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ORLANDO FURIOSO

To Don Quixote of La Mancha

SONNET

If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none;

A a thousand Peers thou art a peer;

Nor is there rooreat unconquered one!

Orlando, by Angelica undone,

Am I; o'er distant seas conde bear

Valour respected by Oblivion

I cannot be thy rival, for thy fame

And prowess rise above all rivalry,

Albeit both bereft of e go

But, though the Scythian or the Moor to tame

Was not thy lot, still thou dost rival me:

Love binds us in a fellowship of woe

THE KNIGHT OF PHOEBUS

To Don Quixote of La Mancha

My sas not to be compared with thine

Phoebus of Spain, marvel of courtesy,

Nor with thy famous arhtnings fly

I scorned all en

For one glance of Claridiana's eye,

The bright Aurora for whose love I pine

A miracle of constancy my love;

And banished by her ruthless cruelty,

This are of Hell to tame

But, Gothic Quixote, happier thou dost prove,

For thou dost live in Dulcinea's name,

And famous, honoured, wise, she lives in thee

FROM SOLISDAN