书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2904章 LXIX

Marphisa to Rogero makes request To say what sire was theirs, and what their strain;

And how he died; by banded foes opprest, Or at close barriers, was the warrior slain?

And who it was had issued the behest To drown their mother in the stormy main?

For of the tale, if ever heard before, Little or nothing she in memory bore.