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by Marguerite de Valois (Marguerite d'Angoulême), Queen of Navarre (1492 - 1549)

Ballade
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Pour être un digne et bon Crétien,
il faut à Christ être semblable,
il faut renoncer à tout bien,
à tout honneur qui est damnable;
à la dame belle et jolie,
à plaisir qui la chair émeut,
laisser, laisser honneurs, biens et l'amie.
Ne fait pas ce tout là qui veut.

Ses biens aux pauvres faut donner
d'un coeur joyeux et volontaire;
faut les injures pardonner
et à ses ennemis bien faire;
s'éjouir en mélancolie
et tourment dont la chair s'émeut,
aimer la mort, la mort comme la vie!
Ne fait pas ce tout là qui veut.

Text Authorship:

  • by Marguerite de Valois (Marguerite d'Angoulême), Queen of Navarre (1492 - 1549), first published 1540 [author's text not yet checked 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 Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864), "Ballade" [
     text verified 1 time
    ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Ballad", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 97

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