LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,447)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Mignonne, levés‑vous, vous estes paresseuse
 (Sung text for setting by J. de Maletty)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Mignonne, levés-vous, vous estes paresseuse,
Ja la gay' Alouette au ciel a fredonné,
Et ja le Rossignol doucement jargonné,
Dessus l'espine assis, sa complainte amoureuse.

Debout donq, allon voir l'herbelette perleuse, 
Et vostre beau rosier de boutons couronné, 
Et voz oeillets aimés, ausquels aviez donné 
Hyer au soir de l'eau, d'une main si songneuse.

Hier en vous couchant, vous me fistes promesse
D'estre plus tost que moy ce matin éveillée,
Mais le sommeil vous tient encor toute sillée:

Ha! je vous puniray du peché de paresse,
Je vois baiser vos yeux et vostre beau tetin,
Cent fois, pour vous aprendr' à vous lever matin.

Composition:

    Set to music by Jean de Maletty (flourished 16th century), "Mignonne, levés-vous, vous estes paresseuse"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title, appears in Continuation des Amours, no. 23, first published 1555

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "My darling, get up, you are being lazy", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 110

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris