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  1     I|      the godly knight,~That the great sepulchre of Christ did
  2     I|        everlasting Jove,~In his great name thus his behests do
  3     I|   charge had laid,~But, for his great Creator would the same,~
  4     I|     before:~And after conquests great, have in the same~Erected
  5     I|     lies:~What lets us then the great Jerusalem~With valiant squadrons
  6     I|       Who sate in counsel those great Lords among:~"At my request
  7     I|        I each troop and captain great may sing,~That in this glorious
  8     I|         bring,~Under Clotharius great, a captain good,~And hardy
  9     I|    Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,~By his Italian
 10     I|        fair, spouse to Bertoldo great,~Fit mother for that pearl,
 11     I|   virtues flow,~To help us this great conquest to obtain,~The
 12     I|        came and Crete.~ ~ LXXIX~Great Neptune grieved underneath
 13    II|       mighty charms,~That makes great Dis in deepest Hell to fear,~
 14    II|     tinsel dight,~On every side great plenty doth behold~Of offerings
 15    II|        Some Christian bade this great offence commit.~ ~ IX~But
 16    II|       all die," quoth he, "kill great and small,~So shall the
 17    II|    massy substance of that idol great,~What sleight had she the
 18    II|        esteem I eath and light,~Great acts I reach to, to small
 19    II|      fears, I ween;~Thy courage great keeps all our foes in awe;~
 20    II|           XLIX~"A thing unused, great monarch, may it seem,~To
 21    II|      thine,~True witness of thy great and heavenly mind,~Where
 22    II|      accordance bide,~With that great worthy which such wonders
 23    II|   flights.~ ~ LXXI~"Tell me if, great in counsel, arms and gold,~
 24    II|       From foul infection of so great a vice:~But by our zeal
 25   III|       THE ARGUMENT.~The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:~Clorinda
 26   III|   blustering winds on mountains great,~Than fierce desires of
 27   III|     courage flame.~ ~ XVII~Mast great the spear was which the
 28   III|         Say, who is he shows so great worthiness,~That rides so
 29   III|        Godfredo from a mountain great~Beheld the sacred city and
 30   III| glorious ensigns spread,~For so great compass had that forteress,~
 31   III|          Ennobled since by this great funeral,~Where Dudon's corpse
 32    IV|   resist, or change his purpose great,~Who on his foes doth thunder
 33    IV|      middest heaved his trident great,~Of rusty iron huge that
 34    IV|      untrue,~To thee my purpose great I must unfold,~This enterprise
 35    IV|       honorable name~Is held so great among our Pagan kings,~That
 36    IV|        will my wrongs and their great treasons show.~ ~ XLIII~"
 37    IV|      pass~That through Damascus great report was blown~How good,
 38    IV|       with two trusty maids, in great distress,~Both from mine
 39    IV|      again,~And gave the knight great thanks in little speech,~
 40    IV|        Achilles were misled,~Of great Alcides at their ladies'
 41     V|        fittest were this hazard great to prove;~For all the worthies
 42     V|         knight abord:~ ~ IX~"Of great Bertoldo thou far greater
 43     V|         Than all his ancestors' great acts beside;~Yet his forefathers
 44     V|      Though but a boy, with his great worth compare.~ ~ XXII~He
 45     V|        the sudden death of that great knight:~Amazed, he asked
 46     V|       increased fear.~ ~ XXXVI~"Great Prince," quoth Tancred; "
 47     V|        quoth he, "to make these great ones shrink,~The people
 48     V|      one whose looks could make great Mars to fear.~ ~ XLV~Tancredi
 49     V|        feel he wants that valor great of thine,~Our camp may seem
 50     V|      wish you me deprived~In so great need of such a puissant
 51     V|        wide~Among the soldiers, great amazement bred;~Famine they
 52     V|         that mighty host,~In so great scarceness, and what force
 53    VI|      Yet never shall my courage great consent~So vile a death
 54    VI|       shall be told and spoken,~Great Soliman of Nice, so far
 55    VI|   appease and calm that courage great,~Which in thy bosom make
 56    VI|      inly spited,~Who Soliman's great worth had long envied,~To
 57    VI|     that a knight, who holds in great disdain~To be thus closed
 58    VI|    shame, or die in field."~The great Circassian bent his frowning
 59    VI|        force could he gainst so great might prepare?~Weak were
 60    VI|        lay on ground:~But they, great masters of war's dreadful
 61    VI|       ending brought,~An horror great possessed their weaker parts,~
