Fons totius superbie (Machaut, set by G. Machaut) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Fons totius superbie,
Lucifer, et nequicie
Qui, mirabili specie
Decoratus,
Eras in summis locatus,
Super thronos sublimatus,
Draco ferus antiquatus
Qui dicere
Ausus es sedem ponere
Aquilone et gerere
Te similem in opere
Altissimo.
Tuo sed est in proximo
Fastui ferocissimo
A judice justissimo
Obviatum.
Tuum nam auffert primatum;
Ad abyssos cito stratum
Te vidisti per peccatum
De supernis.
Ymis nunc regnas infernis;
In speluncis et cavernis
Penis jaces et eternis
Agonibus.
Dolus et fraus in actibus
Tuis et bonis omnibus
Obviare missilibus
Tu niteris;
Auges que nephas sceleris
Adam penis in asperis
Te fuit Stigos carceris.
Sed Maria
Virgo, que, plena gratia,
Sua per puerperia
Illum ab hac miseria
Liberavit,
Precor elanguis tedia
Augeat et supplicia
Et nos ducat ad gaudia
Quos creavit.

O livoris feritas,
Que superna rogitas
Et jaces inferius!
Cur inter nos habitas?
Tua cum garrulitas
Nos affatur dulcuis,
Retro pungit sevius,
Ut veneno scorpius:
Scariotis falsitas
Latitat interius.
Det mercedes Filius
Dei tibi debitas!

Fera pessima.

Authorship

Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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