From Saul, HWV 53, Act I, Scene IV
Composer |
George Frideric Handel |
|---|---|
Key |
E major |
Meter |
4/4 |
Length |
14 measures |
English text |
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Jonathan |
Imprudent women! Your ill-timed comparisons, |
I fear, have injured him you meant to honour. |
Saul’s furious look, as he departed hence, |
Too plainly shew’d the tempest of his soul. |
Michal |
*to David* |
’Tis but his old disease, which thou canst cure: |
Oh, take thy harp, and as thou oft hast done, |
From the king’s breast expel the raging fiend, |
And sooth his tortur’d soul with sounds divine. |
Opera Stanford |
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