“With kindly tact
The king did to the downcast heroes say,
'Twill be your turn to win another day.”

— Ubaldo Mari

Grazioso il Re dice agli afflitti Eroi,
Un altra volta vincerete voi.
II, 50. Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 307.
La Giasoneide, o sia la Conquista del Vello d'Oro (1780)

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