You have me more fully in your power than the Old Man his Assassins, who go to kill his mortal enemies, even if they were beyond France.

Car mieills m'avetz ses doptanssa,
Qe·l Vieills l'Asasina gen,
Qu'il vant, neis s'eron part Franssa,
Tant li son obedien,
Aucir sos gerriers mortals.

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Pos descobrir ni retraire, ll. 28–32. Edited by Pillet-Carstens, in Pakscher and De Lollis, Studj di filologia romanza, vol. 3 (Rome: Ermanno Loescher & Co, 1891) p. 426 (no. 391; cf. no. 397). Translated by Frank M. Chambers, "The Troubadours and the Assassins", Modern Language Notes, vol. 64, no. 4 (1949) p. 245

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