I beg you, my sweetest love (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 vous pri, mon tres doulx ami

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

  Je vous pri, mon tres doulx ami
	   Ma tres douce amie
	 Tant que mon argent dura

A Je vous pri, mon tres doulx ami,
   Que briefment vuelliez revenir,
   Affin que tost voye advenir
   Ce que promis avés a mi.
   [...]

B Ma tres douce amie!
   Mon cuer prent congiet
   Maintenant de vous.
   Belle, ce poise moy.

C Tant que mon argent dura,
	 Que tantost fauldra,
   Nous menrons joieuse vie,
   Or est mon argent fali.

	 Adieu, mon ami!
   Adieu ma tres douce amie!
	 Helas, mon ami!
   Et quant revenerés vous?

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 vous pri, mon tres doulx ami" [4v] [
text verified 1 time
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "I beg you, my sweetest love", 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: 20
Word count: 90

I beg you, my sweetest love

Language: English after the French (Français)

I beg you, my sweetest love
  My sweetest love
  So long as my money lasts

(She)  I beg you, my sweetest love
       Please come back shortly
       So that I can soon see happen
       What you promised me.
[...]

(He)   My sweetest love!
       My heart takes its leave
       Now of you.
       My darling, this grieves me.

       So long as my money lasts,
       And it'll run out soon enough
       We will lead a joyful life;
       But now my money is gone!

(She)  Farewell my love!
(He)   Farewell my sweetest love!
(She)  Alas, my love
       When will you return?

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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: 20
Word count: 96