Original Text (Old French)<\/b><\/p>\n
Entent un poi a ma proiere.<\/span><\/p>\n Ja t’ai je tant tenue chiere ! “<\/span><\/p>\n Quant out o\u00ef parler sa drue,<\/span><\/p>\n Sout que s’estoit aperce\u00fce :<\/span><\/p>\n Deu en rent graces et merci.<\/span><\/p>\n Or set que bien istront de ci.<\/span><\/p>\n “Ahi ! Yseut, fille de roi,<\/span><\/p>\n Franche, cortoise, en bone foi,<\/span><\/p>\n Par plusors fois vos ai mandee,<\/span><\/p>\n Puis que chambre me fut veee,<\/span><\/p>\n Ne puis ne poi a vos parler.<\/span><\/p>\n Dame, or vos vuel merci crier,<\/span><\/p>\n Qu’il vos membre de cel chaitif<\/span><\/p>\n Qui a traval et a duel vif,<\/span><\/p>\n Quar j’ai tel duel c’onques le roi<\/span><\/p>\n Out mal pens\u00e9 de vos vers moi<\/span><\/p>\n Qu’il n’i a el fors que je muere…<\/span><\/p>\n … Qu’il n’en cre\u00fcst pas losangier<\/span><\/p>\n Moi desor lui a esloignier.<\/span><\/p>\n Li fel covert Corneualeis<\/span><\/p>\n Or en sont li\u00e9 et font gabois.<\/span><\/p>\n Or voi je bien, si con je quit,<\/span><\/p>\n Qu’il ne voudroient qu\u00eb o lui<\/span><\/p>\n E\u00fcst home de son linage.<\/span><\/p>\n Mot m’a pen\u00e9 son mariage.<\/span><\/p>\n Dex ! porquoi est li rois si fol ?<\/span><\/p>\n Ainz me lairoie par le col<\/span><\/p>\n Pendre a un arbre qu’en ma vie<\/span><\/p>\n O vos pre\u00efsse druerie.<\/span><\/p>\n Il ne me lait sol escondire.<\/span><\/p>\n Por ses felons vers moi s’a\u00efre.<\/span><\/p>\n Trop par fait mal qu’il les en croit.<\/span><\/p>\n Dece\u00fc l’ont, gote ne voit.<\/span><\/p>\n Mot les vi ja taisant et muz,<\/span><\/p>\n Qant li Morholt fu \u00e7a venuz<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Modern French Translation<\/b><\/p>\n Ecoutez ma pri\u00e8re.<\/span><\/p>\n Vous savez comme je vous ch\u00e9ris ! <\/span><\/p>\n ” Tristan, aux paroles d’Yseut, <\/span><\/p>\n a compris qu’elle a devin\u00e9 la pr\u00e9sence du roi. <\/span><\/p>\n Il rend gr\u00e2ces \u00e0 Dieu.<\/span><\/p>\n Il est s\u00fbr qu’ils sortiront de ce mauvais pas. <\/span><\/p>\n “Ah ! Yseut, fille de roi, <\/span><\/p>\n noble et courtoise reine, <\/span><\/p>\n c’est en toute bonne foi que <\/span><\/p>\n je vous ai mand\u00e9e \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, <\/span><\/p>\n apr\u00e8s que l’on m’eut interdit votre chambre, <\/span><\/p>\n et depuis je n’ai pu vous parler. Ma dame, <\/span><\/p>\n j’implore votre piti\u00e9 : souvenez\u2212<\/span><\/p>\n vous de ce malheureux qui souffre mille morts, <\/span><\/p>\n car le fait que le roi me soup\u00e7onne <\/span><\/p>\n d’\u00eatre votre amant me d\u00e9sesp\u00e8re, <\/span><\/p>\n et je n’ai plus qu’\u00e0 mourir… <\/span><\/p>\n [Que ne fut\u2212il assez avis\u00e9] <\/span><\/p>\n pour ne pas croire les d\u00e9lateurs <\/span><\/p>\n et ne pas m’exiler loin de lui ! <\/span><\/p>\n Les f\u00e9lons de Cornouaille <\/span><\/p>\n en \u00e9prouvent une vile joie et s’en gaussent. <\/span><\/p>\n Mais moi, je vois bien leur jeu :<\/span><\/p>\n ils ne veulent pas qu’il garde \u00e0 ses c\u00f4t\u00e9s<\/span><\/p>\n quelqu’un de son lignage. <\/span><\/p>\n Son mariage a caus\u00e9 ma perte. <\/span><\/p>\n Dieu, pourquoi le roi est\u2212il si insens\u00e9 ?<\/span><\/p>\n J’aimerais mieux \u00eatre pendu par le col<\/span><\/p>\n \u00e0 un arbre plut\u00f4t que d’\u00eatre votre amant. <\/span><\/p>\n Mais il ne me laisse m\u00eame pas me justifier. <\/span><\/p>\n Les tra\u00eetres qui l’entourent excitent contre moi sa col\u00e8re, <\/span><\/p>\n et il a bien tort de les croire. <\/span><\/p>\n Ils l’ont tromp\u00e9, et lui n’y voit goutte. <\/span><\/p>\n Ils n’osaient pas ouvrir la bouche, <\/span><\/p>\n quand le Morholt vint ici<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n English Translation<\/b><\/p>\n \u2018For God\u2019s sake, my lady! <\/span><\/p>\n I asked you to come, <\/span><\/p>\n and now that you are here <\/span><\/p>\n I beg you to listen to what I have to say.<\/span><\/p>\n I have always held you so dear.\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n When he had heard his beloved speaking <\/span><\/p>\n he knew that she had seen Mark.<\/span><\/p>\n He thanked God for this, <\/span><\/p>\n now that he was sure everything would go well.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018Ah, Yseut, you are a noble, honourable and loyal daughter of a king! <\/span><\/p>\n Several times I have asked to see you since your room was forbidden to me <\/span><\/p>\n and I could not speak to you. <\/span><\/p>\n My lady, I want to beg your mercy on this poor wretch <\/span><\/p>\n living in sorrow and hardship.<\/span><\/p>\n That the king should ever think ill of me on your account <\/span><\/p>\n grieves me so much that I think I shall die.<\/span><\/p>\n It is hard for me [to bear these thoughts. <\/span><\/p>\n He is doing me a great injustice. <\/span><\/p>\n Alas, if only he knew my mind, <\/span><\/p>\n he would know the truth straight away <\/span><\/p>\n and] he would not believe these slanderers and send me away. <\/span><\/p>\n The wicked, sly Cornishmen are very pleased with this <\/span><\/p>\n and they are laughing over it. <\/span><\/p>\n It looks to me now as though <\/span><\/p>\n they wanted Mark to have no one of his own lineage around him.<\/span><\/p>\n His marriage has done me much harm. <\/span><\/p>\n God, why is the king so foolish? <\/span><\/p>\n would let him hang me before I became your lover. <\/span><\/p>\n He will not even let me clear myself. <\/span><\/p>\n He is angry with me because of his evil counsellors; <\/span><\/p>\n he is very wrong to believe them, <\/span><\/p>\n he does not realize how they have deceived him. <\/span><\/p>\n I can remember one occasion when they kept very quiet: <\/span><\/p>\n it was when Morholt came here,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Original Text (Old French) Entent un poi a ma proiere. Ja t’ai je tant tenue chiere ! “ Quant out o\u00ef parler sa drue, Sout que s’estoit aperce\u00fce : Deu en rent graces et merci. Or set que bien istront de ci. “Ahi ! 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