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Bel dous companh, tan sui en ric sojorn
Qu'eu no volgra mais fos l'alba ni jorn,
Car la gensor que anc nasques de maire
Tenc et abras, per qu'eu non prezi gaire
Lo fol gilos ni l'alba.
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Fair, gentle friend, I’ve found so dear a home I wish that dawn might never come again; The loveliest lady ever born of woman Lies in my arms, and I care not a straw For jealous fool or dawn!
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"Reis glorios", line 31; translation from Peter Dronke The Medieval Lyric (1996) p. 176.

 

Giraut de Bornelh

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Bel companho, en chantan vos apel!
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Et ai paor que.l gilos vos assatge
Et ades sera l'alba.

 

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There is a reason why I came back to this place—came back here instead of to Canelli, Barbaresco or Alba. It is almost certain that I was not born here; where I was born I don't know. There is not a house or a bit of ground or a handful of dust hereabouts of which I can say: "This was me before I was born."

 

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Chantars no pot gaire valer,
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Ni chans no pot dal cor mover,
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