Io mi son giovinetta

From  the Fourth Book of Monteverdi's Madrigals (Quarto libro dei madrigali) at Io mi son giovinetta.

"I'm young and I sing,
I laugh at the new season"
sang my pretty shepherdess
and suddenly my heart hearing this song
sang like a happy bird:
"I'm young too
and I sing in the beautiful spring of the love
that blooms in your beautiful eyes "
And she to answer" Flee if you are wise,
flee the ardor, flee because
in these eyes, there will never be
spring for you ".