Non ti basto, consorte

English Libretto or Translation:

Grimoaldo
Him to safe custody – for you, now hear me,
be he your stallion, or your spouse, no matter.
Take him once more and clasp him to your
bosom, you’ve my consent to that, I shan`t dispute,
if these embraces lawful be or no,
but you shall take your farewell of them now,
and never meet again.
To Rodelinda
If he’s your spark, my rival he,
and if your spouse, my foe,
to me no matter, which he be,
he to the shades shall go.
A sacrifice to that embrace,
thy blood shall, sure, be spilt,
if `twas not chaste, or if it was,
still equal is the guilt.

Rodelinda
Was `t not sufficient, oh my husband, was `t not
to stab me thro` the heart with distant news,
cruel advices of thy death abroad,
in foreign lands, and in the midst of strangers;
but love must guide you, to inflict a wound
sharper and deeper in my panting bosom,
to come here to me, and to fall a victim
before my very eyes.

Bertarido
Ah, my dear spouse,
I place that down to fortune’s other hardships,
but yet, methinks, it is a pleasure too,
since `twas in fate that I must be betray ́d,
that I was so agreeable betray`d,
with you, and for your honours sake.
With this embrace I bid adieu.
ah, rather could I wish to die.
But greater pangs I yet must bear,
since heav`n that blessing will deny.
With etc.