Departir
Cant voi l'aube du jour venir,
Nulle rien ne doi tant hair,
K'elle fait de moi departir
Mon amin, cui j'ain per amors.
Or ne hais riens tant com le jour,
Amins, ke me depairt de vos.
Quant je me gix dedens mon lit
Et je regairde encoste mi,
Je n'i truis point de mon amin,
Se m'en plaing a fin amerous.
Or ne hais riens tant com le jour,
Amins, ke me depairt de vos.
Biaus dous amis, vos en ireis ;
A deu soit vos cors comandeis
Por Deu vos pri, ne m'oblieis !
Je n'ain nulle rien tant com vos.
Or pri a tous les vrais amans
Ceste chanson voixent chantant
Ens en despit des medixans
Et des mavais maris jalous.
Or ne hais riens tant com le jour,
Amins, ke me depairt de vos.
Departing
I can’t wait for the dawn to break,
Nothing should hate so much,
For it makes me leave,
My friend, whom I love so deeply.
Now I hate nothing as much as the day,
Friends, that takes me away from you.
When I lie down in my bed
And I look beside me,
I find no trace of my friend,
So I complain to my heart, full of sorrow.
Now I hate nothing as much as the day,
Friends, that takes me away from you.
Sweet dear friends, you will leave;
May God command your bodies.
For God's sake, don’t forget me!
I love nothing as much as you.
Now I pray to all true lovers
That this song be sung,
In spite of the meddling fools
And the jealous, wicked husbands.
Now I hate nothing as much as the day,
Friends, that takes me away from you.