My Mouth Smiles - My Thoughts Weep

Ars Nova presents Franco-Flemish vokal music fra the Renaissance with the text Ma bouche rit as the cornerstone. 

My lips are smiling but my thoughts are crying
My eye is happy but my heart curses the hour
When it gained the good which chased away well-being
And the pleasure which pursues me to death
With no consolation to help or come to my aid.

Ah, perverse, false, lying heart,
Tell me how you dared dream
Of going back on what you promised. 
Since on this point you wish to take revenge
Think rather of shortening my life --
I cannot live in the condition where you've put me.

Your pity perhaps wishes me to die,
But your harshness wishes me to remain alive,
So alive I die and living I pass away.
But to conceal the pain which never passes
And to cover the grief under which I labour,

My lips are smiling but my thoughts are crying