| 13vNi at si fol · qui ne le voie
Quant Coustantinnoble est perdue
Et la Moree se ravoie
A recevoir teile escorfroie
Dont sainte eglize · est perdue
Quen cors at petit datendue
Quant il at la teste fendue
Se Jhesucriz · ni fait aiue
A la Sainte Terre absolue
Bien li est esloigniee joie
Dautre part viennent li Tartaire
Que hom fera · mais a tart taire
Com navoit cure daleir querre
Diex gart Acre · Jaffes · Cezeire
Autre secors ne lor puis feire
Car je ne sui · mais hom de guerre
Ha Antioche · Sainte Terre
Qui tant coutastes a conquerre
Ainz con vos peust · a nos trere
Qui des cielz cuide ovrir la serre
Conment puet teil doleur sofferre
Cil at Dieu · ciert donc par contrere
Isle de Cret · Cosse · Sezile
Chipre · douce terre · et douce isle
Ou tuit avoient · recovrance
Quant vos seroiz · en autrui pile
Li rois tanra · desa concile
Conment Ayoulz · sen vint en France
Et fera · nueve remenance
A cex qui font · nueve creance
Novel Dieu· et nueve evangile
Et laira semeir · par doutance
Ypocrisie · sa semance
Qui est dame de ceste vile
[S]e le denier · que hon at mis
En celx qua Dieu · ce font amis
Fussent mis · en la Terre Sainte
Ele en eust · mains danemis
Et mains tost ce fust entremis
Cil qui la ja brisie et frainte
Mais trop a tart · en fais la plainte
Quele est ja si forment empainte
Que ces pooirs · nest mais demis
De legier · sera mais atainte
Quant sa lumiere est ja estainte
Et sa cire devient remis·
De la Terre Dieu · qui empire
Sire Diex · que porront or dire
Li rois et li cuens de Poitiers
Diex resueffre · novel martyre
Or faissent large cemetyre
Cil dAcre · quil lor est mestiers·
Touz est plains derbe · li santiers·
Com suet batre si volentiers
Por offrir sarme · en leu de cyre
Et Diex na mais · nuns cuers entiers ·
Ne la terre na nuns rentiers ·
Ansois se torne · a desconfire
Jherusalem · ahi · hai ·
Com ta blecie · et esbahi
Vainne gloire · qui toz maux brace
Et cil qui ceront envaÿ
Si cherront lai · ou cil chaÿ ·
Qui par orguel · perdi sa grace
Or dou foir la mors les chace
Qui lor fera · de pie eschace
Tart crieront · trahi trahi·
Quele at ja entesei sa mace
Ne jusquau ferir ne menace
Lors harra Diex qui le haÿ ·
TranslationThere is no one so foolish that he does not see it,
since Constantinople was lost,
and the Morea is on its way
to a similar onslaught;
the holy Church is undermined
because one can have little hope in the body
when the head has been cleaved in two.
[I do not know what more I might say to you]
If Jesus Christ does not grant aid
to the blessed Holy Land,
all joy is truly gone from there.
The Tartars are coming from the other side;
it will be too late to silence them now,
for no one did enough to seek them out.
May God preserve Acre, Jaffa, and Caesarea.
I cannot offer them any more help,
since I am not a man of war.
Oh! Antioch, oh! Holy Land,
You, who cost so much to conqueror
before we could make you our own.
How can he who thinks he can open the gates of heaven,
tolerate such suffering?
If that man were to reach God, then all would be turned on its head.
Isle of Crete, Corsica, and Sicily,
Cyprus—sweet land and sweet isle
where everyone once had safe harbor—
when you find yourself crushed under the domination of another people,
the king will hold a council on our shores
on how Ayoul came to France.
And he will establish new foundations
for those who are creating a new faith,
New God and a New Gospel,
and, through doubt,
will allow Hypocrisy to sow her seed, for
this Lady rules over this city.
If the money that had been given
to those who make themselves out to be friends of God
had instead been sent to the Holy Land,
she would have had fewer enemies
and those who had already broken and shattered her
would have been slower to undertake their task.
But I made my complaint too late
for she is already under such intense attack
that her powers are now but half of what they were.
Now [the Holy Land] will be easily attained,
since her light is already extinguished
and her candle is burning low.
Lord God, what will
the king and the count of Poitiers now be able to say
about the worsening condition of God's land.
God is suffering again a new martyrdom.
It is time for the people of Acre
to break ground on a large cemetery
for they need it now.
The pathway that men once beat so willingly,
offering their soul in lieu of a candle,
is wholly overgrown.
God no longer has a single heart devoted to Him,
nor does anyone pay their dues to the Holy Land
and so She is driven to destruction.
Alas, alas, Jerusalem
how you have been wounded and laid low
by vainglory, which is the sum of all evils.
Those who will be invaded
will fall there, where he fell who
lost his grace due to pride.
Now is the time to flee! Death is chasing them,
and will cause them take to their heels.
Too late they will cry, "betrayed, betrayed"
for she [Death] has already brandished her mace;
she will give no warning before She strikes.
