C'est mon jeune et vif Robin, je l'aime

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author and sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.

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These words are sung by Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5, but they are probably not by Shakespeare.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, no title, appears in Hamlet [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
sometimes misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title ; composed by Eduard Lassen.
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Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Karl Joseph Simrock (1802 - 1876) , appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet and sometimes misattributed to Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger (1810 - 1864); composed by Richard Georg Strauss.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger) , no title, appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet
GER German (Deutsch) (Karl Joseph Simrock) (Ludwig Wilhelm Friedrich Seeger) , appears in Shakespeare in deutscher Übersetzung, in 6. Hamlet

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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-24
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Word count: 8

C'est mon jeune et vif Robin, je l'aime

Language: French (Français) after the English

C'est mon jeune et vif Robin, je l'aime.

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Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2019 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , no title, appears in Hamlet and misattributed to William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-29
Line count: 1
Word count: 8