Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Car, se pitie de nous povres...
English translation:
If you could pity us instead
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Evert DELOOF-SYS
Jul 6, 2001 09:22
23 yrs ago
French term
Sara
se pitie
Non-PRO
French to English
Art/Literary
Car, se pitie de nous povres avez
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Evert DELOOF-SYS
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If you could pity us instead
3rd verse > 'Ballade des Pendus' (F. Villon)
Full translation at:
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/556.html
HTH
Full translation at:
www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/556.html
HTH
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Mariana Nabas
France
France
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to feel sorry / to have pity...
the sentence is quite tricky or not quite right but I hope that helps. Good luck!
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if you have pity on us, miserable folks
good luck
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Valerie Marzac
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Car vous avez pitié de nous
This looks like an automated translation, it's awful French, wrong both semantically and grammatically speaking! Anyway, I believe this means
'for you take pity on us'. I've written the correct French above. I'm unsure about 'povres', it obviously is 'pauvres' in French, which can mean destitute or poor as in 'Poor us'. I opted for the second solution but there's no way of knowing considering what we have here.
Valérie
Angloscope Translations
'for you take pity on us'. I've written the correct French above. I'm unsure about 'povres', it obviously is 'pauvres' in French, which can mean destitute or poor as in 'Poor us'. I opted for the second solution but there's no way of knowing considering what we have here.
Valérie
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For if some pity of us poor men you give,
Best regards,
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