书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第159章 XLVI

Of the islanders had trooped no petty throng, To witness that strange fight, who by a vain And miserable superstition stung, Esteemed such holy deed a work profane;

And said that this would be another wrong To Proteus, and provoke his ire again;

Make him his herds pour forth upon the strand, And with the whole old warfare vex the land;