Gobin de Reims

Gobin de Reims (or Reins) was a thirteenth-century trouvère, most likely from Reims. He possibly wrote two satires against women: On soloit ça en arrier and Pour le tens qui verdoie.

Quotes

• Mult seraie bone vie
    De bien amer,
  Qui aurait bele amie
    Pour deporter;
  Sanz orgueil, sanz folie,
    Et sanz guiler,
  Ne ja n'eust envie
    d'autrui amer;
  Ne me vousist fausser;
  Mes, com loial amie,
      Celui amer
  Qui de fin cuer la prie.
  • Sweet life indeed it were,
      His joy to prove,
    Who in his lady fair
      Finds a true love:
    No guile, no folly there,
      No fickle pride;
    Seeking her heart to share
      With none beside,
    To treachery unknown,
      Faithful and fervent proved,
    Loving that only one,
      By whom beloved!
    
  • Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 266