Las, je sçay bien (Jacques Arcadelt)

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Editor: Martin Neumann (added 2007-11-09).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 33 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Las je scay bien
Composer: Jacob Arcadelt

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: ATTB
Genre: Secular, Madrigals
Language: French
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Original text and translations

Las, je scay bien
que je fis (?) grande offense
quant j'ai (?) voulu contre amour tenir fort.
Il m'en prent mal, aussi avois-je tort
de vouloir faire à un dieu résistance,
duquel chascun redoubte la puissance.
Tant feist d'effort que (?) print d'assault mon cueur,
et meist le feu dedans à grande oultrance,
en lieu conquis ainsy faict le vaincueur.

English translation by Mick Swithinbank:

Alas, I know full well
that I was very much at fault
when I tried to hold out against love.
I am suffering for it, and it was wrong of me
to think I could resist a god
whose power all fear.
He made such determined efforts that he took my heart by storm
and laid it waste with fire,
just as the victor does in a place that he has conquered.