The manuscript is a song by Collé, comprised of three stanzas, numbering forty two lines, with the incipit ‘Chansonniers mes confrères’. The poem offers a playful critique of traditional romantic songs, ridiculing their themes of love and virtue as outdated and unrealistic. The speaker encourages fellow songwriters to abandon sentimental topics in favour of scandalous or bawdy stories, while still maintaining a sense of decorum. He dismisses refined madrigals as bland, preferring the raw humour of simple, unpolished songs.