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Perché, se tanti siete che delirar mi fate, perché non m'uccidete affanni del mio cor. Crescete, oh dio, crescete, fin che mi porga aita con togliermi di vita l'eccesso del dolor.
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- by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1744, appears in Antigono [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2019-12-27
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Word count: 31
Why, if you who overwhelm me are so numerous, do you not just kill me, worries of my heart? You grow, o God, you grow, until you render aid unto me by taking away all my pain as well as my life.
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- a text in Italian (Italiano) by Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 - 1782), as Pietro Metastasio, written 1744, appears in Antigono
This text was added to the website: 2019-12-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 42