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  1     I|       his angel to Tortosa down,~Godfrey unites the Christian Peers
  2     I|        the Turks forth drive,~As Godfrey chased them from Juda's
  3     I|          lie~He cast on puissant Godfrey, that assayed~To drive the
  4     I|       yet scantly half in sight;~Godfrey e'en then his morn-devotions
  5     I|          Phoebus' shine.~ ~ XVI~"Godfrey," quoth he, "behold the
  6     I|     senate grave and stout;~Then Godfrey, after silence kept a space,~
  7     I|          lived closed long,~What Godfrey wills, of that no question
  8     I|        the multitude agree,~That Godfrey ruler of those wars should
  9     I|   Eustace, well esteemed man~For Godfrey's sake his brother, and
 10     I|         person worth regard~When Godfrey with his lords to counsel
 11     I|      chose,~With what conditions Godfrey list impose.~ ~ LXXVII~Those
 12    II|          brave.~ ~  XLVIII~"Now, Godfrey stays too long; he fears,
 13    II|   offends their noble ears.~Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ
 14   III|         lay their Lord in chest:~Godfrey commands to cut the forest
 15   III|          herald Ligiere now from Godfrey came,~To will them stay
 16   III|        hot;~"Retire," quoth he, "Godfrey commands the same;~To wreak
 17   III|       heathen tyrant stout,~"See Godfrey there, in purple clad and
 18   III|         by his show,~How like to Godfrey looks he in the face,~How
 19   III|  performed with advisement good,~Godfrey his carpenters, and men
 20    IV|       love, let some complain~On Godfrey's rule, and mutinies gainst
 21    IV|          Take with the bait Lord Godfrey, if thou may'st;~Frame snares
 22    IV|     arrived there~Where puissant Godfrey had his tents ypight;~Upon
 23    IV|        and lovesome knight,~Lord Godfrey's youngest brother, Eustace
 24    IV|         thus forego~To seek Duke Godfrey's aid, such store men tell~
 25    IV|          word prevaileth more~In Godfrey's hearing than you haply
 26    IV|        when this was said,~Where Godfrey sat among his lords and
 27    IV|   gestures all did pray him:~But Godfrey wisely did his grant suspend,~
 28    IV|        he these prayers ruthless Godfrey hears,~Yet not thy fault
 29    IV|      help her bear the smart:~If Godfrey aid her not, not one but
 30     V|       content, and from the seas~Godfrey hears news which him and
 31     V| lordlings in her aid to move,~In Godfrey's thought a strong contention
 32     V|      glorious slave."~ ~ VI~Thus Godfrey said, and thus his brother
 33     V|           To whom should I, Duke Godfrey's brother, yield,~Unless
 34     V|       both surpass the rest,~And Godfrey's worthy self, I hold in
 35     V|        approveth all he says:~If Godfrey favor him more than behoves,~
 36     V|          thou art and canst, let Godfrey see.~ ~ XXIII~With such
 37     V|      XXXII~Called by the tumult, Godfrey drew him near,~And there
 38     V|       well,~And by them wist how Godfrey's thoughts were bent,~Nor
 39     V| punishment as law finds due;~Let Godfrey come or send, I will not
 40     V|       peace,~Until this storm of Godfrey's anger cease.~ ~ L~"For
 41     V|    nations that us here confine,~Godfrey will beaten be with his
 42     V|       thou and all can tell;~But Godfrey loved him but whilst he
 43     V|            If he be gone," quoth Godfrey, "let him ride~And brawl
 44     V|         was come and past,~Which Godfrey had set down to lend her
 45     V|         best,~And taken leave of Godfrey and the rest.~ ~ LXXVIII~
 46     V|      arrival find.~But when Duke Godfrey wist his knights were gone,~
 47    VI|     fight,~Then bind yourself to Godfrey by indenture,~To end your
 48    VI|            Go tell those news~To Godfrey's self, and to the western
 49    VI|        presence came~Of princely Godfrey, and his captains bold:~"
 50    VI|          knights and lords.~Then Godfrey spake, and said, "The man
 51    VI|          XXIV~As yet not one had Godfrey singled out~To undertake
 52    VI|    louder what they meant,~Which Godfrey heard and saw, and was content.~ ~
 53    VI|          he lies,~A messenger to Godfrey he addressed,~That should
