书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2024章 CVIII

But wonted anger chasing shame which dyed The Sarzan's face all over, he arraigned The damsel's sentence, of the faulchion, tied About his manly waist, the handle strained, And in the king's and others' hearing cried:

"By this the question shall be lost or gained;

And not by faithless woman's fickle thought, Which thither still inclines, where least it ought."