书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第552章 XLVII

"I with dishonour life to flight may owe;

But worse than death loath thus to save my head.

The worst that can befall me if I go, Is I my blood shall with the others shed:

But if on me such mercy God bestow, That I remain alive, the giant dead, Secure for thousands shall I make the ways;

So that the greater good the risque o'erpays.