Pour parvenir (Nicolas Gombert)

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CPDL #28587:    Finale 2008

Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2013-03-21).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 84 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Pour parvenir
Composer: Nicolas Gombert

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: STTB

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 1543

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Original text and translations

French text

Pour parvenir, bon pied bon oeil
Avoir fault à l’embuche
Et soubtenir plaisir et dueil
D’amoureulx escarmuche.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank

To triumph in an ambush
When past the prime of youth,
You’ll need all the vigour you have:
I tell you that’s the truth.
You must take the rough with the smooth
When push comes to shove
In skirmishes of love.