Il faut mourir, Air de cour by Michel Lambert

Air de cour by Michel Lambert Collection Airs for one, II, III & IV partsThemes LovePeriod 17th century

One must die rather than change,
Never should a heart break free,
When another is faithful to its extreme love:
But when it has suffered all that can be suffered,
And the object that it loves
Increases its pain instead of healing it,
One must change rather than die.

One must change rather than die,
When the beauty that could succor us
Is always insensible to our extreme love:
But one must not be inconstant or fickle
And when the object that one loves
Shares our pain & wishes to relieve it
One must die rather than change.

Michel Lambert

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