9v La Complainte d'outremeir

Quasseiz aureiz ⋅ dun poi de toile
Se les pances ne sont trop graces
Et que feront les armes lasses
Elz iront lai ou dire noze
Diex iert juges de ceste choze
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Hai grant clerc grant provendier
Qui tant estes grant vivendier
Qui faites Dieu de votre pance
Dites moi par queil acointance
Vos partireiz au Dieu roiaume
Qui ne voleiz pas dire .I. siaume
Dou sautier tant estes divers
Fors celui ou na que ii vers
Celui dites apres mangier
Diex wet que vos laleiz vengier
Sanz controuveir nule autre essoinne
Ou vos laissiez le patrimoinne
Qui est dou sanc au crecefi
Mal le teneiz jou vos afi
Se vos serveiz Dieu a lesglise
Dieux vos resert en autre guise
Quil vos paist en votre maison
Cest quite a quite par raison
Mais ce vos ameiz le repaire
Qui sanz fin est por joie faire
Achateiz le car Diex le vent
Car il at mestier par couvent
Dacheteours et cil sengignent
Qui orendroit ne le bargignent
Car teil fois le vorront avoir
Com ne laurat pas por avoir

Tornoieur et vos que dirois
Qui au jor dou juise irois
Devant Dieu que porroiz respondre
Car lors ne se porront reponrre
Ne genz clergies ne gens laies
Et Dieux vous monterra ces plaies
Ce il vos demande la terre
Ou por vos vout la mort soffere
Que direiz vos je ne sai quoi
Li plus hardi seront si quoi
Com les porroit panrre a la main
Et nos navons ⋅ point de demain
Car li termes vient et aprouche
Que la mors nos clourat la bouche

Ha Antioche ⋅ terre sainte
Con ci at delireuze plainte
Quant tu nas mais ⋅ nuns Godefrois
Li feux de charitei est frois
En chacun cuer de crestiien
Ne jone home ne ancien
Nont por Dieu cure de combatre
Asseiz se porroit ja debatre
Et Jacobins et Cordeliers
Quil trovassent ⋅ nuns Angeliers
Nuns tangreiz ⋅ ne nuns Bauduÿns
Ansois lairont aux Beduÿns
Maintenir la terre absolue
Qui par defaut nos est tolue
Et Dieux lat ja dune part arse
Dautre part vienent cil de Tarse
Et Coramin et Chenillier
Revanrront por tot escillier
Ja ne serat qui la deffande
Ce mes sires Joffrois demande
Secours si quiere qui li fasse
Car je ni voi nulle autre trasce ⋅
Car com plus en sarmoneroie
Et plus lafaire empireroie
Cilz siecles faut qui bien fera

soon you will need nothing more than a small burial cloth
unless your stomachs have grown too fat.
And what will these wretched souls do?
They will go to the place I dare not mention.
God will be the judge of this affair.
So, great clerics, great prebenders—
you who are living large,
you who make a God of your fat bellies—
tell me by what means
you will take part in the Kingdom of God.
You who do not wish to recite a single psalm
in the psalter—so contrary are you —
outside of the one that has but 2 verses,
the one you say after dinner,
God wants you to go and avenge him
without concocting any more excuses.
Or, you should renounce the patrimony
that comes from the blood of the crucified one.
You are maintaining it poorly, I assure you.
If you serve God in the church
God serves you in other ways,
since he nourishes you in your house.
Logically, everything is even.
But if you love this abode
which is made for joy without end,
buy it! Because God is selling it.
For He needs committed
buyers, and those who do not make a deal right away
cheat themselves, for a time will come when they wish to have it,
and they will not be able to obtain it at any cost.
And you, tourneyers, what will you say
when you go the day of judgement?
Before God, how will you be able to respond?
For then, neither clergy nor laity
will be able to hide.
And God will show you his wounds.
If he asks you about the land
where he wished to suffer death on your behalf,
what will you say? I don't know.
The bravest among them will be so meek
that you could catch them with your bare hand.
And there will be no tomorrow,
because the end draws near
when death will close our mouths.
Alas, Antioch, Holy Land,
oh you have such a painful lament
since you have no more Godfrey.
The fire of devotion has gone cold
in each Christian heart;
no man, neither young nor old,
cares to fight for God.
Dominicans and Franciscans alike
could go to great lengths
and not find a single Angeliers,^{*a peer of charlemagne at the battle of Ronceveau cf. Galvez}
nor a Tancred nor a Baldwin.^{1add notes on these guys. see "Galvez subject of crusade."}
They would sooner leave the Bedouins
in charge of the Holy Land,
which was taken from us due to our neglect.
God has already seen it burned on one side,
and from the other, those from Tarsus,
the Khwarazmians and the Chananians,
will return to destroy everything.
Then there will be no one there to defend it.
If my lord Geoffrey is asking
for aid, let him seek someone who will render it,
for I do not see any other course.
For, the more I might sermonize,
the worse the situation would become.
This world is failing: he who will do good now
will then reap it after death.

