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Nerea<br />
Quasi tutte<br />
Son le Brutte<br />
Quelle Donne, che non amano.<br />
Mà chi vanta in sen beltà.<br />
Nutre sempre al Cor pietà<br />
Per gli Amanti, che la bramano.<br />
Quasi tutte, &c.<br />
Scena V.<br />
Clearte.<br />
Rio destin che pretendi<br />
Hor che à canto al mio foco<br />
Tu à forza mi trahesti; e fummi vano,<br />
Per saldar la mia piaga; irne lontano.<br />
Son Amante, e sempre peno,<br />
Perche peno per chì nol sà<br />
Alla Lingua ò sciogl’il freno,<br />
O Amor dammi la libertà<br />
Son Amante, &c.<br />
Scena VI.<br />
Boscaglia.<br />
Tiberino con suoi seguaci.<br />
Tiberino<br />
Della famosa Tebe<br />
Ecco Amici le selve; il Piè già calca<br />
Le disiate Arene,<br />
Ch’esser dovran del valor nostro il Campo.<br />
Già de gl’Albani il Nome<br />
Mercè di nostre imprese,<br />
Nella Grecia superba hor và fastoso:<br />
Huom non v’è glorioso<br />
In Caccie, in Lotte, alla Palestra, al Corso,<br />
Che a noi n hor non ceda; Argo, e Micene,<br />
E Corinto, e Tessaglia<br />
Heroe non hà, che à Tiberin prevaglia.<br />
Alba essulti, e il Lazio goda.<br />
Il sudor di questa Fronte<br />
Nutre i Lauri al Dio Bifronte,<br />
Che al suo Crine i Fati annoda.<br />
Alba essulti, &c.<br />
Scena VII.<br />
Udendosi rimbombare di lontano per la selva Trombe di<br />
Cacciatori, Manto in atto fuggitivo inseguita da una<br />
Belva, e sudetti.<br />
Nerea<br />
Almost all of them<br />
Are Ugly,<br />
These ladies who don’t love.<br />
But she who vaunts inner beauty<br />
Always nourishes pity in her Heart<br />
For the Lovers who long for her.<br />
Almost all of them, etc.<br />
Scene V<br />
Clearte.<br />
f e s t i va l o p e ra<br />
Bitter destiny, what do you intend,<br />
Now that You’ve drawn me by force<br />
To the side of the one I burn for, <strong>and</strong> made me w<strong>and</strong>er afar<br />
In vain to cure my smart.<br />
I am in Love, <strong>and</strong> I suffer<br />
Because the one for whom I suffer doesn’t know it.<br />
Either loosen my Tongue,<br />
Love, or release me.<br />
I am in Love, etc.<br />
Scene VI<br />
Forest.<br />
Tiberino with his followers.<br />
Tiberino<br />
Behold, Friends, the woods<br />
Of renowned Thebes; † our Feet now tread<br />
The longed-for S<strong>and</strong>s,<br />
That should be our Field of valor.<br />
Already the Name of Alba, †<br />
Thanks to our exploits,<br />
Is known throughout haughty Greece:<br />
There is no man glorious<br />
In the Hunt, in Wrestling, at Horsemanship, at Horse racing,<br />
Who does not cede to us in the end: Argos † <strong>and</strong> Mycenae, †<br />
And Corinth † <strong>and</strong> Thessaly, †<br />
Have no heroes who prevail over Tiberino.<br />
Alba exults, <strong>and</strong> Latium † rejoices!<br />
The sweat of this Brow<br />
Nourishes the Janus’s † Laurels<br />
Twined on his head by the Fates.<br />
Alba exults, etc.<br />
Scene VII<br />
Heard resounding from afar through the woods the<br />
Horns of Hunters, Manto in the act of eeing followed<br />
by a Beast, <strong>and</strong> the aforementioned.<br />
† See glossary of terms, pages 210–211<br />
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2 0 1 1 b o s t o n e a r l y m u s i c f e s t i v a l<br />
NIOBE, REGINA DI TEBE
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