Handel: Saul, HWV 53 / Act 2: 63. Recitative: Mean as he was - Susan Gritton/Gabrieli/Paul McCreesh

Composed by：George Frideric Händel

Mean as he was he is my brother now

My sister's husband and to speak the truth

Has qualities which justice bids me love

And pity his distress

My father's cruelty

Strikes me with horror

At th'approaching feast

I fear some dire event unless my brother

His friend the faithful Jonathan avert

Th'impending ruin I know he'll do his best