Orlando Furioso: Part Two by Ludovico Ariosto

Author:Ludovico Ariosto
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Poetry, epic, European, Italian, General
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1991-08-29T05:12:55+00:00

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‘A cavalier arrived, as it befell,

From the Byzantine court, and in his train

There rode a lady who, as I heard tell,

Drew the admiring glances of all men.

So deep in love with her Cilandro fell,

So grievously he languished in his pain,

He thought that he would die if she departed

Leaving him unfulfilled and broken-hearted.

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‘Because entreaties would have borne no fruit,

His purpose was to capture her by force.

He armed and hid himself along the route

The two had chosen for their homeward course.

The frenzied passion which had taken root

Left him no time to think, and when the horse

Of the Greek cavalier he saw advance

He galloped to attack, lance against lance.

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