 62    VI|          Beseeming daughters of great lords and kings --~She would
 63    VI|       so dear?~Is maidenhood so great a load to bear?~ ~ LXXII~"
 64    VI|       She now perceived it were great oversight,~Yet would she
 65    VI|    nymph was dight:~The tigress great, that on her helmet laid,~
 66    VI|     reason to suppose,~Occasion great and weighty must it be~Should
 67   VII|     wise discourses heard, with great attention,~His speeches
 68   VII|      kind,~At last, with travel great and pains, got he,~And following
 69   VII|        Lord."~ ~ XXXV~When that great name Rambaldo's ears did
 70   VII|        lent him on the brow,~So great that loudly rung the sounding
 71   VII|        Nor did he aught with so great weight incline,~His wonted
 72   VII|       clad,~And rolled his eyes great swollen with ire and blood,~
 73   VII|   sought to purchase fame~In so great peril, fear exiled shame.~ ~
 74   VII|        fame~And Germain princes great stood by to view,~In Conrad'
 75   VII|    wherewith in Saxon land,~The great Rubello battle used to make,~
 76   VII|        comes not Tancred, whose great hardiment,~With you is prized
 77   VII|         all the thousands of so great a rout:~See where the tomb
 78   VII|       Before the throne of that great Lord appear,~In whose sweet
 79   VII|      was to wield,~Now when his great Creator's will he heard,~
 80   VII|      stands the lance wherewith great Michael slew~The aged dragon
 81   VII|         his looks he bended,~So great that it might cover all
 82   VII|         His wrath, his ire, his great desire to win,~Against his
 83   VII|    their knight of help have so great need,~And yet the law of
 84   VII|    slain in fine,~As likest is, great ruth it were you know,~And
 85   VII|         with sword and mace,~So great resistance never could have
 86  VIII|         with life away,~Of that great prince, chief of all Pagan
 87  VIII|     tells, and such sad things,~Great news he brings, and greatest
 88  VIII|      Switzer, and Italian band,~Great tumult move, make brawls
 89  VIII|       this warlike art~Of thee, great lord and master of the same;~
 90  VIII|    Rinaldo passed,~And told his great achievements, first and
 91  VIII|         the other train,~By his great acts was well descried I
 92  VIII|       Sweno's sake.~ ~ XXXVI~" `Great Solyman killed Sweno, Solyman~
 93  VIII|      And with them in abundance great they brought~Both flocks
 94  VIII|         Still wakest, musing on great deeds I guess,~Nor sufferest
 95  VIII|        and good,~Where kingdoms great we may at ease provide,~
 96  VIII|      messengers ran to Godfredo great,~And bade him arm, while
 97  VIII|       Him so disgraced at whose great name they quake;~This sceptre
 98  VIII|     Whereof his ram and engines great he made.~ ~
 99    IX|      THE ARGUMENT.~Alecto false great Solyman doth move~By night
100    IX|         these strifes advised,~"Great Solyman, when day his light
101    IX|         with his Arabian bands,~Great Solyman, of all Christ's
102    IX|          and ruled that kingdom great.~ ~ IV~The lands forenenst
103    IX|    apayed,~That to his court so great a lord was brought:~For
104    IX|        him on an elder scar,~On great adventures ran his hardy
105    IX|       bore~Of one whose age was great, whose looks were grave,~
106    IX|        to the wind his standard great unrolled,~Thus on they marched,
107    IX|    XVIII~"Nor is this camp that great victorious host~That slew
108    IX|    naught, compared to his fury great.~ ~ XXIII~He struck no blow,
109    IX|       that he struck, his anger great to wreak,~A blow, that pierced
110    IX|      was? how fierce, how fell?~Great deeds they wrought, each
111    IX|     hottest ray,~Pass not in so great flocks to warmer coasts,~
112    IX|        coasts,~Nor leaves in so great numbers fall away~When winter
113    IX|      strove in vain to meet,~So great betwixt them was the press
114    IX|     land,~And Argillano in this great uproar~From prison loosed
115    IX|     what came to hand,~And with great acts amid the Pagan host~
116    IX|    comfort vain for grief of so great force,~To wound the senseless
117     X|         sleep awakes the Soldan great,~And into Sion brings the
118     X|    though you stay, the monarch great will bring~His new assembled
119     X|       and glory shall~In perils great to see your prowess tried.~
120     X|      hight, called an enchanter great,~Such skill have I in magic'
121     X|       fall.~ ~ XXIII~"And their great empire and usurped state~
122     X|       of war and fate."~Whereto great Solyman gan thus reply:~"
123     X|       reply:~"0 happy man to so great praise ybore!"~Thus he rejoiced,
124     X|       though dark and deep;~For great King Herod used to tread
