Example
"Douce Dame Jolie" by Guillaume de Machaut
- Douce dame jolie,
- Pour dieu ne pensés mie
- Que nulle ait signorie
- Seur moy fors vous seulement.
- Qu'adès sans tricherie
- Chierie
- Vous ay et humblement
- Tous les jours de ma vie
- Servie
- Sans villain pensement.
- Helas! et je mendie
- D'esperance et d'aïe;
- Dont ma joie est fenie,
- Se pité ne vous en prent.
- Douce dame jolie,
- Pour dieu ne pensés mie
- Que nulle ait signorie
- Seur moy fors vous seulement.
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