书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2098章 XLII

"The monarch, who to every thing beside Could better have given credit, freely swore:

To him the cause Jocundo signified, Why he had many days lamenting sore;

-- Because he had his evil wife espied In the embraces of a serjeant poor;

And vowed he should in fine have died of grief, If he for longer time had lacked relief.