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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Faute d'argent
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Faute d'argent, c'est douleur nompareille,
Si je le dis, las! je sais bien pour quoi:
Sans de quibus il se faut tenir coi,
Le temps le doit, ce n'est pas merveille. 

Mes compagnons, a tous je vous conseille
Que ne prenez femme s'el n'a de quoy.
Raison pourquoi ? las, je la vous diray : 
Femme qui dort pour argen on l'éveille.

Je suis aymé d'une fille tant belle,
Je l'ayme bien aussi fait elle moy.
Marry je suis quant point je ne la voy,
En ce pays n'en y a point d'autelle.

Se povre suis, ce n'est pas de merveille,
Car mon argent g'ya ay tout despendu.
Il ne m'en chault, je n'ay pas tout perdu :
Car j'ay acquis vostre amour non pareille. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Antoine de Févin (c1470 - c1511), "Faute d'argent" [ vocal trio ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Faute d'argent" [ sattb chorus ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Adriaan Willaert (c1490 - 1562), "Faute d'argent" [ vocal sextet ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Lack of money", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2007-08-31
Line count: 16
Word count: 122

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