With what shall I bathe | With what shall I bathe

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Michael P Rosewall

¿Con qué la lavaré?

Language: Spanish (Español)

Our translations: ENG FRE GER IRI

¿Con qué la lavaré
la [tez]¹ de la mi cara?
¿Con qué la lavaré,
Que vivo mal penada?
Lávanse las casadas
con agua de limones:
lávome yo, cuitada,
con [penas]² y dolores.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Vásquez

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Vásquez: "flor"
² Vásquez: "ansias"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre (1901 - 1999), "¿Con qué la lavaré?", 1948, from Cuatro madrigales amatorios, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Juan Vásquez (c1510 - c1560), "¿Con qué la lavaré?" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Michael P Rosewall) , "With what shall I bathe", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Avec quoi puis-je laver", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Womit kann ich sie netzen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , "Conas a nífidh mé?", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 32

With what shall I bathe

Language: English after the Spanish (Español)

With what shall I bathe
The [blush]¹ of my cheek?
With what shall I bathe
That which life has treated so sorely?
The matrons wash themselves
With lemon water:
I wash myself, wretched one,
With sorrows and [pains]².

View original text (without footnotes)
¹ Vasquez: "flower" or "bloom"
² Vasquez: "anxieties"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Spanish (Español) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2017-05-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 38