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Giraut de Bornelh Quotes

d. 1215 France

Giraut de Bornelh, Guiraut de Bornelh, or Giraut de Borneil (c. 1138–1215) was a Limousin poet and songwriter, considered by many in his own time and in ours to be the most accomplished of the troubadours.

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I could easily make it more obscure, but a song's merit is not complete when all are not partners in it.

For I think that it's just as much good sense, if one can keep to the point, as to twist my words round each other.

Fair friend, in singing I call you:
Sleep no longer, for I hear the bird sing
Who goes seeking day through the wood
And I fear that the jealous one will attack you,
And soon it will be dawn!

Fair, gentle friend, I’ve found so dear a home
I wish that dawn might never come again;
The loveliest lady ever born of woman
Lies in my arms, and I care not a straw
For jealous fool or dawn!

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