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Guillaume de Machaut - Amours me fait désirer
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016446
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Guillaume de Machaut: Amours me fait désirer
Or think Or imagine at all
That the sweet lovely face
That strikes the spark of love within me
Might give me joy.
If love does not do his work So well
That I might have her without asking.
I have such hardship to endure
That I can scarcely Live much longer.
For in my heart I wish to hide
And bear This love secretly.
Without asking for relief.
For in torment I would rather end my life.
And so I have no thought Indeed
That I might have her without asking.
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But desire inflames
And redoubles
This love so fiercely
That it makes me forget everything for it.
Nor do I have Any thought but for her alone;
And therefore lovingly.
Humbly.
I languish without tasting joy.
And I will die of it, unless soon
She agrees That I might have her without asking.