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  1     I|          Heaven him blest.~ ~ II~O heavenly Muse, that not
  2     I|         serves the time, if thou o'erslip not it,~To free Jerusalem
  3     I|     therewith stayed his speech. O gracious Muse,~What kindling
  4     I|        love; love bred his care;~O love, o wonder; love new
  5     I|      love bred his care;~O love, o wonder; love new born, new
  6     I|         with the Christian host;~O sin, O shame, O Greece accurst
  7     I|       the Christian host;~O sin, O shame, O Greece accurst
  8     I|  Christian host;~O sin, O shame, O Greece accurst alone!~Did
  9     I|        by many an unknown coast,~O'er Aegean Seas by many a
 10     I|        The mossy rocks and trees o'ergrown with age,~Nor aught
 11    II|          Olindo's heart on fire,~O subtle love, a thousand
 12    II|          Christ's selected fold,~O noble lie! was ever truth
 13    II|         be these flames so pure,~O glorious death, more glorious
 14    II|        his well-settled thought;~O miracle! O strife of wondrous
 15    II| well-settled thought;~O miracle! O strife of wondrous kind!~
 16    II|        lets borrowed arrows fly.~O Hymen, say, what fury doth
 17    II|        Phoebus' glistering rays,~O glorious virgin, that recordeth
 18    II|        this tree of virtue grew,~O blessed Lord! why should
 19    II|          sugared words:~ ~ LXII~"O only worthy, whom the earth
 20   III|     Receive in gree these tears, O Lord so good,~For never
 21   III|           X~Then loud he cries, "O what a dust ariseth!~O how
 22   III|           O what a dust ariseth!~O how it shines with shields
 23   III|            XX~"Tancred he hight, O Macon, would he wear~My
 24   III|         humble suits are moved:~"O thou," quoth he, "withhold
 25   III|     friends compose~Under a hill o'ergrown with cedars tall,~
 26    IV|     throne of his infernal seat.~O fool! as if it were a thing
 27    IV|      XXXI~Her breasts, two hills o'erspread with purest snow,~
 28    IV|     sudden storm are cast;~Swift o'er the grass the rolling
 29    IV|       that each night I slept -- O foul untruth! --~Mine honor
 30    IV|    sojourn with these armed men,~O whither shall I fly, what
 31    IV|       hearts for wildfire threw.~O wondrous love! thou makest
 32     V|      were all excluded.~ ~ LXXVI~O'ercome with envy, wrath
 33    VI|    warlike and that worthy been:~O sacred Muse, my haughty
 34    VI|           Desire of vengeance so o'ercame his senses,~That
 35    VI|      that prison dear,~But thou, O honor, which esteemed art~
 36    VI|       and honor fought.~ ~ LXXI~"O spotless virgin," Honor
 37    VI|         foes, to seek thy shame.~O fool, a woman conquers when
 38    VI|      only left, this will I try:~O gentle love, in this adventure
 39    VI|       then the camp, quoth she, "O fair~And castle-like pavilions,
 40   VII|    neglected and despised.~ ~ X~"O poverty, chief of the heavenly
 41   VII|          XV~She said therefore, "O shepherd fortunate!~That
 42   VII|          an idle word.~ ~ XXXII~"O thou, whom chance or will
 43   VII|          To whom Godfredo thus; "O mirror true~Of antique worth!
 44   VII|         loud and sternly cries,~"O glorious people of the Occident!~
 45   VII|        looks upbent.~ ~ LXXVIII~"O Lord, that diddest save,
 46   VII|          tender age;~Like grace, O Lord, like mercy now extend!~
 47   VII|          then that handled bow,~"O Oradine," quoth she, "who
 48   VII|       heaps together lay.~ ~ CXI~O'erthrown likewise away the
 49  VIII|         nearest way seemed best, o'er hold and heath~We went,
 50  VIII|         lamp in hand, who said, `O son~In that dear Lord who
 51  VIII|    wrought;~Till one said thus, `O thou of little faith,~What
 52  VIII|          dispread her lazy wings~O'er the broad fields of heaven'
 53  VIII|          and bubbleth fast,~Till o'er the brims among the embers
 54  VIII|         to God for aid he fled;~"O Lord, thou knowest this
 55    IX|           XII~The Soldan cried, "O thou which in my thought~
 56    IX|        bodies slain~We will pass o'er their rampire and their
 57    IX|   English knight, and Olipherne,~O fierce Draguto, by thy hands
 58    IX|      forehead bold~He lifts, and o'er his broken banks doth
 59    IX|    through dust and dirt he ran,~O'er heaps of bodies wallowing
 60    IX|    flight~The fearful watch, and o'er the trenches leaped,~
 61    IX|        the purple morning peeped o'er~The eastern threshold
 62    IX|        he shone,~In purple robe, o'erfret with gold and stone.~ ~
 63     X|         doffed,~But all day long o'er hills and dales doth
 64     X|   thundered in his ear:~ ~ VIII~"O Solyman! thou far-renowned
 65     X|       brimstone, pitch and lime,~O'ergoes that land, erst sweet
 66     X|    stands, to which by sight~But o'er a narrow bridge no way
 67    XI|    prayers were.~ ~ VII~To thee, O Father, Son, and sacred
 68    XI|    succors call and cry,~ ~ XXX~"O Macon, break in twain the
