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Oh infelice! oh misero! che voglio
se non morir, se ’l mio bel fior colto hanno?
O sommo Dio, fammi sentir cordoglio
prima d’ogn’altro, che di questo danno.
Se questo è ver, con le mie man mi toglio
la vita, e l’alma disperata danno.
Così, piangendo forte e sospirando,
seco dicea l’addolorato Orlando.
If this fair flower be plucked, oh, misery! oh,
Despair! what more is left me but to die?
Almighty God, with every other woe
Rather than this, thy wretched suppliant try.
If this be true, these hands the fatal blow
Shall deal, and doom me to eternity.
Mixing his plaint with bitter tears and sighs,
So to himself the grieved Orlando cries.