书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第1388章 XLVI

Then said: "If to the place our journey lay By the highroad, which is both straight and plain, That we in time might reach it, I should say, Before the fire was lit; but we must strain By path so foul and crooked, that a day To reach the city would suffice with pain;

And when, alas! we thither shall have sped, I fear that we shall find the stripling dead."