I want to read Homer’s Iliad in three days

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Je veux lire en trois jours l’Iliade...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je veux lire en trois jours l’Iliade d’Homere,
Et pour ce, Corydon, ferme bien l’huis sur moy:
Si rien me vient troubler, je t’asseure ma foy,
Tu sentiras combien pesante est ma colere.

Je ne veux seulement que nostre chambrière
Vienne faire mon lit, ton compagnon, ny toy;
Je veux trois jours entiers demeurer à requoy,
Pour follastrer, après, une sepmaine entiere.

Mais si quelqu’un venoit de la part de Cassandre,
Ouvre-luy tost la porte, et ne le fais attendre,
Soudain entre en ma chambre, et me vien accoustrer.

Je veux tant seulement à luy seul me monstrer:
Au reste, si un dieu vouloit pour moy descendre
Du ciel, ferme la porte, et ne le laisse entrer.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Lucas, St. John, comp. The Oxford Book of French Verse, XIIIth century–XIXth century. Oxford: Clarendon, 1920; Bartleby.com, 2001. www.bartleby.com/244/62.html.

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 André Bon (b. 1947), "Je veux lire l'Iliade", 2000 [ baritone and piano ], from Les guerres du poète, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

I want to read Homer’s Iliad in three...

Language: English after the French (Français)

I want to read Homer’s Iliad in three days :
So, Corydon, close tight the door upon me.
If anything comes to trouble me, I give you my word
You will feel how heavy my anger is.
 
I do not just wish our chambermaid won’t
Come and make my bed, nor your fellows, nor you :
I want to stay in peace for three whole days,
Then afterwards I’ll have fun for a whole week.
 
But if someone should come from Cassandre,
Quickly open the door to him, don’t make him wait !
Rush into my room, come and get me dressed :
 
To him alone am I willing to show myself.
For the rest, if a god chose to come down to me
From heaven, shut the door and don’t let him in !

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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 130