Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mediaeval Baebes
Mediaeval Baebes
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Mediaeval Baebes
Mediaeval Baebes
Songwriter
Katharine Blake
Katharine Blake
Songwriter

Lyrics

Noi leggiavamo un giorno per diletto
di Lancialotto come amor lo strinse;
soli eravamo e sanza alcun sospetto.
Per più fiate li occhi ci sospinse
quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso;
ma soso un punto fu quel che ci vinse.
Quando leggemmo il disïato riso
esser basciato da cotanto amante,
questi, che mai da me non fia diviso,
la bocca mi basciò tutto tremante.
Galeotto fu ’l libro e chi lo scrisse:
quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante.”
Mentre che l’uno spirto questo disse,
l’altro piangëa sì che di pietade
io venni men così com’ io morisse,
e caddi come corpo morto cade.
[translation]
We were reading one day, for pleasure,
of Lancelot, how Love beset him;
we were alone and without any suspicion.
Many times that reading drove our eyes together and turned our faces
pale; but one point alone was the one that overpowered us.
When we read that the yearned-for smile
was kissed by so great a lover,
he who will never be separated from me,
kissed my mouth all trembling.
Galeotto was the book and he who wrote it:
that day we read there no further.”
While one spirit said this,
the other was weeping so that for pity
I fainted as if I were dying,
and I fell as a dead body falls.
Written by: Katharine Blake, Mediaeval Baebes
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