Monsieur l'Abbé (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #22311: Finale 2008

Editor: Joachim Kelecom (submitted 2010-09-18).   Score information: A4, 4 pages, 77 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Monsieur l'Abbé
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Clément Marot

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Madrigal

Language: French
Instruments: a cappella
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Original text and translations

French text

Monsieur l'Abbé et monsieur son valet,
sont faits égaux tous deux comme de cire,
l'un est grand fol, l'autre petit follet:
L'un veut railler,
L'autre gaudir et rire.
L'un boit du bon, l'autre ne boit du pire
Mais un débat au soir entr'eux s'émeut,
Car maître Abbé toute la nuit
ne veut être sans vin
que sans secours ne meure:
Et son valet jamais dormir ne peut
tandis qu'au pot une goutte en demeure.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank

The abbot in his pomp and his serving man
Are cut from a single cloth, have a common aim:
Both great and small find pleasure where they can,
Both love to laugh, accounting it no shame.
One drinks of the best, the other not the worst.
Yet discord rears its head as the hour grows late,
For all night long the abbot's plagued by thirst:
There's wine to fetch, the prelate cannot wait.
The servant, weary, grumbles and complains
But vainly longs for sleep while a drop remains.