Non, la fidélité
Language: French (Français)
Non, la fidélité
N'a jamais été
Qu'une imbécillité.
J'ai quitté
Par légèreté
Plus d'une beauté.
Vive la nouveauté !
Mais quoi ! la probité ?
Puérilité.
Le serment répété ?
Style usité.
A-t-on jamais compté
Sur un traité
Dicté
[Dans]1 la volupté,
Sans liberté ?
On feint par vanité
D'être irrité.
L'amant peu regretté
Est [imité]2 :
La femme avec gaîté,
Bientôt s'arrange de son côté.
Translation(s): ENG
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Confirmed with Un million de rimes gauloises: Fleur de la poésie drolatique et badine depuis le XVe Siècle, ed. by Alfred de Bougy, Paris, Adolphe Delahays, 1858, pages 394-395.
1 Tailleferre: "Par"
2 Tailleferre: "invité" (but we could assume this is a misprint)
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Authorship
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No, fidelity
Language: English after the French (Français)
No, fidelity
has never been
anything but stupidity.
Capriciously,
I've left
more than one beautiful woman.
Long live novelty!
But morality, you say?
Puerility.
Repeated vows?
Out of fashion.
Could one ever count
on a treatise
inspired
by pleasure
that omits the value of freedom?
You pretend, out of vanity,
to be annoyed.
The un-regretted lover
is copied by others.
The woman, for her part, gaily, quickly
makes alternative arrangements.
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Translations of titles:
"Non, la fidélité..." = "No, fidelity..."
"La légèreté" = "Frivolity"
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