by Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1410)
Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire!
Language: Old French (Ancien français)
Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! En vous ne puis veoir riens de seür, Je ne cognois ne vous ne vostre afaire. Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! Lequel vault mieulz: pryer, parler ou taire? Dittes le moi, qui avés bon eür. Amours, amours, que volés de moi faire! En vous ne puis veoir riens de seür.
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Confirmed with Jean Froissart, Rondelés Amoureus. Tome Deuxieme, Oeuvres de Froissart, ed. by Auguste Scheler, Bruxelles: Devaux, 1871, pages 410-411.
Authorship:
- by Jean Froissart (c1337 - c1410), no title, appears in Rondelés Amoureus, no. 51 [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):
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, adapted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) , "Rondel", appears in The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published 1868 ; composed by Frederic Hymen Cowen, Sir, Edward Elgar, Sir, Philip Gordon, Willy B. Manson, Sydney Thomson.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ed. Sachs ; composed by Edward Elgar, Sir.
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