Doete de Troyes

Doete de Troyes (1220–1265) was a troveresse whose work survives only in fragments. Further verses are attributed to her in the legendary Poésies de Clotilde. Quotes Disputed Quant revient la saison que l'herbe reverdoieQue di fleons clerets la terre alme s'ondoie,  Qu'esjoissent oysels de lors gracieux chantz  Li bois, et la pré, e li chamz,Soir et matin, filles, n'allez sollettesQuierre ez gazons derraines violettes;Serpent y gist que n'y mord au talon,  Por ce n'est il, tendres poulettes,  Por ce n'est il que plus felon. When comes the beauteous summer time,  And grass grows green once more,And sparkling brooks the meadows lave  With fertilizing power;—And when the birds rejoicing sing  Their pleasant songs again,Filling the vales and woodlands gay  With their enlivening strain;—Go not at eve nor morn, fair maids,  Unto the mead alone,To seek the tender violets blue,  And pluck them for your own;For there a snake lies hid, whose fangs  May leave untouch'd the heel,But not the less—O not the less,  Your hearts his power shall feel. From the Poésies de Marguerite-Éléonore Clotilde de Vallon-Chalys, depuis Madame de Surville, Poëte François du XVe. siècle (1803), therein ascribed to Doete, and stated to have existed in MS. among the other specimens there given of a series of early French poetry, but now thought to be a forgery. Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 271 Cp. Virgil, Eclogues, III, 93: Latet Anguis in Herba External links Q3033702 Category:Poets from France Category:Women authors from France Category:1220 births Category:1265 deaths