书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2776章 XXI

"And by the crowd are gentle courtiers hight, Because they imitate the ass and swine:

When the just Parcae or (to speak aright)

Venus and Bacchus cut their master's twine, -- These base and sluggish dullards, whom I cite-- Born but to blow themselves with bread and wine, In their vile mouths awhile such names convey, Then drop the load, which is Oblivion's prey.