 69    XI|        to the ditches large,~And o'er their heads an iron pentice
 70    XI|       light steed he leaped, and o'er the green~He rode, but
 71    XI|         set, or else with clouds o'ercast.~ ~ LVIII~Upon the
 72   XII|        And looking up at last, ` O God,' quoth she,~`Who dost
 73   XII|        clad in armor bright~That o'er my head shaked a flaming
 74   XII|          mild, the tigress tame,~O wretch that heavenly warnings
 75   XII|       down to ground,~And said, "O face in death still sweet
 76   XII|       grief and care:~ ~ LXXXII~"O fair right hand, the pledge
 77   XII|         my torments never cease,~O hands, O cruel eyes, accursed
 78   XII|   torments never cease,~O hands, O cruel eyes, accursed alike!~
 79   XII|      knights behoved:~ ~ LXXXVI~"O Tancred, Tancred, how far
 80   XII|         late had slain his love.~O promise vain! it otherwise
 81  XIII|    welkin fleet,~Some nimbly run o'er hills and valleys light,~
 82  XIII|       run from his eternal seat,~O great and fearful!" -- More
 83  XIII|       forest bare it quite away.~O'ercome retired the prince,
 84  XIII|      rack nor came nor went,~But o'er the lands with lukewarm
 85  XIII|        sands,~Nor Po in May when o'er his banks he flows,~Nor
 86  XIII|        watery streams,~The world o'erspread was with a gloomy
 87  XIII|      molten skies down fell,~And o'er their banks the brooks
 88   XIV|      gates in pieces break,~Leap o'er these rampires high,
 89   XIV|        thus his guide besought:~"O father, tell me by what
 90   XIV|    strive you still?~ ~ LXIII~" `O fools who youth possess,
 91    XV|        stand~That with his trees o'erspreads the waters near,~
 92    XV|     shall her canvas wing~Spread o'er that world that yet concealed
 93   XVI|         silver fountains shined,~O'er him her looks she hung,
 94   XVI|          ran.~ ~ XXXVI~"Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?"~
 95   XVI|    despised beauty's sake.~ ~ L~"O wretch! dare I still vaunt,
 96   XVI|  Xenocrates, gainst love divine;~O heavens, O gods! why do
 97   XVI|          love divine;~O heavens, O gods! why do these men of
 98   XVI|        him from my might,~I will o'ertake him, take him, cleave
 99   XVI|       vain words, alas?~ ~ LXIV~"O fool! thou shouldest have
100   XVI|     traitor of his head deprive,~O you my lovers, on this rock
101   XVI|       but still did forward ride~O'er seas and streams, till
102  XVII|        That of the kingdom large o'er which he reigned,~The
103  XVII|        steep,~Whose woody fronts o'ershade the silent deep.~ ~
104  XVII|         Come from a Roman spring o'er all the place~Flowed
105  XVII|        that did the sceptre sway~O'er such as chose him lord
106  XVII|      than manlike wrath her face o'erspread,~There the fell
107  XVII|       fame shall pass, in praise o'ercome,~The worthies old
108 XVIII|         Of mine unbridled youth, O Father dear,~Remember not,
109 XVIII|      nardus breathed unseen,~And o'er his head let down from
110 XVIII|      lilies spread~The aged wood o'er and about him round~Flourished
111 XVIII|          him, smiled, and said,~"O shadows vain! O fools, of
112 XVIII|       and said,~"O shadows vain! O fools, of shades afraid!"~ ~
113 XVIII|      clear welkin went,~Straight o'er the tents, seen by the
114 XVIII|          rides~On a swift steed, o'er hills and dales that
115 XVIII|          all their warlike gear:~O glorious captain! whom the
116 XVIII|    plunged in the infernal lake:~O mankind, at their ends ensample
117   XIX|        still unconquered, though o'erset, appears.~ ~ II~But
118   XIX|       Yet shalt thou not escape, O conqueror strong~Of ladies
119   XIX|          revenge for Sion's fort o'erthrown,~That head can
120   XIX|        defence his quickness far o'erwent,~And pierced his
121   XIX|         As if his hand could not o'ertake his will,~And at
122   XIX|     plain.~With thine own weight o'erthrown to earth thou went,~
123   XIX|      Thyself thou threwest down, O happy man,~Upon whose fall
124   XIX|         the sacred house of God,~O heavenly justice, if thou
125   XIX|        saw the morning gray~Step o'er the threshold of the
126   XIX|       bloodless, kiss;~ ~ CVIII~"O gentle mouth! with speeches
127   XIX|      given which now are stolen, O vain,~O feeble life, betwixt
128   XIX|          now are stolen, O vain,~O feeble life, betwixt his
129   XIX|        off, each wound~She tied: O happy man, so cured so bound!~ ~
130   XIX|         came.~ ~  CXIV~He said, "O Vafrine, tell me, whence
131    XX|        spread her squadrons trim~O'er the large plain, did
132    XX|           her breasts with tears o'erspread --~Thy sons, their
133    XX|      thievish wolves, when night o'ershades the land,~That
134    XX|         the country lie, his men o'erthrown,~Some beaten back,
135    XX|        death, with him that lies o'erthrown:~ ~ C~So fell he
136    XX|            she says, "disgraced, o'erthrown,~Blunt are the