No et prenguis malament la còlera d’una dona | No et prenguis malament la còlera d’una dona

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by Robert Gould (d. 1709)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Take not a woman's anger ill

Language: English

Our translations: CAT

Take not a woman's anger ill,
But let this be your comfort still,
That if one won't, another will;
Though she that's foolish does deny,
She that is wiser will comply,
And if 'tis but a woman, what care I?

Then who'd be damn'd to swear untrue,
And sigh and weep, and whine and woo,
As all our supple coxcombs do?
All women love it, and though this
Does sullenly forbid the bliss,
Try but the next, you cannot miss.

Text Authorship:

by Robert Gould (d. 1709) [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):

by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Take not a woman's anger ill", 1960 [ voice and piano ], a realization of the Purcell song. Confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Take not a woman's anger ill", Z. 609 no. 11 (1695), from The Rival Sisters -or- The Violence of Love, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "No et prenguis malament la còlera d’una dona", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 80

No et prenguis malament la còlera d’una dona

Language: Catalan (Català) after the English

No et prenguis malament la còlera d’una dona,
sinó deixa que això sigui un reconfort,
car si una no vol, una altra ho farà;
encara que la que és ximple refusi,
la que és més assenyada s’hi avindrà,
i si no és més que una dona, què m’importa?

Aleshores, qui seria blasmada per jurar en fals,
i per sospirar i plorar, i per gemegar i afligir-se,
com fan totes les nostres dúctils tanoques?
A totes les dones els agrada, i si això
tristament priva de la felicitat,
prova tan sols la següent, no et pots equivocar.

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2024 by Salvador Pila, (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 Robert Gould (d. 1709)
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This text was added to the website: 2024-10-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 96