If someone wants to insult me | If someone wants to insult me, let him do it

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Qui veut mesdire

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Qui veut mesdire, si mesdie
J'en fais la fige aux mesdisans
Car aynsque soit ici maysans
Je les feray crever d'envie.

Et feray toudis, chiere lye,
Qui conques en soit dyspleisans
  Qui veut mesdire, si mesdie
  J'en fais la fige aux mesdisans

Paciense aray en ma partie
Contre tous mes malveillians
Je n'en contre deux petis blans
A eux n'a toute leur lignie.

  Qui veut mesdire, si mesdie
  J'en fais la fige aux mesdisans
  Car aynsque soit ici maysans
  Je les feray crever d'envie.

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 Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois (c1400 - 1460), "Qui veut mesdire" [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "If someone wants to insult me", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 84

If someone wants to insult me

Language: English after the French (Français)

If someone wants to insult me, let him do it,
I give the finger to all insulters
For even if it were bad to do so
I would make them burst with envy. 

And I'll do all this, my dear joy,
Whoever it makes unhappy.
  If someone wants to insult me, let him do it,
  I give the finger to all insulters.

I shall be patient for my part
Against all who wish me ill
I shan't even put a tiny bit of blame
On them or their families.

  If someone wants to insult me, let him do it,
  I give the finger to all insulters
  For even if it were bad to do so
  I would make them burst with envy.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-06-06
Line count: 16
Word count: 122