ABSTRACT

Due to the pain and sorrow that Sir Giraut de Bomeil felt at the death of King Richard of England and to the trickery that his lady Alamanda had pulled on him, Giraut had retired from singing and composing and socializing. But Sir Ramon Bemart of Rovingna 1 , who was a very noble man from Gascogne and his very good friend and with whom he shared the reciprocal name of “Above-All-Others,” begged him and counseled him to be gay and so he composed this song which says: If it were not for my Above-All-Others…