书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第510章 IV

Of twenty thousand warriors thither sent, Died nineteen thousand in the fiery pit;

Who to the fosse descended, ill content;

But so their leader willed, of little wit:

Extinguished amid such a blaze, and spent By the devouring flame the Christians lit.

And Rodomont, occasion of their woes, Exempted from the mighty mischief goes: