You are most welcome | You are most welcome

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Vous soyés très bien venus

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG FIN

Chosen for Diff

Vous soyés très bien venus,
mes loyauls et vrays amans;
or ciantés de jus en sus:
vous soyés très bien venus.

Je me voi de bas in bus
en le nombre des cantans:
vous soyés très bien venus,
mes loyals et vrays amans.

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 Antonio da Cividale (c1392 - c1421), "Vous soyés très bien venus" [ vocal quartet of sopranos with 2 trombones ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "You are most welcome", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-01-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 43

You are most welcome

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

Chosen for Diff

You are most welcome,
my true and loyal friends,
who are now sung far and wide:
you are most welcome.

I see myself from tip to toe
among the singers' number:
you are most welcome,
my true and loyal friends.

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 Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2026-07-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 40