by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Pour ce que veoir je ne puis
Language: French (Français)
Pour ce que veoir je ne puis
Vostre doulx gracieux maintien,
Il m'est advis que n'ay nul bien,
Ains me sens de leesse vuis.
Tout seul sans nul confort me truis
Du monde, tout si ne m'est rien,
[Pour ce que veoir je ne puis
Vostre doulx gracieux maintien.]
Se vers doulx Espoir ne m'enfuis
Les crueux maulx que je soustien
M'ociront brieffment, et si tien
Qu'en desir suy plus mors que vis.
Pour [ce que veoir je ne puis
Vostre doulx gracieux maintien,
Il m'est advis que n'ay nul bien,
Ains me sens de leesse vuis.]
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Because I cannot see", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Because I cannot see
Language: English after the French (Français)
Because I cannot see
Your sweet and gracious bearing,
It's my opinion that I have nothing good
And so I feel I am empty of happiness.
I find myself all alone with no comfort
In the world, everything is as if nothing to me.
Because I cannot see
Your sweet and gracious bearing.
If I do not flee towards sweet Hope
The cruel wounds which I sustain
Will shortly kill me, and so I consider
That in love, I am more dead than alive.
Because I cannot see
Your sweet and gracious bearing,
It's my opinion that I have nothing good
And so I feel I am empty of happiness.
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