favors she has granted him and proposes marriage—but this, too, is a trick; once married to Fortune
Fauvel will become her master as well, and truly all-powerful. Fortune refuses but gives Fauvel the hand
of her daughter Vaine Gloire, through whom he populates the earth with little Fauveaux.
The motet, whose first half is transcribed as Ex. 8-1, appears in the section of the Roman de Fauvel
manuscript containing the description (accompanied by an illustration; see Fig. 8-3) of the Fountain of
Youth, in which Fauvel, his wife, and his entourage—Carnality, Hatred, Gluttony, Drunkenness, Pride,
Hypocrisy, Sodomy, and a host of others just as attractive—bathe on the day following the wedding. (In
the illustration, the bathers enter from the right, clearly aged, and emerge rejuvenated from the bath, of
which the topmost decorative spouts are miniature Fauvels.)
EX. 8-1 Philippe de Vitry, Tribum/Quoniam/MERITO, mm. 1–40