A second Venus you are | A second Venus you are, faultless

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by David Wyatt

Aultre Venus estes

Language: Old French (Ancien français)

Our translations: ENG

Aultre Venus estes sans faille
Plus que nulle autre creature
De corps de beaulte de figure
La semblez et de mesmes taille

Celui qui les amours detaille
Peust de vous dire par droicture
    Autre Venus estes sans faille
    Plus que nulle autre creature

Qui contredit j'offre bataille
A oultrance et a desmesure
Maintenant qu'il vous fait injure
Se le tistre tel ne vous baille

    Autre Venus estes sans faille
    Plus que nulle autre creature
    De corps de beaulte de figure
    La semblez et de mesmes taille

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 Johannes Ockeghem (1410?25 - 1497), "Aultre Venus estes" [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (David Wyatt) , title 1: "A second Venus you are", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: David Wyatt

This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 86

A second Venus you are

Language: English after the Old French (Ancien français)

A second Venus you are, faultless,
More than any other creature;
In form, beauty and face
You resemble her, and are have the same figure.

He who writes of love-affairs
Can rightly say of you,
  A second Venus you are, faultless,
  More than any other creature.

If anyone disputes it, I offer battle
To the death and without restrictions,
Maintaining that he does you wrong
If he does not hand you such a title.

  A second Venus you are, faultless,
  More than any other creature;
  In form, beauty and face
  You resemble her, and are have the same figure.

Text Authorship:

Translation from Old French (Ancien 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 Old French (Ancien français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2012-09-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 99