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Composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687). From the ballet Le Mariage Forcé. With ornamented double by Michel Lambert (1610-1696), from Airs de Monsieur Lambert, non Imprimez. 75 simples, 50 doubles.

Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor
Olivier Baumont,
Eric Bellocq,
Simon Heyerick,
Nicolas Mezzoleni,
Christine Plubeau

Molière also drew upon the tradition of the horrific dream-sequence in Le Marriage forcé (1664), where at the end of Act I Sganarelle’s marital anxieties come to haunt his dreams. He imagines seeing a woman, an idealized representation of Beauty, who sings a love song (’Si l’Amour vous soumet à ses loix inhumaines’).— John S. Powell, Music and Theatre in France, 1600-1680.

Translation:

“If Love subjects you to his inhuman laws,
Chose to love a very attractive object;
Wear at least, beautiful chains,
And since you have to die, die a beautiful death.
If the object of your fires is not worthy of your pains,
Do not commit yourself to Love’s dominion;
Wear at least, beautiful chains,
And since you have to die, die a beautiful death.“

(Translated by Robert A. Green)