Doux fut le trait
Language: French (Français) after the French (Français)
Doux fut le trait qu'Amour hors de sa trousse
Pour me tuer me tira doucement,
Quand je fus pris au doux commencement
D’une douceur si doucettement douce.
Doux est son ris et sa voix qui me pousse
L'âme du corps qui s’en fuit hautement
Devant son chant accordé proprement
Avec mes vers animez de son pouce.
Telle douceur sa voix coule en bas,
Que sans l’oüir l’amoureux ne sçait pas,
Comme en ses rets Amour nous encordelle.
Sans l'ouir, dis-je, Amour mesme enchanter,
Doucement rire, et doucement chanter,
Et moy mourir doucement auprès d'elle.
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Sweet was the arrow", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Sweet was the arrow
Language: English after the French (Français)
Sweet was the arrow which Love drew from his bag
To kill me sweetly,
When I was caught at the sweet beginning
Of a sweetness so dearly, sweetly sweet.
Sweet is that smile and that voice which draws
My soul from my body, which flees on high
Before her song, neatly harmonised
With my verses as the her thumb strikes the strings.
Such sweetness her voice pours down
That without hearing it the lover cannot understand
How Love ensnares us in his nets.
Without hearing, I say, Love himself enchanting us,
Sweetly smiling and sweetly singing,
And me sweetly dying beside her.
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This text was added to the website: 2014-10-27
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