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What a man sees, Love can make invisible—and what is invisible, that can Love make him see.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
For rarely man escapes his destiny.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why
You seldom make our longings correspond?
How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy
Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond?
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Reflect, ye gentle dames, that much they know,
Who gain experience from another's woe.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Orlando, driven raving mad by love—and he a man who had been always esteemed for his great prudence.
Such fire was not by water to be drowned,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars,
of courtliness, and of valiant deeds I sing.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
There never was such beauty in another man.
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
But that he wrought so high the specious tale,
As manifested plainly 'twas a lie.
Orlando Furioso (1516)
Of ladies, knights, of passions and of wars, I sing.
Nature broke the mould
In which she cast him.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Man proposes, and God disposes.
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Nature made him, and then broke the mould.
The higher up on Fortune's wheel you see
A wretch ascend, the sooner he will fall,
And where his head is now, his feet will be.
Orlando Furioso (1532)