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Je suis tellement amoureux, Qu'au vray raconter je ne puis Ny où je suis, ne [qui]1 je suis, Ny combien je suis malheureux. J'ay pour mon hoste nuict et jour, Comme un tigre, un cruel esmoy [Qui va pratiquant]2 dessus moy Toutes les cruautez d'Amour. Et si mon cœur ne peut s'armer Contre l'œil qui le navre à tort : Car, plus il [me]3 donne la mort, Plus [je suis]4 contraint de l'aimer.
A. Pevernage sets lines 1-4
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotes1 Pevernage: "que"
2 Bertrand: "Lequel pratique"
3 Bertrand: "luy"
4 Bertrand: "il est"
Text Authorship:
- by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson" [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?), "Je suis tellement amoureux", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Andries Pevernage (1542/3 - 1591), "Je suis tellement amoureux", lines 1-4 [sung text checked 1 time]
Set in a modified version by Jean de Castro.
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
Line count: 12
Word count: 76
I am so in love That truly I cannot tell you Where I am, or [who]1 I am, Or how unhappy I am. I have as a guest night and day A cruel agitation which, like a tiger Practices on me All the cruelties of love. And yet my heart is so unable to arm itself Against the eye which wrongly grieves it For the more it pains [me]2 to death The more [I'm]3 forced to love her.
About the headline (FAQ)
View text without footnotes1 Pevernage: "what"
2 Bertrand: "it"
3 Bertrand: "it's"
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), "Chanson"
This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 12
Word count: 81