Nes que on porroit 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, a love song, of which Machaut wrote forty-two examples which have survived. The ballade was a song of love with, in this case, an independent upper part called a cantus written against a contratenor and tenor. Nes que on porroit is believed to date from the late part of Machaut's period of ballade composition after c1350. As all ballades, it is a refrain song, and has three stanzas. It is catalogued by Schrade as Ballade No. 32.

Machaut was the most famous and represented composer of the fourteenth century. Writing in the style known as Ars Nova ('New Art', to distinguish it from Ars Antiqua, or 'Old Art'), Machaut wrote mainly in secular or semi-liturgical genres, and is largely responsible for the establishment of the secular polyphonic genres known as the ballade, rondeau and virelai. His one sacred work is the monumental Messe de Notre Dame.

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