Roman de la Rose

Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision.

Quotes

• (Car) ausine bien sunt amoretes
  Sous buriaus comme sous brunetes.
  • For full as oft is Cupid's wound
    'Neath fustian as 'neath velvet found.
  • Jean de Meung, line 4569 (Harbottle)

• (Lors feras) chatiaus en Espaigne.
  • Then castles wilt thou build in Spain.
  • Guillaume de Lorris, line 2530 (ed. 1878) (Harbottle)
  • Cp. Charles d'Orléans, Rondel CIX

• Grands biens ne vient pas en poi d'ore;
  II y con vient poine et demore.
  • Great riches come not in a day;
    Labour is seemly and delay.
  • Guillaume de Lorris, line 2111 (Harbottle)

• (Mès) nature ne puet mentir.
  • But nature cannot lie.
  • Jean de Meung, line 14,626 (Harbottle), variant: peut
  • Cp. Like father, like son

• (Et) plus en gré sont recéu
  Li biens dont l'en a mal éu.
  • More happiness it brings to gain
    Those blessings that have caused us pain.
  • Guillaume de Lorris, line 2689

• (Et) sans fol ne puet nus hons vivre,
  Tant cum il voille Amor ensivre.
  • The wisest man shall foolish prove
    When he doth go in search of Love.
  • Jean de Meung, line 10,004 (Harbottle)

• Tous jors aime qui est amis.
  • Who is a true friend loves for ever.
  • Jean de Meung, line 8831 (Harbottle)

External links

• T. B. Harbottle; P. H. Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations: French and Italian (1904), pp. 10, 30, 53, 158, 178, 204, 216
• Le Roman de la Rose, vol. 1 (1878), vol. 2 (1878), vol. 3 (1878), vol. 4 (1879), vol. 5 (1880)