“And shall I die? and unrevenged?”
Charles Symmons (1749–1826) Welsh poet
she said:
"Yes! let me die! thus—thus I plunge in night."
Book IV, lines 887–888
The Æneis (1817)
“So might we die, not envying them that live;
So would we die, not unrevenged all.”
Noi morirem, né invidia avremo ai vivi:
Noi morirem, ma non morremo inulti.
Canto II, stanza 86 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
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