Or perdz-ie celle (Claude Gervaise)

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• (Posted 2018-03-22)  CPDL #49133:       

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2018-03-22).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 62 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Or perdz-ie celle
Composer: Claude Gervaise
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATT
Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1550 in Livre 7: XXIX chansons nouvelles (Nicolas Du Chemin), no. 15
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Original text and translations

French text Or perds-je celle qui possède tout mon bien et sans laquelle je dis: "Fi" du monde. Car ayant tout, sans elle je n'ai rien. Et l'argent seul en moi tout abonde. Un point il y a où mon salut je fonde: c'est que sans elle, je ne peux vivre ici. Prends donc confort en ta douleur profonde: la mort est près qui te rendra délivré.

English translation I am losing the one woman who has everything that is of value to me and without whom I do not care a fig for the world. For, even if I have everything, without her I still have nothing. And money is the one thing that I have plenty of. What will decide my future is this: without her, I can live no more. Take heart, therefore, in your deep sorrow: the death that will release you is approaching. Translation by Mick Swithinbank