Hugues d'Athies

thumb| 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 ''Folz est qui a escientVeut sor gravele semer;Et cil plus qui entrepentVolage femme a amer.On n'i peut raison trouver;Tost ame, et tost se repent,Et tost fet celui dolentQui plus s' i cuide fier. Fool! who from choice can spend his hoursSowing 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 conferOn him who vainly trusts in her. Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 261 External links Q128123022 Category:Poets from France