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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Mais voyez mon cher esmoy
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Mais voyez mon cher esmoy,
Voyez combien de merveilles
Vous parfaites dedans moy
Par vos [beautez]1 nompareilles.
 
De telle façon vos yeux,
Vostre ris et vostre grace,
Vostre [front et vos cheveux]2 ,
[Et vostre angélique face,]3
 
Me bruslent depuis le jour
Que [j’en eu]4 la cognoissance,
Desirant par grand amour
En avoir la jouyssance :
 
Que sans l’aide de mes pleurs
Dont ma vie est arrosée,
Long temps a que les chaleurs
D’Amour l’eussent embrasée.
 
Au contraire vos beaux yeux,
Vostre ris et vostre grace,
Vostre [front et vos cheveux]2,
Et vostre angélique face,
 
Me gelent depuis le jour
Que j’en eu la cognoissance,
Desirant par grande amour
En avoir la jouyssance :
 
Que sans l’aide des chaleurs
Dont mon ame est embrasée,
Long temps a que par mes pleurs
En eau se fust espuisée.
 
Voyez donc, mon cher esmoy,
Voyez combien de merveilles
Vous parfaites dedans moy
Par vos beautez nompareilles.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Chardavoine •   G. Hele 

G. Hele sets stanzas 1-4

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1 Chardavoine : "graces"
2 Chardavoine: "beau front spacieux"
3 omitted by de la Hele
4 Chardavoine : "je n’eus"

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 Fabrice-Marin Caietain (flourished 1570-1578), "Mais voyez mon cher esmoy" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jean Chardavoine (c1537 - c1580), "Mais voyez mon cher esmoy" [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Albert Groz , "Mais voyez, mon cher émoi", op. 8 no. 3, published [1910] [ voice and piano ], from Les Amours de Marie, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by George de la Hele (1547 - 1586), "Mais voyez mon cher esmoy", stanzas 1-4 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Nicholas La Grotte , "Mais voyez mon cher esmoy" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2014-11-19
Line count: 32
Word count: 157

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