Pauvre Jeannette,
Qui chantoit si bien,
      Lalirette,
   Triste et seulette,
Tu ne dis plus rien.
   Las ! je soupire
Loin de mon ami :
   Ne sais rien dire
A d'autres qu'à lui.

   Jeune [et]1 fillette,
Ne peux-tu changer ?
      Lalirette :
   Crois-moi, Jeannette,
Choisis un berger.
   Le roi lui-même
Auroit un refus ;
   Du jour qu'on aime
On ne choisit plus.

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Confirmed with Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, Nouvelles nouvelles, Paris: L'Imprimerie de Didot l'aîné, 1792, Page 89.

¹ omitted by Mendelssohn.

Text Authorship:

• by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755 - 1794), no title, appears in Claudine [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 Fanny Hensel (1805 - 1847), "Romance de Claudine", H-U 5 (1820) [ medium voice and piano ], from Frühe Französische Lieder, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles-Léon Hess (1844 - 1926), "Vieille chanson", published 1878-1879 [ voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
• by Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847), "Pauvre Jeanette", c1820 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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