125     X|      that in arms had whilom so great fame.~ ~ XXXI~"This passage
126     X|         were our soldiers bold,~Great helps and greater hopes
127     X|        us might,~Doubtful of my great master's words to seem~To
128     X|         in warlike feat~For his great deeds respond his speeches
129     X|      deeds respond his speeches great.~ ~ XLI~"But if it you beseem,
130     X|        state of loss and danger great,~From this strong foe I
131     X|    sword, with death and danger great.~ ~ LVIII~And for he had
132     X|      fight which brought him so great aid,~To be the lords and
133     X|     with your valors rare~In so great need, how was your coming
134     X|     high virtue is his guide~To great exploits, exceeding human
135     X|     told what things his wisdom great foresaw,~And at his thundering
136     X|   children at his hardiness~And great attempts shall take example
137     X|         shall fly with conquest great,~As far as moon gives light
138     X|     hings~The happy end of this great enterprise,~So Heaven decrees,
139    XI|          I~The Christian army's great and puissant guide,~To assault
140    XI|    princes I assemble here,~The great procession, songs and sacrifice,~
141    XI|  glorious sign of our salvation great,~With easy pace the choir
142    XI|    thereto object~Whose loss so great and harmful cannot prove;~
143    XI|      this exploit he spared nor great nor lite,~The aged men,
144    XI|      stone,~As from some engine great it had been shot,~It broke
145    XI|        horns of iron tough tree great,~The walls and bulwarks
146    XI|       my strength and puissance great."~ ~ LIV~He scant had spoken,
147    XI|    further service make~With so great force and rage their beams
148    XI|      grief and teen,~Within his great pavilion rich and gay,~Good
149    XI|         battered part,~And with great loss a skirmish hot they
150    XI|       foes;~ ~ LXXXII~And there great wonders surely wrought he
151    XI|             LXXXIV~From dangers great escaped, but late it was,~
152   XII|        have done, and purchased great renown,~Among our foes out
153   XII|          XIV~"If you went forth great things perform you would,~
154   XII|        were,~Or weaker posts so great a weight could bear.~ ~
155   XII|     fine temper make,~That this great engine burn to ashes may;~
156   XII|        wondereth on some marvel great,~I stood this while amazed
157   XII|     still did make~Their virtue great, which by itself did fly,~
158  XIII|     pain and fear,~Thou monarch great, great Dis, great Pluto,
159  XIII|       fear,~Thou monarch great, great Dis, great Pluto, hear!~ ~
160  XIII|       monarch great, great Dis, great Pluto, hear!~ ~ VIII~"Keep
161  XIII|       well repeat,~Which heard, great Dis cannot himself excuse,~
162  XIII|        from his eternal seat,~O great and fearful!" -- More he
163  XIII|      again his rams and engines great:"~And then he told at large
164  XIII|    heavens foreshow:~ ~ XIV~"So great with us will be the warmth
165  XIII|    plant,~There keeps his court great Dis infernal king,~He hath
166  XIII|         or fame,~His pride late great, now greater made his shame.~ ~
167  XIII|         him leave the adventure great to prove,~Some news he may
168  XIII|         vanished those monsters great,~And in their stead the
169  XIII|      still maintained?~Is it so great a bliss to be a king,~When
170  XIII|       LXXIV~At these high words great heaven began to shake,~The
171   XIV|     shalt thou reign;~But first great wars must by thy hand be
172   XIV|        to increase thy love and great desire~To heavenward, this
173   XIV|      therein responds a name so great,~It's but a lake, a pond,
174   XIV|        shall descend,~That many great exploits shall bring to
175   XIV|         not malice wrought;~For great offence, I grant, so late
176   XIV|       in mind.~ ~ XXXI~"Of this great voyage which you undertake,~
177   XIV|        spoke and said:~ ~ XXXV~"Great pains, great travel, lords,
178   XIV|     said:~ ~ XXXV~"Great pains, great travel, lords, you have
179   XIV|          And of a cunning guide great need you stand,~Far off,
180   XIV|        stand,~Far off, alas! is great Bertoldo's son,~Imprisoned
181   XIV|      vaults though builded low,~Great wonders there, strange things
182   XIV|       There all his waters pure great Neptune keeps,~And thence
183   XIV|         power I know and virtue great,~And all that kind hath
184   XIV|     wall there stood a cupboard great~Of massive plate, of silver,
185   XIV|        she stayed, astound with great dismay,~Then sat her down,
186   XIV|     frost dissolve the hardness great~Which late congealed the
