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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
Reconforter par vo doulchour,
Qui endure tres grief doulour
En esperant vostre mercy.

Car il est en si dur party
Qu'avoir ne puet fors que soussy,
Et si est tout pour vostre amour
  Ma belle dame, [je vous pri
  Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
  Reconforter par vo doulchour.]

Or ne veuilliés metre en oubli,
Ne point faire morir aynssi
Vostre servant en tel langour;
Ce vous seroit grant deshonnour
Quant par vous peut estre guery.

  Ma belle dame, je vous pri
  [Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
  Reconforter par vo doulchour,
  Qui endure tres grief doulour
  En esperant vostre mercy.]

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked 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 Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Ma belle dame, je vous pri" [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "My fair lady, I beg you", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 113

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