John Hoole: Praise

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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.”

Book XLIII, line 628
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“What has that wretched damsel left to boast,
What good on earth, whose virtuous praise is lost?”

Book VIII, line 285
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)

“The spotless maid is like the blooming rose
Which on its native stem unsullied grows;
Where fencing walls the garden-space surround,
Nor swains, nor browsing cattle tread the ground.
But if some hand the tender stalk invades,
Lost is its beauty, and its colour fades:
No more the care of heaven, or garden's boast,
And all its praise with youths and maidens lost.”

Book I, line 300
Translations, Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto (1773)