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Anonymous. ""Two or three days ago"." Global Medieval Sourcebook.

Transcription by Mae Velloso-Lyons .

"Depuis Deux ou trois jours enca" | "Two or three days ago"

Source Information

"Depuis Deux ou trois jours enca" | "Two or three days ago"

by Anonymous

Text Source:

Dijon Chansonnier (Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 517) ff.127v-128r (new ff.130v-131r).

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Transcription

Depuis Deux ou trois jours enca Two or three days ago

Depuis Deux ou trois jours enca / Two or three days ago

Sen est alle mon doux ami my sweet love went away

Sans ce quil ait parle a my / without saying anything to me.

helas quy me confortera Alas, who will comfort me?

Ne scay se vuel retournera I don't know whether he wants to return

Mais il ma mise en grant soussi but he has made me very worried

Demander le me conviendra I will have to ask

A ceulx quy sont amis de luy those friends of his about it

Car par ma foi je vous dis because, in faith, I say to you

Quen temps mieulx con cuer ne Lama that my heart never loved him better.

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