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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG
Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme,
A deux beaux yeux montrer à nud son coeur,
Boire tousjours d'une amere liqueur,
Manger tousjours d'une amertume extrème, 
 
Avoir la face et triste, et morne, et bleme,
Plus soupirer moins fléchir [la]1 rigueur,
Mourir d'ennuy receler sa langueur,
Du vueil d'autruy [des loix faire]2 à soy mesme ;
 
Un court despit, une aimantine foy
Aimer trop mieux son ennemy que soy,
Peindre en ses yeux mille vaines figures :

Vouloir parler et n'oser respirer,
Esperer tout et se desesperer,
Sont de ma mort les plus certains augures.

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•   G. Boni 

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1 Boni: "sa"
2 Boni: "faire loy"

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Guillaume Boni (c1530 - c1594), "Cent et cent fois penser un penser mesme", published 1607 [ vocal quartet ], from Sonnets de Pierre de Ronsard mis en musique à 4 parties, II, no. 2, Paris, Pierre Ballard [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "千百次思虑一样的思想", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Thinking the same thought a hundred times and more", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2015-02-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 96

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