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6. Wanneer ik slaep
Een nieu Liedeken op de wijse alsoot beghint.

Wanneer ick slaep voel ick mijns levens vreucht,
Als my de droom door mijns liefs schijn verheucht.
Als sy my van haer mont
Een kusken jont,
Waermede sy my stelt
Vast in haer ghewelt.
Waermede sy my stelt ghevanghen
O slaep, o soete slaep, duert langhe.

Als ick ontwaeck soeck ick tverloren goet,
Twelc my verlaet en volg de slaep met spoet
En laet my alleen maer
Dencken op haer
Die mijn vry ghemoet
Door haer ooghen soet
Die mijn vry ghemoet, hout neder
O slaep O soete slaep comt weder.

Ick waeck ick droom, ic sie haer nacht en dach
Ick maeck my wijs tgeen dat niet wesen en mach
Nochtans dees dwaling soet
Mijn leven voet
Want sy teghens sin
Van die ick bemin
Want sy teghens sin my haer maect
O slaep o soete slaep die dit waer maect.

Uit: Tweede, 'Nieu Amoreus Liedt-boeck' (1605)
6. A new song to the tune as it begins


When I sleep I feel my life's joy,
As the dream delights me with the image of my love.
When she grants me a sweet little kiss
From her mouth,
With which she holds me fast
In her power,
Whereby she imprisons me;
O sleep, O sweet sleep, last long.

When I awake I seek the lost things
Which leave me, I chase swiftly after sleep,
Letting myself think
Only of her;
She who my free will
- She with her sweet eyes -
She who captures my free will;
O sleep, o sweet sleep, come again.

I wake, I dream, I see her night and day
I make myself believe what cannot be
Yet this sweet confusion
Nourishes my life;
For she, against the will
Of the one I love
Because she against her will makes me hers;
O sleep, O sweet sleep, which makes this come true.

Translation: Ruth van Baak Griffioen

Camerata Trajectina (artiest), Jacob van Eyck & Dutch songs of the Golden Age. CD 1: Jacob van Eyck & Dutch songs of the Golden Age [audio CD] . - (63:50). - (Philips digital classics) CD 2: Music & painting in the Golden Age : pictures at a Hoogsteder exhibition [photo CD] Philips 442 624-2
1994
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