Paroles et traduction Estampie - Bele Ysabiauz

Bele Ysabiauz

Bele Ysabiauz, pucele bien aprise,
Ama Gerart et il li en tel guise.
C'ainc de folour par lui ne fu requise,
Ainz l'ama de si bonne amour
Que mieuz de li guarda s'ounour.
Ed joie atent Gerars.
"Amis Gerart, n'aiez ja couvoitise
De ce voloir dont ainc ne fui requise!
Puis que je ai seigneur qui m'aimme et prise,
Nien doi estre de tal valour
Que je ne doi penser folour."
Et joie atent Gerars.
"Amis Gerars, faites ma commandise:
Ralez vous ent, si feroiz grant franchise.
Morte m'avriez, s'od vous estoje prise.
Maiz metez vous tost u retour!
Je vous conmant au creatour."
Et joie atent Gerars.
"Dame, l'amour qu'alleurs avez assise
Dëusse avoir par loiautè conquise;
Mais pluz vous truis dure que pierre bise.
S'en ai au cuer si grant dolour
Qu'a biau samblant souspir et plour."
Et joie atent Gerars.
"Dame, pour Dieu", fait Gerars sanz faintise,
"Aiez de moi pitié par vo franchise!
La vostre amour me destraint et atise,
Et pour vous sui en tel errour
Que nus ne puet estre en greignour."
Et joie atent Gerars.
Vestue fu la dame par cointise:
Mourt ert bele, graile et grasse et alise;
Le vis avoit vermeill come cerise.
"Dame", dit il, "que trés bon jour
Vous doint cil qui j'aim et atour!"
Et joise atent Gerars.
"Dame, pour Deu", fait Gerars sanz faintise,
"Do'outremer ai pour vous la voie emprise."
La dame l'ot: mieus vousist estre ocise.
Si s'entrebaisent par doucour
Qu'andui chëirent en l'erbour.
Er joie atent Gerars.
Ses maris voit la folour entreprise;
Pour voir cuide, da dame morte gise
Lés sind ami; tant se het es desprise
Qu'il pert sa force et sa vigour
Et muert de duel en tel errour.
Et joie atent Gerars.
De pasmoison lievent par tel devise
Que il font faire au mort tout son service.
Lie deus remaint; Gerars par sainte eglise
A fait de sa dame s'oissour.
Ce tesmoignent li ancissour.
Or a joie Gerars

Bele Ysabiauz

Beautiful Ysabiauz, a well-mannered maiden,
Gerart loves her and he is such to her.
She is not pursued by him for his folly,
Instead he loves her with such good love
That he guards her honor better than his.
And Gerars awaits joy.
"Friend Gerart, do not be greedy
With this desire, when I have never been asked!
Since I have a lord who loves and cherishes me,
I should not be of such worth
That I could not think of folly."
And Gerars awaits joy.
"Friend Gerars, do my bidding:
Go back, and you will do great honor.
You would have killed me, if I had been caught with you.
But put yourself quickly on the return!
I commend you to the creator."
And Gerars awaits joy.
"Lady, the love that you have placed elsewhere
Should have been conquered by loyalty;
But I find you harder than blue stone.
This gives me such great pain in my heart
That with a fair face I sigh and cry."
And Gerars awaits joy.
"Lady, for God's sake", Gerars says without pretense,
"Have pity on me by your mercy!
Your love constrains and excites me,
And because of you I am in such error
That no one can be in greater."
And Gerars awaits joy.
The lady was dressed with elegance:
She was very beautiful, slender, plump, and lively;
Her face was as red as a cherry.
"Lady", he said, "may he who I love and adore
Give you a very good day!"
And Gerars awaits joy.
"Lady, for God's sake", Gerars says without pretense,
"I have undertaken the journey overseas for you."
The lady heard him: she would rather have been killed.
So they kiss each other with such sweetness
That they both fell into the arbor.
Now Gerars awaits joy.
Her husband sees the foolish enterprise;
He truly believes that the lady is lying dead
Beside his friend; he is so overwhelmed with grief
That he loses his strength and vigor
And dies of grief in such error.
And Gerars awaits joy.
By such arrangement they rise from their swoon
And perform all the funeral rites for the dead man.
They remain happy together; Gerars, through the holy church
Has made his lady his wife.
This is witnessed by the ancestors.
Now Gerars has joy