Pour mettre comme un homme habile (Orlando di Lasso)

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• CPDL #32972:  Finale 2004

Editor: Willem Verkaik (submitted 2014-09-18).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 65 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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Title: Pour mettre comme un homme habile
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist: Clément Marot

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Secular, Chanson

Language: French
Instruments: A cappella

Published: Livre de chansons nouvelles, avec 2 dialogues, 5, 8vv (Leuven and Paris, 1571)

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Original text and translations

French text

 
Pour mettre comme un homme habile
Le bien d'autruy avec le sien
Et vous laisser sans croix ne pille,
Frere Lubin le fera bien.
On a beau dire: je le tien
Et le presser de satisfaire,
Jamais ne vous en rendra rien.
Frere Lubin ne le peut faire.
 

English translation by Mick Swithinbank

Cunning as Friar Lubin is,
he thinks that others’ goods are his.
He will leave you truly fleeced
while he goes away to feast.
In vain you’ll tell him what he owes:
the fact is, he already knows.
No matter how you beg or pray,
his debts he never will repay.