Hugues d'Athies
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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
[edit]- 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
- Fool! who from choice can spend his hours