by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253)
Translation by François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770)
Las ! si j'avois pouvoir d'oublier
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Language: French (Français) after the Old French (Ancien français)
Our translations: ENG
Las ! si j'avois pouvoir d'oublier Sa beauté, sa beauté, son bien dire, Et son très-doux, très-doux regarder, Finirois mon martyre : Mais las ! mon cœur je n'en puis ôter, Et grand affolage M'est d'espérer : Mais tel servage Donne courage A tout endurer. Et puis, comment, comment oublier Sa beauté, sa beauté, son bien dire, Et son très-doux, très-doux regarder ? Mieux aime mon martyre.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Annales poétiques, ou Almanach des Muses, depuis l'origine de la Poésie Françoise, tome premier, Paris, Delalain, 1778, page 9. A footnote in this edition is attached to the end of line 6 as follows: Grand affolage, grande folie.
Note: Reber uses modernized spellings in lines 1 ("j'avais") and 4 ("Finirais").
Text Authorship:
- by François-Auguste Paradis de Moncrif (1687 - 1770), "Chanson" [an adaptation] [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Old French (Ancien français) by Thibaut Ier de Navarre (1201 - 1253)
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