De tous biens plaine

"De tous biens plaine" is a French chanson, usually credited to Hayne van Ghizeghem, who wrote a 3-part version, published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501. Amongst other reworkings are a four-part version by Josquin and two 3-part versions by Alexander Agricola.

Full words and music are here

and of an Agricola version at the Choral Wiki here

A version of the first verse and its translation are given by David Munrow in The Art of the Netherlands as


 * De tous biens plaine est ma maistresse
 * Chascun lui doit tribut d'onneur;
 * Car assouvye est en valeur
 * Autant que jamais fut deesse.


 * My mistress possesses every virtue.
 * Everybody pays her homage,
 * for she is as full of worth
 * as ever any goddess was.

Loyset Compere used the tune as a basis for a mass setting, and the Credo survives of a setting by Josquin.

Some sources have claimed this to be the most famous chanson of the age.