title: Guillem de l'Olivier
text: # Guillem de l'Olivier
  
  Guillem de l'Olivier d'Arle, also spelled Guilhem del Olivier, was a troubadour, probably active after 1260. He was from Provence, presumably the region around Arles, and he was also active in northern Italy. He was a prolific author of coblas esparsas, single-stanza poems, usually on a moral theme. The number of lines per poem vary from a low of four to a high of sixteen. Scholars Alfred Pillet and Henry Carstens, along with István Frank, counted 77 such pieces; while Oskar Schultz-Gora counted 79, and Alfred Jeanroy only 70.
  
  A poem ascribed to a "Sir [En] G. de Lobeuier" in one chansonnier is commonly thought to belong to Guillem de l'Olivier, and some manuscripts also mistakenly call him "Gui" or "Guiraut". The unreliable Jean de Nostredame identified him with a certain Uc de Lobevier (Hugues de Lobières).
  
  ## Coblas esparsas
  
  * Tan no puesc legir ni pessar
  * Fals' amor no si pot dir
  * Tota dona c'amors vensa
  * Donas, per cosselh vos dic
  * Donas, crezetz mon prezic
  * Mans se fenhon enamorat
  * So nos retrais Marcabrus
  * Homs que se rent de sa molher gilos
  * Pros dona enamorada
  * Alcus homes sai entre nos
  * Qui ama cortezia
  * D'omes vey c'an a totz jorns mens
  * Qui s'azauta d'enuetz faire
  * Qui sap gardar fach e dich de secret
  * Jocx e putanaria
  * Qui vol aver ganre d'amicx
  * Seneca que fon fom sabens
  * Tant es lo mons costumatz
  * Ben corteza conoissensa
  * Qui se volgues cosselhar
  * Tot hom me par be noiritz
  * Catre cauzas son fort nominativas
  * Ricx hom qu'enten en gran nobleza
  * Escrich truep en un nostr' actor
  * Ieu non tenc home per amic
  * Si vols far ver' esproansa
  * S'us homs sabia mal ses be
  * Motas veguadas s'endeve
  * Catre maneiras son de gens
  * Senca dis que saup philozophia
  * Entr' amicx et enemicx
  * Auzit ay dir manta[s] sazo[s]
  * Bon es saver acampar
  * Riqueza grans fan far manta falhensa
  * Sert es qui a mal vezi
  * Bona fin fai qui ab bon albres lia
  * Cobes e larcx aug cais tot jorn repenre
  * Ieu ai vist home plaguat
  * Si fos tan bos segles com sol
  * Escrig (o) truep en Salomo
  * D'omes truep que donan cosselh
  * Tres enemicx principals
  * Aisi com per aventura
  * Mal temps fai reconoysser dieu
  * Ieu coseguiey temps e sazo
  * Mals tratz don(a) alegransa
  * Tal home am que sos aibs nom azaula
  * Homs ben parlans deu mais entendre
  * De razon es e de natura
  * Aitan ben tanh per dever
  * Trop parlars fay desmentir
  * Hom que per pauc de profiech
  * Totz homs deu esser curos
  * Ieu me tenc a gran plazer
  * Trop voluntatz tol la vista
  * Pieitz fa un petit de mal
  * Us homs es c'a ajustat
  * Si per chantan esjauzir
  * Bona fes e mala
  * Alcun son trop de fama
  * Gauch e solatz e cortezia
  * Dieus donet comandamen
  * Totz hom se deu donar suenh
  * Per respiech d'alcun befach
  * Bos noirimens dona regla
  * Sieu auzes dire a ma guiza
  * Sens e sabers e conoissenza
  * Hon mais m'esfors cascun jorn d'aver vida
  * Fals semblans e mot deslials
  * Tart o tost son doas cauzas per natura
  * En totz afars tanh cortezia
  * Hom deu lauzar son amic
  * Hoc e no son dui contrari
  * Tot enaisi com peira preziosa
  * Qui en anel d'aur fai veir' encastonar
  
  ## Editions
  
  * Schultz-Gora, Oskar, ed. "Die 'coblas triadas' des Guilhem de l'Olivier d'Arle". Provenzalische Studien, I. Schriften der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft in Straßburg, 37. Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, 1919 : 24–82.
  