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Baladelle: En amer a douce vie (RF4)

from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune by Blue Heron

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Baladelle (RF4) En amer a douce vie

En amer a douce vie
Et jolie,
Qui bien la scet maintenir,
Car tant plaist la maladie,
Quant norrie
Est en amoureus desir,
Que l’amant fait esbaudir
Et querir
Comment elle monteplie.
C’est dous maus a soustenir,
Qu’esjoir
Fait cuer d’ami et d’amie.

Qu’Amours par sa signourie
Humelie
L’amoureus cuer a souffrir,
Et par sa noble maistrie
Le maistrie,
Si qu’il ne puet riens sentir
Que tout au goust de joir
Par plaisir
Ne prengne, je n’en doubt mie.
Einsi saous de merir,
Sans merir,
Fait cuer d’ami et d’amie.

Si doit bien estre cherie
Et servie,
Quant elle puet assevir
Chascun qui li rueve et prie
De s’aie
Sans son tresor amenrir.
De la mort puet garentir
Et garir
Cuer qui de santé mendie ;
De souffisance enrichir
Et franchir
Fait cuer d’ami et d’amie.

To be in love is a sweet life
and a happy one
for him who knows how to live it,
for the malady is so pleasing
when it is nourished
by amorous desire,
that it emboldens the lover
and makes him seek to know
how it spreads.
It is a sweet trouble to bear,
that brings joy to
the hearts of a lover and his lady.

For Love by her sovereignty
abases
the loving heart, makes it suffer,
and by her noble mastery
masters it,
so that it can sense nothing
but that which tastes wholly of joy
caused by pleasure:
of this I have no doubt.
Thus she rewards in full,
without rewarding,
the hearts of a lover and his lady.

So Love must be cherished
and served,
since she can satisfy
everyone who implores and prays
for her aid
without diminishing her treasure.
She can protect from death
and heal
a heart that begs for health;
and with self-sufficiency she enriches
and liberates
the hearts of a lover and his lady

[English Translation © Scott Metcalfe. Unauthorized reprinting strictly prohibited.]

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from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune, released October 21, 2022

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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