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  1     I|      bend:~To you these tales of love and conquest brave~I dedicate,
  2     I|  woe-begone was he with pains of love:~Boemond the conquered folk
  3     I|       thee move,~What zeal, what love should in thy bosom dwell!"~
  4     I|          sweet~Received he, with love and gentle grace;~After
  5     I|          overgone,~His fault was love, by unadvised sight,~Bred
  6     I|           Sight, wonder; wonder, love; love bred his care;~O love,
  7     I|     Sight, wonder; wonder, love; love bred his care;~O love, o
  8     I|      love; love bred his care;~O love, o wonder; love new born,
  9     I|          care;~O love, o wonder; love new born, new bred,~Now
 10     I|        in mind~He kept, and blew love's fire with that wind.~ ~
 11     I|        go'th~In bond of virtuous love together tied,~Together
 12     I|       died.~ ~ LVII~In school of love are all things taught we
 13     I|    disarmed, then God himself of Love.~ ~ LIX~Sophia by Adige'
 14     I|        knit~With surest bonds of love and friendship strong,~Together
 15    II|  esteemed treasure;~The field of love with plough of virtue eared,~
 16    II|        whetstones to desire?~Nor love consents that beauty's field
 17    II|          heart on fire,~O subtle love, a thousand wiles thou hast,~
 18    II|    helped by Nature, Heaven, and Love.~ ~ XIX~Admired of all,
 19    II|          king had snared been in love's strong lace;~But wayward
 20    II|     forbids, a smile engendereth love.~ ~ XXI~It was amazement,
 21    II|        and delight,~Although not love, that moved his cruel sense;~"
 22    II| vengeance stopped mercy's breath~Love's thrall to hate, and beauty'
 23    II|       thus he loved, yet was his love unkind!~ ~ XXIX~He added
 24    II|        tyrant wild?~Or hath fond love thy heart so over-gone?~
 25    II|          of wondrous kind!~Where love and virtue such contention
 26    II|  exchanged again his shafts with love,~And Cupid thus lets borrowed
 27    II|     constraint~Would murder here love's queen and beauty's king?~
 28    II|       Where sun, moon, stars, of love, faith, virtue, shine.~So
 29    II|         coming tide~Of proffered love, for that he is not taught~
 30    II|   precious handle of this cup of love,~If not religion, virtue
 31    II|       told,~And if thy sovereign love us as he says,~Tell him
 32    II|           Think not that wars we love, and strife affect,~Or that
 33    II|        Which makes you prize our love and friendship light."~ ~
 34   III|        Of fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,~He jousts with
 35   III|          Who felt her heart with love's hot fever quake,~"Well
 36   III|       wisely could suppress,~Her love and passion she dissembled
 37   III|  dissembled well,~And strove her love and hot desire to cover,~
 38   III|        crafty sleight~Her secret love disguised in clothes of
 39   III|      whose sweet face~The God of Love did in thy heart compile,~
 40   III|        She stayed, and desperate love had made him bold;~"Since
 41   III|         or let thine anger kill,~Love hath disarmed my life of
 42   III|     Gildippes, who begun~Through love the hazard of fierce war
 43   III|        arms, but famous more for love."~ ~ XLI~While thus they
 44    IV|      with deceit, craft, beauty, love.~ ~ ~ I~While thus their
 45    IV|        nays,~And pine in foolish love, let some complain~On Godfrey'
 46    IV|       sleights that women use in love,~Shed brinish tears, sob,
 47    IV|       alluring speech;~For if he love, the conquest then thou
 48    IV|         milken dale below,~Where love, youth, gladness, whiteness
 49    IV|          was the fire~Of her hot love, but soon the fatal knife~
 50    IV|        with moan,~And sought his love amid the Elysian fields,~
 51    IV|         In brother's breast true love his mansion hath.~ ~ XLV~"
 52    IV|           And with kind shows of love so brought to pass~That
 53    IV|         fashions wayward, and in love unkind,~For Cupid deigns
