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Amours, que vous ai meffait Que suis amie non amée ? Au dous plaisant m'avez fait, Lasse, et point ne li agrée. Et de quelle eure [fui]1 née Quant je n'ai loial ami ? Amours douce et desirrée, Enamourez le de mi. J'ai grant paour que il n'ait Allieurs mise sa pensée ; Quar tant est de dous atrait Sa guise si savourée, Qu'aucune autre enamourée L'a atrait, ce croi, à mi. Amours douce et desirrée, Enamourés le de mi. Ses regars m'a du cors trait Mon cuer ; ainsi m'a navrée Doucement ; très bien me plait. Dex ! s'ausi m'avoit donnée S'amour, plus beneurée Ne seroit : pour ce vous pri. Amours douce et desirrée, Enamourez le de mi.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Chansons, ballades et rondeaux de Jehannot de Lescurel, Paris, P. Jannet, 1855, number 5, page 17. Note: this edition adds square brackets around the word "suis" in stanza 1, line 2; around the final 'e' of stanza 2, line 4, word 4 ("savouré[e]"), and around the first 'r' of stanza 2, line 6, word 2 ("at[r]ait").
1 Tiersot: "sui"Text Authorship:
- by Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304), no title [author's text checked 2 times 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 Mario Bruschettini (b. 1896), "Enamourez-le de mi", 1930, published 1930 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julien Tiersot (1857 - 1936), "Plainte de celle qui n'est pas aimée" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants de la vieille France: 20 mélodies et chansons du XIIIè au XVIIIè siècles, no. 3, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel, also set in French (Français) [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon-Émile Petitdidier (1839 - 1927) [an adaptation] ; composed by Julien Tiersot.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2016-12-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 115
Love, how have I wronged you, That I who love am not loved? You have made me delight in my sweetheart, Alas, but I am not pleasing to him. And in what ill hour was I born When I have no faithful lover? Sweet and longed-for love, Make him fall in love with me. I am quite afraid that he has Directed his attention elsewhere; For so sweetly attractive Is his elegant manner, That some other admirer, I believe, has drawn him away from me. Sweet and longed-for love, Make him fall in love with me. His glances have torn my heart From my body; thus he has wounded me Gently; I am well pleased. God! if he had also given me His love, it would not make me Any happier; even so I beg you, Sweet and longed-for love, Make him fall in love with me.
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Translations of titles:
"Enamourez-le de mi" = "Make him fall in love with me"
"Plainte de celle qui n'est pas aimée" = "Lament of the woman who is not loved"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from Old French (Ancien français) to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304), no title
This text was added to the website: 2026-07-21
Line count: 24
Word count: 147