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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Si j'estois Jupiter, Sinope, vous seriez
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Si j'estois Jupiter, Sinope, vous seriez
Mon espouse Junon: si j'estois Roy des ondes,
Vous seriez ma Thétys, Roine des eaux profondes
Et pour vostre maison [l'Océan]1 vous auriez:

Si la terre estoit mienne avec moy vous tiendriez
L'empire [de la terre aux mammelles fecondes]2,
Et dessus une coche en belles tresses blondes
Par le peuple en honneur déesse vous iriez.

Mais je ne suis pas Dieu et si ne le puis estre,
Pour telles dignitez le ciel ne m'a fait naistre,
Mais je voudrois avoir changé [mon]3 bonnet rond,

Et vous avoir chez moy pour ma chere espousée:
Toute ainsi que la nege au [doux]4 soleil se fond
Je me fondrois en vous d'une douce rousée.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Boni 

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1 Boni: "la grand' mer"
2 Boni: "sous vos mains, dame, des terres rondes"
3 Boni: "de"
4 Boni: "chaut"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Si j'estois Jupiter Sinope vous seriez", published 1607 [vocal quartet], from the collection Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 22, Paris, Pierre Ballard [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "If I were Jupiter, Sinope, you would be", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-03-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 122

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