 54    IV|     revenging fire,~When so base love shall change my chaste desire.~ ~
 55    IV|       wildfire threw.~O wondrous love! thou makest gain of all;~
 56    IV|        whose breast the brand~Of love and pity kindled had the
 57    IV|          once more had fallen in love.~ ~ LXXXV~With that she
 58    IV|          minds, their hearts, in love she drowned.~ ~ LXXXVII~
 59    IV|        would be won,~Forebore to love, because they durst not
 60    IV|     serve, to please, to woo, to love her,~And in their hearts
 61    IV|       snares of foolish ruth and love she hent,~And kept as slaves,
 62    IV|          pity breedeth fruitless love.~ ~ XCI~Sometimes, as if
 63    IV|        learned the gamut then of love.~ ~ XCIV~For down she bet
 64    IV|        cheer,~That any would his love by talk bewray,~Sometimes
 65    IV|          were the arms wherewith love conquered~Their feeble hearts
 66     V|    wandering errors of deceitful love,~And thought, besides the
 67     V|    knighthood which was childish love.~ ~ VIII~But loving Eustace,
 68     V|     breast compiled,~And, for in love he would no company,~He
 69     V|       XII~This last request, for love is evil to hide,~Empurpled
 70     V|           there was no place for love.~ ~ XVI~Gernando was the
 71     V|          ones shrink,~The people love him whom the nobles fear:~
 72     V|      length.~ ~ XLVII~"For God's love stay your heat, and just
 73     V|  incontinent.~His friends, whose love did never shrink or start,~
 74     V|   discussed,~As far from partial love as free from spite,~I hear
 75     V|       invention, --~Whose looks, love's arrows were; whose eyes
 76     V|          And proffereth heaps of love's enticing treasure:~But
 77     V|         long repentance comes of love's short pleasure,~Her crafts,
 78     V|          the chastest heart feel love's sweet pain,~Oh, how her
 79     V|         kind~Another's force, so love excludeth love:~These two
 80     V|         force, so love excludeth love:~These two alone nor more
 81     V|          by Vulcan not by gentle love.~ ~ LXVII~The time prefixed
 82     V|       There envy each at others' love exceeded,~And all importunate
 83     V|       grief at others' good,~For love she wist was weak without
 84     V|        desire,~Withouten partial love, of every knight,~Although
 85     V|    designed~To make the lords of love and beauty's treasure:~Their
 86     V|     succeeds,~Then Ulderick whom love list so advance,~Lord William
 87     V|       all her laws,~And mad with love, yet out on love they cry,~
 88     V|        mad with love, yet out on love they cry,~That in his kingdom
 89     V|        ear, but not their heart,~Love calls it folly, whatso wisdom
 90     V|        led~These prisoners, whom love would captive keep,~The
 91     V|          of hers?" He answered, "Love."~ ~ LXXXII~"Love hath Eustatio
 92     V|     answered, "Love."~ ~ LXXXII~"Love hath Eustatio chosen, Fortune
 93     V|       gain?~ ~ LXXXIV~"If me you love, why wish you me deprived~
 94    VI|      without; within, burnt with love's flame,~And quite forgot
 95    VI|          The other stood amazed, love stopped his ear,~He thinks
 96    VI|          hit,~Who never knots of love more surer knit.~ ~ LVIII~
 97    VI|    captivated was her heart,~And love the keys did of that prison
 98    VI|          all her sorrows yet her love was chief.~ ~ LX~The silly
 99    VI|         up by Phoebus' rays,~Her love a mountain seemed, whereon
100    VI|           The same seems him, so love and fancy tells.~ ~ LXII~
101    VI|       pale, sad, astonished,~Her love, her fear; her fear, her
102    VI|          Thus would she cure her love, and cure her foe~She must,
103    VI|        made through need.~ ~ LXX~Love, fearless, hardy, and audacious
104    VI|   fearless, hardy, and audacious love,~Emboldened had this tender
105    VI|      thought,~A doubtful combat, love and honor fought.~ ~ LXXI~"
106    VI|          of iron frame;~To be in love is neither sin nor shame.~ ~
