This live recording of a concert production of Machaut’s Remede de Fortune includes all the music in the Remede and a selection of other motets, songs, and dances. The CD is accompanied by a lavishly illustrated booklet.
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Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient,
Je ne vous puis trop amer, ne cherir,
N’assés loer si com il apartient,
Servir, doubter, honnourer, n’obeir,
Car le gracieus Espoir,
Douce dame, que j’ay de vous veoir,
Me fait .c. foys plus de bien et de joye
Qu’en cent mil ans desservir ne porroie.
Cilz douls Espoirs en vie me soustient
Et me norrist en amoureus desir,
Et dedens moy met tout ce qui couvient
Pour conforter mon cuer et resjoir;
N’il ne s’en part main ne soir,
Ainçoys me fait doucement recevoir
Plus des douls biens qu’Amours aus siens envoie
Qu’en cent mil ans desservir ne porroie.
Et quant Espoir qui en mon cuer se tient
Fait dedens moy si grant joie venir
Lointains de vous, ma dame, s’il avient
Que vo beauté voie que moult desir,
Ma joie, si com j’espoir,
Ymaginer, penser, ne concevoir
Ne porroit nuls, car trop plus en aroie
Qu’en cent mil ans desservir ne porroie.
Lady, from whom all my joy comes,
I cannot love or cherish you too much,
praise you enough, nor serve, fear,
honor, or obey you as is fitting,
for the gracious Hope,
sweet lady, that I have of seeing you
brings me a hundred times more good and joy
than I could deserve in a hundred thousand years.
This sweet Hope keeps me alive
and nourishes me with amorous desire,
and creates in me everything needed
to comfort and bring joy to my heart;
nor does she abandon me, morning or evening,
but makes me sweetly receive
more of the sweet things that Love sends her own
than I could deserve in a hundred thousand years.
And since Hope, who presides in my heart,
brings me such great joy
even when I’m far from you, my lady, if I were
ever to see your beauty (which I desire so much),
my joy, as I hope,
would be impossible for anyone to imagine,
comprehend, or conceive; for I would have more
than I could deserve in a hundred thousand years.
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