Mediaeval Baebes The Quan Vey La Lauzeta (undrentide) Lyrics

Quan Vey La Lauzeta (undrentide) Lyrics

Lyrics (Medieval French (Provençal))
Translation

Quan vey la
lauzeta mover
When I see the lark beating

De joy sas alas contral
rai,
Its wings for joy against the sun's rays,

Que s'oblida es laissa
cazer
Until it forgets to fly and allows itself to fall

Per la doussor
qual cor li vai:
For the sweetness that goes to its heart,

Ai! tan
grans enveya m'en ve
Alas! such envy comes over me

De cui qu'eu veya
jauzion!
Of those I see filled with happiness

Meravilh as I quar des
se
I marvel that my heart

Lo cor de dezirier nom fon.
Does not
melt from desire

Ai, las! Tan cuidava saber
Alas, how much I thought
I knew about love

D'amor, e tan petit en sai,
And how little I really
know.

Car eu d'mar nom posc tener
For I cannot keep myself from
loving

Celeis don ja pro non aurai
Her from whom I will gain
nothing.

Tout m'a mo cor, e tout m'a me
She has taken all my heart,
my soul,

E se mezeis e tot lo mon,
Herself and all the
world.

E can sem tolc nom laisset re
And when she left, she left me
nothing

Mas dezirer e cor volon.
But desire and a longing
heart.

Anc non agui de me poder
I have not had control over
myself

Ni no fui meus de l'or en sai
Or belonged to myself from the
hour

Quem laisset en sos olhs vezer
When she let me gaze into her
eyes -

En un miralh que mout me plai.
In a mirror that pleases me so
much.

Miralhs, pus me mirei en te,
Mirror, since I saw myself
reflected in you

M'an mort li sospir de preon,
Deep sighs have been
slaying me

C'aissim perdei com perdet se
I have lost myself just
as

Lo bels Narcisus en la fon.
Handsome Narcisus did in the
fountain.

De las domnas me dezesper,
I despair of
women,

Jamais en lor nom fiarai,
I will trust them no
more

C'aissi com las solh chaptener,
And just as I used to defend
them

Enaissai las deschaptenrai.
Now I shall abandon
them.

Pois vei c'una pro no m'en te
As I see none that helps
me

Bas leis qu'em destrui em cofon,
Against her who destroys and
confounds me

Totas las dopte las mescre,
I fear and distrust them
all

Car be sai c'atretals se son.
For I know they are all
alike.

D'aisso's fa be femna parer
In this my lady shows
herself

Ma domna, per qu'elh o retrai
To be a woman and for this I
condemn her.

(Car no vol so c'om voler,
(Because she does not want
what she should,

E so c'om le deveda, fai.)
And desires that which is
forbidden.)