Fair lady, please grant mercy | Fair lady, please grant mercy

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Belle, vueilliés vostre mercy donner

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Belle, vueilliés vostre mercy donner
A moy qui suy vostre leal servant.
Car de mon cuer et quant que j'ay vayllant,
Sur toutes je vous en vueil ahirter.

Je ne me vuel a nulle presenter,
Ains vuel du tout faire vostre commant.
  Belle, [vueilliés vostre mercy donner
  A moy qui suy vostre leal servant.]

Certes ne puis, belle, pour vous durer,
Morir me font envieux mesdisant.
Je n'ose a vous, se non par doux semblant,
Belle, mon mal ne dire ne monstrer.

  Belle, [vueilliés vostre mercy donner
  A moy qui suy vostre leal servant.
  Car de mon cuer et quant que j'ay vayllant,
  Sur toutes je vous en vueil ahirter.]

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 Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Belle, vueilliés vostre mercy donner" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Fair lady, please grant mercy", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Fair lady, please grant mercy", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 110

Fair lady, please grant mercy

Language: English after the French (Français)

Fair lady, please grant mercy
To me who am your loyal servant.
For my heart and whatever of worth I have
Above all I wish to give you as an inheritance.

I do not wish to present myself to any other
But wish in everything to carry out your command.
Fair lady, please grant mercy
To me who am your loyal servant.

Truly, my lady, I cannot continue because of you
Envious people speaking slander make me die.
I do not dare say or show any of my ills
To you, fair lady, unless by some sweet pretence.

Fair lady, please grant mercy
To me who am your loyal servant.
For my heart and whatever of worth I have
Above all I wish to give you as an inheritance.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 129