I can no longer do what I recently could | I can no longer do what I recently could

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Translation © by David Wyatt

Je ne puis plus ce que y'ai peu

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je ne puis plus ce que y'ai peu,
Je ne puis mais le temps passé,
Je ne suy plus tel qu'ay esté,
Je suy tout passé puis ung...

Tenor
Unde veniet auxilium mihi?

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 Guillaume Dufay (c1400 - 1474), "Je ne puis plus ce que y'ai peu" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "I can no longer do what I recently could", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Alberto Pedrotti

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 32

I can no longer do what I recently could

Language: English after the French (Français)

I can no longer do what I recently could
I cannot though I take more time,
I am no longer what once I was
I am even past having an ...

Tenor
 Whence will come my help?

Translator's note: Dufay's text deliberately omits the last (rude) word, and the tenor part keeps getting smaller and more shrivelled as the song progresses...

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-05-22
Line count: 6
Word count: 36