I loved you once, demure one (Haym, set by (Georg Friedrich Händel)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

Translation © by Andrew Schneider

Io già t'amai, ritrosa

Language: Italian (Italiano)

Available translation(s): ENG

Io già t'amai, ritrosa,
sdegnasti esser mia sposa
sempre dicesti no.

Or ch'io son Re, non voglio
compagna nel mio soglio,
aver chi mi sprezzò.

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by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730) [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), "Io già t'amai, ritrosa", HWV 19 (1725), first performed 1725, from the opera Rodelinda [ sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "I loved you once, demure one", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2018-04-23
Line count: 6
Word count: 25

I loved you once, demure one

Language: English after the Italian (Italiano)

I loved you once, demure one,
but you disdained that 
you should be my wife,
and always said no.

Now that I am king,
I don't want a companion on my throne,
to have the one who spurned me.

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a text in Italian (Italiano) by Nicola Francesco Haym (1679 - 1730)

This text was added to the website: 2018-07-25
Line count: 7
Word count: 39