_c._ Nom meravilh si s’amors mi te pres, que genser cors no cre qu’el mon se mire; bels es e blancs e frescs e gais e les, e totz aitals cum eu volh e dezire; no posc dir mal de leis, que non i es; qu’el n’agra dig de joi, seu l’i saubes, mas no l’i sai: per so m’en lais de dire. _d._ Totz temps volrai sa honor e sos bes elh serai hom et amics e servire, e l’amarai, be li plass’o belh pes, qu’om no pot cor destrenher ses aucire. no sai domna, volgues o non volgues, sim volia, qu’amar no la pogues; mas totas res pot hom en mal escrire. _e._ A las autras sui aissi escasutz: laquals si vol mi pot vas si atraire, per tal coven que nom sia vendutz l’onors nil bes que m’a en cor a faire; qu’enojos es prejars, pos es perdutz: per mius o dic, que mals m’en es vengutz, qu’enganat m’a la bela de mal aire. _f._ En Proensa tramet mans e salutz, e mais de bes qu’om no lor sap retraire, e fatz esfortz, miraclas e vertutz, car eu lor man de so don non ai gaire; qu’eu non ai joi mas tan com m’en adutz mos Bels Vezers en Faituratz sos drutz en Alvergnatz lo senher de Belcaire. _g._ Mos Bels Vezers per vos fai deus vertutz tals c’om nous ve que no si’ ereubutz dels bels plazers que sabetz dir e faire. This poem consists of six stanzas and a tornada. The length of each stanza is seven verses, that of the tornada three. In each stanza there is, according to Dante’s expression, a diesis or volta, for there is the required reiteratio unius odæ. This reiteratio takes place before the volta, while after the volta no division is possible. The stanza therefore must be divided into two pedes of two lines each and a cauda of three lines. According to rule, the metrical division is marked by a strong grammatical break (at least a semicolon), the only exception being stanza _b_, where a punctuation in the volta is not possible. The tornada repeats as usual the form and rhymes of the cauda; and in it the poem is dedicated to the poet’s lady-love, who is addressed by a senhal. Bel Vezer was in this case Agnes de Montluçon, wife of the troubadour’s lord and protector, who raised him from the state of a common servant and gave him the first lessons ‘del gay saber.’ The verse of the stanza is decasyllabic; it occurs with masculine and feminine rhyme. The stanza may be formulated metrically by using capital letters for the decasyllabic line, and adding to them the sign ~ for the accen greu; the volta may be marked by a semicolon, and the division of the pedes from each other by a colon: A B~: A B~; A A B~.