书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2283章 LXV

Not unavenged the unhappy monarch dies;

For in the very moment he is smit, The sword -- for little period his -- he plies, And good Rogero's vizor would have split.

But that he stopt the stroke in wary wise, And broke its force and vigour ere it lit;

Its force and vigour broke: for he, below The better arm, first smote his Tartar foe.