Orlando here, with other food unfed,

Having supt full of sorrow, sought his bed.


Little availed the count his self-deceit;

For there was one who spake of it unsought:

The shepherd-swain, who to allay the heat

With which he saw his guest so troubled, thought

The tale which he was wonted to repeat--

Of the two lovers--to each listener taught;

A history which many loved to hear,