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Not beauty, wealth, or lineage e'er could raise
A woman's name (he said) to height of praise,
If not in action chaste.

— John Hoole Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

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'Tis often constancy to change the mind.

Dramas and Other Poems of Metastasio (1800)

My endeavour has been to render the sense of my author as nearly as possible, which could never be done merely by translating his words.

But such their power who rule with tyrant sway,
Whom most they loath the people most obey.

Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.

Dramas and Other Poems of Metastasio (1800)

And Neptune's white herds low above the wave.

Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

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