| Savis e fols, humils et orgoillos, | I'm wise and dull, I'm humble and I'm proud, |
| Cobes e larcs e volpills et arditz | I'm mean and kind, I'm cowardly and bold, | |
| Sui qan s'eschai, e gauzens e marritz, | I'm in despair, I'm easily consoled, | |
| E sai esser plazens et enojos | I'm courteous and often rough and loud, | |
| E vils e cars vilans e cortes, | I'm vile, I'm meek, I'm noble and I'm base, | |
| Avols e bos, e conosc mals e bes, | Repulsive, sweet, successful, a disgrace. | |
| Et ai de totz bos aips cor e saber, | For every task with wit and will I'm blessed, | |
| E qand ren faill fatz o per non poder. | And when I fail, it's fortune I protest. | |
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| En totz afars sui savis e gignos | I'm shrewd and smart, beyond the common crowd, | |
| Mas midonz am tant q'ie.n sui enfollitz, | But I'm a fool since love has taken hold: | |
| Qe.il sui humils on pieitz mi fai e.m ditz | I more submit the more I hear her scold; | |
| E n'ai orguoill car sai q'es bell' e pros, | I'm not ashamed: She's lovely and highbrowed. | |
| E sui cobes c'ab son bel cors jagues | I crave her form, to lie in her embrace; | |
| Tant que plus larcs en sui e mieils apres, | My spite and greed for her sake I erase, | |
| E sui volpils car no.n l'aus enquerer | A coward, I: for I have not confessed, | |
| E trop arditz car tant ric joi esper. | Yet am too bold, who ponder this request. | |
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| Bella dompna, tals gaugz mi ven de vos | You dwell, my love, upon a happy cloud; | |
| Que marritz vauc car non vos sui aizitz, | I do not dare approach you from the cold, | |
| Car per vos sui als pros tant abellitz | Although for you I am so self-controlled | |
| Qu'enojant s'en li malvatz enojos; | That I annoy those who are quickly cowed. | |
| Be.m tenrai vil s'ab vos no.m val merces, | I'll know I'm vile if pity fails my case; | |
| Q'ie.m tenc tant car per vos en totas res | You made me think I'm worthy of the chase, | |
| Que per vilan m'en fatz als crois tener | Thus, petty men consider me a pest, | |
| E per cortes als pros tant sai valer. | As much as all the gallant are impressed. | |
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| D'amor dis mal e mas autras chansos | A curse on love in many songs I've vowed | |
| Pel mal qe.m fetz la bell' enfanairitz, | Because of lies and hurts I had of old, | |
| Mas vos, dompna, ab totz bos aips complitz, | But, Lady, you are good as gleaming gold: | |
| Mi faitz tans bes q'esmenda m'es e dos, | You on my heart a precious gift endowed, | |
| C'amors e vos m'avetz tal ren promes | Since you and love have promised to replace | |
| Que val cen dos c'autra dompna.m fezes; | The pain I had with sweet and priceless grace. | |
| Tant valetz mais, per q'ie.us vuoill mais aver, | I want you more, the more your strengths suggest; | |
| E.us tem perdre e.us vuoill mais conquerer. | I fear to lose; I want to win the best. | |
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| Jois e jovens et avinens faissos, | Your joy and youth, the way you charm the crowd, | |
| Dompn', e.l gens cors d'enseignamen noiritz | Your pleasant self, the wisdom you unfold, | |
| Vos ant pretz dat, q'es pels meillors auzitz, | Have made your name by everyone extolled, | |
| E, per ma fe, si m'aventura fos | And by my faith, if fortune had allowed | |
| Q'ieu ni mos chans ni m'amors vos plagues, | That you'd admire my song, my love, my case, | |
| Lo mieils de pretz auri' en vos conques | I'd have a love that no one could displace, | |
| E de beutat, e puosc o dir en ver, | And beauty, too, which always you've possessed: | |
| Que per auzir o sai e per vezer. | Upon my eyes and ears it is impressed. | |
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| Bels Cavalliers, chausimens e merces | My Fairest Knight, for pity and for grace, | |
| E.il fin' amors e.il sobrebona fes | The loyal love and trust in you I place | |
| Qez eu vos port mi deuria valer | Beg you return the passion I've expressed: | |
| Endreg d'amor, c'autre joi non esper. | No other joy I ever will request. | |
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| Na Biatritz, vostre bel cors cortes | Dame Beatrice, your sweet and pretty face, | |
| E.il grans beutatz e.l fins pretz q'en vos es | Your loveliness, the virtues you embrace: | |
| Fai gent mon chan sobre.ls meillors valer, | These make my songs by far surpass the rest; | |
| Car es dauratz del vostre ric pretz ver. | They're through your worth in gold and silver dressed. | |
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| Raimbaut de Vaqueiras | Carol Anne Perry Lagemann | |