Tomier and Palaizi

Tomier and Palaizi were two knights and troubadours from Tarascon, possibly brothers, and frequent comrades and co-composers (fl. 1199–1226).

Quotes

• De chantar farai
  Una esdemessa,
  Que temps ven e vai,
  E reman promessa,
  E de gran esmai
  Fai deus tost esdessa.
  Segur estem, seignors,
  E ferms de ric socors.
  •   I'll make a song shall utter forth
        My full and free complaint,
      To see the heavy hours pass on,
        And witness to the feint
    Of coward souls, whose vows were made
    In falsehood, and are yet unpaid.
        Yet, noble sirs, we will not fear,
        Strong in the hope of succours near.
  • Chanson, st. 1, as translated by Edgar Taylor, Lays of the Minnesingers and Troubadours (1825), p. 254