VIRELAYSweet, in whom my joy must be,Now my heart is full of glee[pg 94]For thy love: and loosed from careAll my song is, “Lady fair,Living I consume for thee.”But thy gentle love hath sentThe fair comfort that I need:I therewith am well content.Gladness doth my spirit lead.Rightly am I glad, pardie!For of old my jollityDrowned in woes I had to bear:Of thy help when I was wareGone was all my misery,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Since the day that thou hast lentThy dear heart, my life is freedFrom the sorrows I lament:Peace and gladness are my meed.Lady, love despatcheth meSuccour sweet, who thus am freeFrom my sickness: pale despairRules no longer when I shareHope that I thy face may see,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Now have I recounted unto you how that in the first instance I was surprised and subdued by love, and was afterward grievously constrained by great [pg 95] longing, and how my dear kinsman gave himself much trouble, with the result that I was delivered from my trouble by my lady, who had mercy on me, thanks be to her. And I will tell how that from that time I went to and fro. Thenceforth I was happy even as you have heard, and because of the joy which I had, I devised this ballad:—
VIRELAYSweet, in whom my joy must be,Now my heart is full of glee[pg 94]For thy love: and loosed from careAll my song is, “Lady fair,Living I consume for thee.”But thy gentle love hath sentThe fair comfort that I need:I therewith am well content.Gladness doth my spirit lead.Rightly am I glad, pardie!For of old my jollityDrowned in woes I had to bear:Of thy help when I was wareGone was all my misery,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Since the day that thou hast lentThy dear heart, my life is freedFrom the sorrows I lament:Peace and gladness are my meed.Lady, love despatcheth meSuccour sweet, who thus am freeFrom my sickness: pale despairRules no longer when I shareHope that I thy face may see,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Now have I recounted unto you how that in the first instance I was surprised and subdued by love, and was afterward grievously constrained by great [pg 95] longing, and how my dear kinsman gave himself much trouble, with the result that I was delivered from my trouble by my lady, who had mercy on me, thanks be to her. And I will tell how that from that time I went to and fro. Thenceforth I was happy even as you have heard, and because of the joy which I had, I devised this ballad:—
VIRELAYSweet, in whom my joy must be,Now my heart is full of glee[pg 94]For thy love: and loosed from careAll my song is, “Lady fair,Living I consume for thee.”But thy gentle love hath sentThe fair comfort that I need:I therewith am well content.Gladness doth my spirit lead.Rightly am I glad, pardie!For of old my jollityDrowned in woes I had to bear:Of thy help when I was wareGone was all my misery,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Since the day that thou hast lentThy dear heart, my life is freedFrom the sorrows I lament:Peace and gladness are my meed.Lady, love despatcheth meSuccour sweet, who thus am freeFrom my sickness: pale despairRules no longer when I shareHope that I thy face may see,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Now have I recounted unto you how that in the first instance I was surprised and subdued by love, and was afterward grievously constrained by great [pg 95] longing, and how my dear kinsman gave himself much trouble, with the result that I was delivered from my trouble by my lady, who had mercy on me, thanks be to her. And I will tell how that from that time I went to and fro. Thenceforth I was happy even as you have heard, and because of the joy which I had, I devised this ballad:—
Sweet, in whom my joy must be,Now my heart is full of glee[pg 94]For thy love: and loosed from careAll my song is, “Lady fair,Living I consume for thee.”But thy gentle love hath sentThe fair comfort that I need:I therewith am well content.Gladness doth my spirit lead.Rightly am I glad, pardie!For of old my jollityDrowned in woes I had to bear:Of thy help when I was wareGone was all my misery,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Since the day that thou hast lentThy dear heart, my life is freedFrom the sorrows I lament:Peace and gladness are my meed.Lady, love despatcheth meSuccour sweet, who thus am freeFrom my sickness: pale despairRules no longer when I shareHope that I thy face may see,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.
Sweet, in whom my joy must be,Now my heart is full of glee[pg 94]For thy love: and loosed from careAll my song is, “Lady fair,Living I consume for thee.”But thy gentle love hath sentThe fair comfort that I need:I therewith am well content.Gladness doth my spirit lead.Rightly am I glad, pardie!For of old my jollityDrowned in woes I had to bear:Of thy help when I was wareGone was all my misery,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.Since the day that thou hast lentThy dear heart, my life is freedFrom the sorrows I lament:Peace and gladness are my meed.Lady, love despatcheth meSuccour sweet, who thus am freeFrom my sickness: pale despairRules no longer when I shareHope that I thy face may see,Sweet, in whom my joy must be.
Sweet, in whom my joy must be,
Now my heart is full of glee
[pg 94]
For thy love: and loosed from care
All my song is, “Lady fair,
Living I consume for thee.”
But thy gentle love hath sent
The fair comfort that I need:
I therewith am well content.
Gladness doth my spirit lead.
Rightly am I glad, pardie!
For of old my jollity
Drowned in woes I had to bear:
Of thy help when I was ware
Gone was all my misery,
Sweet, in whom my joy must be.
Since the day that thou hast lent
Thy dear heart, my life is freed
From the sorrows I lament:
Peace and gladness are my meed.
Lady, love despatcheth me
Succour sweet, who thus am free
From my sickness: pale despair
Rules no longer when I share
Hope that I thy face may see,
Sweet, in whom my joy must be.
Now have I recounted unto you how that in the first instance I was surprised and subdued by love, and was afterward grievously constrained by great [pg 95] longing, and how my dear kinsman gave himself much trouble, with the result that I was delivered from my trouble by my lady, who had mercy on me, thanks be to her. And I will tell how that from that time I went to and fro. Thenceforth I was happy even as you have heard, and because of the joy which I had, I devised this ballad:—