I.
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III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
Edition: Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson 2000; notes: Linda Paterson. – Rialto 24.i.2003.
A (31r-v), C (259r-v), I (119r), K (105r), a1 (295-296), d (305v-306r).
Previous editions: Maria Picchio Simonelli, Lirica moralistica nell’ Occitania del XII secolo: Bernart de Venzac, Modena 1974, pp. 237-51; Simon Gaunt, Ruth Harvey and Linda Paterson, Marcabru: A Critical Edition, Cambridge, D. S. Brewer, 2000, p. 558.
Versification: a7’ b7’ a7’ b7’ c7’ d8 d8 e8 (Frank 427:4), coblas unissonans, with one tornada of two lines in a1. Pace Simonelli (p. 237), Ca1’s versification does not differ from that of AIK: see our edition, p. 564.
The song is attributed to Marcabru in AIKa1 and to Bernart de Venzac in C. There is no internal evidence that proves it could not have been composed by Marcabru, though the attribution remains questionable.