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Petit mercier, petit pannier ! Pourtant se je n'ay marchandise Qui soit du tout à vostre guise, Ne blasmez, pource, mon mestier. Je gangne denier à denier, C'est loings du tresor de Venise, (Petit mercier, petit pannier !) Pourtant se je n'ay marchandise. Et tandis qu'il est jour ouvrier, Le temps pers quant à vous devise : Je voys parfaire mon emprise Et par my les rues crier : Petit mercier, petit pannier !
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Confirmed with Poésies complètes de Charles D'Orléans : Revues sur les manuscrits avec préface, notes et glossaire par Charles d'Héricault, Tome II, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1874, pages 46-47.
Modernized version used by Françaix:
Petit mercier! Petit panier! Pourtant si je n'ai marchandise Qui soit du tout à votre guise, Ne blâmez pour ce mon métier. Je gagne denier à denier, C'est loin du trésor de Venise, Petit mercier! Petit panier! Pourtant si je n'ai marchandise. Tandis qu'il est jour ouvrier, Le temps perds quand à vous devise: Je vais parfaire mon emprise Et parmi les rues crier: Petit mercier! Petit panier!
Text Authorship:
- by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), title 1: "Rondeau CCCXXX", title 2: "Chanson LXXVIII" [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Petit mercier, petit pannier", 1928, published 1931 [ high voice and piano ], from 12 Rondels, no. 3, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Colas , "Petit mercier ! Petit panier", published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons et rondeaux choisis de Charles d'Orléans 1er cahier, no. 4, Paris, Édition B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Françaix (1912 - 1997), "Petit mercier! Petit panier!", copyright © 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Charles d'Orleans, no. 3, Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Petit mercier, petit pannier", 1953, first performed 1953 [ soprano, piano, and percussion ], from Rêveries, no. 5, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Petit mercier, petit panier !", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 1er volume , no. 6, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raymond Moulaert (1875 - 1962), "Petit mercier", 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Poèmes de la Vieille France (2e recueil), no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by François Pantillon (b. 1928), "Petit mercier", from 3 rondeaux, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Harry Joelson
This text was added to the website: 2010-01-29
Line count: 13
Word count: 70
Haberdashery! Come see my basket! Yet if I have no goods for sale that you fancy at all, don't put the blame on my trade. I earn only penny by penny, not nearly the treasure of Venice. Haberdashery! Come see my basket! Unless I have no goods for sale. While there is daylight and work to do I'm wasting time when I chat to you. I'm going to complete my daily round and walk the streets crying out: Haberdashery! Come see my basket!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), title 1: "Rondeau CCCXXX", title 2: "Chanson LXXVIII"
This text was added to the website: 2022-08-24
Line count: 13
Word count: 83