Gilles Binchois - Amours Mercy | Ensemble Gilles Binchois | Chanson bourguignonne

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Amours merchi de trestout non poir
tant que je puis quant il m'a fait choisir.
Tres douchement, et tout a mon voloir
Agatie m'a un tres riche plaisir.
Cescune fois que j'en ay souvenir
Le cuer de moy devient tout joieux,
Prendre ne puis nul espoir doloreux
Si richement t'ay choisi a mon gré
Et par amours que le m'a commandé.

Et puis quamours veult mon cuer esmouvoir
Destre loyal et de bien obeir
Cele par qui tant de biens puit avoir
Quant par raison il me doit bien souffir
Comment donc pouraige defallir
Que dobeir ne scuisse bien songneux
De plus doulche ne puis estre amoureux
Que de celuy qui ne sui donne
Et par amours qui le comande

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Translation:
Love, I thank you with all my heart,
as much as I can, since you let me choose.
So gently, and entirely according to my desire,
you gave me a most precious delight.
Each time I remember it,
my heart becomes full of joy.
I cannot hold onto any sorrowful thought,
for I have so richly chosen you as I wished,
and through love, as it commanded me.

And since love desires to move my heart,
to be loyal and to obey well,
to the one through whom I can gain so much good,
then by reason I must follow her well.
How, then, could I fail,
if I know how to obey diligently and well?
I cannot be in love with anyone sweeter
than the one to whom I have given myself,
and through the love that commands it.