It's quite unfair | It's quite unfair of you to change

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

A bien grant tort

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG

A bien grant tort vous mauez en hayne
Moy quay prins par tousiours la peine
A vous servir et complaire 
Dont ne me puis assez fort contenter
Quelle raison a ce faire vous maine.

Modern French version:

C'est bien injustement que vous changez votre
moi qui ai toujours eu le souci amour en haine,
de vous servir et de vous être agréable,
ce dont je ne puis me lasser.
Quelle raison vous pousse à faire ainsi?

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Nicolas Gombert (c1495 - c1560), "A bien grant tort" [
text verified 1 time
]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "It's quite unfair", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 5
Word count: 34

It's quite unfair

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

It's quite unfair of you to change
your love to hate when I've always tried
to serve you and to make myself agreeable to you. 
I have never grown tired.
What makes you act this way?

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Based on:

a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2004-06-27
Line count: 5
Word count: 36