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​Antoine Busnois (1430 – 1492) was an early renaissance composer from the Burgundian School. While also noted as a composer of motets and other sacred music, he was one of the most renowned 15th-century composers of secular chansons. He was the leading figure of the late Burgundian school after the death of Guillaume Dufay.

He must not have kept women in too much a respect if he was denied to celebrate mass after beating to blood another priest for !lovers reasons"; he dared celebrating mass all the same and was excommunicated... 
But his love and hate for women comes out from his songs as well, like this chanson, proposed here in two versions, as a canon and as a motet; 
I transcribed it from the manuscript in the National Library in Florence, which contains some italianized words from ancient French, absent in versions found in other libraries.