Oh, Bel-Accueil | Oh, Bel-Accueil, how your soft words

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by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585)

Translation © by David Wyatt

Ha, Bel‑Acceuil, que ta douce parole

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

[Ha, Bel-Acceuil]¹, que ta douce parole 
Vint traîtrement ma jeunesse offenser, 
Quand au verger tu la menas danser 
Sur mes vingts ans l'amoureuse carolle! 

Amour adonc me mit à son école, 
Ayant pour maître un peu sage penser 
Qui sans raison me mena commencer 
Le chapelet d'une danse si folle 

Depuis cinq ans hôte de ce verger, 
Je vais ballant avecque Faux-Danger, 
Tenant la main d'une dame trop caute. 

Je ne suis seul par amour abusé; 
A ma jeunesse il faut donner la faute: 
En cheveux gris je serai plus rusé.

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• J. Leguerney

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¹ Leguerney: "Ah! Bel-Acceuil"

Text Authorship:

by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title [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 Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Ah! Bel-Acceuil", 1944, published 1945 [baritone and piano], from Poèmes de la Pléiade, Vol. II, no. 1, Paris, Salabert [ sung text verified 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Guillaume Boni, Paul Abraham Dukas.

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ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "Oh, Bel-Accueil", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 93

Oh, Bel‑Accueil

Language: English after the French (Français)

Oh, Bel-Accueil¹, how your soft words
Came treacherously to assault my youth
When you led it to dance in the orchard
A lover's dance for my 20th birthday!

So Love has placed me in his school
With an unwise thought as teacher
Which, without reason, leads me to begin
The steps of a really foolish dance.

For five years a visitor to this orchard
I went dancing with Faux-Danger²,
Holding the hand of a too-wily lady.

I am not the only one abused by love;
You must blame my youth.
When my hair is white, I shall be more crafty.

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Note: Bel-Accueil and Faux-Danger are well-known characters in the Romance of the Rose
¹ literally, "warm-welcome"
² literally, "false-danger"

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a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-18
Line count: 14
Word count: 104