If thus you love me, my darling

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sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) and by Pierre de Brach (1547 - 1605)

Translation © by David Wyatt

S'il est ainsi que tu m'aymes mignonne

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

S'il est ainsi que tu m'aymes mignonne
Et que l’amour ayt lancé dans ton cœur
Et son doux feu dont je sens la chaleur
Et son doux trait qui tousjours m’espoinçonne :

Et si tu as le desir qu’il me donne
Et si mon mal est ta mesme douleur
Pourquoy tiens tu ceste fainte rigueur
Qui me defend ce que l‘amour m’ordonne ?

Las ! Je voy bien qu’il n’a point comme à moy
Lancé son feu ny son traict dessur toy
Et que ton mal est tel que tu scais faindre

Car hé bons dieux ! et qui  pourroit souffrir
Un si grand mal sans le vouloir guerir
Et si grand feu sans le vouloir esteindre ?

Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
by Pierre de Brach (1547 - 1605), appears in Amours d’Aymée, first published 1576 [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?), "S'il est ainsi que tu m'aymes mignonne", published 1578 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 114

If thus you love me, my darling

Language: English after the French (Français)

If thus you love me, my darling,
And thus love has shot into your heart
Both his sweet fire whose heat I feel
And his sweet dart which still pierces me;

And if you have that desire he gives me
And if my wound is yours too
Why do you still keep that pretended severity
Which keeps from me what love commands?

Ah, I see clearly that he has not, as with me,
Shot his fire nor his likeness into you
And that your wound is just one you pretend.

My God! Who is there who could suffer
So great a wound without wishing it cured,
So great a fire without wishing it extinguished?

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) and by Pierre de Brach (1547 - 1605), appears in Amours d’Aymée, first published 1576
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 14
Word count: 114