If my lady has no wish | If my lady has no wish

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Se la belle n'a voloir

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Se la belle n'a le voloir
D'alegier mon piteux martire
Il ne m'est nul besoin de rire
Pour le mal qui me fait doloir

Car je n'ay cuer, corps ne pouvoir
Qui puist a tel dolour souffrire
  Se la belle n'a le voloir
  D'alegier mon piteux martire,

Et pour la verité savoir
A toute heure mon mal empire
Dont je m'en vois de droite tire
Ma mort prochaine recevoir.

  Se la belle n'a le voloir
  D'alegier mon piteux martire
  Il ne m'est nul besoin de rire
  Pour le mal qui me fait doloir.

Text 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 Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois (c1400 - 1460), "Se la belle n'a voloir" [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "If my lady has no wish", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

If my lady has no wish

Language: English after the French (Français)

If my lady has no wish
To relieve my pitiable suffering
I have no need to laugh
For the ill which makes me grieve.

For I have no heart, body or power
Which could suffer such sadness
  If my lady has no wish
  To relieve my pitiable suffering.

And in truth know
Every hour my ill grows worse
So that I see myself straightway
Receiving my imminent death.

If my lady has no wish
To relieve my pitiable suffering
I have no need to laugh
For the ill which makes me grieve.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 92