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by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566)

Baise m'encor, rebaise moy & baise
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG HUN
Baise m'encor, rebaise moy & baise :
 Donne m'en un de tes plus sauoureus,
 Donne m'en un de tes plus amoureus :
 Ie t'en rendray quatre plus chaus que braise.

Las, te pleins tu ? ça que ce mal i'apaise.
 En t'en donnant dix autres doucereus.
 Ainsi meslans nos baisers tant heureus
 Iouissons nous l'un de l'autre à notre aise.

Lors double vie à chacun en suiura.
 Chacun en soy & son ami viura.
 Permets m'Amour penser quelque folie :

Tousiours suis mal, viuant discrettement,
 Et ne me puis donner contentement,
 Si hors de moy ne fay quelque saillie.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   A. Reimann 

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres de Louise Labé, texte établi par Charles Boy, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 103.

Modernized form of the text:

Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise :
Donne m'en un de tes plus savoureus,
Donne m'en un de tes plus amoureus :
Je t'en rendray quatre plus chaus que braise.

Las, te pleins tu ? ça que ce mal j'apaise,
En t'en donnant dix autres doucereus.
Ainsi meslans nos baisers tant heureus
Jouissons nous l'un de I'autre à notre aise.

Lors double vie à chacun en suivra.
Chacun en soy et son ami vivra.
Permets m'Amour penser quelque folie :

Tousjours suis mal, vivant discrettement,
Et ne me puis donner contentement,
Si hors de moy ne fay quelque saillie.


Text Authorship:

  • by Louise Labé (1526 - 1566), no title, appears in Sonnets, no. 18, first published 1555 [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 Michel Decoust (b. 1936), "Baise m'encor", 1984, published 1987, first performed 1987 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept chansons érotiques, no. 4, Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise", 2021 [ soprano and piano ], from Sept Sonnets de Louise Labé, no. 6, SMP Press [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Aribert Reimann (b. 1936), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy & baise", op. 10 no. 9 (1986), published 1988 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Neun Sonette der Louize Labé, no. 9, Mainz, B. Schott's Söhne; confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Viktor Ullmann (1898 - 1944), "Baise m'encor, rebaise moy et baise", op. 34 no. 5, published 1941 [ soprano and piano ], from Six Sonnets de Louïze Labé, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) , no title, appears in Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louize Labé, Lyoneserin : 1555, no. 18 ; composed by Walther Prokop, Konrad Rötscher, Grete von Zieritz.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-11-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 95

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