Pour ung plaisir (Thomas Crecquillon)

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General Information

Title: Pour ung plaisir
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicings: SATB and STTB
Genre: SecularChanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1543 in Premier livre des chansons a quatre parties, no. 26
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Original text and translations

French.png French text

Pour un plaisir qui si peu dure,
j'en ay reçu peine et travaux,
j'en ay souffert douleur trop dure,
j'en ay reçu mille maux,
j'en ay eu de trop grands assauts,
or Dieu me doit bonne aventure,
fortune a fait sur moi ses sauts.

English.png English translation

For pleasure that was all too brief,
Have I sustained travails and woes,
Have I full suffered every grief,
Have I received a thousand blows,
Have I hurt more than any knows,
Now God doth owe me some relief,
Ill fortune’s had me in its throes.

Translation by Thomas Daughton