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Bele Doete Anon. Chanson de Toile

Women’s song from the Trouvère era: the late twelfth/early thirteenth century.  The story tells of beautiful Doete, who waits for her love who is fighting in foreign countries. She hears that he has died in the rout, and she retreats to her own monastery, which she founds to protect all true lovers.