Nonques mes yeus saouler
De regarder
Et remirer
Vo gente pourtraiture
Ne pos ne mon cuer oster
D'adès penser
A vo vis cler
Et à vo bonté pure.
Ce fait doubler
Et embraser
Et aviver
Par desirer
Mon amoursement ardure.

Tuit me penser
Sont san cesser
En vous amer.

Mais, tant com porray durer,
La vueil porter
Et endurer
Humblement, sans [ardure]1.
Ne ja ne vous quier rouver
Guerredonner
Ne demoustrer
Que je la tiengne à dure;
Car trop parler
Puet moult grever,
Et refuser
Feroit crever
Mon cuer de sa pointure.

Tuit mi penser
Sont sans cesser
En vous amer
Et honnoureur,
Tres douce creature.

Si que, tres belle sans per,
Que voy passer
Et sormonter
Toute ouevre de Nature,
On ne me doit pas blasmer,
Se mon penser
Ay sans fausser
Mis et toute ma cure
En vous loer,
En vous garder,
En vous celer,
En vous douter,
Car c'est ma norreture.

Tuit mi penser
Sont sans cesser
En vous amer
Et honnoureur,
Tres douce creature.

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1 in some editions: "laidur"

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), "Tuit mi penser", monophonic virelai [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "All my thoughts", 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: 57
Word count: 184

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