17 Veuillies hoster de che dangier

Anonymous, Oxford Can. Misc. 213

Veuillies hoster de che dangier
Vostre servant quy pour prier
Joir ne peult de sa demande,
Si scaves bien qu’il ne demande
Se non sans plus ung doulx baisier.

Onques ne vous vault changier.
Certes, belle, ne vous laissier
A amer pour sa paine grande:
Veuillies hoster de che dangier…

Merchy ne fait que supplier
Amours le promis de l’aydier,
Riens ne fait ne bien ne demande,
Je tiens toutes fois qu’en commande,
En vous est tout son cuer entier.
Veuillies hoster de che dangier…

 

 

Please remove from this Danger
Your servant, who, though he asks,
Cannot rejoice at his request
Since you know well that he does not request
More than a sweet kiss.

Never must you change.
Certainly, beautiful one, do not let yourself
Be moved to love by his great pain.
Please remove from this danger…

Mercy can only beg of Love
The promise of aiding him,
[Though] nothing good comes of the request
I hold nevertheless that it should be commanded.
In you is his whole entire heart.
Please remove from this danger…