107    VI|       gentle knight so cruel be?~Love in his heart thy grief and
108    VI|           yet say'st thou art in love.~ ~ LXXV~"No, no, stay here
109    VI|          virago bold,~Except her love, that tale to none she told.~ ~
110    VI|        kisses sweet; for keeper, love.~ ~ LXXXV~"Or else my tender
111    VI|       Might cure the wound which love before had made;~Then should
112    VI|          tears upon his murdered love.~ ~ LXXXVI~"Alas! impossible
113    VI|       weak and soft.~ ~ LXXXVII~"Love, strong, bold, mighty never-tired
114    VI|         bold, mighty never-tired love,~Supplieth force to all
115    VI|        this will I try:~O gentle love, in this adventure hard~
116    VI|    through the streets was sent;~Love gave her courage, love exiled
117    VI|           Love gave her courage, love exiled fear,~Love to her
118    VI|       courage, love exiled fear,~Love to her tired limbs new vigor
119    VI|       consent~Gainst whom fierce love such cruel war hath raised,~
120    VI|     Lastly she forward rode with love to guide,~Until the Christian
121    VI|       And counsellors of her old love she made~Those valleys dumb,
122    VI|         me mercy find,~As gentle love assureth me I shall,~Among
123    VI|         endless thirst of ardent love~With dear embracements of
124    VI|         trusty courser move,~Her love, her lord, herself abandoned,~
125    VI|       valleys green,~To seek his love, he galloped fast unseen.~
126   VII|   folding the virgin bright;~And Love, his mother, and the Graces
127   VII|         and shield of right~Doth love the innocence of simple
128   VII|          life which I admire and love;~Within these pleasant groves
129   VII|       troth in fortune, trust in love.~ ~ XXI~"Yet may it be,
130   VII|         and sorrows to reward my love.~ ~ XXII~"So, though my
131   VII|   conscience, shame, disdain and love.~ ~ XLI~At last so careless
132   VII|      griefs and fears,~He blamed love, chance gan he reprehend,~
133   VII|         this champion good,~With love and honor's care are thus
134  VIII|       late obedience? where your love?~Of Godfrey's falsehood
135  VIII|       offence, but for Rinaldo's love,~I pardon you, hereafter
136    IX|       And gainst his face, where love and pity stand,~To pray
137     X|       bring,~Zeal to this state, love to my lord and king --~ ~
138     X|       But Solyman, who Godfrey's love despised,~Is either dead
139     X|    Christians shall~In peace and love unite within one wall."~ ~
140     X|         it not,~Enticed forth by love and beauty's hue;~A jealous
141     X|        know too late,~Nursed our love, our jealousy, our hate.~ ~
142     X|          The birds sung hymns of love; yet speak I naught~Of gold
143     X|         enticing smiles,~Infused love among the dainties set,~
144    XI|        greater care protect,~And love yourself because all us
145    XI|      yourself because all us you love,~Your happy life is spirit,
146    XI|          behold,~Their country's love to war encouraged,~They
147   XII|       Mine eunuch, whom I dearly love, with thee~I leave my faithful
148   XII|       lies.~ ~ XXII~"The fire of love and frost of jealousy,~Her
149   XII|          flowed high,~The foe to love and plague to sweet content,~
150   XII|       fierce bulls whom rage and love provoke.~ ~ LIV~Worthy of
151   XII|      gave the knight, in show~Of love and peace, her speech, alas,
152   XII|        fell on endless sleep, --~Love, Beauty, Virtue, for your
153   XII|        ease my pain:~Of luckless love therefore in torments' smart~
154   XII|         woful monster of unhappy love,~Who still must live, lest
155   XII|           Wherein dwelt late all love, all joy, all good?~My fury
156   XII|          the pledge of faith and love?~Given me but late, too
157   XII|     himself, now to his murdered love,~He spoke, who heard perchance
158   XII|    Behold how fair, how glad thy love appears,~And for my sake,
159   XII|      long to rest,~There still I love thee, there for Tancred
160   XII|    eternal light,~Thou shalt thy love enjoy, and she her knight;~ ~
