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by Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine, Comte de Poitiers (1071 - 1127)

Farai un vers de dreyt nien
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
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Farai un vers de dreyt nien :
Non er de mi ni d’autra gen,
Non er d’amor ni de joven,
Ni de ren au,
Qu’enans fo trobatz en durmen
Sobre chevau.

No sai en quai hora.m fuy natz :
No suy alegres ni iratz,
No suy estrayns ni sui privatz,
Ni no.n puesc au,
Qu’enaissi fuy de nueitz fadatz,
Sobr’ un pueg au.
 
No sai qu’ora.m suy endurmitz
Ni quora.m velh, s’om no m’o ditz.
Per pauc no m’es lo cor partitz
D’un dol corau ;
E no m’o pretz una soritz
Pei sanh Marsau !

Malautz suy e cre mi murir,
E ren no.n sai mas quan n’aug dir :
Metge querrai al mieu albir,
E no sai cau ;
Bos metges er si.m pot guérir,
Mas non, si amau.

Amigu’ ai ieu, no sai qui s’es,
Qu’anc non la vi, si m’ajut fes ;
Ni.m fes que.m plassa ni que.m pes,
Ni no m’en eau,
Qu’anc non ac Norman ni Frances
Dins mon ostau.

Anc non la vi et am la fort,
Anc no n’aic dreyt ni no.m fes tort ;
Quan non la vey, be m’en déport,
No.m pretz un jau,
Qu’ie.n sai gensor e bellazor,
E que mais vau.
 
Fag’ai lo vers, no say de cuy ;
E trametrai lo a selhuy
Que lo.m trametra per autruy
Lay ves Anjau,
Que.m tramezes del sieu estuy
La contraclau.

Confirmed with Guillaume IX de Poitiers Voir, Les chansons de Guillaume IX, Alfred Jeanroy, Paris : H. Champion, 1913, p.30


Text Authorship:

  • by Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine, Comte de Poitiers (1071 - 1127), "Farai un vers de dreyt nien" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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