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Messire Bertran de Born loved me, and so did my cousin the Count of Provence, and the Count of Orange, and Raimbaut, and Gaucelm, and Ebles of Ventadorn. Now I have found one colder than ever I was, and I am burning. Are you a great lover of the King? At this question, put so quietly, Jehane grew grave. It took her above her sense of dangers, being in itself a dignity.
"The fact is undeniable. Thus I must fling the bounty back to you, so that we sorry scoundrels may meet as equals." Perion wheeled toward the boat, which was now within the reach of wading. "Who is among you? Gaucelm, Roger, Jean Britauz " He found the man he sought. "Ahasuerus, the captain that was to have accompanied the Free Companions oversea is of another mind.
Under this heading also falls the planh, a funeral song lamenting the death of a patron, and here again, beneath the mask of conventionality, real emotion is often apparent, as in the famous lament upon Richard Coeur de Lion composed by Gaucelm Faidit. Reference has been already made to the tenso, one of the most characteristic of Provençal lyric forms.
Of the lyrics found in the important MS. Harleian 2253, "Alysoun" has the same rime scheme as a poem by Gaucelm Faidit: it opens with the conventional appeal to spring; the poet's feelings deprive him of sleep.
This is enough to show that troubadours who came to Italy could make the country a second home, and find as much occupation in love, war and politics as they had ever found in Southern France. Aimeric de Pegulhan, Gaucelm Faidit, Uc de Saint-Circ, the author of some troubadour biographies, were among the best known of those who visited Italy.
Many years before, one of the Provençal troubadours, writing to his friend in verse, had said, "Friend Gaucelm, if you go to Tuscany, seek a shelter in the noble city of the Florentines, which is named Florence. There all true valor is found; there joy and song and love are perfect and adorned."
It made him testy. "Well, Gaucelm, well," he said; "on your two legs, my man, if you are to please me." "Lord King " Gaucelm began, then stopped. My lord bayed at him. "Oy Deus!" he said in our tongue, below his breath; and Jehane slid off his knee and on to her own.
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