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Estre indigent et donner tout le sien, Se feindre un ris, avoir le cœur en pleinte, Haïr le vray, aimer la chose feinte, Posseder tout et ne jouir de rien : Estre délivré et trainer son lien, Estre vaillant et couarder de crainte, Vouloir mourir et vivre par contrainte, [Et sans profit despendre tout son bien]1: Avoir tousjours pour un servil hommage La honte au front, en la main le dommage : A ses pensers d’un courage hautain Ourdir sans cesse une nouvelle trame, Sont les effets qui logent en mon ame L’espoir douteux et le tourment certain.
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View text without footnotes1 Boni: "De cent travaux ne recevoir un bien"
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), "Estre indigent et donner tout le sien", published 1607 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 4, Paris, Pierre Ballard [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "To be poor yet give everything you own", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
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Word count: 97
To be poor yet give everything you own, To simulate a smile, while your heart is grieving, To hate the truth and like dissimulation, To possess everything and enjoy nothing; To be freed yet to keep your bonds, To be brave yet shiver with fear, To wish to die yet be forced to live, [And profitless to spend all your goods]1; To have always, as your slave-like act of homage, Shame on your brow, loss in your hand ; In her thoughts, with proud courage, Endlessly to hear new intrigues: These are the things which lodge in my heart Uncertain hope and sure torture.
1 Boni: "From a hundred trials to receive not one benefit"
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Based on:
- 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: 104