Can someone translate Robert Cornysh's "A dew, a dew" from Middle English/Early Modern English into 2009 English?
Robert Cornysh translation
A dew, a dew, my hartis lust,
A dew, my joy and my solace.
With dubyl sorow complayn I must,
Untyl I dye alas, alas.
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Translating it? For what purpose?
For singing? For the sake of better understanding?
For unriddling the deeper sense of the poet itself?
Speak your mynde!
A Dew f.e. can be a lot of things, poetically speaking.
And the Hartis Lust is a poetic expression as well,
speaking of a lost heart as well as the lost lust and a lost one (my heart)
A dew, my joy and my solace.
With dubyl sorow complayn I must,
Untyl I dye alas, alas.
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Translating it? For what purpose?
For singing? For the sake of better understanding?
For unriddling the deeper sense of the poet itself?
Speak your mynde!
A Dew f.e. can be a lot of things, poetically speaking.
And the Hartis Lust is a poetic expression as well,
speaking of a lost heart as well as the lost lust and a lost one (my heart)
<<Adew, adew, my hartis lust.
Adew my joy and my solace.
With dubyl sorrow complain I must,
until I dye, alas, alas. >>
Farewell, farewell, my heart's desire
Farewell my joy and my solace.
With double sorrow I must complain
until, alas, I pass away
Adew my joy and my solace.
With dubyl sorrow complain I must,
until I dye, alas, alas. >>
Farewell, farewell, my heart's desire
Farewell my joy and my solace.
With double sorrow I must complain
until, alas, I pass away