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by Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602)

Berger que pensés vous faire?
Language: French (Français) 
Berger que pensés vous faire?
Philis je vous veux baiser:
Vous voulés dôc me desplaire?
M'en voudriés v? refuser?
Ouy vraymêt,
Et comment? 
Ma foy vous me baiserés,
Non seray, si ferés,
Philis vous me baiserés.

Par force on ne doit rien prendre,
Plustot mourir qu'i faillir,
Ha! j'ay dequoy me deffendre
Et moy pour bien assaillir,
C'est beaucoup
A ce coup,
Ma foy... etc.

Que ton audace m'estonne,
Vu amant doit tout oser,
Ouy bien ce qu'Amour ordonne,
Quoy, deffend il de baiser?
Ouy vraiment,
Nullement,
Ma foy... etc.

Ha! ha! cruel tu me blesse,
Et moy je meurs de plaisir,
Ie te pardonne & me laisse,
Que dû-tu mon cher desir?
Laisse moy,
Hé pourquoy?
Ma foy... etc.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602), first published <<1613 [author's text not yet checked 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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Ottavio Rinuccini (1562 - 1621) [an adaptation] ; composed by Marco da Gagliano, Claudio Monteverdi.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-09-06
Line count: 30
Word count: 120

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