Jacques Arcadelt
(c.1505 - 1568)

Arcadelt : Quand je me trouve : illustration

Quand je me trouve
(S.A.T.B. (or A.T.T.B.))
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149383 : Arcadelt : Quand je me trouve : sheet music
Catalogued as Choral - Secular (Chansons)

Publ. Paris. 1549. This edition is offered at original pitch for S.A.T.B. or transposed down a fourth for A.T.T.B.
Lyrics: Anon

Quand je me trouve auprès de ma maîtresse,
Et que ma bouche à la sienne j'approche,
Tant ai de joie et tant ai de liesse,
Qu'en mon esprit nul déplaisir n'approcher,
Et si n'ai peur qu'il en vienne reproche,
Parcequ'elle est de vertu la noblesse;
Mais je crains bien qu'en telle jouissance
L'âme ne face en elle demeurance.

When I am close to my mistress
and I offer up my mouth to hers,
I have such joy and such delight
that no displeasure crosses my mind,
nor need I fear that any will ever strike me,
because she is the pinnacle of virtue;
but I rather worry that my soul will not remain
always hers, in such bliss.