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

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  • 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
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