24. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!"

24. Recitative: "Unhappy, happy crew!" - Robin Blaze/Susan Bickley/Gabrieli/Paul McCreesh

Composed by：George Frideric Händel

Unhappy happy crew

Why stand ye thus

Wild with amazement

Say where is my love

My kind instructor in fair virtue's path

My life my Theodora

Has the tyrant

Seiz'd on his guiltless prey

Alas she's gone

Too late thou cam'st to save if in thy pow'r

To save the fairest noblest best of women

A Roman soldier led her trembling hence

To the vile place where Venus keeps her court

Yet on his brow reluctance seem'd to sit

And helpless pity bade us wait our doom