I want no more than to sing of my sadness

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Je ne veux plus que chanter de tristesse

(Sung text for setting by R. de Lassus)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je ne veux plus que chanter de tristesse:
Car autrement chanter je ne pourrois,
Veu que je suis absent de ma maistresse ;
Si je chantois autrement je mourrois.

Pour ne mourir il faut donc que je chante
En chants piteux ma plaintive langueur,
Pour le départ de ma maistresse absente,
Qui de mon sein me desroba le coeur.

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Roland de Lassus

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title

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I want no more than to sing of my...

(Sung text translation for setting by R. de Lassus)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

I want no more than to sing of sadness
For I could not sing of anything else
Seeing that I am away from my mistress.
If I sang of other things I would die.

So as not to die, I must therefore sing
In pitiful songs of my woeful weakness
On the departure of my absent mistress
Who stole the heart from my bosom.

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