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Ces deux yeulx bruns, [deux]1 flambeaux de ma vie, Dessus les miens [fouldroyans]2 leur clarté, Ont [esclavé]3 ma jeune liberté, Pour la damner en prison asservie. [De voz doulx feux]4 ma raison fut ravie, Si qu'esblouy de [vostre]5 grand' beaulté, Opiniastre à garder loyaulté Aultres yeulx voyr depuis je n'euz envie. D'autre esperon mon Tyran ne me poingt, Aultres pensers en moy ne [couvent]6 point, Ny aultre idole en mon cuoeur je n'adore. Ma main ne sçait cultiver aultre nom, Et mon papier n'est esmaillé, si non De [voz]7 beaultez que ma plume colore.
A. Pevernage sets stanzas 1-2
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View text without footnotes1 Bertrand: "doux"
2 Bertrand, Pevernage: "respandant"
3 Bertrand, Pevernage: "arresté"
4 Bertrand: "De ses deux yeux" ; Pevernage: "De ces deux yeux"
5 Bertrand, Pevernage: "leur"
6 Bertrand: "logent"
7 Bertrand: "ses"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Ces deux yeulx bruns", 1576, published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 1, no. 11 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andries Pevernage (1542/3 - 1591), "Ces deux yeulx bruns", stanzas 1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Florent Schmitt.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Two lovely brown eyes", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor] , David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 101
Two lovely brown eyes, [twin]1 torches of my life, [Flaming]2 brighter far than mine, Have [enslaved]3 my youth's liberty To condemn it to service in prison. [By your sweet fires]4 my reason was stolen, So dazzled by [your]5 great beauty Persistently staying loyal I've had no wish to see othe eyes since. My Tyrant allows me no other hope, Other thoughts never [arise]6 in me, Nor do I worship any other idol in my heart. My hand cannot write any other name, And my page is not embellished unless My pen colours it with [your]7 beauties.
1 Bertrand: "sweet"
2 Bertrand, Pevernage: "Shining"
3 Bertrand, Pevernage: "captured"
4 Bertrand: "By her two eyes"; Pevernage: "By those two eyes"
5 Bertrand, Pevernage: "their"
6 Bertrand: "remain"
7 Bertrand: "her"
Text Authorship:
- 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 Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 14
Word count: 103