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Thread #20426   Message #2730879
Posted By: Jim Dixon
25-Sep-09 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: My Heart Is Offered Still to You
Subject: Lyr Add: Mon cueur se recommande à vous
I think the French version posted above has been modernized. This is probably closer to the original, from Oeuvres de Clément Marot, Volume 2, edited by Pierre René Auguis (Paris: Constant-Chantepie, 1823), page 427:

CHANSON XLII
(1528)

Mon cueur se recommande à vous,
Tout plein d'ennuy et de martyre:
Au moins en despit des jaloux,
Faites qu'adieu vous puisse dire:
Ma bouche qui vous souloit rire,
Et compter propoz gratieux,
Ne faict maintenant que mauldire
Ceulx qui m'ont banny de vos yeulx.

Banny j'en suis par faulx-semblant:
Mais pour nous veoir encore ensemble,
Fault que me soyez ressemblant
De fermeté; car il me semble
Que quand faulx-rapport desassemble
Les amans qui sont assemblez,
Si ferme-amour ne les rassemble,
Sans fin seront desassemblez.

Here's an English translation from Lyrics of the French Renaissance: Marot, Du Bellay, Ronsard by Norman R. Shapiro (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), page 61:

My heart commends itself to you,
Full to the brim with sorrows fell;
Despite what jealous folk may do,
Let me, at least, sigh my farewell.
My lips, that pleasantries would tell,
Now only curse those knaves whose spite
Has cast me from where I would dwell,
Evermore in your tender sight.

Cast out am I by False Pretense;
But if we once again would be
Rejoined, then from this moment hence
Be strong, like me: for certainly
When False Report works villainy
Against two lovers bound together,
Unless Strong Love rejoin them, he
Shall have forever cut their tether.