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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Je ne suis seulement amoureux de Marie 
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je ne suis seulement amoureux de Marie,
Anne me tient aussi dans les liens d'Amour,
Ore l'une me plaît, ore l'autre à son tour :
Ainsi Tibulle aimait Némésis, et Délie.

[On me dira tantôt]1 que c'est une folie
D'en aimer, inconstant, deux ou trois en un jour,
Voire, et qu'il faudrait bien un homme de séjour,
Pour, gaillard, satisfaire à une seule amie.

Je réponds à cela, que je suis amoureux,
Et non pas jouissant de ce bien doucereux,
Que tout amant souhaite avoir à sa commande.

Quant à moi, seulement je leur baise la main,
[Les yeux, le front]2, le col, les lèvres et le sein,
Et rien que ces biens-là d'elles je ne demande.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Bertrand 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Bertrand: "Un loyal me dira"
2 Bertrand: "Le front, les yeux"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), appears in Continuation des Amours, no. 11, first published 1555 [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Je ne suis seulement amoureux de Marie ", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I'm not just in love with Marie", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 119

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