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Scena XXII.<br />

Nerea fuggendo atterrita poi Niobe con numeroso<br />

Corteggio, & Anone rapito da Meraviglia.<br />

Nerea<br />

Assistetemi,<br />

Soccorretemi,<br />

Numi del Cielo.<br />

Frà quei sassi,<br />

Che s’aggirano intorno à i Passi,<br />

Io divengo di pietra, io son di gelo.<br />

Assistetemi, &c.<br />

Qui termina l’erettione delle Mura sudetti.<br />

Niobe<br />

Niobe ove giungi, e che mirate o luci?<br />

Anone<br />

Sospirata Reina<br />

Ecco per virtù ignota,<br />

Di Tebe le Muraglie<br />

Inalzate à Momenti<br />

Del mio labro à i Concenti.<br />

Nerea<br />

Oh Meraviglie!<br />

Niobe<br />

E qual profano ardire<br />

Hor può negarti, o caro,<br />

Degno vanto di Nume?<br />

S’hor di Portenti è fabro<br />

Il tuo canoro Labro.<br />

Sù sù di sacri Altari<br />

S’ingombri il Suolo; e al nuovo Dio Tebano<br />

Ardan le Mirre elette; il Ciel discopre<br />

I Numi in Terra alle mirabil opre.<br />

Con il tuo strale Amore<br />

Traggi questo Core<br />

Più rigido, e più er.<br />

Che l’Alma innamorata<br />

All’Idol mio svenata<br />

Vuò Vittima cader.<br />

Con il tuo, &c.<br />

Scena XXIII.<br />

Tiresia, e Sudetti.<br />

Tiresia<br />

O d’insano ardimento<br />

Sensi troppo superbi: io parlo à voi<br />

O Mortali Regnanti,<br />

Scene XXII<br />

f e s t i va l o p e ra<br />

Nerea eeing terried, then Niobe with numerous of the<br />

Court <strong>and</strong> Anone rapt with Marvel.<br />

Nerea<br />

Assist me,<br />

Help me,<br />

Gods of Heaven.<br />

Amidst these rocks<br />

Swirling around my Feet,<br />

I become stone, I am ice.<br />

Assist me, etc.<br />

Here the erection of the aforementioned Walls is done.<br />

Niobe<br />

Niobe, where are you, <strong>and</strong> what do you see, O eyes?<br />

Anone<br />

Sighed-for Queen,<br />

Behold, by unknown strength<br />

The Walls of Thebes<br />

Raised in a Moment<br />

From the Harmony of my lips.<br />

Nerea<br />

Oh, Marvels!<br />

Niobe<br />

And what earthly audacity<br />

Can now deny, O darling,<br />

That you can boast of Divinity?<br />

For now Your resounding Voice<br />

Is endowed with great power.<br />

Come, come, fill the earth with sacred Altars<br />

And to the new Theban God<br />

Burn the choice Myrrh; Heaven reveals<br />

Gods on Earth in miraculous works.<br />

With your arrow, Cupid,<br />

Pierce this Heart,<br />

More severe <strong>and</strong> more fierce.<br />

I wish my enamored Soul<br />

To fall to my idol,<br />

A sacrificial Victim.<br />

With your, etc.<br />

Scene XXIII<br />

Tiresia <strong>and</strong> the Aforementioned.<br />

Tiresia<br />

O too-haughty feelings<br />

Of mad boldness: I speak to you,<br />

O Mortal Kings,<br />

175<br />

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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