Als ick u vinde (Hubert Waelrant)

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General Information

Title: Als ick u vinde
Composer: Hubert Waelrant

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: SecularMadrigal

Language: Dutch
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1584 in Pratum musicum (ed. Emanuel Adriaenssen) – arr. for four voices and four lutes, Edition 1, no. 41
    2nd published: 1589
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Original text and translations

Dutch.png Dutch text

(verses 2-3 by Koos Jaspers 1996)

Als ick u vinde met u spil en spinrock,
met u schoon handen ende rode wangen,
dan vind ic dat ic ben van u gevangen.

'tLigt uwer sterre stralet soo verre, maen en sonne bleecken.
Wil mij genadigh syn, myn niet versaecken,
Soo dattic metterstont [nae tot] u hert geraecke.

Naer u gesinne in soeter minne heymelic vermeyen,
Laet my genadighlic van quaelen sterven
Als moettic tallentyt u [blanke] boezem derven

English.png English translation

completed by Mick Swithinbank

When I find you with your spindle and distaff,
with your fair hands and red cheeks,
I find myself captured by you.

The light of your star shines out so far that moon and sun pale beside it:
have mercy on me, do not forsake me,
so that I can touch your heart, here and now.

If you wish, let's secretly relax in sweet love!
let me mercifully die of bad disease
if I must for ever be deprived of your [fair] breast.