Guillaume de Machaut is famous chiefly for his Messe de Nostre Dame, the earliest known complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass attributable to a single composer. He was also the most famous and historically significant representative of the movement known as the Ars Nova. Machaut was especially influential in the development of the motet and the secular song.With Le Remède de Fortune the narrator is asked by his lady if the poem she has found is by him; the narrator flees from her and comes to a garden where 'Hope' consoles him and teaches him how to be a good lover; he returns to his lady…