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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Hé que voulez‑vous dire ? estes‑vous si...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Hé que voulez-vous dire ? estes-vous si cruelle
De ne vouloir aimer ? voyez les passereaux
Qui [demeurent]1 l’amour, voyez les colombeaux,
Regardes le Ramier, voyez la tourterelle :

Voyez deça, delà, d’une frétillante aesle,
Volleter [par les bois]2 les amoureux oyseaux,
Voyez la jeune vigne embrasser les ormeaux,
Et toute chose rire en la saison [vermeille]3:

Icy le bergerette, en tournant son fuseau,
Desgoise ses amours, et là le patoureau
Respond à sa chanson, icy toute chose aime :

Toute parle de l’amour, tout s’en veut enflammer :
Seulement vostre coeur, froid d’une glace extreme,
Demeure opiniastre et ne veut point aimer.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Boni •   N. Millot 

N. Millot sets stanzas 1-2

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1 Boni, Millot: "demenent"
2 omitted by Boni
3 Boni: "nouvelle"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Nouvelle continuation des Amours, first published 1556 [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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Hé que voulez-vous dire, estes vous si cruelle", published 1607 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 21, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 2 times]
  • by Nicolas Millot (d. c1590), "Hé que voulez-vous dire, estes vous si cruelle", stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2014-08-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 101

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