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Baise m'encor, rebaise moy & baise : Donne m'en un de tes plus sauoureus, Donne m'en un de tes plus amoureus : Ie t'en rendray quatre plus chaus que braise. Las, te pleins tu ? ça que ce mal i'apaise. En t'en donnant dix autres doucereus. Ainsi meslans nos baisers tant heureus Iouissons nous l'un de l'autre à notre aise. Lors double vie à chacun en suiura. Chacun en soy & son ami viura. Permets m'Amour penser quelque folie : Tousiours suis mal, viuant discrettement, Et ne me puis donner contentement, Si hors de moy ne fay quelque saillie.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé, texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 103.
Modernized form of the text:
Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise : Donne m'en un de tes plus savoureus, Donne m'en un de tes plus amoureus : Je t'en rendray quatre plus chaus que braise. Las, te pleins tu ? ça que ce mal j'apaise, En t'en donnant dix autres doucereus. Ainsi meslans nos baisers tant heureus Jouissons nous l'un de I'autre à notre aise. Lors double vie à chacun en suivra. Chacun en soy et son ami vivra. Permets m'Amour penser quelque folie : Tousjours suis mal, vivant discrettement, Et ne me puis donner contentement, Si hors de moy ne fay quelque saillie.
Text Authorship:
- by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 18, first published 1555 [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 Michel Decoust (b. 1936), "Baise m'encor", 1984, published 1987, first performed 1987 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept chansons érotiques, no. 4, Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise", 2021 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé, no. 6, SMP Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy & baise", op. 10 no. 9 (1986), published 1988 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Neun Sonette der Louize Labé, no. 9, Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne; confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise", op. 34 no. 5, published 1941 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Sonnets de Louïze Labé, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 18 ; composed by Walther Prokop, Konrad Rötscher, Grete von Zieritz.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-11-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 95
Kiss me, re-kiss me, kiss me again and more! Give me a flavoursome delicious one, give me an amorous ambitious one, and I’ll give you a hot reply of four! Oh, are you sad, let me relax you, please, with ten sweet ones, kiss after honeyed kiss, for by this means, the mingling of our bliss, we’ll best enjoy each other at our ease. Here is the double life lovers discover - each lives in self and also in the other. Permit me, love, to share a crazy thought: I’m always sad when living self-contained; my happiness can’t grow and be sustained unless I take these risks and sally forth.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 18, first published 1555
This text was added to the website: 2022-07-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 109