 54    VI|       night among her foes:~What Godfrey willed that observed he,~
 55   VII|        prayed the man to say,~To Godfrey's camp how he should find
 56   VII|           strength and skill;~To Godfrey will I send thy cursed head,~
 57   VII|       the residue would he have,~Godfrey himself in his bright helmet
 58   VII|      against the sunny rays:~But Godfrey most approved his fortune
 59   VII|        she stayed upon the hill:~Godfrey likewise some Christian
 60   VII|        he was champion made,~How Godfrey had him to this combat chose,~
 61   VII|     faith, to his eternal shame.~Godfrey, whose careful eyes from
 62   VII|        commanded or desired.~But Godfrey that perceived in his wise
 63   VII|          of tempest and of rain,~Godfrey alone turned his audacious
 64  VIII|         ARGUMENT.~A messenger to Godfrey sage doth tell~The Prince
 65  VIII|        forth send:~They threaten Godfrey; he prays to the Lord,~And
 66  VIII|          thee than~Thither where Godfrey doth encamped lie,~And fear
 67  VIII|        when thus~The good Prince Godfrey answered him, "Sir knight,~
 68  VIII|          fault and cause do lay,~Godfrey before him called Aliprand~
 69  VIII|           murderers are.~ ~ LXI~"Godfrey hath murdered me by treason
 70  VIII|       the Italian chivalry~Proud Godfrey and false Baldwin both envy~ ~
 71  VIII|          both of grief and fear;~Godfrey, for murdering him, the
 72  VIII|   obedience? where your love?~Of Godfrey's falsehood who can witness
 73  VIII|     hushed and still attend what Godfrey saith,~With shame and fear
 74  VIII|          strife into exile sent.~Godfrey his thoughts to greater
 75    IX|      whereby he should return~By Godfrey's people kept and stopped
 76    IX|        deserving fame or praise,~Godfrey meanwhile to ruin stick
 77    IX|        distant scant a mile from Godfrey's tent~He let his people
 78    IX|    deaths, what tongue can tell?~Godfrey, when first the heathen
 79    IX|         Guelpho to the hill,~And Godfrey hasted where the Arabians
 80    IX|        feels no sore!~But mighty Godfrey 'gainst the Soldan's train~
 81    IX|   thickest order sure unite,~For Godfrey's valor small or nothing
 82    IX|     trophies build.~ ~ XCIX~"Let Godfrey view my flight, and smile
 83     X|          that well can rend~From Godfrey's brow the new usurped crown,~
 84     X|          Nigh to the place where Godfrey's tents were reared,~There
 85     X|        rampires new compare~With Godfrey's forces and his engines
 86     X|       from shame!~With that same Godfrey still our warfare is,~These
 87     X|          art or seat,~Can hinder Godfrey why he should not reign:~
 88     X|          crown:~But Solyman, who Godfrey's love despised,~Is either
 89     X|        with Juda's king.~ ~ LVII~Godfrey this while gave victory
 90     X|       rased;~In all this joy yet Godfrey smiled uneath.~In his wise
 91    XI|       won, the gates nigh broke:~Godfrey is wounded by Clorinda stout,~
 92    XI|    hermit grave in words severe:~Godfrey allowed his counsel, sage,
 93    XI|       They took their leave, and Godfrey's heralds rode~To intimate
 94    XI|       cry to arm them all begin.~Godfrey arose, that day he laid
 95    XI|          steeled lance~On wicked Godfrey with thy righteous hands,~
 96    XI|      defence ordains,~His armies Godfrey ordereth on the plains;~ ~
 97    XI|          to open broad and wide,~Godfrey himself and his brought
 98    XI|     reach,~His noble heart, when Godfrey this beheld,~With courage
 99    XI|    thought, unseen.~ ~ LVII~When Godfrey parted, parted eke the heart, .~
100    XI|         through every vein,~Lord Godfrey shouted thrice and all his
101    XI|             LXXVIII~Thither came Godfrey armed round about~In trusty
102    XI|       gave it there to stick;~At Godfrey's head the lance again he
103    XI|          grovelling on the sand:~Godfrey no longer could the grief
104    XI|         their arms aside to lay;~Godfrey withdrew, and to their tents
105    XI|         the same.~ ~ LXXXVI~Thus Godfrey bids, and that ere springing-day,~
106   XII|       land;~Disguised she fireth Godfrey's rolling fort.~The burned
