8v La Complainte d'outremeir

Cest la complainte doutremeir
Empereour et roi et conte
Et duc et prince a cui hom conte
Romans divers por eux esbatre
De cex qui ce suelent combatre
Sa en arrier por sainte eglise
Car me dites par queil servise
Vos cuidiez avoir paradix
Cil le gaaignerent ia diz
Dont vos oeiz ces romans lire
Par la poinne par le martyre
Que li cors soffrirent sus terre
Veiz ci le tenz diex vos vient querre
Braz estanduz de son sanc tainz
Par quoi li fex vos iert estains
Et denfer et de purgatoire
Reconmenciez novele estoire
Serveiz dieu de fin cuer entier
Car dieux vos moustre le sentier
De son pays et de sa marche
Que hom cens raison le sormarche
Por ce si devriiez entendre
A revangier et a deffendre
La terre de promission
Qui est en tribulacion
Et perdue ce Diex nem pence
Se prochainnement na deffence
Soveigne vos de dieu lo peire
Qui por soffrir la mort ameire
Envoia en terre son fil

This is the Lament of Outremer
Emperors, kings, counts,
dukes and princes, for your entertainment
varied tales are told of those who
in days past engaged in combat
on behalf of the Holy Church.
Tell me then, by what service do
you believe you will attain paradise?
Those about whom you hear tales read
have already gained it
by the pain and the martyrdom
that their bodies suffered on earth.
The moment has arrived when God is coming to seek you,
arms outstretched, stained in his blood
by which the fires of hell and purgatory
were extinguished for you.
It is time for you to begin a new chapter.
Serve God with your whole heart,
for God is showing you the path
towards his land and its frontiers that are
being trampled in ignorance.
You must try, therefore,
to avenge and to defend
the promised land
which is in turmoil
and will be lost if God does not attend to it
and if it is not defended soon.
Remember God the Father
who sent his Son to earth to
suffer a cruel death.

Cest la complainte doutremeir
Empereour et roi et conte
Et duc et prince a cui hom conte
Romans divers por eux esbatre
De cex qui ce suelent combatre
Sa en arrier por sainte eglise
Car me dites par queil servise
Vos cuidiez avoir paradix
Cil le gaaignerent ia diz
Dont vos oeiz ces romans lire
Par la poinne par le martyre
Que li cors soffrirent sus terre
Veiz ci le tens diex vos vient querre
Braz estanduz de son sanc tainz
Par quoi li fex vos iert estains
Et denfer et de purgatoire
Reconmenciez novele estoire
Serveiz dieu de fin cuer entier
Car dieux vos moustre le sentier
De son pays et de sa marche
Que hom cens raison le sormarche
Por ce si devriiez entendre
A revangier et a deffendre
La terre de promission
Qui est en tribulacion
Et perdue ce Diex nem pence
Se prochainnement na deffence
Soveigne vos de dieu lo peire
Qui por soffrir la mort ameire
Envoia en terre son fil

This is the Lament of Outremer
Emperors, kings, counts,
dukes and princes, for your entertainment
varied tales are told of those who
in days past engaged in combat
on behalf of the Holy Church.
Tell me then, by what service do
you believe you will attain paradise?
Those about whom you hear tales read
have already gained it
by the pain and the martyrdom
that their bodies suffered on earth.
The moment has arrived when God is coming to seek you,
arms outstretched, stained in his blood
by which the fires of hell and purgatory
were extinguished for you.
It is time for you to begin a new chapter.
Serve God with your whole heart,
for God is showing you the path
towards his land and its frontiers that are
being trampled in ignorance.
You must try, therefore,
to avenge and to defend
the promised land
which is in turmoil
and will be lost if God does not attend to it
and if it is not defended soon.
Remember God the Father
who sent his Son to earth to
suffer a cruel death.