Puisque ma Bergere
Veut se dégager, 
Comme elle est légere,
Devenons léger ;
Est-il des amours
Qui durent toujours ?
Quand je veux me plaindre
De son changement,
L'ingrate, sans feindre,
Me dit fiérement :
Est-il des amours
Qui durent toujours ?

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Confirmed with Jacques Vergier, Œuvres de Vergier, Tome premier, London: n.p., 1780, page 213.

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Text Authorship:

• by Jacques Vergier (1655 - 1720), no title [author's text checked 1 time 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 Adelin Marie Clovis Fermin (1867 - 1941), "Puisque ma bergère" [ voice and piano ], from 15 mélodies, no. 5, Lahaye [La Haye] : Van Eck [sung text checked 1 time]

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