O sweet pleasure, o pleasant pain!

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

Translation © by David Wyatt

O doux plaisir, ô mon plaisant dommage!

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

O doux plaisir, ô mon plaisant dommage!
O beau soleil, lumiere de mes yeux!
O mon printans, et doux et gratieux,
Qui me detient en un si doux servage!

O douce fiere, appaisez le courage
Trop fier, helas! mais bien peu vous en chaut:
Et, si j’ay mis l’espoir en lieu trop haut,

Pensez qu’Amour est un soldat peu sage,
Qui desarmé se jette en un assaut.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Bertrand

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Jacques Grévin, Olympe, 1560.

Text Authorship:

sometimes misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
by Jacques Grévin (flourished c1560), no title, appears in Olympe, no. 3, 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?), "O doux plaisir", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from 25 Chansons à 4 parties, Livre 3, no. 23 [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: 9
Word count: 67

O sweet pleasure, o pleasant pain!

Language: English after the French (Français)

O sweet pleasure, o pleasant pain!
O lovely sun, light of my eyes!
O my springtime, sweet and charming,
Who holds me in such sweet servitude!

O sweet proud girl, calm your too-proud
Spirit – alas, how little you care for that.
And if I have set my hopes too high,

Think how Love is an unwise soldier
Who though disarmed throws himself into the attack.

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Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) misattributed to Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585) and by Jacques Grévin (flourished c1560), no title, appears in Olympe, no. 3, first published 1560
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This text was added to the website: 2019-10-30
Line count: 9
Word count: 66