书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第317章 XXVII

"But all in vain, for I was fixed and bent, Rather than sate his ill desire, to die.

When menace had by him been vainly spent, And every prayer and every flattery, He would by open force his will content;

Nor boots it aught that I entreaties try;-- Of his lord's faith in him the wretch remind, And how myself I to his hands resigned.