by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Trop long temps ai esté en desplaisir
 (Sung text for setting by G. Dufay)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
 Trop long temps ai esté en desplaisir
 Par Fortune, qui m'a volu servir
 De ses biaux tours, qu'elle scet bien desduire,
 Quant elle vuelt aucun aydier ou nuire
 Par faire que'l dirme ait son playsir.

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Composition:

    Set to music by Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Trop long temps ai esté en desplaisir"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Too long have I been in despair", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 37