Ki divers cunte veut traitier, Diversement deit comencier E… - Marie de France

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Ki divers cunte veut traitier,
Diversement deit comencier
E parler si rainablement
K'il seit pleisibles a la gent.

Marie de France

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About Marie de France

Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England during the late 12th century, most famous as the author of the earliest surviving Breton lais. Her poems were written in Old French.

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Native Name: Marie De France

Alternative Names: Marie of France • Marie • Mary of Normandy

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Geoffrey Chaucer Torquato Tasso Alfred de Musset Ovid Ludovico Ariosto

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Si est del riche orguillus:
Ja del povre n'avra merci
Pur sa pleinte ne pur sun cri;
Mes se cil s'en peüst vengier,
Dunc le verreit l'um suzpleier.

Mes ki ne mustre s'enferté
A peine en peot aver santé:
Amur est plaie dedenz cors,
E si ne piert nïent defors.
Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,
Pur ceo que de nature vient.

Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.

Ki divers cunte veut traitier, Diversement deit comencier E parler si rainablement K'il seit pleisibles a la gent. - Marie de France

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