Guillaume de Machaut: Joye, plaisance, et douce nourreture

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Performers: VivaBiancaLuna Biffi - voice and fiddle; Angélique Mauillon - gothic harp; Pierre Hamon - double flute and director. CD info: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/elq0918.htm http://www.eloquentia.fr/#fiche-album-18-en Joye, plaisance, et douce nourreture Vie d'onneur prennent maint et en amer Et plusseurs sont qui n'i ont fors pointure Doulour ardour plour tristesse et amer Ce dient mais acorder Ne me puis qu'en la sousfrance D'Amours ait nulle grevance Car tout ce qui vient de li Plaist a cuer d'ami Car vraye Amour en cuer d'amant figure Tres dous Espoir et gracïeus Penser Espoir atrait Joie et Bonne Adventure Dous Penser fait Plaisance en cuer entrer Si ne doit plus demander Cilz qui a bonne Esperance Doulz Penser Joye, et Plaisance Car qui plus requiert, je di Qu'Amours l'a guerpi Dont cilz qui vit de si douce pasture Vie d'onnour puet bien et doit mener Car de tous biens a comble mesure Plus qu'autres cuers n'en saroit desirer Ne d'autre merci rouver N'a desir, cuer, ne beance Pour ce qu'il a Souffissance Ne je ne sçay nommer cy Nulle autre merci Mais ceulz qui sont en tristresse, en ardure En pleurs en plains en doulour sans cesser Et qui dient qu'Amours leur est si dure Qu'il ne peuent sans morir plus durer Je ne puis ymaginer Qu'il aiment sans decevance Ete qu'en euls trop ne s'avance Desirs. Pour ce sont ainssi Qu'il l'ont deservi Qu'Amours, qui est de si noble nature Qu'elle scet bien qui aimme sans fausser Scet bien paier as amans leur droiture C'est les loyaus de joye saouler Et d'eaus fair savourer Ses douçours en habondance Et les mauvais par sentence Sont com traïtres failli De sa court bani L'envoy Amours, je sçay sans doubtance Qu'a .c. doubles as meri Ceuls qui t'ont servi Many who fall in love find joy, Pleasure, sweet sustenance, and a life of honor; And there are many who find only hurt, Distress, sorrow, tears, sadness, and bitterness. They say this, but I cannot Agree, for there is no pain In the sufferings Love brings, Because whatever comes from her Is pleasing to a lover's heart; For True Love in a lover's heart creates Very Sweet Hope and amiable Thought; Hope attracts Joy and Good Luck; Sweet Thought causes Pleasure to enter the heart; So he who has Good Hope, Sweet Thought, Joy, and Pleasure Must not ask for more; For I tell you, if he demands more, Love will abandon him. Therefore he who lives on such sweet nourishment Can easily and must live a life of honor, For he has all blessings in abundance, More than another heart would dare desire; Nor does he have the heart, desire, or longing To implore any other reward, Because he has Sufficiency; Nor can I name her Any other reward to ask for. But those who are sad, distressed, Weeping, moaning, and in constant sorrow, And who say that Love treats them so harshly That they cannot go on any longer without dying I cannot conceive That they love without deceit And that they are not overwhelmed By Desire. They are in such a state Because they have deserved it; For Love, who is such a noble nature That she well Knows who loves without duplicity, Knows well how to pay lovers their due: She satiates the loyal with joy And has them savor her Sweetnesses abundantly; But the wicked are banished By decree from her court as traitors. Envoy Love, I know beyond a doubt That you have rewarded those who've served you A hundred times over.