To love another | My heart would humiliate itself to love another

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

D'un autre amer

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG

D'un autre amer mon cuer s'abesseroit
Il ne fault ja penser que l'estrange
Ne que pour rien de ce propos me change
Car mon honneur en appetisseroit

Je l'aime tant que jamais ne seroit
Possible a moi consentir l'eschange
    D'un autre amer mon cuer s'abesseroit
    Il ne fault ja penser que l'estrange.

La mort par dieu avant me defferoit
Qu'en mon  vivant j'acointasse ung estrange
Ne cuide nul qu'a cela je me range
Ma leaulte trop fort je mefferoit.

    D'un autre amer mon cuer s'abesseroit
    Il ne fault ja penser que l'estrange
    Ne que pour rien de ce propos me change
    Car mon honneur en appetisseroit.

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 Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "D'un autre amer" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "To love another", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-02-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 106

To love another

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

My heart would humiliate itself to love another,
You must never think that being far-off
Could for anything move me from this opinion
For my honour would be diminished.

I love him so much that it would never
Be possible for me to accept the exchange.
  My heart would humiliate itself to love another,
  You must never think that...

Death, by God, would take me off before
I would link myself, while alive, with a stranger,
Nor should anyone consider that I could act like that,
My loyalty I should too deeply outrage.

  My heart would humiliate itself to love another,
  You must never think that being far-off
  Could for anything move me from this opinion
  For my honour would be diminished.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 122