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.
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)
Variants
"dreyt" for "dreit"; "sobre" for "sus un"