Oh! dove mai ne andarono

English Libretto or Translation:

Act 2
Scene 1
An entrance hall which leads to Anna's rooms and to a room where the Counsel is gathered with guards at the entrance.

CHORUS:
Oh! wherever have the sycophantic crowds gone,
who gathered around her in her happy days!
Seymour, Seymour herself has distanced herself from her.
But we will always be with you, unhappy girl.
Either your triumph or your ultimate disaster prepares itself:
Fate has left you few hearts but they are tender ones.
Behold her…afflicted and pale, she drags her feet wearily.

Scene 2
Enter Anna. All gather around her. She sits.
Anna and above. Hervey with soldiers

CHORUS:
Queen! Take heart,
put your faith in Heaven,
let tears be banished,
virtue cannot die.

ANNA:
O my faithful ones, o the only ones
who remain as consolation to me in my misfortune,
every hope, it is true,
is placed in Heaven and in it alone…On earth
there is no remedy for my ruin.

(Hervey enters)

What do you carry, Hervey?

HERVEY:
Queen!…
The bitter commission pains me to which
the Counsel of Parliament elected me.

ANNA:
Well, speak.

HERVEY:
He calls these servants
before him.

CHORUS:
Us!

ANNA:
Then the King is firm in his resolution?
He will require so much
from my wounded heart.

HERVEY:
What can I say?

ANNA:
I needs must bow my head
to the royal will, whatsoever it might be.
Be you the witnesses
of my innocence
tender friends.

CHORUS:
Oh! What a terrible day!

ANNA:
(embracing them)

Go.

(Partono con Hervey)