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Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi Plus tu me [fuis]1, cruelle Plus tu connais que je vis en émoi Et plus tu m'es rebelle [Te laisserai-je ? hélas !]2 je suis [trop tien, Mais]3 je bénirai l'heure de mon trépas : au moins s'il te plaist bien qu'en te servant je meure.
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• F. Caietain • C. Goudimel • C. Janequin • N. Millot • J. Sweelinck • A. UtendalAbout the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "hais"
2 Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "Mais c'est tout un : car las !"
3 Caietain, Janequin, Goudimel, Millot, Sweelinck, Utendal: "tant tien,/ Que"
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 Fabrice-Marin Caietain (flourished 1570-1578), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Claude Goudimel (c1514 - 1572), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Chanson de Ronsard", H. 54 (1924) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Clement Janequin (c1495 - c1560), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nicolas Millot (d. c1590), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philippe de Monte (1521 - 1603), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Chanson", 1963, copyright © 1980, first performed 1965 [ medium voice and flute ], from Cinq Mélodies sur des poèmes de Ronsard, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 - 1621), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexander Utendal (1543?5 - 1581), "Plus tu connais que je brûle pour toi" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Chanson", 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Wyatt) , "Song of Ronsard", 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: 8
Word count: 56
The more you realise that I burn for you, The more you [avoid]1 me, cruel one; The more you realise that I live in agony The more you rebel from me. [Will I abandon you? Alas!]2 I am [too much yours But]3 I shall bless the hour Of my demise, at least if it pleases you That in serving you I die.
1 Janequin, Goudimel, Sweelinck, Utendal: "hate"
2 Janequin, Goudimel, Sweelinck, Utendal: "But it’s all one: for alas"
3 Caietain, Janequin, Goudimel, Sweelinck, Utendal: "so much yours/ That"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by David Wyatt, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Pierre de Ronsard (1524 - 1585), no title
This text was added to the website: 2012-07-25
Line count: 8
Word count: 65