Jausbert de Puycibot

Who is Jausbert de Puycibot?

Jausbert de Puycibot was a Limousin troubadour of the early thirteenth century. Fifteen of his works have survived, most of them conventional, but with a few that are expressive of "true feeling". According to some sources, Jausbert was a monk, lo Monge de Poicibot.

The poem S'eu vos voill tan gen lauzar had long been attributed to him, though doubts have arisen due to its appearance in a collection of poems by the Monge de Montaudo. He probably wrote the sirventes that, together with another by Bertran de Preissac, forms a tenso in which the two troubadours debate the merits of old and young women. Jausbert supports las joves, while Bertran las vielhas.

Era quan l'ivernz nos laissa

E par la fuoilla en la vaissa

E il lauzellet chanton c'uns no s'en laissa,

Fas sirventes ses biaissa,

Mas uns malastrucs m'afaissa,

Car ab joves no.s te: Dieus li don aissa!

Mais pretz una vieilla saissa

Que non a ni carn ni craissa.

Mal ai' er el os e daval la madaissa!

Que la genta, covinenta, on bos pretz s'eslaissa,

Fina, francha, frescha, blancha, don jois no.s biaissa,

Mais la vuoill, si gen m'acuoill ni josta se m'acaissa,

Que la rota, que.m des tota Limoges e Aissa.