#arsantiqua

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Guillaume de Machaut- Dame, vostre doulz viaire. Machaut recreates the depth of longing in this mournful theme, which is close to the virelai, Puisque ma dolour agree. Words in Ancien Français often more closely resemble those of Latin, as the orthography was changed to this end. I recently discovered the same had occurred in the era of Althochdeutsch.