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Confirmed with Poésies complètes de Charles d'Orléans, revues sur les manuscrits avec préface, notes et glossaire par Charles d'Héricault E. Flammarion, Paris, 1915, page 105.

Modernized version of text used by Hahn:

Quand je fus pris au pavillon
De ma dame, très gente et belle,
Je me brûlai à la chandelle,
Ainsi que fait le papillon :
   Je rougis comme vermillon,
A la clarté d'une étincelle,
Quand je fus pris au pavillon
De ma dame très gente et belle.
   Si j'eusse été esmerillon
Ou que j'eusse eu aussi bonne aile,
Je me fusse gardé de celle
Qui me bailla de l'aiguillon
Quand je fus pris au pavillon.

Text Authorship:

• by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Rondeau XLVI", written c1460 [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Quand je fus pris au pavillon", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze rondels, no. 8, from Mélodies - 2ème volume, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Quand je fus pris au pavillon", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 1er volume , no. 10, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Gertrude Maud Norman (1881 - 1981) ; composed by Carlos Salzedo.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Iain Sneddon) , "When I was held in the pavilion", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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