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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Las ! je n'eusse jamais pensé

(Sung text for setting by G. Costeley)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Las ! je n'eusse jamais pensé,
Dame qui causes ma langueur,
De voir ainsi recompensé
Mon service d'une rigueur,
Et qu'en lieu de me secourir
Ta cruauté m'eust fait mourir.

Si, fortuné, j'eusse apperceu,
Quand je te vy premierement
Le mal que depuis j'ay recue
Pour aimer trop loyalement,
Mon cœur, qui franc avoit vescu,
N'eust pas esté si tost vaincu.

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Composition:

Guillaume Costeley

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Las ! je n'eusse jamais pensé"

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Alas, I would never have thought

(Sung text translation for setting by G. Costeley)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

Alas, I would never have thought
O Lady who cause my pining,
To see my service recompensed in this way
With severity,
So that instead of helping me 
Your cruelty has made me die.

If, more luckily, I had perceived
When first I saw you
The ill that I have since received
From loving too loyally,
My heart, which has lived openly,
Would not have been so quickly overcome.

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