书城公版Orlando Furioso
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第9章 VIII

Such is the practise of these striplings who, What time you treat them with austerity, Love and revere you, and such homage do, As those who pay their service faithfully;

But vaunt no sooner victory, than you From mistresses shall servants grieve to be;

And mourn to see the fickle love they owed, From you diverted, and elsewhere bestowed.