Il n'est point tant de barques à Venize
Language: French (Français)
Il n'est point tant de barques à Venize,
D'huystres à Bourg, de festuz en Champagne,
De differentz aux peuples d'Allemagne,
De cygnes blancz au long de la Tamise ;
Ne tant d'amours se traictent en l'eglise,
Ne tant de veaux se treuvent en Bretagne,
Ne tant de gloire en un signor d'Espagne,
Ny en la Court tant y a de faintise ;
N'en ces Anglois a tant de cornardise,
Ne de pardons à Rome un jour de feste,
Ny d'usuriers en toute Lombardie ;
Ny de travaulx à vaincre femme honneste,
Ne dans Auvergne animaulx d'Arcadie,
Que vous avez de lunes en la teste.
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There are not so many boats in Venice
Language: English after the French (Français)
There are not so many boats in Venice,
Oysters at Borg, festivals in Champagne,
Variations in the people of Germany,
White swans along the Thames ;
They don’t talk of love so often in church,
There aren’t so many calves in Brittany,
So much self-glory in a Spanish señor,
So much pretension at Court;
The English have not so much trickery,
Nor a feast-day in Rome so many pardons,
Nor are there so many money-lenders in Lombardy;
Not so much work to overcome an honest woman,
Nor so many Arcadian animals in the Auvergne,
As you have moons in your head1.
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1 Translator's note: a reference to lunacy.
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