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by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)

Les deux Mulets
Language: French (Français) 
Deux Mulets cheminoient ; l’un d’avoine chargé :
L’autre portant l’argent de la Gabelle.
Celuy-cy glorieux d’une charge si belle,
N’eût voulu pour beaucoup en estre soulagé.
    Il marchoit d’un pas relevé,
    Et faisoit sonner sa sonnette :
    Quand l’ennemi se presentant,
    Comme il en vouloit à l’argent,
Sur le Mulet du fisc une troupe se jette,
    Le saisit au frein, & l’arreste.
    Le Mulet en se défendant,
Se sent percer de coups, il gemit, il soûpire.
Est-ce donc là, dit-il, ce qu’on m’avoit promis ?
Ce Mulet qui me suit, du danger se retire,
    Et moy j’y tombe, & je peris.
    Ami, luy dit son camarade,
Il n’est pas toujours bon d’avoir un haut Employ.
Si tu n’avois servi qu’un Meusnier, comme moy,
    Tu ne serois pas si malade.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean de La Fontaine (1621 - 1695), "Les deux Mulets", written 1668, appears in Fables, Livre 1, no. 4 [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 François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Les deux Mulets" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-07-12
Line count: 19
Word count: 126

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