Gobin de Reims
French composer
Gobin de Reims (or Reins) was a thirteenth-century trouvère, most likely from Reims. He possibly wrote two satires against women: On soloit ça en arrier and Pour le tens qui verdoie.
Quotes
edit- Mult seraie bone vie
De bien amer,
Qui aurait bele amie
Pour deporter;
Sanz orgueil, sanz folie,
Et sanz guiler,
Ne ja n'eust envie
d'autrui amer;
Ne me vousist fausser;
Mes, com loial amie,
Celui amer
Qui de fin cuer la prie.- Sweet life indeed it were,
His joy to prove,
Who in his lady fair
Finds a true love:
No guile, no folly there,
No fickle pride;
Seeking her heart to share
With none beside,
To treachery unknown,
Faithful and fervent proved,
Loving that only one,
By whom beloved! - Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 266
- Sweet life indeed it were,