En amer a douce vie
Language: French (Français)
En amer a douce vie
Et jolie,
Qui bien la scet maintenir,
Car tant plaist la maladie,
Quant norrie
Est en amoureus desir,
Que l'amant fait esbaudir
Et querir
Comment elle monteplie.
C'est dous maus a soustenir,
Qu'esjoïr
Fait cuer d'ami et d'amie;
Qu'Amours par sa signourie
Humelie
L'amoureus cuer a souffrir,
Et par sa noble maistrie
Le maistrie,
Si qu'il ne puet riens sentir,
Que tout au goust de joïr
Par plaisir
Ne prengne, je n'en doubt mie.
Einsi säous de merir,
Fait cuer d'ami et d'amie.
Si doit bien estre cherie
Et servie,
Quant elle puet assevir
Chascun qui li rueve et prie
De s'aïe,
Sans son tresor amenrir.
De la mort puet garentir
Et garir
Cuer de santé mendie;
De souffissance enrichir
Et franchir
Fait cuer d'ami et d'amie.
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In loving, he has a sweet life
Language: English after the French (Français)
In loving, he has a sweet life
And pleasant
Who knows well how to maintain it,
For the illness pleases so much
When it is
Fed on love’s desire
That it makes the lover rejoice
And seek
How it can multiply.
It is a sweet evil to bear,
Which makes happy
The heart of lover and beloved;
For Love through his lordship
Humbles
The lover’s heart to suffer
And through his noble mastery
Masters it,
So that it can feel nothing
Which it does not find
Entirely to its taste to enjoy
In pleasure, I have no doubt.
So [love] makes drunk with winning it
The heart of lover and beloved.
So [love] must be dearly-cherished
And served,
Since she can satisfy
Anyone who begs and prays her
To help him,
Without using up her treasure.
She can protect from death
And cure
The heart deprived of health;
She makes rich with plenty
And free
The heart of lover and beloved.
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Word count: 161