by Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin (1622 - 1673), as Molière
Profitez du printemps
Language: French (Français)
Profitez du printemps De vos beaux ans, Aimable jeunesse; Profitez du printemps De vos beaux ans, Donnez-vous à la tendresse. [ ... ] Oui, suivons ces ardeurs, Ses transports, ses caprices, Ses douces langueurs; S'il a quelques supplices, Il a cent délices Qui charment les cœurs.
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Confirmed with Œuvres Complètes de Molière, tome treizième, Paris: A. L. Guyot, 1894. Appears in Le malade imaginaire, in the Second Intermède, pages 110 - 112.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin (1622 - 1673), as Molière, no title, appears in Le malade imaginaire [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich Aaron Kreis (1821 - 1907) , no title [an adaptation] ; composed by Friedrich Wilhelm Berner.
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