'Tant que je vive, mon cueur ne changera
Pour nul vivant, tant soit il bon ou saige
Fort et puissant, riche, de hault lignaige,
Mon chois est fait, aultre ne se fera.
'Il peut estre que l'on dévisera,
Mais je pour ce ne muera mon courage,
Tant que je vive.'
These few fragments give an idea of Margaret's style, which was simple, clear, and well expressed, but throughout her rondeaux, songs, and ballads, there is an echo of sadness and disappointment. Many of her words and expressions are now out of date, but the charm of her personality still lingers in her poems with a mournful pathos none the less touching though written in a French of long ago:—
'Dame infortunée
Dame de dueil tousiours triste et marrie.'[146]