161   XII|      bliss deprive,~Live, know I love thee, that I nill deny,~
162   XII|           This said, of zeal and love forth of her eye~An hundred
163   XII|    sought,~Meanwhile of his dear love the relics sweet,~As best
164   XII|       Next day the prince, whose love and courage strong~Drew
165   XII|     mournful grave,~But of quick love the fortress and the hold,~
166   XII|      which it lately dressed,~My love, thy pity cannot her offend,~
167   XII|        living loved her, and for love now die:~ ~ XCIX~"And loving
168   XII|           who late had slain his love.~O promise vain! it otherwise
169  XIII|          feigned shows of tender love made soft,~A spirit false
170   XIV|          IX~"But to increase thy love and great desire~To heavenward,
171   XIV|          If I say truth, or if I love him, see.~But say, what
172   XIV|        fond desire,~Far hence in love and looseness idle sit,~
173   XIV|      heart," quoth he, "if you I love,~To your request and suit
174   XIV|    dismay,~Then sat her down, so love can art beguile,~And as
175   XIV|      precious charge,~And of her love ashamed, the way did take,~
176   XIV|         there to frolic with her love awhile,~She chose a waste,
177   XIV|      leave that base and servile love.~ ~ LXXVIII~"Now resteth
178    XV|     courteous, full of peace and love;~In look a saint, an angel
179    XV|       clearness on the earth his love.~ ~ X~By Ascalon they sailed,
180    XV|       champion bold~In idleness, love, fancy, folly light;~When
181    XV|     baits laid forth of lust and love.~ ~ LIX~These naked wantons,
182    XV|        flies,~Or as the Queen of Love, new born and bred~Of the
183    XV|         tresses fall,~Whereunder Love himself in ambush placed:~
184    XV|          endless rest,~You shall love's champions be, and soldiers
185   XVI|         And heaven upheld; false Love stood by and smiled:~Armed
186   XVI|        look,~Strive and contend, love, courage, shame and ire;~
187   XVI|        began,~Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,~
188   XVI|      fancy sweet, and sighed out love.~ ~ XVII~Through all this
189   XVI|         pillow was, where he and love took rest.~ ~  XIX~His hungry
190   XVI|       inflamed, alas,~Beauty and love beheld, both in one seat;~
191   XVI|       for an hermit false called Love.~ ~ XXVII~And when the silence
192   XVI|       keep, if charms recall her love.~ ~ XXXVII~All what the
193   XVI|       beauty were best charm for love.~ ~ XXXVIII~She ran, nor
194   XVI|         vaunts and triumphs now?~Love's empire great of late she
195   XVI|     scorn to grant such grace as love affords,~At least yet as
196   XVI|        inchanted, and allured to love,~Wicked deceit, craft worthy
197   XVI|          There plaints no issue, love no entrance got.~ ~ LI~Love
198   XVI|      love no entrance got.~ ~ LI~Love entered not to kindle in
199   XVI|      Pity in the place at least,~Love's sister, but a chaste and
200   XVI|          your hate was, and your love too hot.~ ~ LIII~"But those
201   XVI|        chaste Xenocrates, gainst love divine;~O heavens, O gods!
202   XVI|          recall me out?~And do I love him still, and on this sand~
203   XVI|          stand~The castle of her love for whom you strive,~I,
204   XVI|          all will aid me, for my love:~I seek revenge, and to
205   XVI|     gainst mine estate~I did for love, or shall commit for hate."~ ~
206  XVII|          There lived no wight to love so great a foe~But wished
207  XVII|     certain signs described,~How love's empoisoned fire their
208  XVII|       And bring you thither from love's hateful cell,~Now to my
209  XVII|      sixth Azzo whom all virtues love;~This was the pedigree of
210 XVIII|         painted whom wild Satyrs love,~Whose arms half-naked,
211 XVIII|         lady's hope, welcome her love.~ ~ XXIX~"Thou com'st to
212 XVIII|     princess, faint and sick~For love, for love of thee, faint,
213 XVIII|     faint and sick~For love, for love of thee, faint, sick, distressed;~
