书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2508章 LXXXVI

"When, after long entreaties made in vain, The castellain refused to house the knight, He said, `What supplication cannot gain, I hope to make thee do in they despite';

And loudly challenged him, with all his train, Those ten which he maintained, to bloody fight;

Offering, with levelled lance and lifted glaive, To prove Sir Clodion a discourteous knave;