Songs

Yver, vous n’estes qu’un villain;
Winter, you are nothing but a rogue;
Esté est plaisant et gentil,
Summer is pleasant and kind,
En tesmoing de May et d’Avril
As May and April can testify,
Qui l’accompaignent soir et main.
Accompanying it each eve and morn.

Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs,
Summer clothes fields, woods and flowers
De sa livrée de verdure
With his verdant livery,
Et de maintes autres couleurs,
And many other colours too,
Par l’ordonnance de Nature.
As nature commands.

Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plain
But you, Winter, you exude
De nège, vent, pluye et grézil;
Snow, wind, rain and hail;
On vous deust banir en éxil.
You ought to be exiled.
Sans point flater, je parle plain.
Winter, you are nothing but a rogue.