Ich bit dich meydlein (Anonymous)

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• (Posted 2017-07-12)  CPDL #45414:         

Editor: Andreas Stenberg (submitted 2017-07-12).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 364 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Ich bit dich meydlein
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: German
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1540 in Teutsche Liedlein (Georg Forster), Volume 2, no. 53
Description: A song where an old rich man is courthing a young maiden from Der ander theil Kurtzweiliger guter frischer Teutscher Liedlein zu singen vast lustig… Ausg. Forster, Georg, Nürnberg, 1540

Original text and translations

German text

ICh bit dich meydlein hab mich hold/
 Für silber und fürs rote gold/
 und für alles auff erden/
 laß dir nichts liebers werden/
 du liebst mir in dem hertzen mein/
 du solst allein die meine sein/

 ich will dein nit/
 ich mag dein nit/
 ich will dein nit/
 du bist ein alter greyse/
 es gfelt mir gar nit dein weyse/
 ich will dein nit/

 ach lieb ich bit/

 thu nit von mir gedencken/
 wann man mich schon verschwerzen wolt/

 ich will dir warlich schencken/
 vil silber und vil rotes gold/
 ach schönes meydlein hab mich hold.

English translation

Oh maiden, I beseach you, love me.
I do not hold silver, nor gold,
nor anything on earth dearer than you.
In my hearth you love me
and you alone will be mine.

I will not be thine,
I will not have you,
I will not be thine
You are an old greybeard,
I do not like your singing.
I will not be thine.

Oh pleas love me I pray.

Do not think of me,
People already start to black my reputation.

I will surely give you
much silver and much red gold,
Oh lovely maiden love me.