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S'elle m'amera je ne scay
Mais je me mectray en essay
D'acquerir quelque peu sa grace
Force m'est que par la je passe
Ceste fois j'en feray l'essay
L'autre jour tant je m'avençay
Que presque tout mon cuer lessay
Aller sans que luy demandasse.
S'elle m'amera je ne scay
Mais je me mettray en essay
D'acquerir quelque peu sa grace
Puis apres le cop me pensay
Que lonctemps a que ne cessay
Ne ne fut que je ne l'amasse
Mais c'est ung jeu de passe passe
J'en suis comme je començay
S'elle m'amera je ne scay
Mais je me mettray en essay
D'acquerir quelque peu sa grace
Force m'est que par la je passe
Ceste fois j'en feray l'essay
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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):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "S'elle m'amera", note: the part that begins "Petite camusette" is marked "TENOR, CONTRATENOR I & II"
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , David Wyatt
This text was added to the website: 2012-09-11
Line count: 21
Word count: 119
If she will love me I do not know if she will love me, But I shall make the attempt To gain some small part of her good will. It is forced on me that I should go this way, This time I shall make the attempt. The other day I advanced so far That I almost let my whole heart Go, without asking anything of her. If she will love me I do not know if she will love me, But I shall make the attempt. Then after that blow I thought That it's a long time since I could not stop Nor was there a time when I didn't love her; But it's a game of catch as catch can And I am as I was when I started. If she will love me I do not know if she will love me, But I shall make the attempt To gain some small part of her good will. It is forced on me that I should go this way, This time I shall make the attempt.
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Based on:
- a text in Middle French by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
This text was added to the website: 2012-09-11
Line count: 23
Word count: 178