Claude Le Jeune
 (c.1529 - 1600)

Le Jeune : Susanne un jour : illustration

Susanne un jour
 (S.S.A.A.T.T.B.)
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pub. 1572.
Lyrics: Guillaume Guéroult

Susanne un jour d'amour solicitée
Par deux viellards convoitans sa beauté,
Fut en son cœur triste et déconforté
Voyant l'effort fait à sa chasteté.
Elle leur dit: "Si par déloyauté
De ce corps mien vous avez jouissance,
C'est fait de moi. Si je fais résistance,
Vous me ferez mourir en déshonneur.
Mais j'aime mieux périr en innocence,
Que d'offenser par péché le Seigneur".

So Susanne, importuned by two oldies leching after her beauty,
was sad and sick to the core, seeing their attempt on her chastity.
Says she to them: If you enjoy possession of my body by treachery,
I'm done for; if I put up a fight, you will make me die in shame.
But I prefer to die undefiled than to offend the Lord by sin.