Virelai

The virelai is a Poème with fixed form, with a variable number of Strophe S to two Rime S. One of its Towards is used as Refrain and reappears at the end of each stanza or sometimes according to a more complex ordinance. The meter S of a virelai can be identical or varied.

The word virelai comes from lay and to transfer in the direction to turn , which evokes at the same time the dance and the refrain, this last which can be begun again in chorus. The first virelais date from the end of the 13th century and the kind was especially popular at 14th and the 15th centuries. Among the authors of virelais, one of most important is Guillaume de Machaut, which wrote 39 under the name of trotted songs of them .

As I sui put at the return to veoir my Lady,

It is not sorrow dolour which I have, by me heart.

Dieus! it is drois which I it aim, without blame of loial love

Its biauté, its grant doucour of in love flame,

By remembering, night and day espient me and ignites

Dieus! it is drois which I it aim, without blame of loial love

And as its high valour my end cuer starts,

Servir the weil without fotour to think does not defame.

Dieus! it is drois which I it aim, without blame of loial love

I sing by cover,

But better cried my œils,

Nor no one does not know work

That my poor heart endures.

For this million EUA my pain,

That in no one I do not see pity.

Plus with one causes tear,

Less finds one friendship.

For this complaint nor murmur

do not make my piteous mourning.

Ainçois laugh when to cry veuil,

And without rhyme and measurement

I sing by cover.

Petit carries value

oneself to show déhaitié,

hold it only with folor

Those which have the haitié heart.

If do not have to show cure

the intention of my veuil,

Ains, all thus like I threshold,

to conceal my obscure sorrow,

I sing by cover.