You kill me so sweetly | You kill me so sweetly

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by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Vous me tuez si doucement

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG SPA

Vous me tuez si doucement
Avecque tourmens tant bénins
Que ne sais chose de douceur
Plus douce que'est ma douce mort.
S'il faut mourir, mourons d'amour.

Si glorieux je suis d'aimer
Et tant satisfait, tant heureux
Que je prise un de mes ennuis
Cent mille biens d'une autre main.
S'il faut mourir,  mourons d'amour.

Puisque si doucement je meurs
Avecque tourmens tant bénins
Je ne cherche aucune douceur
Plus douce qu'est une douce mort.
S'il faut mourir, mourons d'amour.

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by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532 - 1589), no title, appears in Chansonnettes mesurées [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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You kill me so sweetly

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Language: English after the French (Français)

You kill me so sweetly
With tortures so mild
That I know nothing sweet
Which is sweeter than my sweet death.
  If we must die, let us die of love.

So proud am I to love
And so satisfied, so happy,
That I value just one of my troubles
Beyond a hundred thousand gifts from another hand.
  If we must die, let us die of love.

Since I die so sweetly
With tortures so mild,
I seek nothing sweet
Which is sweeter than a sweet death.
  If we must die, let us die of love.

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This text was added to the website: 2013-05-07
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