Are you sleeping, my fair Aurora Dawn?

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sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) and by Jacques Grévin (flourished c1560)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Sommeillez vous

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Sommeillez vous, ma belle Aurore?
Sommeillez vous, mon coeur, m’amour?
Helas! ramenez moy le jour
De voz beaux yeux que tant j’honnore.

Ha! vous estes doncques encore
Dedans le lit, je vous y tien:
Or sus, donnez moy donc ce bien,

Donnez moy ce bien que je baise
Cent fois et l’une et l’autre fraize.

Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
by Jacques Grévin (flourished c1560), appears in Olympe, no. 28, first published 1560 [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Sommeillez vous", first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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