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Dieu gard la bone sans reprise
Language: French (Français)
Dieu gard la bone sans reprise,
La tres plaisante et la plus belle,
Des autres la plus gente et celle
Qui de tout honneur est aprise.
Raison si veut que je la prise,
Puisqu'au monde n'a point de telle.
Dieu gard [la bone sans reprise,
La tres plaisante et la plus belle.]
Jamais je ne feray emprise
Pour acquerir dame nouvelle;
C'est mon conquest et ma querelle,
Puisqu'amours ainsi le devise.
Dieu gard [la bone sans reprise,
La tres plaisante et la plus belle,
Des autres la plus gente et celle
Qui de tout honneur est aprise.]
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "God keep my fair lady without reproach", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 97
God keep my fair lady without reproach
Language: English after the French (Français)
God keep my fair lady without reproach1
The most pleasant and most beautiful,
The most noble of all women, and she
Who is learned in all matters of honour.
Reason himself wishes me to take her,
Since there is none like her in the world.
God keep my fair lady without reproach
The most pleasant and most beautiful.
Never will I make the attempt
To win another lady;
This lady is my conquest and my combat
Since love has so decided.
God keep my fair lady without reproach
The most pleasant and most beautiful,
The most noble of all women, and she
Who is learned in all matters of honour.
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1 Translator's note: This could just about mean "my unique & unrepeatable lady"
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (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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Word count: 111
