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Se la belle n'a voloir is a 15th century song by Gilles Binchois, a composer at the Bourgundian court.
Full old French lyrics:
Se la belle n'a voloir
D'alegier mon piteux martire,
Il ne m'est nul besoin derire
Pour le mal qui me fait doloir.
Car je n'ay cuer, corps ne pouvoir
Qui puist a tel dolour souffrire.
Se la belle n'a voloir
D'alegier mon piteux martire
Et pour la verité savoir
A toute heure mon mal empire
Dont je m'en vois de droite tire
Ma mort prochaine rechevoir.
Modern English translation:
If the beautiful one does not have the will
to lighten my pitiful suffering,
I have no need for laughing
For the pain which hurts me so.
Because I have heart, body nor power
Which is able to suffer from such pain.
If the beautiful one does not have the will
to lighten my pitiful suffering.
And to know the truth
At each hour my pain worsens
From which I see myself straightly
receive me ensuing death.
References[edit]
- Joye - Les plaintes de Gilles de Bins dit Binchois - graindelavoix/ Björn Schmelzer, CD booklet editor: Glossa Platinum(2007)
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