“And thus she helps the Maid to check her grief
Which, being vented, is less bitter now.”

—  Ludovico Ariosto, book Orlando Furioso

Così fa ch'ella un poco il duol raffrena;
Ch'avendo ove sfogarlo, è meno acerbo.
Canto XLII, stanza 28 (tr. B. Reynolds)
Orlando Furioso (1532)

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