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by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544)

D'estre content sans vouloir davantage
Language: French (Français) 
D'estre content sans vouloir davantage, 
C'est ung trésor qu'on ne peult estimer, 
Avoir beaucoup et tousjours plus aymer,
On ne sçauroit trouver pire héritage. 

Ung usurier trouve cela servage ;
Mais ung franc cueur se doibt à ce sommer 
    D'estre content.

Qui veult avoir de richesse bon gage, 
Sans en ennuy sa vie consumer, 
Pour en vertus se faire renommer, 
Tasche tousjours d'avoir cet advantage
    D'estre content.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Clément Marot, ed. by Charles d'Héricault, Paris, Garnier Frères, 1867, page 206. The poem is preceded by an epigraph attributed to Enguerrand de Marigny:

SUR CES MOTS:

Chascun soit content de ses biens,
Qui n'a suffisance n'a rien.


Text Authorship:

  • by Clément Marot (1496 - 1544), no title [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 Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "Rondeau", 1934, published 1935 [ tenor and piano ], from Trois Mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-04-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 66

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