Une nuit charmante

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by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Secresy's Song

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

One charming night
Gives more delight
Than a hundred lucky days:
Night and I improve the taste,
Make the pleasure longer last
A thousand, thousand several ways.

Text Authorship:

by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724) [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 Henry Purcell (1658/9 - 1695), "Secresy's Song", Z. 629 no. 13 (1692), published 1702, from The Fairy Queen, an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, no. 13, published in Orpheus Britannicus, Vol. II [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , title unknown, copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Virginia Knight

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 27

Une nuit charmante

Language: French (Français) after the English

Une nuit charmante
Donne plus de plaisir
Que cent jours heureux.
La nuit et moi améliorons le goût,
Rendons le plaisir plus long,
De mile et mille manières.

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Based on:

a text in English by Elkanah Settle (1648 - 1724)
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-29
Line count: 6
Word count: 28