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by Eustache Deschamps (1346 - 1406)

Armes, amours, dames, chevalerie
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
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Armes, amours, dames, chevalerie,
Clers, musicans et fayseurs en françoys,
Tous sosfistes, toute poëterie,
Tous cheus qui ont melodieuses vois,
Ceus qui cantent en orgue aucunes foys
Et qui ont chier le doulz art de musique,
Demenés duel, plourés, car c’est bien drois,
La mort Machaut, le noble rethouryque.
 
Onques d’amours ne parla en follie,
Ains a esté en tous ses dis courtois,
Aussi a molt pleü sa chanterie
Aus grans seigneurs, aus contes, aus bourgois.
Hé! Horpheüs, asses lamenter dois,
Et regreter d’un regret autentique,
Arethuse aussi, Alpheüs, tous trois,
La mort Machaut, le noble rethouryque.
 
Priés por li si que nulls ne l’oublie :
Ce vous requiert le bayli de Valois,
Car il n’en est au jor d’ui nul en vie
Tel com il fu, ne ne sera des moys.
Complains sera de contes et de roys
Jusqu’au lonc temps per sa bone practique.
Vestés vous noir ; plorés, tous Champenois,
La mort Machaut, le noble rethouryque.

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  • by Eustache Deschamps (1346 - 1406) [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):

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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by F. Andrieu (flourished 14th century), no title, Double ballade consisting of two texts performed simultaneously
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This text was added to the website: 2026-07-27
Line count: 24
Word count: 157

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