Sweet foliage, green herbs, and clear water, Dark cavern, with your cool and welcome shade, Where Angelica, Galafrone’s girlfriend, Beloved in vain of many, here, displayed Her naked charms to me, for the shelter You kindly granted us, when here we strayed, I, Medoro, poorly recompense you, With these lines, that will forever praise you; And I ask of every lord passing by, And every amorous knight and lady, Every native, each traveller, neath the sky, Led here by Fortune, or proclivity, To the herbs, shade, stone, grass, and water, say: “Be blessed by the moon and sun, endlessly, And may the lovely choir of Nymphs decree That of his flocks the shepherd keeps you free.".
Dark cavern, with your cool and welcome shade,
Where Angelica, Galafrone’s girlfriend,
Beloved in vain of many, here, displayed
Her naked charms to me, for the shelter
You kindly granted us, when here we strayed,
I, Medoro, poorly recompense you,
With these lines, that will forever praise you;
And I ask of every lord passing by,
And every amorous knight and lady,
Every native, each traveller, neath the sky,
Led here by Fortune, or proclivity,
To the herbs, shade, stone, grass, and water, say:
“Be blessed by the moon and sun, endlessly,
And may the lovely choir of Nymphs decree
That of his flocks the shepherd keeps you free.".
The Frenzy of Orlando, Canto XXIII
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