Se je souspir parfondement
Language: French (Français)
Se je souspir parfondement
Et tendrement
Pleure en recoy,
C'est, par ma foy,
Pour vous, quant vo faitis corps gent,
Dame, ne voy.
Vostre dous maintieng simple et coy,
Vo bel aroy,
Cointe et plaisant,
Vo maniere sans effroy,
Pris m'ont cil troy
Si doucement
Qu'à vous tres amoureusement
Entierement
Doing et ottroy
Le cuer de moy
Qui loing de vous esbatement
N'a n'esbanoy
Se je souspir parfondement
Et tendrement
Pleure en recoy,
C'est, par ma foy,
Pour vous, quant vo faitis corps gent,
Dame, ne voy.
Si que je port plus grief anoy
Qu'onques mais n'oy,
Secretement;
Mais, par m'ame, je le conjoy
Et le reçoy
Tres humblement,
Qu'aligier poués mon tourment
Legierement,
D'un seul ottroy,
Et plus qu'un roy
Moy faire vivre liement;
Ainsi le croy.
Se je souspir parfondement.
Dame, mis m'avés en tel ploy,
Bien le perçoy,
Que, vraiement,
En vous sens, temps et vie employ
Et toudis croy
En ce talent.
Et se loing sui d'aligement
Et povrement
De mercy j'oy,
Ne m'en desvoy,
Car si grant honnour nullement
Avoir ne doy.
Se je souspir parfondement
Et tendrement
Pleure en recoy,
C'est, par ma foy,
Pour vous, quant vo faitis corps gent,
Dame, ne voy.
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If I sigh profoundly
Language: English after the French (Français)
If I sigh profoundly
And tenderly
Weep in secret,
It is truly
For you, my Lady, when you arrange that
I do not see your noble form.
Your sweet demeanour, simple and calm,
Your fair carriage
Pretty and pleasing,
Your fearless manner,
These three have seized me
So sweetly
That to you most lovingly
And entirely
I give and entrust
My heart
Which far from you has no joy
Nor gives itself any pleasure
If I sigh profoundly
And tenderly
Weep in secret,
It is truly
For you, my Lady, when you arrange that
I do not see your noble form.
So I bear more terrible pain
Than ever I have heard of,
Secretly;
But by my soul I welcome it
And accept it
Most humbly,
Since you could alleviate my suffering
Easily,
With a single gift,
And make me live more
Happily than a king;
So I believe.
If I sigh profoundly…
Lady, you have put me in such a position,
I clearly see,
That truly
I use my senses, time and life for you
And always believe
In this desire.
And so I am far from relief
And sadly
I hear of mercy
But do not turn aside,
For I ought to have
No such great honour at all.
If I sigh profoundly
And tenderly
Weep in secret,
It is truly
For you, my Lady, when you arrange that
I do not see your noble form.
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Word count: 238