Lady, since thou hast driven me forth,
Since thou, unkind, hast banished me
(Though cause of such neglect be none),
Where shall I turn from thee?
Ne’er can I see
Such joy as I have seen before,
If, as I fear, I find no more
Another fair, — from the removed,
I’ll sigh to think I e’er was loved.
And since my eager search were vain
One lovely as thyself to find, —
A heart so matchlessly endowed,
Or manners so refined,
So gay, so kind,
So courteous, gentle, debonair, —
I’ll rove, and catch from every fair
Some winning grace, and form a whole,
To glad (till though return) my soul.
To roses of thy glowing cheek,
Fair Sembelis! I’ll steal from thee;
That lovely smiling look I’ll take,
Yet rich thou still shalt be,
In whom we see
All that can deck a lady bright;
And your enchanting converse, light,
Fair Elis, will I borrow too,
That she in wit may shine like you.
And, from the noble Charles, I
Will beg that neck of ivory white,
And her fair hands of loveliest form
I’ll take; and speeding, light,
My onward flight,
Earnest at Roca Choart’s gate.
Fair Agnes I will supplicate
To grant her locks more bright than those
Which Tristan loved on Yseult’s brows.
And, Andiartz, though on me thou frown,
All that thou hast of courtesy
I’ll have, — thy look, thy gentle mien,
And all the unchanged constancy
That dwells with thee.
And, Miels de Ben, on thee I’ll wait
For thy light shape, so delicate,
That in thy fairy form of grace
My lady’s image I may trace.
The beauty of those snow white teeth
From thee, famed Faidit, I’ll extort,
Tho welcome, affable, and kind,
To all the numbers that resort
Unto her court.
And Bels Mirails shall crown the whole,
With all his sparkling flow of soul;
Those mental charms that round her play,
For ever wise, yet ever gay.
(Bertran De Born)
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