Livre de Leesse

« Le Livre de leesse ».
Source: gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Français 2243, fol. 53r.

Je forgeray toute ma vie
Pour plaire a ma dame leesce
Et en soustenant sa partie
Blasmeray courroux et tristesse
Des dames et de leur hautesse
Diray bons motz clers et luisans
Pour confondre les mesdisants
Car es femmes quoy quon en die
Est valeur sens loz et noblesse
Certez qui vien y estudie
Tout honneur bonte et largesse
Vient delles et de leur prouesce.

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The Book of Happiness
My whole life will I forge,
In order to please my lady, Happiness;
And by supporting her cause
Will I blame Anger and Sadness.
Of ladies and of their greatness
I shall say clear and shining words
In order to confound the ill speakers;
For in women, in spite of what other may say
Is found Valor, Good Sense, Praise, and Nobility.
Indeed, any to who take up the study,
All Honor, Goodness, and Generosity
Come from them and their Greatness.