书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第1162章 XXXV

"Did ten or twenty persons, or yet more, Arrive, they were imprisoned and put by;

And every day one only from the store Of victims was brought out by lot to die, In fane by Orontea built, before An altar raised to Vengeance; and to ply As headsman, and dispatched the unhappy men, One was by lot selected from the ten.