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- Estrinez moy, je vous estrineray, Ma seulle amour. - De quoy? - Du cuer que j'ay Pour vous donner ce jour de l'an nouvel; Prenés en gré! - Si fai je, amis tres bel, Aussy le mien a tous jours vous donray. - Tres grant mercy, pourtant vous serviray, Sans departir. - Or bien. - Dont sans delay A che bon jour de joye et de revel Estrinez [moy, je vous estrineray, Ma seulle amour. - De quoy? - Du cuer que j'ay Pour vous donner ce jour de l'an nouvel.] Et allegiés mez maulx, ou je morray Par desespoir. - Et quant? - Las, je ne scay. Je sui feru ja mieulx que d'un coutel De vos doulx yeulx. - Et vous fait donques tel En verité? Je vous conforteray. - Estrinez moy, [je vous estrineray, Ma seulle amour. - De quoy? - Du cuer que j'ay Pour vous donner ce jour de l'an nouvel; Prenés en gré! - Si fai je, amis tres bel, Aussy le mien a tous jours vous donray.]
Text Authorship:
- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Estrinez moy, je vous estrineray" [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Send me a New Year's gift, and I will send you one too", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 21
Word count: 160
- Send me a New Year's gift, and I will send you one too, my only love. - But what? - The heart that is mine to give you, on this first day of the New Year; take it gladly! - So I do, my very dear friend, and I will also give you mine forever. - Very great thanks I give you, and so I will serve you without leaving - Oh yes? - So without delay, on this fine day of joy and revels ... - Send me a New Year's gift, and I will send you one too, my only love. - But what? - The heart that is mine to give you, on this first day of the New Year; - And relieve my ills, or I will die of despair. - But when? - Alas I don't know. I am wounded worse than with a knife by your fair eyes. - Are you really ill like that, then? I will comfort you. - Send me a New Year's gift, and I will send you one too, my only love. - But what? - The heart that is mine to give you, on this first day of the New Year; take it gladly! - So I do, my very dear friend, and I will also give you mine forever.
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (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 French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 21
Word count: 205