书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2474章 LII

"Some THE LOST ISLE, some Iceland call the reign Whereof a royal lady fills the throne;

Whose charms (before those charms all beauties wane)

Are such as Heaven had dealt to her alone.

The shield you see she sends to Charlemagne, But with the pact and purpose plainly shown, He should confer it on the knight, whose worth Is, in his judgment, fairest upon earth.