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Ha, bel accueil, que ta douce parole Vint traîtrement ma jeunesse offenser, Quand au premier tu la menas danser Dans le verger l'amoureuse carolle. Amour adonc, me mit à son école, Ayant pour maître un peu sage penser, Qui sans séjour me mena commencer Le chapelet de la danse plus folle. Depuis cinq ans dedans ce beau verger, Je vais ballant avec faux danger, Sous la chanson d'Allégez-moi1, Madame: Le tabourin se nomme fol plaisir, La flûte erreur, le rebec vain désir, El les cinq pas la perte de mon âme.
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Text Authorship:
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 Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Ha, bel accueil", published 1608 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, I, no. 6, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 2 times]
- by Paul Abraham Dukas (1865 - 1935), "Sonnet", 1924, published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], in Tombeau de Ronsard, from the supplement to Revue Musicale, May 1924 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Jacques Leguerney.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Ah, fair welcome", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 93
Ah, fair welcome, how treacherously your sweet word Came to assault my youth When at first you led it to dance An amorous round-dance in the orchard. Love then placed me in his school, With unwise thought as teacher Who led me without delay to begin making A circlet for the maddest kind of dance. For five years I have gone dancing In this fine orchard with False Danger, To the tune "Oh relieve me, Madam". The drummer is called Mad Pleasure The flute Error, the fiddle Empty Desire And their five dances the loss of my soul.
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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 Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 98