Trois serors sor rive mer (quadruplum) Chantent cler La moiene a apeté Robin son ami: “Prise m’avés el bois ramé reportés mi!” Trois serors sor rive mer (triplum) Chantent cler La gonette Fu brunette De brun s’ami s’ahati: “Je suis brune, s’avrai brun ami ausi.” Trois serors sor rive mer (duplum) Chantent cler L’aisnée di[s]t a: “On doit bien bele dame amer et s’amour garder, cil qui l’a.”
Three sisters at the seashore are singing brightly. The middle one called to Robin, her sweetheart: “You took me first in the leafy wood, now take me back there.” Three sisters at the seashore are singing brightly. The youngest, a brunette, sought a dark-haired sweetheart: “Since I am dark-haired, I will have a dark-haired sweet-heart too.” Three sisters at the seashore are singing brightly. The eldest said: “One should indeed love a fair lady, and he who has her love should keep it.”