Recepte pour un flux (Jean Guyon)
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- Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2018-05-18). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 65 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Recepte pour un flux
Composer: Jean Guyon
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Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: STTB
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Language: French
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1550 in Livre 5: XXV chansons nouvelles (Nicolas Du Chemin), no. 25
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Original text and translations
French text
Recette pour une dépense:
couchez-vous avant qu'il soit nuit
dormez toujours, et pourquoi?
Parce qu'en dormant, rien ne vous nuit.
Mais si vous voulez le plaisir amoureux
d'habiter chez la belle au corps gent,
par notre dame! Il faut de l'argent.
English translation
by Mick Swithinbank
If you want to avoid spending money,
go to bed before nightfall: go to sleep and stay there.
You ask me why? Because while you are asleep, nothing can harm you.
But if you want to play the beast with two backs,
spending your time with a graceful woman,
my word! You will need money for that.