I will compose a verse about nothing at all: it will not be about me nor about anyone else, nor will it be about love, nor about youth, nor about anything else, rather it was composed whilst I was sleeping on a horse.

Farai un vers de dreit nien:
non er de mi ni d’autra gen,
non er d’amor ni de joven,
ni de ren au,
qu’enans fo trobatz en durmen
sus un chevau.

Original text (French)

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Variants

"dreyt" for "dreit"; "sobre" for "sus un"

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