214 XVIII|          if you further venture,~Love keeps the gate, the fort
215   XIX|      next appear:~Meanwhile with love and tender ruth go see~And
216   XIX|         her lily hand,~Her eyes, love's twinkling stars, she bent
217   XIX|          And quaked sometime for love, sometime for ire,~And in
218   XIX|        fire now burnt, now shone love's flame.~ ~ LXIX~Then from
219   XIX|        make me afraid,~But cruel love I fear, and this fair queen."~
220   XIX|        that title be~The bond of love and peace between you both;~
221   XIX|         peace and rest thus bore love's yoke."~ ~ LXXV~All this
222   XIX|     other dame~But me, on me thy love and service place,~I take
223   XIX|     shame,~Why hope you restless love to bring on sleep?~Why strive
224   XIX|          who can hide desire, or love suppress?~Oft of his worth
225   XIX|         me, saidst, `Thou art in love;'~But I denied, for what
226   XIX|         my hopes and helps, till love's sweet flame~Plucked off
227   XIX|      mild.~ ~ XCIX~"But when hot love which fear had late suppressed,~
228   XIX|         eyes~Looked not upon thy love and handmaid kind,~Undo
229   XIX|      Though gone, though dead, I love thee still, behold;~Death
230   XIX|      Death wounds, but kills not love; yet if thou live,~Sweet
231   XIX|          follies bold~Ah, pardon love's desires, and stealths
232   XIX|    kisses cold,~Since death doth love of just reward deprive;~
233   XIX|        to heaven, where all true love hath place:"~This said,
234   XIX|     wound,~That hope of life her love and skill soon found.~ ~
235   XIX|    wounds, in so great need,~But love could other bands, though
236   XIX|         shows thy wisdom and thy love,~And what you left in doubt
237    XX|         double, double was their love.~ ~ XXXVI~The noble lovers
238    XX|          But her dear knight his love from ground upbore,~Were
239    XX|        first his arms she spied,~Love, hate, wrath, sweet desire
240    XX|    sharped and kindled hath,~But love appeased her, love assuaged
241    XX|           But love appeased her, love assuaged her wrath.~ ~ LXIII~
242    XX|     assuaged her wrath.~ ~ LXIII~Love bridled fury, and revived
243    XX|      last, the reed outflew,~For love finds mean, but hatred knows
244    XX|      could prove,~Such force had love, though lost and vainly
245    XX|      hath happy, kind and mutual love?~But she that gentle thought
246    XX|       found,~And while she shot, love gave her wound on wound.~ ~
247    XX|       dilate,~That ages all your love and sweet accord,~Your virtue,
248    XX|        some kind servant of true love that hears,~May grace your
249    XX|    Worthy no blows, but blows of love to have:~Her dying hand
250    XX|        for vengeance on his foe;~Love biddeth both, love says
251    XX|          foe;~Love biddeth both, love says he must do all,~And
252    XX|       that he could not his fair love uphold,~Nor kill the cruel
253    XX|         courage on the whetstone love;~Himself he saved behind
254    XX|      Alone, save for disdain and love, her guides.~ ~ CXVIII~In
255    XX|      decay.~And as that lord for love let honor go,~Followed her
256    XX|      Which passed, and cured hot love with frozen death.~ ~ CXXI~
257    XX|       with luck, with life, with love;~There from her steed she
258    XX|         My shafts are blunt, ah, love, would thine were so!~ ~
259    XX|         fort is eath to win,~And love will shoot you from his
260    XX|          s stroke cure stroke of love,~Death for thy heart must
261    XX|          strange plague to hell:~Love, stay behind, come thou
262    XX|        revenge -- last word, was love."~ ~ CXXVII~And with that
263    XX|      fame:~Time was that thee of love and life I prayed,~Let death
264    XX|     prayed,~Let death now end my love. my life, my shame.~Yet
265    XX|         hope is dead, dead is my love."~ ~ CXXXIV~Thus mourned
266    XX|          watery eyes~Disdain and love dropped down, rolled up
267    XX|          So melts her wrath; but love remains entire.~"Behold,"