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Bernart de Ventadorn

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D'aisso's fa be femna parer
Ma domna, per qu'eˇlh o retrai,
Car no vol so c'om deu voler,
E so c'om li deveda, fai.
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This is how she shows herself a woman indeed, My lady, and I reproach her for it: She does not want what one ought to want, And what she is forbidden to do, she does.
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"Can vei la lauzeta mover", line 33; translation by Frederick Goldin, from Boris Ford (ed.) Medieval Literature: The European Inheritance (1983) p. 440.

 
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