Je suis tellement amoureux,
Qu'au vray raconter je ne puis
Ny où je suis, ne [qui]1 je suis,
Ny combien je suis malheureux.

J'ay pour mon hoste nuict et jour,
Comme un tigre, un cruel esmoy
[Qui va pratiquant]2 dessus moy
Toutes les cruautez d'Amour.

Et si mon cœur ne peut s'armer
Contre l'œil qui le navre à tort :
Car, plus il [me]3 donne la mort,
Plus [je suis]4 contraint de l'aimer.

A. Pevernage sets lines 1-4

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¹ Pevernage: "que"
² Bertrand: "Lequel pratique"
³ Bertrand: "luy"
⁴ Bertrand: "il est"

Text Authorship:

• by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), "Chanson" [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 Anthoine de Bertrand (1540? - 1581?), "Je suis tellement amoureux", published 1578, first performed 1576 [ vocal quartet a cappella ], from Les Amours de Pierre de Ronsard à 4 parties, Livre 2, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Andries Pevernage (1542/3 - 1591), "Je suis tellement amoureux", lines 1-4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Jean de Castro.

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

• CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (David Wyatt) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-28
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Word count: 76