书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第2926章 VI

Faithful, chaste, and bold, the world hath seen In Greece and Rome not only, but where'er The Sun unfolds his flowing locks, between The Hesperides and Indian hemisphere;

Whose gifts and praise have so extinguished been, We scarce of one amid a thousand hear;

And this because they in their days have had For chroniclers, men envious, false, and bad.