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"I Should Lead a Happy Life"
by Guillaume de Machaut, 14th Century France

lyrics

Medieval French:

Je vivroie liement, douce creature
Se vous saviés vraiement
Qu’en vous fust parfaitement
Ma cure.

Dame de meintieng joli,
Plaisant, nette et pure
Souvent me fait dire: “aymi!”
Li maus que j’endure.

Pour vous servirs loyauement
Ey soiés seűre
Que je ne pui nullement
Vivre einsi se longuement
Me dure.

Refrain

Car vous m’estes sans mercy
Et sans pité dure
Et s’avés le cuer de mi
Mis en tel ardure

Qu’il morra certeinnement
De mort trop obscure
Se pour son aligement
Merci n’est procheinnement, meűre.

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I should lead a happy life, sweet creature
If only you truly realised
That you were the cause of all my concern.

Lady of cheerful bearing
Pleasing, bright and pure
Often I am caused to say: “ah me!”
The woe I suffer.

For serving you loyally
And be certain
That I can no longer wisely
Live thus, if it continues.

For you have no mercy on me
And are without pity
And have put such longing
into my heart

That it will certainly die
A dismal death
Unless for its relief
Your mercy is soon.

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from Hert so Hy: Songs of Longing from Medieval Europe, released April 16, 2021
Katherine Christie Evans- Voice and Gittern

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