unhappy and sad, And he said, "He dies badly and lives worse Who doesn't fuck the one he loves.
"[1] Tribolet was an obscure troubadour, known only for one song, the obscene Us fotaires que no fo amoros.
[1] It has been argued that an overt expression of homosexuality would have been impossible in a medieval court setting; the poet, however, may mean merely to hint at it.
[3] Francesco Carapezza, however, argues that just as celes ("any woman") is an aberrant form of the usual celas, so le is just an unusual form of feminine la, in which case the poem is a comic exaggeration of heterosexual lust.
According to C. H. Grandgent, the masculine form le may indicate influence from Old French, and François Zufferey has catalogued other instances of the normal masculine lo replaced by le in Old Occitan.