Rialto

293.25

 

Marcabru

 

 

 

 

«Estornel, cueill ta volada;

[Siutor]

dema, ab la matinada,

iras me en un’encontrada

on cuge aver amia.

5

Trobaras

e veiras

per que vas;

comtar l’as

e·ill diras

10

en eis pas

per qu’es tras[a]lia.

 

No sai s’aisi·s fo fadada

que no m’am e si’amada,

c’ab una sola veguada

15

fora grans la matinada;

[R]

si·ll plagues

ni volgues

c’o fezes,

per un mes

20

n’agra tres

aqui eis

[R]

de sa companhia».

 

«Ai, com es encabalada

[Marcabru]

la falsa razos daurada

25

«Denan totas vai triada!»

Va, ben es fols qui s’i fia.

De sos datz

c’a plombatz

vos gardatz,

30

qu’enguanatz

n’a assatz,

so sapchatz,

e mes en la via.

 

Per semblant es veziada

35

plus que veilla volps cassada.

L’autrier mi fes far la bada

tota nueg entruesc’al dia.

Sos talans

es volans

40

ab enguans,

mas us chans

fa·n enfans,

castians

de lur felonia».

 
45

«Selui fadet gentils fada

[Siutor]

a cui fo s’amors donada!

No fo tals crestianada

de sai lo peiro Elia!

Vol’e vai

50

juesca lai,

e·l retrai

qu’ieu morrai,

si no sai

consi jai,

55

nuda ho vestia!»

 

«Sa beutatz fo ab leis nada,

[Marcabru]

ses fum de creis ni d’erbada . . .

De mil amicx es cazada,

e de mil senhors amia.

60

Marcabrus

ditz que l’us

no·n es clus;

bada mus,

qui·ll vol plus,

65

c’a raüs

part de la frai[di]a».

 

«De fin’amor dezirada

[Siutor]

a una flor pic–vairada

plus qued autruna pauzada.

70

Paucx fuecx fai tost gran folia!

Perdo·l grat

del abat

Saint Privat;

m’ai pensat

75

ses cujat,

si·m ditz “Mat”,

qu’el’amors enbria!

 

Del deslei

que m’[en] fei

80

li fauc drei

e·ill m’autrei,

mas sotz mei

aplat sei,

qu’ela·m las’e·m lia».

 

 

 

Text: Gaunt, Harvey and Paterson, 2000 (XXV). – Rialto 24.i.2003.


Mss.: C (174v), E (154).

Previous editions: Jean-Marie-Lucien Dejeanne, Poésies complètes du troubadour Marcabru, Toulouse, 1909, p. 121 (XXV); M. de Riquer, Los Trovadores, 3 vols., Barcelona, 1975, I, p. 211; Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 343.

Versification: a7’ a7’ a7’ b7’ c3 c3 c3 c3 c3 c3 b5’ (Frank 84). Seven stanzas with ‘a’ and ‘b’ constant, ‘c’ singulars, and one tornada of 7 lines.

Notes: This and poem 293.26 may most convincingly be assigned to the period 1130-34. In about 1130, Alfonso I the Batallador, having failed to overcome the resistence of Lerida, attempted to isolate it, ordering two successive sieges of nearby Fraga where he met his death in September 1134. Marcabru was in France at this time, probably at the court of Poitou, and from his geographical standpoint Fraga is precisely ‘part Lerida’ (BdT 293.26, 293.23).

[LP]


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