by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Language: French (Français)
Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
Reconforter par vo doulchour,
Qui endure tres grief doulour
En esperant vostre mercy.
Car il est en si dur party
Qu'avoir ne puet fors que soussy,
Et si est tout pour vostre amour
Ma belle dame, [je vous pri
Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
Reconforter par vo doulchour.]
Or ne veuilliés metre en oubli,
Ne point faire morir aynssi
Vostre servant en tel langour;
Ce vous seroit grant deshonnour
Quant par vous peut estre guery.
Ma belle dame, je vous pri
[Que vous vueilliés le vostre amy
Reconforter par vo doulchour,
Qui endure tres grief doulour
En esperant vostre mercy.]
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "My fair lady, I beg you", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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My fair lady, I beg you
Language: English after the French (Français)
My fair lady, I beg you
To be willing to comfort
Your friend by your sweetness,
He who suffers terrible pain
While hoping for your mercy.
For he is in such a bad state
That he can have nothing but worry
And this is all because of love for you.
My fair lady, I beg you
To be willing to comfort
Your friend by your sweetness.
Do not think of forgetting him
Don't make your servant die in this way,
Languishing like this;
It would be great dishonour to you
Since he could be cured by you.
My fair lady, I beg you
To be willing to comfort
Your friend by your sweetness,
He who suffers terrible pain
While hoping for your mercy.
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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: 123