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Tel cinc cent parolent d'amur,
N'en sevent pas le pior tur,
Ne que est loiax druerie.
--
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
--
"Graelent", line 77; p. 149.

 

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Se l'uns des amans est loiax,
E li autre est jalox ? faus,
Si est amors entr'ex fausée,
Ne puet avoir lunge durée.
Amors n'a soing de compagnun,
Boin amors n'est se de Dex nun,
De cors en cors, de cuer en cuer,
Autrement n'est prex ? nul fuer.
Tulles qui parla d'amistié,
Dist assés bien en son ditié,
Que vent amis, ce veut l'amie
Dunt est boine la compaignie,
S'ele le veut ? il l'otreit.
Dunt la druerie est ? dreit,
Puisque li uns l'autre desdit,
N'i a d'amors fors c'un despit;
Assés puet-um amors trover,
Mais sens estuet al' bien garder,
Douçour ? francise ? mesure.

 

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Amur n'est pruz se n'est egals.

 

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