I do not care | I do not care any more for any soul

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Il ne m'en chault

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG

Il ne m'en chault plus de nul ame
Fors de vous qui mon cuer enflame
A vous bien loiaument amer
Sans jamais vous habandouner
A tousjours estre vostre dame.

Qui m'en loue ne qui m'en blame
Quoy qu'on en disoit homme ou femme
Ilz en ont tous beau grumeller
    Il ne m'en chault plus de nul ame
    Fors de vous qui mon cuer enflame
    A vous bien loiaument amer 

Car par tout m'en vous tiens et clame
Que tant je vueil et que tant j'ame
Plusque nul sans rien excepter
S'ilz en devoyent tous crever
Et deusse perdre du corps l'ame.

    Il ne m'en chault plus de nul ame
    Fors de vous qui mon cuer enflame
    A vous bien loiaument amer
    Sans jamais vous habandouner
    A tousjours estre vostre dame.

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), "Il ne m'en chault" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "I do not care", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 130

I do not care

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

I do not care any more for any soul
Except for you who inflame my heart;
Full faithfully loving you 
And never abandoning you
To be your lady for ever.

Whoever praises me, whoever blames me,
Whatever they say, man or woman,
They can all mutter in vain;
  I do not care any more for any soul
  Except for you who inflame my heart;
  Full faithfully loving you.

For everywhere I keep myself for you, and shout out
That I want you so, and I love you so,
More than anyone, excepting no-one
Even if they all must die
And should lose their souls from their bodies.

  I do not care any more for any soul
  Except for you who inflame my heart;
  Full faithfully loving you 
  And never abandoning you
  To be your lady for ever.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 137