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Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Linda Paterson. – Rialto 24.i.2003.
A (31r), C (258v-259r), a1 294-295.
Previous editions: Adolf Kolsen, «Das Sirventes des Trobadors Bernart de Venzac, Lanquan», Archivum Romanicum, 20, 1936-37, pp. 477-85; Maria Picchio Simonelli, Lirica moralistica nell’Occitania del XII secolo: Bernart de Venzac, Modena 1974, pp. 227-36; Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 566.
Versification: a7’ b7’ b7’ c7 d7’ c7 d7’ (Frank 737:1), seven coblas unissonans and one tornada of 3 lines.
Attribution: The song is attributed to Marcabru in Aa1 and to Bernart de Venzac in C. It has been assumed in the past that Marcabru could not have been the author because of the phonological features of some rhyme words, but this assumption rests on the premise that the versification must have been perfectly regular, which we do not believe would necessarily have been the case (see our edition, pp. 20-26).