Hugues d'Athies

French Grand Panetier and poet

Hugues d'Athies (fl. late 12th century) was a French civil servant and poet from Picardy. He held the office of Grand Panetier, or Pantler, in the household of Philip Augustus, and afterwards of Louis VIII.

Quotes

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  • Folz est qui a escient
    Veut sor gravele semer;
    Et cil plus qui entrepent
    Volage femme a amer.
    On n'i peut raison trouver;
    Tost ame, et tost se repent,
    Et tost fet celui dolent
    Qui plus s' i cuide fier.
    • Fool! who from choice can spend his hours
      Sowing the barren sand with flowers;—
      And yet more weak, more foolish you,
      Who seek a fickle fair to woo.
      No certain rule her course presents;
      Quickly she loves, as quick repents:
      Her smiles shall nought but grief confer
      On him who vainly trusts in her.
    • Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 261
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