Las ! Pleust à Dieu n'avoir jamais tasté
Language: French (Français)
Las ! Pleust à Dieu n'avoir jamais tasté
Si follement le tetin de m'amie!
Sans [ce malheur]1, l'autre plus grande envie
[Jamais, helas! ne m'eust]2 le coeur tenté
Comme un poisson, pour s'estre trop hasté
Par un appast, suit la fin de sa vie,
Ainsi je vais où la mort me convie,
D'un beau tetin doucement apasté.
Qui eust pensé que le cruel destin
Eust enfermé sous un si beau tetin
Un si grand feu, pour m'en faire la proye?
Avisez donc quel seroit le coucher
Entre ses bras, puis qu'un simple toucher
De mille morts [innocent]3 me foudroye!
Translation(s): ENG
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1 Bertrand: "luy vrayment"
2 Bertrand: "Helas ! ne m'eust jamais"
3 Bertrand, Boni: "sans joüir"
Submitted by David Wyatt
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Las ! Pleust à Dieu n'avoir jamais tasté", first performed 1576 [vocal quartet a cappella], from the collection Les amours de Pierre de Ronsard [
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- by Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Las ! pleut à Dieu", published 1608 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 7, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
text verified 1 time ]
Set in a modified version by Jean de Castro.
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Alas, would to God I'd never nibbled", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Text added to the website: 2012-06-23 00:00:00.
Last modified: 2014-10-29 11:12:16
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