by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Translation by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873)
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take...
Language: English
Our translations: ITA
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all; What hast thou then more than thou hadst before? No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call; All mine was thine before thou hadst this more. Then if for my love thou my love receivest, I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest; But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest By wilful taste of what thyself refusest. I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief, Although thou steal thee all my poverty; And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief To bear love's wrong than hate's known injury. Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows, Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.
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Text Authorship:
- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 40 [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 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Sonnet XL - Take all my loves", op. 125 (Shakespeare Sonnets), Heft 4 no. 2 (1963) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Leslie Crabtree (b. 1941), "Sonnet XL", 2003 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Richard Simpson (1820 - 1876), "Sonnet XL", 1865 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudi Spring (b. 1962), "Sonnet XL", op. 72 no. 1 (1999) [ vocal quintet: five solo voices a cappella (s-mez-a-t-bar) ], from Drei Shakespeare-Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 40, first published 1857
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Prenditi ogni mio amore, amore, sì, prenditi tutto", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2004-08-09
Line count: 14
Word count: 120
Prends toutes mes amours, mon amour, va,...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Prends toutes mes amours, mon amour, va, prends-les toutes : qu'auras-tu donc de plus que ce que tu avais d'abord ? Il n'est pas d'amour, mon amour, qui m'appartienne réellement. Tout ce qui est à moi était à toi, avant que tu me prisses cela encore. Si tu comprends mes affections dans mon affection, je ne puis te blâmer, car tu disposes de mon affection ; mais sois blâmé si tu te trahis toi-même en goûtant complaisamment de ce que toi-même tu réprouves. Je te pardonne ton larcin, gentil voleur, bien que tu fasses main basse sur tout mon pauvre avoir ; et pourtant l'affection sait que c'est une plus grande douleur de subir l'outrage de l'affection que l'injure prévue de la haine. Ô grâce lascive qui donnes du charme au mal même ! Va, tue-moi de dépit ; nous ne pouvons pas être ennemis.
About the headline (FAQ)
Text Authorship:
- by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873), no title, appears in Sonnets de Shakespeare, no. 40, first published 1857 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 40
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 ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-08-17
Line count: 14
Word count: 139