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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Je languis en piteux martire
 (Sung text for setting by G. Dufay)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
I.
 Je languis en piteux martire
 Pour vous, ma dame et ma maistresse,
 Car vostre amour tant je desire
 En bon semblant qui fait promesse.
 De bien aymer tant me detresse
 Que je mourray se plus empire
 Et se par vous mon mal ne cesse.
 Dictes le faire ou l'escondire
 Et me mectez hors de tristesse!

II.
 Ne faictes plus semblant de dire
 Que me voulez donner lyesse,
 Se brief ne voulez estre mire
 De ma douleur par vostre humblesse.
 Doulx semblant n'est pas l'oeil qui blesse.
 Regardez mon cuer qui souspire,
 Et ne me faictes pas rudesse.
 Autre que vous je ne desire,
 Ne me tenez plus en crudece.

Composition:

    Set to music by Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Je languis en piteux martire"

Text Authorship:

  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "I pine in pitiful martyrdom", 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: 20
Word count: 112

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