by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Jodelle, l'autre jour, l'enfant de...
Language: French (Français)
Jodelle, l'autre jour, l'enfant de Cytherée
Au combat m'apela, courbant son arc Turquois,
Et lors comme hardi, je vesti le harnois,
Pour avoir contre luy ma peau mieus asseurée.
Il me tira premier une fleche acerée
Droict au coeur, puis une autre, et puis tout à la fois
Il decocha sur moi les traicts de son carquois,
Sans qu'il eust d'un seul coup ma poictrine enferrée.
Mais quand il vit son arc de fleches desarmé,
Tout dépit s'est lui-mesme en fleche transformé,
Puis se rua dans moi d'une puissance extreme:
Quand je me vi vaincu, je me désarmé lors:
Car, las! que m'eust servi de m'armer par dehors,
Ayant mon ennemi caché dedans moimesme.
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Jodelle, the other day Cytherea’s child
Language: English after the French (Français)
Jodelle, the other day Cytherea’s child
Called me to battle, bending his Turkish bow;
Then like a rash man I put on my harness,
To keep my skin the safer against him.
He shot at me first a sharp arrow,
Straight at my heart, then another, then he loosed
On me all the darts at once from his quiver,
Without hitting my iron-clad breast with a single shot.
But when he saw his bow had run out of arrows,
All his spite was itself changed into an arrow
Then it shot into me with extreme force.
When I saw I was beaten, I disarmed myself;
For, alas, what use would it have been for me to armour my outside,
While having my enemy hidden within me.
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