特罗伊利情歌
杰弗里·乔叟
如果无爱，天哪，为何我会感到如此癫狂？
如果有爱，那爱又是什么模样？
如果爱情美好，为何我会如此忧伤？
如果爱情邪恶，那就更加令人难以想象：
尽管充满痛苦折磨，
却又让我神清气爽；
爱的泉水喝得越多，越是干渴难当。
既然爱是发自内心的欲望，
为何我又痛断肝肠？
既然习惯了遭受伤害，我又为何悲愤满腔？
不曾劳累却会昏厥，着实令人疑惑迷茫。
死去又活来，甜蜜抚创伤，多么奇妙酣畅；
如果不是心甘情愿，
你在我的心里怎会占有如此的分量？
既然心甘情愿，
再去诉苦岂不冤枉；
大海无边，风起八方，
我是无舵的小船四处飘荡，
从此五心不定，晕头转向。
天哪，我这是得了什么怪病？
高烧寒颤，寒颤高烧，命不久长。
Cantus Troili
Geoffrey Chaucer
If Love lives not, O God, what feel I so?
And if Love lives, what thing and which is He?
If Love is good, from where has come my woe?
If it be bad, it's a wonder, thinks me,
since every torment and adversity
which comes from it savors of joys distinct
and still I thirst, the more of it I drink.
And if it's from my own desire I burn,
what spring gives forth my wailing and complaint?
If hurt pleases, why should my plaint return?
I know not, nor why, in health, I grow faint.
O live death! O strange hurt with Love's sweet taint,
how might you fester in such quantity
unless I give consent for it to be?
If I consent, I wrongfully devote
my heart to sorrow. Thus tossed, to and fro,
quite rudderless, I sit within a boat
in a sea which two winds must undergo;
each blasts against its contrary echo.
Alas! what strange malady have I got?
I die from heat when cold, from cold when hot.