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Orlande de Lassus
(?1532 - 1594)
Susanne un jour
(S.A.T.T.B. + reduction)
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Lassus's setting of a popular song telling the story of Susannah and the elders.
Lyrics: Guillaume Guéroult
Susanne un jour d'amour solicitée
Par deux viellards convoitans sa beauté,
Fut en son cœur triste (et) déconfortée,
Voyant l'effort fait à sa chasteté.
Elle leur dit: "Si par déloyauté
De ce mien corps vous avez jouissance,
C'est fait de moi. Si je fais résistance,
Vous me ferez mourir en déshonneur.
J'aime trop mieux périr en innocence,
Que d'offenser par péché le Seigneur".
Susanna fair some time assaulted was
by two old men, desiring their delight,
which lewd intent they thought to bring to pass,
if not by tender love, by force and might,
to whom she said, if I your suit deny,
you will me falsely accuse, and make me die.
And if I grant to that which you request,
my chastity shall then deflowered be,
which is so dear to me, that I detest
my life, if it berefted be from me,
and rather would I die of mine accord,
ten thousand times, than once offend our Lord.
Susanne un jour d'amour solicitée
Par deux viellards convoitans sa beauté,
Fut en son cœur triste (et) déconfortée,
Voyant l'effort fait à sa chasteté.
Elle leur dit: "Si par déloyauté
De ce mien corps vous avez jouissance,
C'est fait de moi. Si je fais résistance,
Vous me ferez mourir en déshonneur.
J'aime trop mieux périr en innocence,
Que d'offenser par péché le Seigneur".
Susanna fair some time assaulted was
by two old men, desiring their delight,
which lewd intent they thought to bring to pass,
if not by tender love, by force and might,
to whom she said, if I your suit deny,
you will me falsely accuse, and make me die.
And if I grant to that which you request,
my chastity shall then deflowered be,
which is so dear to me, that I detest
my life, if it berefted be from me,
and rather would I die of mine accord,
ten thousand times, than once offend our Lord.