Quasseiz aureiz ⋅ dun poi de toile
Se les pances ne sont trop graces
Et que feront les armes lasses
Elz iront lai ou dire noze
Diex iert juges de ceste choze
4 LINES IN OTHERS NOT HERE

Hai grant clerc grant provendier
Qui tant estes grant vivendier
Qui faites Dieu de votre pance
Dites moi par queil acointance
Vos partireiz au Dieu roiaume
Qui ne voleiz pas dire .I. siaume
Dou sautier tant estes divers
Fors celui ou na que ii vers
Celui dites apres mangier
Diex wet que vos laleiz vengier
Sanz controuveir nule autre essoinne
Ou vos laissiez le patrimoinne
Qui est dou sanc au crecefi
Mal le teneiz jou vos afi
Se vos serveiz Dieu a lesglise
Dieux vos resert en autre guise
Quil vos paist en votre maison
Cest quite a quite par raison
Mais ce vos ameiz le repaire
Qui sanz fin est por joie faire
Achateiz le car Diex le vent
Car il at mestier par couvent
Dacheteours et cil sengignent
Qui orendroit ne le bargignent
Car teil fois le vorront avoir
Com ne laurat pas por avoir

Tornoieur et vos que dirois
Qui au jor dou juise irois
Devant Dieu que porroiz respondre
Car lors ne se porront reponrre
Ne genz clergies ne gens laies
Et Dieux vous monterra ces plaies
Ce il vos demande la terre
Ou por vos vout la mort soffere
Que direiz vos je ne sai quoi
Li plus hardi seront si quoi
Com les porroit panrre a la main
Et nos navons ⋅ point de demain
Car li termes vient et aprouche
Que la mors nos clourat la bouche

Ha antioche ⋅ terre sainte
Con ci at delireuze plainte
Quant tu nas mais ⋅ nuns godefrois
Li feux de charitei est frois
En chacun cuer de crestiien
Ne jone home ne ancien
Nont por Dieu cure de combatre
Asseiz se porroit ja debatre
Et jacobins et cordeliers
Quil trovassent ⋅ nuns angeliers
Nuns tangreiz ⋅ ne nuns bauduÿns
Ansois lairont aux beduÿns
Maintenir la terre absolue
Qui par defaut nos est tolue
Et Dieux lat ja dune part arse
Dautre part vienent cil de tarse
Et coramin et chenillier
Revanrront por tot escillier
Ja ne serat qui la deffande
Ce mes sires joffrois demande
Secours si quiere qui li fasse
Car je ni voi nulle autre trasce ⋅
Car com plus en sarmoneroie
Et plus lafaire empireroie
Cils siecles faut : qui bien fera

soon you will need nothing more than a small burial cloth
unless your stomachs have grown too fat.
And what will these wretched souls do?
They will go to the place I dare not mention.
God will be the judge of this affair.
So, great clerics, great prebenders—
you who are living large,
you who make a God of your fat bellies—
tell me by what means
you will take part in the Kingdom of God.
You who do not wish to recite a single psalm
in the psalter—so contrary are you —
outside of the one that has but 2 verses,
the one you say after dinner,
God wants you to go and avenge him
without concocting any more excuses.
Or, you should renounce the patrimony
that comes from the blood of the crucified one.
You are maintaining it poorly, I assure you.
If you serve God in the church
God serves you in other ways,
since he nourishes you in your house.
Logically, everything is even.
But if you love this abode
which is made for joy without end,
buy it! Because God is selling it.
For He needs committed
buyers, and those who do not make a deal right away
cheat themselves, for a time will come when they wish to have it,
and they will not be able to obtain it at any cost.
And you, tourneyers, what will you say
when you go the day of judgement?
Before God, how will you be able to respond?
For then, neither clergy nor laity
will be able to hide.
And God will show you his wounds.
If he asks you about the land
where he wished to suffer death on your behalf,
what will you say? I don't know.
The bravest among them will be so meek
that you could catch them with your bare hand.
And there will be no tomorrow,
because the end draws near
when death will close our mouths.
Alas, Antioch, Holy Land,
oh you have such a painful lament
since you have no more Godfrey.
The fire of devotion has gone cold
in each Christian heart;
no man, neither young nor old,
cares to fight for God.
Dominicans and Franciscans alike
could go to great lengths
and not find a single Angeliers,^{*a peer of charlemagne at the battle of Ronceveau cf. Galvez}
nor a Tancred nor a Baldwin.^{1add notes on these guys. see "Galvez subject of crusade."}
They would sooner leave the Bedouins
in charge of the Holy Land,
which was taken from us due to our neglect.
God has already seen it burned on one side,
and from the other, those from Tarsus,
the Khwarazmians and the Chananians,
will return to destroy everything.
Then there will be no one there to defend it.
If my lord Geoffrey is asking
for aid, let him seek someone who will render it,
for I do not see any other course.
For, the more I might sermonize,
the worse the situation would become.
This world is failing: he who will do good now
will then reap it after death.