书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2617章 LXXXIV

They good Baiardo by a monster view, -- A bird, and bigger than that courser -- prest.

Above three yards in length appeared to view The monster's beak; a bat in all the rest.

Equipt with feathers, black as ink in hue, And piercing talons was the winged pest;

An eye of fire it had, a cruel look, And, like ship-sails, two spreading pinions shook.