Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux

Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux
Et de nos cuers ostons merancolye;
Chantons, dansons et menons chiere lye,
Pour despiter ces felons envieux.

Plus c'onques mais chascuns soit curieux
De bien servir sa maistresse jolye:
  Ce moys [de may soyons lies et joyeux
  Et de nos cuers ostons merancolye.]

Car la saison semont tous amoureux
A ce faire, pourtant n'y fallons mye.
Carissimi! Dufaÿ vous en prye
Et Perinet dira de mieux en mieux:

  Ce moys de may [soyons lies et joyeux
  Et de nos cuers ostons merancolye;
  Chantons, dansons et menons chiere lye,
  Pour despiter ces felons envieux.]

by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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

by Guillaume Dufay (c1400-1474) , "Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux"

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