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Virelai: Dame, a vous sans retollir (RF6) 4​:​02

from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune by Blue Heron

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Virelai (RF6) Dame, a vous sans retollir

Dame, a vous sans retollir
Doins cuer, pensée, desir,
Corps, et amour,
Comme a toute la millour
Qu’on puist choysir,
Ne qui vivre ne morir
Puist a ce jour.

Si ne me doit a folour
Tourner, se je vous aour,
Car sans mentir,

Bonté passez en valour,
Toute fleur en douce oudour
Que on puet sentir.

Vostre biauté fait tarir
Toute autre et anientir,
Et vo douçour
Passe tout ; rose en coulour
Vous doy tenir,
Et vos regars puet garir
Toute doulour.

Dame, a vous sans retollir …

Pour ce, dame, je m’atour
De trestoute ma vigour
A vous servir,

Et met, sans nul vilain tour,
Mon cuer, ma vie et m’onnour
En vo plaisir.

Et se Pitiés consentir
Vueut que me daigniez oir
En ma clamour,
Je ne quier de mon labour
Autre merir,
Qu’il ne me porroit venir
Joye greingneur.

Dame, a vous sans retollir …

Dame, ou sont tuit mi retour,
Souvent m’estuet en destour
Plaindre et gemir,

Et, present vous, descoulour,
Quant vous ne savez l’ardour
Qu’ai a sousfrir

Pour vous qu’aim tant et desir
Que plus ne le puis couvrir.
Et se tenrour
N’en avez, en grant tristour
M’estuet fenir.
Nonpourquant jusqu’au mourir
Vostre demour.

Dame, a vous sans retollir …

Lady, to you without reservation
I give my heart, thoughts, desire,
body, and love,
as to the best of all
whom one could choose,
the best who has lived or died
until today.

So I must not be thought
mad if I adore you,
for I do not lie when I say that

you surpass Goodness in worth
and surpass in sweet odor
any flower one might smell.

Your beauty makes every other
wither and fade away,
and your sweetness
surpasses all; your color
is that of a rose,
and your glance can heal
every sorrow.

Lady, to you without reservation …

Therefore, my lady, I prepare myself
with all my strength
to serve you,

and without base artifice place
my heart, my life, and my honor
at your pleasure.

And if Pity should consent
that you deign to hear
my appeal,
I seek no further reward
for my labor,
for no greater joy
could come to me.

Lady, to you without reservation …

Lady, in whom is my every recourse,
far from you I must often
lament and mourn,

and near you grow pale,
since you do not know the ardor
which I have to suffer

for you, whom I love and desire so much
that I can conceal it no longer.
And if you have no tenderness
towards me, in great sorrow
I must end my days.
Nonetheless, until death
I remain yours.

Lady, to you without reservation …

[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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