Now, God will despise he who despised Him. | 13vNi at si fol · qui ne le voie
Quant Coustantinnoble est perdue
Et la Moree se ravoie
A recevoir teile escorfroie
Dont sainte eglize · est perdue
Quen cors at petit datendue
Quant il at la teste fendue
Se Jhesucriz · ni fait aiue
A la Sainte Terre absolue
Bien li est esloigniee joie
Dautre part viennent li Tartaire
Que hom fera · mais a tart taire
Com navoit cure daleir querre
Diex gart Acre · Jaffes · Cezeire
Autre secors ne lor puis feire
Car je ne sui · mais hom de guerre
Ha Antioche · Sainte Terre
Qui tant coutastes a conquerre
Ainz con vos peust · a nos trere
Qui des cielz cuide ovrir la serre
Conment puet teil doleur sofferre
Cil at Dieu · ciert donc par contrere
Isle de Cret · Cosse · Sezile
Chipre · douce terre · et douce isle
Ou tuit avoient · recovrance
Quant vos seroiz · en autrui pile
Li rois tanra · desa concile
Conment Ayoulz · sen vint en France
Et fera · nueve remenance
A cex qui font · nueve creance
Novel Dieu· et nueve evangile
Et laira semeir · par doutance
Ypocrisie · sa semance
Qui est dame de ceste vile
[S]e le denier · que hon at mis
En celx qua Dieu · ce font amis
Fussent mis · en la Terre Sainte
Ele en eust · mains danemis
Et mains tost ce fust entremis
Cil qui la ja brisie et frainte
Mais trop a tart · en fais la plainte
Quele est ja si forment empainte
Que ces pooirs · nest mais demis
De legier · sera mais atainte
Quant sa lumiere est ja estainte
Et sa cire devient remis·
De la Terre Dieu · qui empire
Sire Diex · que porront or dire
Li rois et li cuens de Poitiers
Diex resueffre · novel martyre
Or faissent large cemetyre
Cil dAcre · quil lor est mestiers·
Touz est plains derbe · li santiers·
Com suet batre si volentiers
Por offrir sarme · en leu de cyre
Et Diex na mais · nuns cuers entiers ·
Ne la terre na nuns rentiers ·
Ansois se torne · a desconfire
Jherusalem · ahi · hai ·
Com ta blecie · et esbahi
Vainne gloire · qui toz maux brace
Et cil qui ceront envaÿ
Si cherront lai · ou cil chaÿ ·
Qui par orguel · perdi sa grace
Or dou foir la mors les chace
Qui lor fera · de pie eschace
Tart crieront · trahi trahi·
Quele at ja entesei sa mace
Ne jusquau ferir ne menace
Lors harra Diex qui le haÿ ·
TranslationThere is no one so foolish that he does not see it,
since Constantinople was lost,
and the Morea is on its way
to a similar onslaught;
the holy Church is undermined
because one can have little hope in the body
when the head has been cleaved in two.
[I do not know what more I might say to you]
If Jesus Christ does not grant aid
to the blessed Holy Land,
all joy is truly gone from there.
The Tartars are coming from the other side;
it will be too late to silence them now,
for no one did enough to seek them out.
May God preserve Acre, Jaffa, and Caesarea.
I cannot offer them any more help,
since I am not a man of war.
Oh! Antioch, oh! Holy Land,
You, who cost so much to conqueror
before we could make you our own.
How can he who thinks he can open the gates of heaven,
tolerate such suffering?
If that man were to reach God, then all would be turned on its head.
Isle of Crete, Corsica, and Sicily,
Cyprus—sweet land and sweet isle
where everyone once had safe harbor—
when you find yourself crushed under the domination of another people,
the king will hold a council on our shores
on how Ayoul came to France.
And he will establish new foundations
for those who are creating a new faith,
New God and a New Gospel,
and, through doubt,
will allow Hypocrisy to sow her seed, for
this Lady rules over this city.
If the money that had been given
to those who make themselves out to be friends of God
had instead been sent to the Holy Land,
she would have had fewer enemies
and those who had already broken and shattered her
would have been slower to undertake their task.
But I made my complaint too late
for she is already under such intense attack
that her powers are now but half of what they were.
Now [the Holy Land] will be easily attained,
since her light is already extinguished
and her candle is burning low.
Lord God, what will
the king and the count of Poitiers now be able to say
about the worsening condition of God's land.
God is suffering again a new martyrdom.
It is time for the people of Acre
to break ground on a large cemetery
for they need it now.
The pathway that men once beat so willingly,
offering their soul in lieu of a candle,
is wholly overgrown.
God no longer has a single heart devoted to Him,
nor does anyone pay their dues to the Holy Land
and so She is driven to destruction.
Alas, alas, Jerusalem
how you have been wounded and laid low
by vainglory, which is the sum of all evils.
Those who will be invaded
will fall there, where he fell who
lost his grace due to pride.
Now is the time to flee! Death is chasing them,
and will cause them take to their heels.
Too late they will cry, "betrayed, betrayed"
for she [Death] has already brandished her mace;
she will give no warning before She strikes.
Now, God will despise he who despised Him. |
EN