Un advocat dit à sa femme (Jean de Castro)
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- (Posted 2015-11-05) CPDL #37443: Finale 2008
- Editor: André Vierendeels (submitted 2015-11-05). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 75 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: Un advocat dit à sa femme
Composer: Jean de Castro
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Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STT
Genre: Secular, Chanson
Language: French
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1575
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Original text and translations
French text
Un avocat dit à sa femme :
« Sus, m’amie, que jouerons-nous ? »
– « Si je gagne, ce dit la dame,
Vous le me ferez quatre coups. »
– « Quatre coups, c’est couché trop gros
Comment serait jeu sans pitié ? »
– « Non, non, maître, tenez-le tout,
Dit le clerc, j’en suis de moitié. »
English translation
A lawyer said unto his wife:
-"Well, lady, what shall we play?"
-"If I win, I'll get it four times."
-"Four times, no less, that is hard work,
do you have no mercy upon me?"
-"Do not worry, master," said the clerk,
"I have done half the job for you."