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Fors seulement l'actente que je meure
En mon las cuer nul espoir ne demeure
Car mon maleur si tresfort me tourmente
Qu'il n'est douleur que pour vous je me sente
Pour ce que suis de vous perdre bien seure.
Vostre rigueur bellement my queurt seure
Qu'en ce parti il fault que je m'asseure
Dont je n'ay bien qui en riens me contente
Fors seulement l'actente que je meure
En mon las cuer nul espoir ne demeure
Car mon maleur si tresfort me tourmente
Mon desconfort toute seule je pleure
En maudisant sur ma foy a toute heure
Ma leaute qui tant me fait dolente
Las que je suis de vivre malcontente
Quant de par vous n'ay riens qui me demeure
Fors seulement l'actente que je meure
En mon las cuer nul espoir ne demeure
Car mon maleur si tresfort me tourmente
Qu'il n'est douleur que pour vous je me sente
Pour ce que suis de vous perdre bien seure.
M. Pipelare sets stanza 1
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View text with all available footnotesText 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 Alexander Agricola (c1445 - 1506), "Fors seulement" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Fors seulement" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacob Obrecht (1457?8 - 1505), "Fors seulement" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "Fors seulement l'attente" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Matthaeus Pipelare (c1450 - 1515), "Fors seulement", stanza 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Pirson , "Fors seulement" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vervonet , "Fors seulement" [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Antoine Brumel (c1460 - 1512?3), "Du tout plongiet -- Fors seulement" [ four-part song a cappella ], note: the tenor(s) sing(s) "Fors seulement" while the others sing "Du tout plongiet"
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Save only the expectation that I'll die", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: John Versmoren , David Wyatt
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 164
Save only the expectation that I'll die, In my weary heart no hope remains; For my misfortune troubles me so sorely That there is no grief I do not suffer because of you Since I am utterly certain to lose you. Your harshness certainly assures my heart That in this position I should remind myself From whom I have no good thing, and who comforts me with nothing; Save only the expectation that I'll die, In my weary heart no hope remains; For my misfortune troubles me so sorely. My discomfort I grieve for, all alone, Cursing -- truly! -- every hour My loyalty which makes me so unhappy. Alas, that I must live on unhappy When I have nothing from you left to me. Save only the expectation that I'll die, In my weary heart no hope remains; For my misfortune troubles me so sorely That there is no grief I do not suffer because of you Since I am utterly certain to lose you.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 21
Word count: 166