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Proofreading requested
Italian
Original lyrics
Vesti la giubba
Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio,
non so più quel che dico e quel che faccio!
Eppur è d'uopo... sforzati!
Bah! sei tu forse un uom?
Tu se' Pagliaccio!
Vesti la giubba e la faccia infarina.
La gente paga, e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t'invola Colombina,
ridi, Pagliaccio... e ognun applaudirà!
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto;
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e 'l dolor...
Ah! Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!
Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!
Submitted by 
annabellanna on 2018-12-06
annabellanna on 2018-12-06Contributors: 
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Translation#1#2
Put on the costume
To act! When, taken by delirium,
I no longer know what I'm saying or what I'm doing!
But yet... it's required... force yourself!
Bah! perhaps you are a man?
You're a Clown!
Put on the costume and powder your face,
the people pay and now they want to be amused1.
And if Harlequin steals Columbina from you,
laugh, Clown, and they'll all applaud!
Turn the convulsion and weeping into a joke;
the sobbing and the sorrow into a grimace...
Ah! Laugh, Clown, about your shattered romance!
Laugh at the pain which is poisoning your heart.
- 1. lit: to laugh
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ϕιλομαθής annabellanna
Thu, 06/12/2018 - 15:59
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