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NON AUTREMENT ...	NOT OTHERWISE ...
Joachim du Bellay	tr. Peter Dean
Non autrement que la Pretresse folle, En grommelant d’une effroyable horreur, Secoue en vain l’indomptable fureur Du Cynthien, qui brusquement l’affole: Mon estomach, gros de ce Dieu qui vole, Épouvanté d’une aveugle terreur Se fait rebelle a la divine erreur, Qui brouille ainsi mon sens, et ma parole. Mais c’est en vain: car le Dieu, qui m’étreint, De plus en plus m’aiguillonne, et contraint De le chanter, quoique mon coeur en gronde. Chantez-le donc, chantez mieux que devant, O vous mes vers! qui volez par le monde, Comme feuillards éparpillés du vent.	Not otherwise than this most mad Priestess, Grumbling about a horror unforetold, Vainly attempts to disengage the hold Of the brutal Cynthian who brings her such distress. My courage, puffed up with the flying deity, Thrown into panic by a blind terror, Rebellious grows against the divine error Which thus turns sense and speech to insanity. But, all in vain: for this same God engaging me Goads me still further on, obliging me To sing his praises, though my heart denied. Sing them, however, better now, without fail, O you my poems, fly through the world, world-wide, Like leaves that have been scattered by the gale.