I give to all lovers (Anonymous, set by (Guillaume Dufay)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Je donne a tous les amoureux

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

Je donne a tous les amoureux
Pour estrines unne soussye
Qui cest an aiment sans partie,
A garir leur cuers dolereux.

Pis ont qu'a ploutre laboureux
Ne charatier qui se desvye:
  Je donne [a tous les amoureux
  Pur estrines unne soussye.]

Des liens de Dangier plantereux,
De tristesse et de jalousye,
Seront gari je ne doubt mye;
C'est bien rayson, ainsy m'aist Dieux.

  Je donne [a tous les amoureux
  Pur estrines unne soussye
  Qui cest an aiment sans partie,
  A garir leur cuers dolereux.]

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 Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Je donne a tous les amoureux" [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "I give to all lovers", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 84

I give to all lovers

Language: English after the French (Français)

I give to all lovers
As New Year's gift a marigold,
Which they can love without taking sides,
And cure their sad hearts.

Their case is worse than the hard-working ploughman
Or carter who loses his way
  I give to all lovers
  As New Year's gift a marigold.

From the bonds of Love's fertile Pain,
From sadness and from jealousy
They will be cured, I do not doubt;
That's the truth, so help me God.

I give to all lovers
As New Year's gift a marigold,
Which they can love without taking sides,
And cure their sad hearts.

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a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 16
Word count: 98