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Se tu di me fai dono, se vuoi che d’altri io sia, perché la colpa è mia? Perché son io crudel? La mia dolcezza imita. L’abbandonata io sono; e non t’insulto ardita, chiamandoti infedel.
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- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il re pastore [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-14
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Word count: 34
If you are giving me away, if you want me to be another's, why am I at fault? Why do you call me cruel? Imitate my docility. I am being abandoned here, and I do not boldly insult you by calling you faithless.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, appears in Il re pastore
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-14
Line count: 8
Word count: 43