Enjoy yourself in the arms of your lover | Enjoy yourself in the arms of your lover

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Scherza infida in grembo al drudo

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Our translations: ENG

Scherza infida in grembo al drudo,    
io tradito a morte in braccio
per tua colpa ora me n' vo.

Ma a spezzar l'indegno laccio,
ombra mesta, e spirto ignudo,
per tua pena io tornerò.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 - 1759), "Scherza infida in grembo al drudo", HWV 33 no. 23, from opera Ariodante, no. 23 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "Enjoy yourself in the arms of your lover", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-05-11
Line count: 6
Word count: 34

Enjoy yourself in the arms of your lover

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

Enjoy yourself in the arms of your lover,
o faithless one! At your behest,
I shall go forth to seek the embrace of death.

But, to rend asunder this base tie,
I, a sorrowful shade, an ephemeral spirit,
will return to torment you.

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Based on:

a text in Italian (Italiano) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-12
Line count: 6
Word count: 43