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C’est grand cas que d’aimer : si je suis une année Avecque ma maistresse à deviser tousjours, Et à luy raconter quelles sont mes amours, L’an me semble plus court qu’une courte journée. Si quelqu‘un parle à moi, j’en ay l’ame gennée, Ou je ne lui dis mot, ou mes propos sont lours : Au milieu du devis s’esgarent mes discours, Et tout ainsi que moy ma langue est estonnee. Mais quand je suis auprès de celle qui me tient Le coeur dedans les yeux, sans me forcer me vient Un propos dessus l’autre, et jamais je ne cesse De baiser, de taster, de rire et de parler : Car pour estre cent ans aupres de ma maistresse, Cent ans me sont trop courts, et ne m’en puis aller.
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Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), 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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "C'est grand cas que d'aimer", published 1608 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 35, Paris, Pierre Ballard [text verified 1 time]
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "It's a great thing to love", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 126
It's a great thing to love: if I spent a whole year With my mistress, constantly conversing And telling her about my love, The year would seem to me shorter than a short day. If someone speaks to me, my soul is troubled: Either I say nothing to him, or my conversation gets heavy; In the middle of my thought my speech goes astray And my tongue, as well as I, is stunned. But when I am beside her who keeps me With my heart in my eyes, without any effort there comes to me One idea upon another, and I never stop Kissing, touching, laughing, talking; For to be beside my mistress for a hundred years, A hundred years would be too short, and I cannot leave.
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 128
