书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2541章 VIII

"King Pharamond, the first of those that passed The Rhine, amid his Franks' victorious train, When Gaul was won, bethought him how to cast On restive Italy the curbing rein;

And this; that evermore he wasting fast Beheld the Roman empire's feeble reign;

And (for both reigned at once) would make accord, To compass his design, with Britain's lord.