Couleuvre, arreste toy; arreste toy, couleuvre, 
afin que ma soeur tire sur le patron de ta peinture la façon 
et l'ouvrage d'un riche cordon que je puisse donner à m'amie: 
ainsi soit en tout temps ta beauté 
et ta disposition preferée à tous les autres serpens.

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Note: this is provided in the essay as an example of a love song from the area of South America where Villegaignon landed (now Brazil).

Text Authorship:

• by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 - 1592), no title, appears in Essais, in Des Cannibales [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

• a text in Unknown Language by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist  [text unavailable]
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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):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) , "Liebeslied eines Amerikanischen Wilden", second version [an adaptation] FRE ; composed by Max Brod.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• GER German (Deutsch) (Johann Daniel Titius, né Johann Dietz) , no title, a prose translation

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-09-29
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