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GCD P30917 - Naxos Music Library

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1 Lamento della ninfa<br />

«Amor», dicea, e ‘l piè,<br />

mirando il ciel, fermò,<br />

«Dove, dov’è la fè<br />

che ‘l traditor giurò?»<br />

Miserella, ah più no, no,<br />

tanto gel soffrir non può.<br />

«Fa che ritorni il mio<br />

amor com’ei pur fu,<br />

o tu m’ancidi, ch’io<br />

non mi tormenti più.<br />

Non vo’ più ch’ei sospiri<br />

se non lontan da me,<br />

no, no che i martiri<br />

più non darammi affè.<br />

Perché di lui mi struggo,<br />

tutt’orgoglioso sta,<br />

che si, che si se ‘l fuggo<br />

ancor mi pregherà?<br />

Se ciglio ha più sereno<br />

colei che ‘l mio non è,<br />

già non rinchiude in seno<br />

amor si bella fè.<br />

Né mai sì dolci baci<br />

da quella bocca avrai,<br />

nè più soavi, ah taci,<br />

taci, che troppo il sai.»<br />

2 Ohimè ch’io cado<br />

Ohimè ch’io cado, ohimè<br />

ch’inciampo ancor il piè<br />

pur come pria,<br />

e la sfiorita mia<br />

22<br />

Lamento della ninfa<br />

“Love”, she said, stopping<br />

to lift her gaze to the sky,<br />

“where, where is the fidelity<br />

the traitor swore me?”<br />

The poor thing, she can go on no longer, oh,<br />

she can no longer endure such suffering.<br />

“Return to me<br />

this love as it once was,<br />

or let me die, for I want not this<br />

torment any longer.<br />

I want not that he should sigh<br />

unless he is far from me,<br />

no; so will he cease<br />

tormenting me.<br />

For the knowledge that I pine for him,<br />

satisfies his pride,<br />

perhaps, should I take distance,<br />

he, in time, would begin beseeching me.<br />

If she, with her gaze,<br />

gives him more pleasure,<br />

love did not posit in his breast<br />

a fidelity so unshakable.<br />

No longer will he enjoy such sweet kisses<br />

from that mouth, my own,<br />

nor more tender, oh! be still,<br />

be still, he well knows.”<br />

Ohimè ch’io cado<br />

Alas, I am falling, alas,<br />

my foot trips and stumbles,<br />

a once more,<br />

and my crushed

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