Guillaume de Machaut: Douce dame jolie from The Mirror of Narcissus, Hyperion CDA66087, #12 (2:45)

Performed by Margaret Philpot

(An example of styled text in a table to create columns side by side. Note italics, accent marks, curled apostrophe. A link could easily be inserted here to display an audio file player so you could control the music from the same page the students are looking at.

With the right hardware and software (like the QuickTime plugin), you could also display an animation or video clip within a frame like this. Unfortunately, we are not able to demonstrate this feature here.)

Refrain:
Douce dame jolie,
Pour Dieu ne pensés mie
Que nulle ait signourie
Suer moy, fors vous seuelement
Qu’adès sans tricherie
Chierie
Vous ay, et humblement
Tous les jours de ma vie
Servie
Sans vilein pensement.

Sweet, fair lady,
for God’s sake do not think
that any woman rules
me, except you only.
For I have always cherished you
without deception,
and humbly
served you
all the days of my life
without any vile thoughts.

Translation by Paul Brians