Honte, paour, doubtance is a polyphonic song composed by the fourteenth-century French composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut (c.1300-1377). In three voices, it is an example of the genre known as the ballade. The ballade was a song of love with, in this case, an independent upper part called a cantus written against a contratenor and a tenor. Honte, paour, doubtance is believed to date from the middle part of Machaut's period of ballade composition between 1335 and 1345 in the later years of his patronage by John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia. As all ballades, it is a refrain song, and has three stanzas. Schrade catalogues it as Ballade No. 25.

Machaut was the most famous and represented composer of the fourteenth century as well as one of the great poets, whose poems survive with and without music. Writing in the musical style known as Ars Nova ('New Art', to distinguish it from Ars Antiqua, or 'Old Art'), Machaut is largely responsible for the establishment of the secular musical and poetic genres known as the ballade, rondeau and virelai.

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