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Language: French

Laissez-moy penser à mon aise,
  Hélas! donnez m'en le loysir.
Je devise avecques Plaisir,
Combien que ma bouche se taise.
  Quand Merencolie mauvaise
Me vient maintes fois assaillir,
Laissez-moy penser à mon aise,
Hélas! donnez m'en le loysir.
  Car afin que mon cueur rapaise,
J'appelle Plaisant-Souvenir,
Qui tantost me vient resjoüir.
Pour ce, pour Dieu! ne vous desplaise,
Laissez-moy penser à mon aise.


Authorship

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

    [ None yet in the database ]


Set in English, a translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) ENG
    * by Willy B. Manson , "Hence away! begone!", published 1919 [voice and piano], from Songs of Love and Youth
    * by Frederick A. Ogilvy , "Song against melancholy", published 1932. [partsong for TTBB a cappella]

Date added to the website: 2008-06-22.

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