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Thread #16271   Message #151273
Posted By: T in Oklahoma (Okiembockbird)
18-Dec-99 - 04:43 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Pastourelle Jollie (translation wanted)
Subject: RE: Info req: Translation of French lyric ?
Malcolm, thanks. I suspect "soubzrise" is "smiled" or "laughed" or some such. Anyhow with you and Jo working on it, I think we'll get a good sense of it.

FYI the lyric comes from Gaston Paris and Auguste Geveart, Chansons du XVe Siècle--Publiées d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris, Librarie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, Paris, 1875.

Gaston Paris's note on "soubzrise" is: "La forme soubzrise, dont je fais par conjecture un participe, est régulière; l'anc. fr. [i.e. old French] disait ris pour ri; cf it. [Italian ?] riso.

Thanks again,

T.