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'Arsinoe' was the first Opera that gave us a Taste of Italian Musick. Thus the famous Song in 'Camilla', 'Barbara si t' intendo, &c. Barbarous Woman, yes, I know your Meaning, which expresses the Resentments of an angry Lover, was translated into that English lamentation: 'Frail are a Lovers Hopes, &c. I remember an Italian verse that ran thus Word for Word, 'And turned my Rage, into Pity;
Voluntati sacrarum intendo scripturarum, vos dissonantiam facitis, verendumque est né aratrum sancta ecclesia, quod in Anglia duo boves validi et pari fortitudine, ad bonum certantes, id est, rex et archepiscopus, debeant trahere nunc ove verula cum tauro indomito jugata, distorqueatur a recto.
Thus the famous swig in Camilla: "Barbara si t' intendo," &c. "Barbarous woman, yes, I know your meaning," which expresses the resentments of an angry lover, was translated into that English lamentation, "Frail are a lover's hopes," &c.
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