“High poet, pride of the English squires,
I would be just a nettle in your garden.”

— Eustache Deschamps

Poete hault, loenge d'escuiye,
En ton jardin ne seroie qu'ortie.
"Grant translateur, noble Geoffroy Chaucier" line 31; text and translation from Ian S. Laurie and Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi (eds.), David Curzon and Jeffrey Fiskin (trans.) Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems (London: Routledge, 2003) pp. 70-71.

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Poete hault, loenge d'escuiye, En ton jardin ne seroie qu'ortie.

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I would be just a nettle in your garden.”