The Montpellier Codex (Codex Montpellier or Chansonnier de Montpellier ) is a major source of medieval French polyphonic works ( 336 in total) composed between ~1250 and ~1300.

Polyphonic song from Ms Montpellier H 196
"Prenez i garde • S'on me regarde" - Mo 325
f375 v°-376v°- trois voix -
teneur : He mi enfants !
In prélude : rondeau by Guillaume d'Amiens : «Prendes i garde»

Source: "De Amore". Polyphonie française du XIIIe siècle - Le Manuscrit de Montpellier.
Ligeriana - Katia Caré, dir.
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Rondeau:
Prendes i garde,
S'on mi regarde,
Dites le moi
C'est tout la jus en cel boschaige,
Prendes i garde,
S'on mi regarde,
La pastourele u gardoit vaches,
Plaisant brunette,
A vous m'otroi.

Duplum (second voice):
Prenez i garde,
S'on me regarde,
Trop sui gaillarde,
Dites le moi,
Pour Dieu vous proi ;
Car tes m'esgarde
Dont mout me tarde
Qu'il m'ait o soi,
Bien l'aperchoi ;
Et tel chi voi
Qui est, je croi,
Feu d'enfer larde!
Jalous de moi.
Mais pour li d'amer ne recroi,
Pour nient m'esgarde,
Bien pert sa garde
J'arai rechoi,
Et de mon ami le dosnoi.
Faire le doi,
Ne serai plus couarde.

Triplum (third voice):
S'on me regarde Dites le moi ;
Trop sui gaillarde,
Bien l'aperchoi.
Ne puis laissier que mon regard
ne s'esparde,
Car tes m'esgarde
Dont mout me tarde
Qu'il m'ait o soi,
Qu'il a, en foi,
De m'amour plain otroi ;
Mais tel ci voi
Qui est, je croi,
Feu d'enfer larde!
Jalous de moi.
Mais pour li d'amer ne recroi,
Car par ma foi
Pour nient m'esgarde,
Bien pert sa garde
J'arai rechoi.
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Prenez i garde - S'on me regarde - Mo 325
f375 v°-376v° - 3 voices -
tenor: He mi enfants!
Prelude: rondeau by Guillaume d'Amiens, 'Prendes i garde'

Make sure
There's no one looking,
And if there is, tell me.
Just over there in the thicket,
Make sure
There's no one looking ...
The shepherdess was looking alter her cows.
Charming brunette,
I am yours.

Make sure
There's no one looking,
I am a lusty lass,
And if there is, tell me,
I beg you, in God's narre.
For there is one who looks at me,
And I cannot wait
To be at his side,
That I know.
And I see another here,
The fire of hell burn him!
Who is, I believe,
Jealous of me.
But I shan't stop loving because of him;
It does him no good to watch me,
He's wasting his time.
I shall find a secluded spot
And there be loved by my lover.
I must do it;
I shall be a coward no longer.

If you see him looking,
Tell me.
I am a lusty lass,
That I know.
I cannot help it
If my eyes wander,
for when a certain one looks at me,
I cannot wait
To be at his side
And, in faith,
To give him all my love.
But I see another here,
The fire of hell burn him!
Who is, t believe,
Jealous of me.
But I shan't stop loving because of him;
For by my faith,
It does him no good to watch me,
He's wasting his time.
I shall find a secluded spot...

Katia Caré (voice), Florence Carpentier (voice), Estelle Filer (voice), Déborah Flomoy (voice), Caroline Montier (voice), Laure Pierredon (voice) with Yves Lenoir (counter-tenor), Caroline Montier (organetto), Jean-Luc Lenoir (medieval fiddle, crwth, harp, bells), Guy Robert (harp, medieval lute, percussion)

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