Note 303 — Chapter X
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Spiegò quel crudo il seno, e'l manto scosse, Ed a guerra mortal, disse, vi sfido: E'l disse in atto si feroce ed empio Che parve aprir di Giano il chiuso tempio.
La Gerusalemme Liberata, Canto II.—S.
His lap he open'd and spread forth his cloke, To mortal wars, he saies, I you defie— And this he uttered with fell rage and hate And seem'd of Janus' church t' undoe the gate.
Fairfax.