187    XV|       so well it thrived~A city great and rich that it became,~
188    XV|     sailors often cast~In peril great of death and loss extreme,~
189    XV|  fertile side,~His rugged front great Lilybaeum bends.~The dame
190    XV|   whilom, Carthage proud;~ ~ XX~Great Carthage low in ashes cold
191    XV|       first the sea brake in~By great Alcides' help, as stories
192    XV|       Abila hence, thence Calpe great upsprings,~Such power hath
193    XV|       sea in midst of earth was great,~Oh what was this, wherein
194    XV|     wherein men dwell."~ ~ XXV~"Great Hercules," quoth she, "when
195    XV|         outstretch their waters great,~And measure all the world,
196    XV|   Fortune now you see,~Of which great fame, and little truth,
197    XV|   lifted high, his neck swelled great with ire,~Flamed his eyes,
198   XVI|      And she forlorn her palace great and fair~Destroys for grief,
199   XVI|      the air.~ ~ ~ I~The palace great is builded rich and round,~
200   XVI|        blue,~Wherein two navies great well ranged stood~Of warlike
201   XVI|       mountain smote,~With such great fury met those armies twain;~
202   XVI|        graced with that service great;~She, with glad looks, he
203   XVI|     triumphs now?~Love's empire great of late she made or marred,~
204   XVI|         s like for like; I bore great hate and spite~Gainst Christians
205   XVI|         your estate forgot,~Too great your hate was, and your
206   XVI|         was and gone,~Nor of so great a work was left one stone.~ ~
207   XVI|         frame shapes of castles great~Amid the air, that little
208  XVII|           THE ARGUMENT.~Egypt's great host in battle-ray forth
209  XVII|         His ancestors and their great deeds beheld.~ ~ ~ I~Gaza
210  XVII|       thoughts he cast,~He left great Memphis, and to Gaza bore~
211  XVII|        short while,~And grew so great, that over Asia's lands~
212  XVII|      that gulf, it far extends;~Great is that empire, greater
213  XVII|       he laid not down,~Nor his great thirst of rule, praise and
214  XVII|       beseemen might~A king, so great, so grave, so rich, so old,~
215  XVII|     among,~His hosts and armies great beheld the king,~And every
216  XVII|       but high birth and titles great,~His helm ne'er made him
217  XVII|       streets and more contain,~Great Caire it hight, whose commons
218  XVII|      foes no dreed~Of death but great desire of spoil they breed.~ ~
219  XVII|     oysters store,~Whose shells great pearls rich and round pour
220  XVII|         both subjects be~To the great Caliph, but the third king
221  XVII|        plain.~ ~ XXVI~Nor thee, great Altamore, in her chaste
222  XVII| matchless for strength of hand,~Great was his praise, his force
223  XVII|      brought from far;~Then the great wresteler strong Aridamant,~
224  XVII|       lived no wight to love so great a foe~But wished and longed
225  XVII|         trust, my lord, in your great virtue's aid~To venge all
226  XVII|      severe to prove.~ ~ XLIII~"Great Emperor, behold me here,"
227  XVII|       But who art thou, that so great pride~Thou showest before
228  XVII|      Rinaldo, hushed and still,~Great wisdom heard in those few
229  XVII|       the town he kept:~But his great son renowned Acarine,~Into
230  XVII|     many a village a small city great;~ ~  LXXI~Against the swelling
231  XVII|  Berengare the bold~That served great Charles in his conquest
232  XVII|       His daughter young became great Otho's bride.~Behind him
233  XVII|    there left heir male of that great race,~To enjoy the sceptre,
234  XVII|        young man stout:~"Of thy great house, thy race, thine offspring
235  XVII|         catalogue unwrap~Of thy great nephews yet unborn, unknown,~
236  XVII| Withouten veil heaven's secrets great doth see.~ ~ LXXXIX~"But
237  XVII|    Greek, barbarous, or Latine,~Great in times past, or famous
238  XVII|  conquer shall in pitched field~Great armies and win spoils in
239  XVII|    pregnant wits,~Make triumphs great, and feast his subjects
240  XVII|      legions bold~For he beyond great Euphrates should bring,~
241  XVII|   entertain them, rose Godfredo great.~
242 XVIII|    Resolved, as such adventures great required;~Thither he came
243 XVIII|         weighty mass,~On arches great of that rich metal reared;~
244 XVIII|       bent,.~And there a marvel great and strange began;~An aged
245 XVIII|   Childed an hundred nymphs, so great, so dight.~ ~ XXVII~Such
246 XVIII|         sobs, she mourns, it is great ruth to hear;~The hardest
247 XVIII|       likewise dight,~A Cyclops great became: he feared them naught,~
248 XVIII|         bold, stately, high and great,~His eagle's silver wings
249 XVIII|       eke they reared, and with great art~Repaired each bulwark,
