La belle se siet au piet de la tour

La belle se siet           au piet de la tour,
Qui pleure et souspire     et mainne grant doulour.
Son pere lui demande:      «Fille qu'avez vous?
Volez vous mari,           ou volez vous seignour?»
«Je ne veul mari,          je ne veul seignour;
Je veul le mien ami,       qui pourist en la tour.»
«Et par Dieu, belle fille, a celui faudrés vous,
Car il sara pendu          demain au point du jour.»
«Et pere, s'on le pent,    enfouyés moy desous,
Si diront les gens:        vecy loyaus amours.»

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

by Guillaume Dufay (c1400-1474) , "La belle se siet au piet de la tour"

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