Songs
Dix et sept, cinq, trese, quatorse et quinse (Rondeau: from 'Le Voir Dit')
by Guillaume de Machaut
Dix et sept, cinq, trese, quatorse et quinse (Rondeau: from 'Le Voir Dit')
French source:
GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT
Ma doucement de bien amer espris,
Pris a en moy une amoureuse emprise.
Dis et sept, v, xiij, xiiij, et quinse
Pour sa bonté que chascuns loe et prise,
Et sa biauté qui seur toutes ont pris.
Ten and seven, five, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
English translation ©
R. Barton Palmer
Has sweetly inflamed me with virtuous love,
Has captured in me a lover’s embrace.
Seventeen, five, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen
Because of her virtue that every man esteems and praises,
And her beauty that they value above all others.
Dix et sept, cinq, trese, quatorse et quinse (Rondeau: from 'Le Voir Dit')
French source:
GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT
Ten and seven, five, thirteen, fourteen and fifteen
English source:
R. Barton Palmer
Dis et sept, cinq, trese, quatorse, et quinse
Seventeen, five, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen
Ma doucement de bien amer espris,
Has sweetly inflamed me with virtuous love,
Pris a en moy une amoureuse emprise.
Has captured in me a lover’s embrace.
Dis et sept, v, xiij, xiiij, et quinse
Seventeen, five, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen
Pour sa bonté que chascuns loe et prise,
Because of her virtue that every man esteems and praises,
Et sa biauté qui seur toutes ont pris.
And her beauty that they value above all others.
Composer
Guillaume de Machaut
Guillaume de Machaut is presumed to have been born around the year 1300; the first surviving documentary evidence from 1330 lists him as a ‘clerk’ in the household of John of Bohemia and suggests that he had been in service since 1323. Machaut was…