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Two Old French Werwolf Lays Trop est cilz fox qui se marie An fame de jolive vie: Ce dou tout ne se viaut soufrir 4 Et lui a toute honte offrir An touz periz d’ame et de cors, Dont il ne sera ja jour hors; Et qui leurs cuers bien conneüst, 8 Ja an telz periz ne feüst. Mes por ce nes connoist nus mais, Quar un te di, autre te fais. Par Biclaret le peuz savoir 12 Qui tresbien t’an dira le voir. Biclarel fu uns chevaliers – Hardiz et courageus et fiers, Plains de noblece et de vertu – 16 De la meson le roy Artu. Mes de ce trop a blamer fist: Qu’il crut se que sa fame dist; Acez de tieux an est ancore. 20 Amours courut Biclarel sore. Son cuer an une dame mist, Et si formant anmer le fist An li si formant se fia 24 Que a li panre se lia. Mout c’est an home folie mise Quant il pert sa bonne franchise Et se lie pour sa vie user 28 An ce qu’il deüst refuser. Biclarel la dame espoussa Et quanqu’elle dist il losa; Molt l’ama et mout la prisoit 32 Et el lui, sicon le disoit. Biclarel, sicon Dieu plaissi, Ot une taiche qui taissi Et que nulz fors lui ne seüst, 36 Se sa folie ne feüst. Po avient que hons telz taiche oit, Quar chascun mois beste il estoit. Deus jours trestoz antiers ou .IIJ. 40 Demouroit beste par le bois: Avec autres bestes onjoit Et char de beste crue manjoit Et conme loups grans et corsus, 44 Fort cuir et de mambres ossus. Ne pour ce ne perdoit son san, f. 188 col. a f. 188 col. b 84
Biclarel He is very foolish who marries A fickle wench: It is just not worth it for him to suffer 4 And to expose himself to all that shame With great risk to soul and body, From which he will never be free; And he who understood women’s hearts well 8 Would never be in such peril. But, on account of this, no-one ever understands them, For I’ll tell you one thing, and you’ll do another. You can know it through Biclarel, 12 Who will tell you the truth of it very well. Biclarel was a knight – Strong and brave and fierce, Full of nobility and virtue – 16 Of the household of King Arthur. But he could be greatly blamed for this: That he believed what his wife said; There are still a great many such men. 20 Love attacked Biclarel greatly. He gave his heart to a lady, And she made him love her so violently That he trusted in her so greatly 24 That he committed himself to marrying her. Madness has taken hold of a man completely When he loses his good freedom And binds himself to spend his life 28 Doing what he should have refused. Biclarel married the lady, And whatever she said he praised; He loved her very much and esteemed her highly 32 And she him, so she used to say. As it pleased God, Biclarel Had a trait that he hid And that no-one but he would have known, 36 Had it not been for his foolishness. It is rare that someone hears of such a trait, Because every month he became a beast; Two or three whole days 40 He would live as a beast in the forest; He would dwell amongst other beasts And eat the raw flesh of beasts, And in the form of a big, strong wolf, 44 With a sturdy hide and bony limbs; He did not lose his wits because of this, 85
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