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The conspiracy music then begins, and leads to the ball scene, which is most brilliantly worked up with orchestra, military band, and stringed quartet behind the scenes supplying the dance-music, and the accompaniment to the tragical conspiracy, in the midst of which, like a bright sunbeam, comes the page's bewitching song, "Saper vorreste."
Guarini's comment on the Aminta in his letter to Speroni has been already quoted: it does little credit to the writer. Manso, the companion and biographer of Tasso, records that, the poet being asked by some friends what he thought of the Pastor fido, a copy of which had lately found its way to him at Naples: Et egli, 'Mi piace sopramodo, ma confesso di non saper la cagione perchè mi piaccia. Onde io rispondendogli, 'Vi piacer
"Giovanottin, che te ne vai di fuora, Stattene allegro, e così vo' far io. Se ti trovassi qualche dama nuova, L'ha da saper che tua dama son io." So sang she, innocently enough, whose sweethearting went no farther than her artless lips. There was not a spice of mischief in the girl.
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