3 Grudge whoso will, but none deny,4 So God be pleased, this live will I.5 For my pastance6 Hunt, sing, and dance.7 My heart is set8 All godely sport9 To my comfort.10 Who shall me let?11 Youth will have needs daliance,12 Of good or ill some pastance.13 Company me thinketh then best14 All thoftes and…
Adieu madam et ma mastres.Adieu mon solas et mon Joy.Adieu iusque vous reuoye,Adieu vous diz per graunt tristesse.Adew, madam, and my mystresse,Adew, my sollace and my ioye!Adew untyll agayne I see yow,Adew I saye ouercom by sadnesse.
3 Though winter blasts blow never so high,4 Green groweth the holly.5 As the holly groweth green6 And never changeth hue,7 So I am, ever hath been,8 Unto my lady true.9 As the holly groweth green10 With ivy all alone11 When flowers cannot be seen12 And greenwood leaves be gone,13 Now unto my lady14 Promise…
And lovë her in heart and deed,Else it were pity that he should speed.Many one saith that love is ill,But those be they which can no skill.Or else because they may not obtain,They would that other should it disdain.But love is a thing given by God,In that therefore can be none odd;But perfect indeed and…
Nobyll men then wold suer enserchAll ways wherby thay myght it rech;But envy reynyth with such dysdayne,And causith lovers owtwardly to refrayne,Which puttes them to more and moreInwardly most grevous and sore;The faut in whome I cannot sett;But let them tell which love doth gett.To lovers I put now suer this cace –Which of ther…
Syth now so kyndI do you fyndeTo kepe yow me unto?Alasse!
voutre vumble seruant ie ray a tousiourse tant que ie viueray altre naimeray que vous.Alas, madam, who I love so much,Allow me to be your humble servant:Your humble servant I will always remain,And as long as I live, no other will I love.
And trew love lokked therto?
No myrth can make me faynTyl that we mete agayne.Do way, dere hart, not so.Let no thought yow dysmaye!Thow ye now parte me fro,We shall mete when we may.When I remembyr meOf your most gentyll mynde,It may in no wyse agreThat I shuld be unkynde.The daise delectable,The violett wan and blo;Ye ar not varyable;I love…
