Pleurez, ô mes yeux, et ne cessez pas

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

Weep, o mine eyes

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

Weep, o mine eyes and cease not,
[alas, these your spring tides methinks]¹ increase not. 
O when begin you to swell so high
that I may drown me in you?

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• J. Wilbye

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¹ Wilbye: "Your spring-tides, out alas, methinks"

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [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 John Bennet (1570 - 1610), "Weep, o mine eyes" [
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by Thomas Weelkes (1576 - 1623), "Weep, o mine eyes" [
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by John Wilbye (1574 - 1638), "Weep, O mine eyes", published 1598 [ vocal trio], madrigal [
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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

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Pleurez, ô mes yeux, et ne cessez pas

Language: French (Français) after the English

Pleurez, ô mes yeux, et ne cessez pas,
Hélas, vos marées de vive eau me semblent ne pas augmenter.
Oh, quand commencerez-vous à monter si haut
Que je puisse me noyer en vous ?

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a text in English by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2011-06-01
Line count: 4
Word count: 33