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Marcabru
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Bel m’es cant son li frug madur |
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e reverdeio li gaïm, |
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e·il auzel per lo temps escur |
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baisso de lor votz lo refrim, |
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tant redopto la
tenebror – |
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e mos coratges s’enanza, |
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q’ieu chant per joi de
fin’amor, |
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e vei ma bona speranza. |
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Fals amic, amador tafur, |
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baisson amor e levo·l crim; |
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e no·us cuietz c’amors pejur, |
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c’atrestan val con fetz al prim. |
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Totz temps fo de fina color |
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et ancse d’una semblanza; |
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nuls om non sap de sa valor |
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la fin ni la comensanza. |
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Qui vol si·s crez’a fol agur; |
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sol Dieus mi gart de revolim, |
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q’en aital amor m’aventur |
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on non a engan ni refrim; |
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qu’estiu et invern e pascor |
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estau en gran alegranza, |
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et estaria en maior, |
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ab un pauc de seguranza. |
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Ja non creirai, qi qe
m’o jur, |
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qe vis non eisca de rasim, |
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et hom per amor no meillur, |
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c’anc un peiurar
no·n auzim; |
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q’eu vail lo mais per lo meilhor; |
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e pero si·m n’ai doptanza, |
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qe no·m aus vanar, de paor, |
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d’aisso don ei ma speranza. |
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Greu er ja qe fols desnatur |
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et a foleiar non reling, |
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e fola que no·s desmezur; |
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e mals arbres de mal noirim |
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de mala branch’a mala flor; |
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e frug de mala poissanza |
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reverta·l mals otra·l peior, |
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lai on jois non ha sobranza |
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de l’amistat d’estraing atur, |
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falsa, del lignatge Caÿm, |
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qe met los sieus a malaür |
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car non tem anta ni blastim. |
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Lo strais d’amar ab sa douzor |
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met lo fol en tal erranza |
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q’el non remanria ab lor, |
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qi·l donava tota Franza. |
Text: Gaunt, Harvey
and Paterson, 2000 (XIII). – Rialto 2.i.2003.
Mss.: A (34r), I (121r), K (106v-107r), N (267v-268r), W (203) stanza I only, with melody,
a1 (297-98).
Previous editions:
Jean-Marie-Lucien
Dejeanne,
Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse, 1909, p. 53 (XIII);
Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson,
Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 178.
Versification: a8 b8 a8 b8 c8 d7’ c8 d7’ (Frank: 407:16). Six coblas
unissonans.
Notes: Nothing in this poem indicates its date of composition, unless links with
BdT 293.35 are relevant. The figure behind lines 38-39 is probably Lamech (see Genesis, 4. 17-24), glossed in the Middle Ages as a figure of the sins of the world which would be washed away in the blood of Christ after seventy-seven generations of mankind: a cruel murderer, parricide, traitor, and bigamous adulterer.
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