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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Las ! Pour vous trop aymer
 (Sung text for setting by A. Bertrand)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Las! pour vous trop aymer je ne vous puis aymer,
Car il fault en aimant avoir discretion:
Helas! je ne l'ay pas: car trop d'affection
Me vient trop folement tout le cueur enflammer.

D'un feu desesperé vous faictes consommer
Mon cueur, que vous brulez sans intermission,
Et si bien la fureur nourrit ma passion
Que la raison me fault, dont je me deusse armer.

Ah! guerissez moy donc de ma fureur extreme,
Afin qu'avec raison honorer je vous puisse,
Ou pardonnez au moins mes faultes à vous mesme,

Et le peché commis en tatant vostre cuisse:
Car je n'eusse touché en lieu si deffendu,
Si pour trop vous aymer mon sens ne fust perdu.

Composition:

    Set to music by Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Las ! Pour vous trop aymer", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 8

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Alas, I cannot love you for loving you too much", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-23
Line count: 14
Word count: 115

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