书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2065章 IX

"Because the youth had ne'er been known to measure, In all his life, a single pace from Rome;

But, on what Fortune gave him, lived at leisure, Contented in his own paternal dome;

Nor had diminished nor encreased the treasure, Wherewith his father had endowed that home;

And he more distant would Paris deem Than Tanais another would esteem;