I went off on a tangent today and wondered how many translations of Marot's poem "A une Damoyselle Malade" could be found on the Web. I thought there would be more because there are nearly a hundred in Hofstadter's book "Le Ton Beau de Marot" alone, and he encourages readers to write their own. Anyway, here's the list I found, using the first line rather than a title to refer to them because that's what I found most memorable:

• Petter Hesselberg wrote Min Konfekt in Norwegian and provided an English gloss of that
• Mark Irons wrote Little Mole
• Craig Clark wrote Precious Girl
• David Short wrote Sweet Jeannou
• Melanie Mitchell wrote To my sweet (or in her more wordy version, "To be a joy forever to my sweet")
• Enno de Witt wrote Teder Wicht in Dutch (gloss, anyone?)
• Kat Walsh wrote Sweetest Rose.

Rather than provide my own translation, I wondered what Babelfish would provide. To get a decent approximation I had to remove line breaks (format as a paragraph), replace abbreviations with fully-spelled-out words, and modernize a couple words. My input:

Ma mignonne, je vous donne le bon jour; Le séjour, ce est prison. Guérison recouvrez, puis ouvrez votre porte et que on sorte vite, car Clément le vous commande. Va, friande de ta bouche, qui se couche en danger pour manger confitures; si tu dures trop malade couleur fade tu prendras et perdras le embonpoint. Dieu te donne santé bonne, ma mignonne.

Babelfish spit out (with me re-adding the line breaks as with the original):

My nice,
I give you
the good day;
The stay,
it is prison.
Cure
cover,
then open
your door
and that one left
quickly,
because Clément
orders you.
Goes, fond of delicacies
of your mouth,
which lies down
in danger
to eat
jams;
if you hard
too sick
insipid color
you will take
and lose
the plumpness.
God gives you
good health,
my nice.

Not too bad, really, though I had to trick Babelfish to get it to be even that good.