107   XII|        told this while at large:~Godfrey and all his lords of worth
108  XIII|         engines make.~ ~ II~From Godfrey's camp a grove a little
109  XIII|        these speeches fair,~Held Godfrey's power, his might and strength
110  XIII|   repaired the wall.~ ~ XVII~But Godfrey nould this while bring forth
111  XIII|        shining arms arrayed~Duke Godfrey thither sent of soldiers
112  XIII|     sleep.~His shamefacedness to Godfrey plain bewrays~His flight,
113  XIII|       forests green;~But when to Godfrey's tent he proached nigh,~
114  XIII|      throughout:~"What hope hath Godfrey? shall we still here lie~
115  XIII|         let the penance light~Of Godfrey's folly, let me save mine
116   XIV|        THE ARGUMENT.~The Lord to Godfrey in a dream doth show~His
117   XIV|      watch and wake,~And bent on Godfrey down the gracious ray~Of
118   XIV|        bright eye, still ope for Godfrey's sake,~To whom a silent
119   XIV|     degrees of his,~Hence toward Godfrey ere he left his bed~A vision
120   XIV|         approaching nigh:~"What, Godfrey, knowest thou not thy Hugo
121   XIV|        XV~He held his peace; and Godfrey answered so:~"Oh, how his
122   XIV|      unfit.~ ~ XXII~But since to Godfrey meek benign and kind,~For
123   XIV|     amend,~He shall his blood in Godfrey's service spend.~ ~ XXIII~"
124   XIV|  friendly murmurs whispered low.~Godfrey as though their suit his
125   XIV|          the soldiers thought~By Godfrey's practice that the prince
126   XVI|     infect?~Up, up, our camp and Godfrey for thee send,~Thee fortune,
127  XVII|   brought,~The Caliph sends with Godfrey's power to fight;~Armida,
128  XVII|         rejoiced you aught,~When Godfrey's hardy knights and princes
129  XVII|            for you to wend~Where Godfrey you awaits, and many a knight,~
130 XVIII|       Zion, to assault the hold:~Godfrey hath aid from Heaven, by
131 XVIII|       down.~ ~ ~ I~Arrived where Godfrey to embrace him stood,~"My
132 XVIII|        chosen thee in place next Godfrey bold;~Yet mayest thou not,
133 XVIII|     hills about that flied;~Then Godfrey welcomed him with honors
134 XVIII|       touched her tender head~In Godfrey's lap she fell, with fear
135 XVIII|      when his lord him told~What Godfrey's pleasure was and what
136 XVIII|         that side to bear,~Where Godfrey did his greatest engine
137 XVIII|     height;~Great Solyman gainst Godfrey took the field;~Fornenst
138 XVIII|     quake.~ ~ LXXXIII~Victorious Godfrey boldly forward came,~And
139 XVIII|         rays in clearest skies;~"Godfrey," quoth he, "this is the
140 XVIII|         With that his steps from Godfrey back he bent,~And to him
141   XIX|         laments, then cures him: Godfrey hears~Ormondo's treason,
142   XIX|            Art thou so sure that Godfrey shall be slain?"~"I am,"
143   XIX|         took in noble fight~From Godfrey proud, that spoiled all
144   XIX|      undid,~So that prepared for Godfrey's last mishap~At ease he
145   XIX|         friend and knight,~Proud Godfrey's or Rinaldo's head, I trow,~
146   XIX|           Vafrine began, "Gainst Godfrey's life contrived~The false
147   XIX|          will disguised go,~Like Godfrey's guard that gold and white
148   XIX|      weary wounded Raymond laid,~Godfrey was set upon his couch's
149   XIX|    Silence was made awhile, when Godfrey thus, --~"Raymondo, say,
150    XX|         daybreak show and shine,~Godfrey his host in good array brought
151    XX|       bodies left.~ ~ LXVII~When Godfrey was with Pagan blood bespread,~
152    XX|       bloody war:~Meanwhile Lord Godfrey and Rinaldo slew~His feeble
153    XX|       ranged herself in row with Godfrey's knights,~With them she
154    XX|       ensign's prop and post,~By Godfrey's noble hand killed with
155    XX|            CXXXVIII~Against Lord Godfrey boldly out he flew,~For
156    XX|     remnant that alive remained;~Godfrey espied as he turned his
157    XX|        brave knight,~Yield, I am Godfrey, yield thee to my might!"~ ~
158    XX|   treasure."~"God shield," quoth Godfrey, "that my noble mind~Should
159    XX|             CXLIV~Thus conquered Godfrey, and as yet the sun~Dived