ABSTRACT
Lady Lombarda was a noble, beautiful, attractive and learned lady from Toulouse. She knew how to compose songs and she used to compose beautiful verses about love. Because of this, Bemart N’Amaut, the brother of the Count of Armagnac, heard talk of her goodness and nobility, and so he came to Toulouse to see her. He was on intimate terms with her, asked her for her love and was her close friend. He wrote these verses about her and sent them to her at her home. Then he got on his horse, without first seeing her, and went off to his own land: 1. I would like to be “Lombard” for Lady Lombarda For Alamanda doesn’t please me as much and neither does Giscarda. With her lovely eyes she looks at me so sweetly That it seems like she is giving me her love; but she makes me wait too long; For she holds back on her beautiful glance 5 And my own pleasure And keeps for herself her lovely smile And no one can get them away from her. 2.Sir Jordan, I leave you Allemagne (Germany) 1 France and Poitiers, Normandy and Brittany; 10 So you should leave me, without any dispute, Lombardia, Livorno and Lomagna. And if you can help me I will help you ten times over With her who distances herself 15 From anything hinting of bad repute. 2 3. Mirror of Merit, You have consolation. May this love in which you hold me Never be broken for the sake of someone unworthy. 3
