书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第3641章 CXXXV

"An Aethiop woman posted at the door, With blubber lip and nostril, he descries.

Nor will he see again, nor e'er before Had seen a visage of such loathsome guise:

Ill-favoured -- such was Aesop feigned of yore:

If there, she would have saddened Paradise.

Greasy and foul and beggarly her vest;

Nor half her hideousness have I exprest.