Hugues d'Athies

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 escient
  Veut sor gravele semer;
  Et cil plus qui entrepent
  Volage femme a amer.
  On n'i peut raison trouver;
  Tost ame, et tost se repent,
  Et tost fet celui dolent
  Qui plus s' i cuide fier.
  • Fool! who from choice can spend his hours
    Sowing 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 confer
    On him who vainly trusts in her.
  • Translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 261