by
Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)
Le comble de ton sçavoir
Language: French (Français)
Le comble de ton sçavoir
Et de tes vertus ensemble,
Dit que l’on ne sçauroit voir
Rien que toy qui te resemble.
Quelle dame a la pratique
De tant de mathematique !
Quelle Princesse entend mieux
Du grand monde la peinture,
Les chemins de la nature,
Et la Musique des cieux ?
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- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "The sum of your learning", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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The sum of your learning
Language: English after the French (Français)
The sum of your learning
And of your virtues together
Says that we’ll never see
Anything which resembles you but yourself.
What lady is so practised
In so much mathematics!
What princess understands better
How to paint the great world,
The paths of nature,
The music of the heavens?
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