Celle qui a facheux (Pierre de Manchicourt)

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CPDL #29217:    Finale 2008

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2013-05-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Celle qui a facheux
Composer: Pierre de Manchicourt

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATT

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1545

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Original text and translations

French text

Celle qui a facheux mari
ce disoit alis a collette
doibt bien avoir le cueur marri
trop mieulx vouldroit dormir seullette
Elle respond ma seur doulcette
s'il estoit trop endormy
la vraye' et certaine recepte
que de faire' ung amy.

Modern French
"Celle qui a fâcheux mari,"
disait Alice à Collete,
"doit bien avoir le coeur marri,
il voudrait mieux dormir seule."
Elle répond:
"Ma douce soeur,
s'il s'était trop endormi,
la vraie et sure recette,
c'est que tu te fasses un ami."

English translation

"If you have an annoying husband",
said Alice to Collette,
"it surely breaks your heart,
and makes you want to sleep alone."
She answered:
"Dear sister,
if indeed he is always asleep,
the one and only remedy
is to find yourself a lover."