250 XVIII|    there, the lords and princes great among,~When the sharp hawk
251 XVIII|      betrayed,~Traitress to her great Lord, touched not the marge~
252 XVIII|    shall there attend,~While my great tower from thence shall
253 XVIII|       near,~And while he talked great things tossed in his thought,~
254 XVIII|        footmen all;~ ~ LIX~"How great, how strong, how armed this
255 XVIII|        oft the duke his engines great begun~To show where least
256 XVIII|      and seeing feared,~How the great tower stood not where late
257 XVIII|       to the mountain's height;~Great Solyman gainst Godfrey took
258 XVIII|     Withstands, and forceth his great strength so far,~That like
259 XVIII|    boldly forward came,~And had great hope even then the place
260 XVIII|      That narrow tree to virtue great was made,~The field as in
261 XVIII|      the sword, death murdereth great and small,~And proud 'twixt
262   XIX|      for despite defend:~ ~ VII~Great was his thirst of praise,
263   XIX|       was his thirst of praise, great the desire~That Tancred
264   XIX|        This said, together with great heed they flew,~For each
265   XIX|        But he, his disadvantage great that knew,~Let go his hold,
266   XIX|         can? or tell the city's great distress?~ ~ XXX~Blood,
267   XIX|     without stop or let,~In the great court he stayed, his foes
268   XIX|      could do more,~Nor cannons great that thunderbolts forth
269   XIX|    place~Where they beheld that great and dreadful mace.~ ~ XLIII~
270   XIX|     chance came thither, to his great mishap;~To that defended
271   XIX|      shield:~But from each side great succor now was brought~To
272   XIX|        His matchless might, his great desire to win,~His oath
273   XIX|      his armed hand that castle great~Would have assaulted, and
274   XIX|        is green,~For underneath great shows of harm and fear,~
275   XIX|        the gates, broad, royal, great,~And oft he asked, and answered
276   XIX|         The way to approach the great pavilions' side:~ ~ LXI~
277   XIX|    wrought.~ ~ LXII~The captain great within bare-headed stood,~
278   XIX|        the last.~Vafrine, these great things heard, with grief
279   XIX|     appears~Her humid eyes even great with child with tears.~ ~
280   XIX|         seen,~Nor thou, nor thy great vaunts make me afraid,~But
281   XIX|        thought would pass,~Each great assembly store of news affords,~
282   XIX|    perchance thou here sojourn,~Great hap thou hast to know these
283   XIX|        and such respects beseem~Great ladies, wandering maids
284   XIX|       ears in my swollen eyne;~`Great prince,' quoth I, `grant
285   XIX|          That he mine honor had great care to save,~And since
286   XIX|       to bind his wounds, in so great need,~But love could other
287   XIX|          CXXXI~"The fame of our great conquests to sustain,~Or
288    XX|        walls and ports the army great~They saw; her strength,
289    XX|        in his looks appear,~And great and goodly more than erst
290    XX|       where his foes with their great numbers would~Perchance
291    XX|      man brought forth his army great with speed,~In order good,
292    XX|         he for himself to lead,~Great Altamore received the left
293    XX|         run.~ ~ XXVIII~It was a great, a strange and wondrous
294    XX|        husband wanted not~In so great need, to aid the noble dame;~
295    XX|     strong Brunello and Ardonia great;~The first his head and
296    XX|     blow so huge, so strong, so great, so sore,~That out of sense
297    XX|        no trust I place;~To his great prowess, might, and valiant
298    XX|         horror strange,~And the great acts of fortune, chance,
299    XX|        small space, small time, great wonders wrought~And as his
300    XX|     this skirmish to the battle great~He ran, and quenched with
301    XX|     house was full of noise and great affright,~He rose and 1ooked
302    XX|       Nor seemed the weight too great, his curtlax trim~His right
303    XX|       lords and peers,~He spies great Sion's king amid the train,~
304    XX|         forth he rode.~ ~ XCIII~Great, yet but short and sudden
305    XX|       was, you would have said,~Great, yet that comes and goes
306    XX|        to bear I gave~My king's great banner, and his standard
307    XX|    cruel fray,~Against Augustus great his happy foe,~Leaving her
308    XX|      CXXXII~"Thy triumph is not great nor well arrayed~Unless
309    XX|      army's lord.~ ~ CXL~Of his great host, when Emiren was dead,~
310    XX|         as he turned his steed,~Great Altamore on foot, with blood
311    XX|       did never bend,~When that great name he heard, from the
312    XX|         thy friend:~On Altamoro great thy conquest bold~Of glory