12 Pour tant se jay le barbe grise

Anonymous, Oxford Can. Misc. 213
Pour tant se jay le barbe grise, Prenes engre, ma douche dame. Se poise moy, car par mon ame, C’est de tristresse ma devise. Combien que n’a dechi aprize Plus ardans amoureuse flame. Pourtant se j’ay la barbe… Veullis vers moy estre promisse, Courtoyse, plus douche que basme, Et ne veullies tenir a blasme Ce d’Amours je vous ay requise. Pourtant se j’ay la barbe…	Although I may have a grey beard, Take me willingly my sweet lady. It weighs heavily on me, because by my soul, My motto is sadness. Altogether, I have never been taken With a more ardent, loving flame. Although I may have a grey beard… May it please you to be promised to me, Courteous, more sweet than balm, And do not hold to blame that which I have requested from you of Love. Although I may have a grey beard…