So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned | So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned

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by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés
Qu'onques amans n'ot si douce prison.

Jamais ne quier estre desprisonnés, -
  Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés;s -

Car tous biens m'est en ceste prison nez
Que dame puet donner sans mesprison.
  Tant doucement me sens emprisonnez
  Qu'onques amans n'ot si douce prison.

Text Authorship:

by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377) [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 de Machaut (c1300 - 1377), "Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés" [vocal quartet], rondeau [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned

Language: English after the French (Français)

So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned
That a lover never had so sweet a prison.

Never do I ask to be freed from prison,
   So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned.

For all good things are born to me in this prison
That a lady can give without blame.
   So sweetly do I feel myself imprisoned
   That a lover never had so sweet a prison.

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a text in French (Français) by Guillaume de Machaut (c1300 - 1377)
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This text was added to the website: 2015-01-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 66