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Cléopâtre (se redressant)<br />

Ton épouse ? Je t’adorerai jusqu’à<br />

[la mort.<br />

César<br />

Holà !<br />

Cléopâtre<br />

Qu’est-ce qui te trouble ?<br />

César<br />

Une demoiselle, servante de Cléopâtre,<br />

caresserait-elle de tels espoirs ?<br />

Cléopâtre<br />

César, refrène ta colère !<br />

Puisque éveillée tu me détestes,<br />

je vais me rendormir<br />

[pour que tu m’aimes.<br />

(Elle fait mine de reprendre sa position.)<br />

Scène VIII<br />

Les mêmes, Curion, puis les conjurés<br />

(en coulisses).<br />

RÉCITATIF<br />

Curion (il entre l’épée à la main)<br />

César, tu es trahi !<br />

César<br />

Je suis trahi ?<br />

(Il porte la main à son épée.)<br />

Cleopatra (sporgendo)<br />

Sposa? t’adorerò fino alla morte!<br />

Cesare<br />

Olà!<br />

Cleopatra<br />

Che ti conturbi?<br />

Cesare<br />

Una donzella,<br />

serva di Cleopatra a tanto aspira?<br />

Cleopatra<br />

Cesare, frena l’ire!<br />

Giacché desta m’aborri,<br />

perché m’abbi ad amar, torno a dormire.<br />

(va per tornar al suo luogo)<br />

Scena ottava<br />

I detti, Curio, dopo congiurati (di dentro).<br />

RECITATIVO<br />

Curio (entra con spada impugnata)<br />

Cesare, sei tradito.<br />

Cesare<br />

(snuda il brando)<br />

Io, tradito?<br />

86<br />

Cleopatra (rising)<br />

Your wife? I will adore you until death.<br />

Caesar<br />

Oh!<br />

Cleopatra<br />

Why are you so surprised, Caesar?<br />

Caesar<br />

A handmaiden of Cleopatra<br />

with such aspirations?<br />

Cleopatra<br />

Caesar, restrain your anger:<br />

because, awakened, you abhor me,<br />

I will return to sleep that you may<br />

[love me.<br />

(She resumes her sleeping position.)<br />

Scene 8<br />

The same, Curius, then the conspirators<br />

(offstage).<br />

RECITATIVE<br />

Curius (entering with sword drawn)<br />

Caesar, you are betrayed.<br />

Caesar<br />

I, betrayed?<br />

(He unsheathes his sword.)

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