Against one who stole his Horace | Whoever took my book

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Contre un qui luy desroba son Horace

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Quiconques ait mon livre pris,
D'oresnavant soit-il épris
D'une fureur, tant qu'il luy semble
Voir au ciel deux soleils ensemble,
  Comme Penthée!

Au dos, pour sa punition,
Pende sans intermission
Une furie qui le suive!
Sa coulpe luy soit tant qu'il vive
  Representée.

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Contre un qui luy desroba son Horace" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Against one who stole his Horace", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-26
Line count: 10
Word count: 43

Against one who stole his Horace

Language: English after the French (Français)

Whoever took my book,
Henceforth let him be seized
By madness, such that he thinks
He sees two suns together in the sky
   Like Pentheus!

On his back, for his punishment,
May a Fury cling to pursue
Him without a break!
May his guilt be before his eyes
   As long as he lives.

Translator's note for stanza 1, line 5: in Euripides' Bacchae (line 918), Pentheus "seems to see two suns", under an enchantment from Dionysus which will lead to his gory death.

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Contre un qui luy desroba son Horace"
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-26
Line count: 10
Word count: 53