God keep my fair lady without reproach (Anonymous, set by (Guillaume Dufay)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Dieu gard la bone sans reprise

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

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.]

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), "Dieu gard la bone sans reprise" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "God keep my fair lady without reproach", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
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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a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 110