Lyrics of the French Renaissance : Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard

411 Pages·2002·1.01 MB·English

ly r ic s of t h e
f r e n c h r e na i s s a n c e

Lyrics of the
French Renaissance
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Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard
English versions by Norman R. Shapiro
Introduction by Hope Glidden
Notes by Hope Glidden and Norman R. Shapiro
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c o n t e n ts
Preface xxiii
Introduction 1
Clément Marot
ballades
D’ung qu’on appeloit frere Lubin 22
Of Friar Lubin 23
rondeaux
Du mal content d’Amours 26
Of One Unhappy with Love 27
De l’Amant doloreux 28
Of the Su√ering Lover 29
Du confict en douleurs 30
Of One Surfeited with Woe 31
Des Nonnes, qui sortirent du Couvent pour se aller recréer 32
Of Nuns, Who Went from the Convent to Go Frolic 33
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De sa grand Amye 34
Of His Fine Damosel 35
Du content en Amours 36
Of the Man Happy in Love 37
De celluy, qui ne pense qu’en s’Amye 38
Of One Who Thinks But of His Wench 39
chansons
Je suis aymé de la plus belle 40
The fairest of the fair loves me 41
Mauldicte soit la mondaine richesse 42
A curse on wealth, for it has snatched from me 43
Qui veult entrer en grâce 44
He who desires to dwell 45
D’Amours me va tout au rebours 46
I say, love uses me awry 47
J’ay grand desir 48
Oh, how I yearn 49
O Cruaulté logée en grand beaulté 50
O beauty, where dwells cruel hard-heartedness 51
La plus belle des troys sera 52
She who must be the death of me 53
Puis que de vous je n’ay aultre visage 54
Since with your favor I may not be blessed 55
Vous perdez temps de me dire mal d’elle 56
You waste your time jabbering ill of her 57
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Ne sçay combien la hayne est dure 58
I know not how hard hate may be 59
Mon cueur se recommande à vous 60
My heart commends itself to you 61
elegies
La grand Amour, que mon las cueur vous porte 62
The love that my heart, in its weariness 63
Amour me feit escrire au Moys de May 66
Love bade me write, in May, a springtime song 67
epistres
Marot à Monseigneur Bouchart Docteur en Theologie 68
Marot to Monseigneur Bouchart, Doctor of Theology 69
Epistre à son amy Lyon 72
Epistle to His Friend Lyon 73
A mon Seigneur de Guise passant par Paris 80
To Monseigneur de Guise, Passing Through Paris 81
Au Roy, pour la Bazoche 82
To the King, for ‘‘La Basoche’’ 83
chants divers
Cantique sur la maladie de s’Amie 84
Hymn on the Illness of His Lady 85
epigrammes
A Maistre Grenoille, poëte ignorant 88
For Master Grenoille, Ignorant Poet 89