书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第733章 XXXIX

"The monarch to the cave did Fortune guide, When the orc's wife alone was in the lair.

Seeing the king: `Fly! -- Woe to thee!' (she cried)

`Should the orc take thee!' -- `Woeful every where I cannot choose but be,' (the king replied)

`Whether be take or miss me, kill or spare.

Not hither I by chance have wandered, I

Come with desire beside my wife to die.'