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50. Balade: «Je n’ay riens fait qu’Amours ne me fait faire»
Dea, doulx amiz, vous vous desconfortez
Trop durement a petit d’achoison.
Vous regretez lez biens que vous avez
Envers Amours par moult longue saison.
Et puis dictez que je fais trayson
Quant autrement de vous ne me souvient.
Mais se, par force, autre amer me convient,
En devez vous crier sur moy ne brayre?
Prenez en gré le temps tel comme il vient:
Je n’ay riens fait qu’Amours ne me fait faire.
Amours me fist, ou temps dont vo parlés,
Donner a vous entierement en don.
Maintenant veult c’un autre en soit doués
Que j’ayme autant que ou temps dont parlons
Faisoye vous, quar il est bel et bon.
A mon advis, aussy il apartient
Qu’au gré d’Amours le face, et c’il avient
Q’on en dye riens qui me puet desplaire,
Je respondray que droit a droit revient.
Je n’ay riens fait qu’Amours ne me fait faire.
Apaisiez vous et Amours merciez
Quant de sez biens avez eu foyson.
S’il lez reprent, humblement l’endurez.
Car sez jeux sont de tel condicion.
Quant il se joue aux gens de sa maison,
L’un corrocié, l’autre liel en devient,
L’un bouté hors, l’autre avec lui retient.
Or suis a luy, s’il lui plaist, sans retraire.
Et pour ce dy je a qui fausse me tient:
«Je n’ay riens fait qu’Amours ne me fait faire.»
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50. Ballade: “I have done nothing that Love doesn’t make me do”
Really, sweet friend, you are distressed
Too greatly for very little reason.
You miss the rewards that you have had
From Love for quite a long time,
And then you say that I commit treason
When I remember someone other than you.
But if I must necessarily love another,
Should you be screaming and shouting about me for it?
Accept willingly the time such as it comes:
I have done nothing that Love doesn’t make me do.
Love, at the time of which you are speaking,
Caused me to be given to you fully, as a gift.
Now he wants that another be so given,
Whom I love just as much as, at that time,
I did you, for he is handsome and good.
It seems to me that it follows that, by Love’s will,
I should do so, and if it happens
That anyone says anything that can displease me,
I will reply that right returns to right.
I have done nothing that Love doesn’t make me do.
Calm down, and give thanks to Love
Since you have had an abundance of his rewards.
If he takes them back, humbly endure it.
For his games are of just such a kind.
When he plays with those in his retinue,
One becomes angry, another becomes gay;
One gets booted, the other he retains.
Now I am his, if it please him, without repeal.
And thus I say to anyone who calls me false:
“I have done nothing that Love doesn’t make me do.”
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