Du tout plongiet is a French

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wrote a polytextual version, combining a tenor setting of Du tout plongiet with the words and

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from Ockeghem's ' Fors seulement l'attente' for the baritone.

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, writing in the notes to ''

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'', gives the following words and translation for the first verse. :Du tout plongiet au lac de desespoir, :Trouve me suis sans attente n'espoir :D'avoir jamais des biens de Fortune; :Mais, se trouver puis scayson oportune, :Je me assairay d'en quelque chose avoir. :Plunged deep in the lake of despair, :I can neither expect nor hope :ever to enjoy Fortune's gifts. :But if I have the opportunity, :I shall endeavour to enjoy some.

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