Duplum
Je ne puis plus durer sanz vos,
Biau cuers savoreus et dolz,
Se n’avez merci de moi.
Pour vous sui en grant esmai
Et ai este longuement.
A mains jointes humblement
Merci vos proi.
Je vous serf, si com je doi,
Loialment, en bone foi,
Si que, quant je ne vous voi,
Je me muir touz,
Com finz loiaus amoureus;
Et sanz moi
Coument durez vous?

Triplum
Par un matin me levai
Por deduire et pour moy alegier;
Delez Blangi m’en alai
Si trouvai
Seant en un vergier,
Touse chantant de cuer gai
Et legier;
Chapel de Mai
Fesoit et d’esglantier.
Je regardai,
Pres de li m’ajostroi,
Je la saluai
Et li dis bonement:
«Bele au cors gent,
De moi vos faz present.
A vos me rent
Et mon cuer vos otroi.
Faisons que doi
D’un trop bel esbanoi.
Tenez ma foi,
Que ja ne vos faudrai.»
«Foi que vos doi»
Dist, «Sire, non ferai,
Ainz amerai
Qui j’aim de cuer gai.»

Quadruplum
Le premier jor de Mai,
Acordai
Ce quadruble renvoisie,
Car en ce tens sont amanz cointe et liez.
Et je me truis d’amors desconseillie,
Nunques confort n’i trovai;
Et por ce ja ne m’en partirai,
Car j’encontrai
Celui dont dolour ai.
S’ele n’a de moi merci,
Je n’avrai mais nul jour le cuer joli.
Pour ce lui pri
Et salu par ce novel chant ici,
Que ce li plaist a ami,
C’aucun confort prochain aie de li.

Duplum
I cannot continue any longer without you,
fair, delicious and sweet heart,
if you do not have pity upon me.
I am greatly smitten with you
and have been for a long while.
I humbly beseech you for grace
with joined hands.
I serve you, as I ought,
loyally and in good faith,
so that, when I do not see you
I die,
like a loyal and courtly lover;
and how do you continue
without me?

Triplum
One morning I rose up
to delight and enjoy myself.
I went by Blangi
and in a garden
I found a lass
sitting and singing
with a gay, untroubled heart;
she was making a May garland
from wild roses.
I studied her
and came near to her,
greeted her
and said in a courteous fashion:
‘Fair one,
I abandon myself to you;
I give myself entirely to you
and grant you my heart.
Let us regale ourselves
with a very sweet diversion.
Believe me,
I will never betray you.’
‘By my faith, sir’, she said,
‘I will not do it,
but I will love him
whom I love with a joyous heart.’

Quadruplum
On the first day of May
I have devised this joyful quadruplum,
for this is the season when lovers
are elegant and happy.
And yet I find myself bewildered by love,
finding no comfort in it. I will never
abandon it for that, however, because I
have met her from whom my pain comes.
If she does not have mercy upon me
I will never again have a glad heart.
Therefore I beseech her, greeting
her with this new song, that if it
pleases her to have a love, she has one,
for I have no solace at hand
for the pain she brings me.