书城公版Orlando Furioso
19612600001918

第1918章 I

By good Rogero and those paynims three Defeated, Charlemagne to Paris flies.

Already all, throughout their chivalry, Are mad with spite and hatred; jars arise, And strife; and means to still their enmity Their sovereign is unable to devise.

From him departs the monarch of Argier, Who is rejected of his lady dear.

A woman for the most part reasons best Upon a sudden motion, and untaught;

For with that special grace the sex is blest, 'Mid those so many gifts, wherewith 'tis fraught;

But man, of a less nimble wit possest, Is ill at counsel, save, with sober thought, He ruminates thereon, content to spend Care, time and trouble to mature his end.