My husband sent this to me to brighten my day. I am the luckiest girl in the world, and although he didn't write it, just reading it and knowing he thought of me when he read it made my day, my life, my everything.

"Foy Porter"
by Guillaume de Machaut
translated by Paul Brians

I
I want to stay faithful, guard your honor,
Seek peace, obey
Fear, serve and honor you,
Until death,
Peerless Lady.

For I love you so much, truly,
that one could sooner dry up
the deep sea
and hold back its waves
then I could constrain myself
from loving you.

Without falsehood;for my thoughts
my memories, my pleasures
and my desires are perpetually
of you, whom I cannot leave or even briefly forget.

II
There is no joy or pleasure
or any other good that one could feel
or imagine which does not seem to me worthless,
whenever your sweetness wants to sweeten my bitterness.

Therefore I want to praise
and adore and fear you,
suffer everything,
experience everything, endure everything
more than I desire any reward.
I want to stay faithful...

III
You are the true sapphire
that can heal and end all my sufferings,
the emerald which brings rejoicing,
the ruby to brighten and comfort the heart.
Your speech, your beauty,
Your bearing, make one flee and hate and detest
all vice and cherish and desire all that is good.
I want to stay faithful...

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