书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第1725章 XXXVI

" `Tis only I, on earth, in air, or sea, Who suffer at thy hands such cruel pain;

And this thou hast ordained, that I may be The first and last example in thy reign.

Foully did Ninus' wife and impiously For her own son a passion entertain;

Loved was Pasiphae's bull and Myrrha's sire;

But mine is madder than their worst desire.