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Tres gentil cuer amoureux, attraiansvirelai by Solage SourcesChantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 18 (3/1), 50v (3/1).Editions1. French Secular Music of the Late Fourteenth Century, edited by Willi Apel, Cambridge/Massachusetts: Medieval Academy of America, 1950, no. 38.2. French Secular Compositions of the Fourteenth Century, music edited by Willi Apel, texts edited by Samuel N. Rosenberg, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1970. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 53/I, p. 198. 3. French Secular Music. Manuscript Chantilly, Musée Condé 564, First Part, edited by Gordon K. Greene, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1981. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVIII, p. 33. LiteratureWILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.RecordingsLancaster and Valois: French and English music, 1350-1420, Gothic Voices, directed by Christopher Page (1992): Hyperion CDA66588.TextTres gentil cuer amoureux, attraians.frans et courtois, jolis et plains de joie. a vous servir du tout mon temps emploie. quar il n'est riens qui tant me soit playsant. N'autre desir avoir je ne pourroie qu'a vous amer, honnourer et cherir. cremir, doubter et loiaument servir par fine amour. quar en vous son mi penser, mi desir. mi oeil, mes cuers, mi vouloir, mi plaisir et mi retour. Donc tant desir, flour trez souef fleirant. belle et gente plus que dir' ne sauroye. de revdoir vo faton simple et coye et l'esgart doulz de vo regart riant qui tant me plaist. Pour ce, ou que je soie. tres gentil [cuer amoureux, attraians. frans et courtois, jolis et plains de joie. a vous servir du tout mon temps emploie. quar il n'est riens qui tant me soit playsant. N'autre desir avoir je ne pourroie]. Or scay je bien que le doulz souvenir que j'ay de vous me fait au cuer venir joie et baudour. si que ne puis maul ne doulour sentir. ains trez joieux me fait amours tenir en gay sejour; s'en loueray amours com vrai amant quant elle m'a voulu metre en la voie de vous amer; et certes, se j'avoie tout quan c'om puet en ce monde vivant. nient me seroit s'amTs de vous n'estoie. Tres gentil [cuer amoureux, attraians. frans et courtois, jolie et plains de joie. a vous servir du tout mon temps emploie. quar il n'est riens qui tant me soit playsant. N'autre desir avoir je ne pourroie.] Si pri a Dieu qu'il me doint a venir au doulz tresor qu'Amours suelt departir per sa doutor. Dont me povTs noblement enrichir fin cuer loial et sans rien amenrir vostre valour. Seugect cens fois mon cuer tres desirant de vous vdoir se aler g'i osoie. mains en la fin pour riens ne le layroie que ne fuessd avec vous demourant ou gay pans ou estre je voudroie. Tres gentil [cuer amoureux, attraians. frans et courtois, jolis et plains de joie. a vous servir du tout mon temps employe quar il n'est riens qui tant me soit playsant. N'autre desir avoir je ne pourroie.] TranslationVery noble heart, loving, attractive.generous and courteous, beautiful and full of joy. to service you above all do I use my time. for to me there is nothing so pleasing. Nor could I have any other desire than to love you, honour and cherish you. venerate, fear and loyally serve you out of true love. for in you are my thoughts, my desires. my eyes, my heart, my will, my pleasure and my refuge. Thus I desire so greatly, very sweetly-perfumed flower. more beautiful and lovely than I can say. to see again your sweet and peaceful face and the dear look of your laughing glance. which pleases me so much. For this reason, wherever I may be. very noble [heart, loving, attractive. generous and courteous, beautiful and full of joy. to serve you above all do I use my time. for to me there is nothing so pleasing. Not could I have any other desire.] Now I know well that the sweet memory I have of you brings joy and ardour to my heart. so that I cannot feel unhappiness or sorrow; rather does love keep me very happily in a state of joyous release. And I shall praise love like a true lover since she has wanted to set me on the path of loving you; and certainly, if I had everything one could have in this world. it would be nothing to me were I not loved by you. Very noble [heart, loving, attractive. generous and courteous, beautiful and full of joy. to serve you above all do I use my time. for to me there is nothing so pleasing. Nor could I have any other desire.] And I beg God to allow me to arrive at the sweet treasure, which Love, by its sweetness. customarily dispenses. From this you can enrich me nobly. true, loyal heart, and without in any way diminishing your worth. My heart, most desiring, is a hundred times under the power of seeing you, if I dared to go. but in the end I would not let it go for anything. were it not dwelling within you in the happy land where I would want to be. Very noble [heart, loving, attractive. generous and courteous, beautiful and full of joy. to serve you above all do I use my time. for to me there is nothing so pleasing. Nor could I have any other desire.] Text revision and translation © Robyn Smith |
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