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by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253)

De nouiau mestuet chanter
Language: Old French (Ancien français) 
De nouiau mestuet chanter.
el tens que plus sui marriz.
quant ne puis merci trouer.
bien doi chanter a enuiz.
ne ie nos ali parler.
de ma chancon fas message.
que tant est cortois et sage.
que ne puis aillors penser.

Se ie peusse oublier.
sa biaute et ses bons dis.
et son douz uis esgarder.
bien peusse es tris garis.
mais nen puis mon cuer oster.
espoir sai fait grant folage.
mais moi lestuet en durer.

Chascuns dit quil muert damer.
mais ie nen quier morir.
melz aim soufrir ma dolor.
uiure et atendre et languir.
quele me peut bien merir.
mes max et ma consiuree.
naime pas adroit qui bee.
que len porroit auenir

Dame quia grant paor.
souuent lestuet esbahir.
et penser atel folor
dont ie ne me puis tenir.
sil est auostre plaisir
siert bien ma poine sauuee.
que seul dela desirree.
me fait mon cuer resbaudir.

Nus ne puet grant ioie auoir
sil ne rades maus apris.
qui touz iors fait son uoloir.
apoines ert ia fins amis.
por ce fait amors doloir.
quele ueut guerredon rendre.
ceus qui bien seuent atendre.
et seruir a son uoloir.

Dame de tout mon pooir.
motroi auos sans contendre.
que sans uos ne me peut rendre.
nus biens ne ne puet ualoir.

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  • by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253) [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 Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), a translation by François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770) , "Chanson" [an adaptation] ; composed by Alban Cocural Dorcy, Édouard Moullé, Napoléon-Henri Reber, Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin.
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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Gottfried Herder (1744 - 1803) , "Ein Sonnet", subtitle: "Aus dem 13ten Jahrhundert" ; composed by Johannes Brahms, Johann Peter Cornelius D'Alquen, Albert Fuchs, Moritz Hauptmann, Fanny Hensel, Friedrich Wilhelm Jähns, Mathilde von Kralik, Oskar Raif, Benedikt Randhartinger, Karl Friedrich Zelter.
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This text was added to the website: 2026-03-25
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Word count: 214

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