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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Gardez le trait de la fenêtre
 (Sung text for setting by R. Hahn)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Gardez le trait de la fenestre,
Amans, qui par rues passez,
Car plus tost en serez blessez
Que de trait d'arc ou d'arbalestre.

N'alez à destre ne à senestre,
Regardant, mais les yeulx bessez ;
Gardez le trait de la fenestre,
Amans, qui par rues passez:

Se n'avez medicin bon maistre,
Si tost que vous serez navrez
A Dieu soiez recommandez,
Mort vous tiens, demandez le prestre ;
Gardez le trait de la fenestre.
Confirmed with Poésies complètes de Charles D'Orléans : Revues sur les manuscrits avec préface, notes et glossaire par Charles d'Héricault, Tome II, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1874, page 95.

Composition:

    Set to music by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Gardez le trait de la fenêtre", published 1899 [ vocal quartet and piano ], from Douze rondels, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), title 1: "Rondel XXX", title 2: "Chanson LXXIV "

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

  • ENG English (Iain Sneddon) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 72

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