by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio
Translation Singable translation by Nathan Haskell Dole (1852 - 1935)

È prezzo leggiero
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Our translations:  ENG
È prezzo leggiero
d’un suddito il sangue,
se all’indico impero
conserva il suo re.
 
O inganni felici,
se al par de’ nemici
restasse ingannato
il fato da me!

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The life of a vassl
Language: English  after the Italian (Italiano) 
The life of a vassl
Were price all too trifling,
If safe in his castle
The great (Indian) King remained.

More hapless were no man,
If as by a foeman
Thro' me all his glory
In story were stain'd.

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This text was added to the website: 2019-11-19
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Word count: 39