by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Mon chier amy, qu'avés vous empensé
Language: French (Français)
I.
Mon chier amy, qu'avés vous empensé
De rettenir en vous merancolie,
Se Dieux vous a un bon amy osté
Et dessevré de vostre compagnie?
Ne mettés pas en abandon la vie;
Priés pour luy, laissiés ce dueil aler;
Car une fois nous fault ce pas passer.
II.
Vous savés bien, contre la volunté
De Jhesucrist, ne la verge Marie,
Nuls hom ne puet, tant soit hault eslevé
De science ne de noble lignie.
Tous convenra fenir, je vous affie;
Il n'i a nul qui en puist eschaper,
Car une fois nous fault [ce pas passer.]
III.
Pour tant vous pri, soiés reconforté
Et recepvés en gré, je vous supplie,
Ces trois chapiaux en don de charitté;
Autre nouvel ne truis en no partie,
Puor remettre vo cuer en chiere lei.
Ne pensés plus a celui recouvrer:
Car une fois [nous fault ce pas passer.]
Envoi
Amis, la mort ne poons eschever;
Car [une fois nous fault ce pas passer.]
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "My dear friend, why have you decided", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 27
Word count: 163
My dear friend, why have you decided
Language: English after the French (Français)
I.
My dear friend, why have you decided
To stay in your melancholy
If God has removed a good friend from you
And cut him off from your company?
Don't abandon life,
Pray for him, but let this grieving go,
For one day we will have to go the same way.
II.
You know well, that against the will
Of Jesus Christ or the virgin Mary
No man can do anything, however great a student
Of learning or however great his noble lineage.
All things come to an end, I promise you;
There's not one of us who can escape it
For one day we will have to go the same way.
III.
Nevertheless I beg you, be comforted
And willingly receive , I beg you,
These three hats as a gift of charity;
I could find no other news anywhere
To put happiness again in your heart:
Think no more of recovering him:
For one day we will have to go the same way.
Coda:
Friend, we cannot escape death
For one day we will have to go the same way.
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Word count: 182
