The Orlando Furioso, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Orlando Furioso, Vol. 7

III. To furnish mutual aid is not enow, For many who would lend each other light. Men do their best, that womankind should show Whatever faults they have in open sight; Would hinder them of rising from below, And sink them to the bottom, if they might I say the ancients; as if glory, won By woman, dimmed their own, as mist the sun.

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For Nature, without study, yieldeth nought) With mighty diligence, and mickle pain, Illustrious women day and night have wrought; And if with good success the female train To a fair end no homely task have brought, So did they for such other studies wake As mortal attributes immortal make; II. A nd, if they of themselves sufficient were Their praises to posterity to show, Nor borrowed authors aid, whose bosoms are With envy and with hate corroded so. That oft they hide the good they might declare, And tell in every place what ill they know, To such a pitch would mount the female name, As haply ne er was reached by manly fame.
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