书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第1726章 XXXVII

" `Here female upon male had set her will;

Had hope; and, as I hear, was satisfied.

Pasiphae the wooden cow did fill:

Others, in other mode, their want supplied.

But, had he flown to me, -- with all his skill, Dan Daedalus had not the noose untied:

For one too diligent hath wreathed these strings;

Even Nature's self, the puissantest of things.'