You shall not have it | You shall not, if I can stop you, have

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Translation © by David Wyatt

Vous ne l'arez pas

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Vous ne l'arez pas si je puis
Ce que m'avez requis d'avoir
Et eussies vous austant d'avoir
Qu'il en porroit dedens ung puis.

Modernised spelling:

Vous ne l'aurez pas si je puis
Ce que m'avez requis d'avoir
Et eussiez-vous autant d'avoir
Qu'il en pourrait dedans un puits.

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 Josquin des Prez (c1440 - 1521), "Vous ne l'arez pas" [vocal quintet] [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "You shall not have it", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-07-14
Line count: 4
Word count: 23

You shall not have it

Language: English after the French (Français)

You shall not, if I can [stop you], have
What you asked me to have
Not even if you had pockets
As deep as a well.¹

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¹ (literally: if you had as much credit / as there could be in a well)

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a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-07-14
Line count: 4
Word count: 26