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by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465)

Les en voulez vous garder
Language: Middle French 
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Les en voulez vous garder 
Ces rivières de courir 
Et grues prendre et tenir 
Quant hault les véez voler ! 

A telles choses muser 
Voit on tolz souvent servir. 
Les en voulez vous garder 
Ces rivières de courir ! 

Laissez le temps tel passer 
Que Fortune veult souffrir, 
Et les choses avenir 
Que l’en ne scet destourber, 
Les en voulez vous garder !

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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, Paris, Flammarion, 1915, page 84.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles, Duc d'Orléans (1394 - 1465), "Rondeau XIV" [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 Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Les en voulez-vous garder ?", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Missel Chantant, Suite de mélodies sur de vieilles poésies françaises - 5ème volume, no. 2, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-09-23
Line count: 13
Word count: 60

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