书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2385章 LXXIII

Whelming them upside-down, the waters flow, And plunge them in the river's deepest bed;

The horse is uppermost, the knight below.

From the bridge looks his lady, sore bested, And tear employs, and prayer, and suppliant vow:

-- "Ah, Rodomont! for love of her, whom dead Ye worship, do not deed of such despite!

Permit not, sir, the death of such a knight.