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  1     I|       much suffered he;~In vain 'gainst him did Hell oppose her
  2     I|   defended they in noblest wise~'Gainst Persian knights and many
  3     I|          Their earthen bulwarks 'gainst the ocean flood,~The flood,
  4    II|      stayed,~And causeless rage 'gainst faultless souls restrained --~
  5    II| understand,~You mean your power 'gainst Juda land to prove,~He would,
  6    II|        betide;~He is thy friend 'gainst all the world beside.~ ~
  7    II|     folly is of Fortune's play,~'Gainst doubtful, certain; much, '
  8    II|        doubtful, certain; much, 'gainst small to lay.~ ~ LXVIII~"
  9    II|         The Prince of Egypt war 'gainst you prepare,~What if the
 10    II|      hath thee such favor done:~'Gainst Famine yet what shield canst
 11    II|        Which threat'neth battle 'gainst the morning star.~ ~ XCII~
 12   III|    Clorinda from the throng~And 'gainst Tancredi set her spear in
 13   III|         her the knight forbore,~'Gainst other foes he proved him
 14   III|     about they wheeled all,~And 'gainst the Christians' backs and
 15   III|       vengeance from his breast~'Gainst him that noble Dudon late
 16   III|          gate his force he bent,~Gainst it he camped, gainst it
 17   III|       bent,~Gainst it he camped, gainst it his engines played;~All
 18   III|          thy sacred weapons bent~Gainst Sion's fort, these gates
 19    IV|         and war we once did make~Gainst him, that rules above the
 20    IV|      alarms,~And bend our forces gainst our present wrong:~Ah! see
 21    IV|     unspied;~For craft is virtue gainst a foe defied.~ ~ XVII~"Among
 22    IV|     Godfrey's rule, and mutinies gainst him raise,~Turn each one'
 23    IV|        wretched eame,~Who poison gainst thy harmless life provides:'~
 24    IV|    increased in the cursed wight~Gainst me, and him, that me to
 25    IV|          his princely mind,~That gainst his wisdom, pity made him
 26    IV|         senses,~Reason shall aid gainst those assaults affords,~
 27     V|      Armida sought to undermine,~Gainst him yet vain did all her
 28     V|          forced my gentle nature gainst my thought~To rigor, lest
 29     V|      abated, if he have offended~Gainst your commands, who are his
 30     V|         hard heart embraced,~And gainst his breast a thousand shot
 31    VI|        head,~What force could he gainst so great might prepare?~
 32    VI|        his care,~His tender side gainst the hard earth he cast,~
 33    VI|        espied~And reaching forth gainst it his weapon large,~Quite
 34    VI|       her peace and rest consent~Gainst whom fierce love such cruel
 35    VI|    hidden mates for aid he cries~Gainst his supposed foe, and forth
 36   VII|    closed was his helmet bright,~Gainst whom the prince marched
 37   VII|     chance gan he reprehend,~And gainst enchantment huge complaints
 38   VII|       shook his naked blade,~And gainst the subtle air vain battle
 39   VII|        lift up your coward eyes,~Gainst him that you and Christ
 40   VII|          But when he saw the man gainst whom he fought~Unweaponed,
 41   VII|        all the Syrian train:~But gainst their force and gainst their
 42   VII|       But gainst their force and gainst their fell menace~Of hail
 43  VIII|       afterward.~ ~ IX~"Defended gainst Corbana, valiant knight,~
 44    IX|          done and tempest spent,~Gainst stream of grace who ever
 45    IX|         they feared,~Some bolder gainst him bent their weapons keen,~
 46    IX|      force~He cut in twain, and 'gainst the stripling bold~He spurred
 47    IX|       weak,~That thou disdain'st gainst me to use thy might?~Can
 48    IX|   neither is resigned,~But cloud gainst cloud, and wave gainst wave
 49    IX|     cloud gainst cloud, and wave gainst wave they cast:~So from
 50    IX|        together rush,~And shield gainst shield, and helm gainst
 51    IX|          gainst shield, and helm gainst helm they crush.~ ~  LIII~
 52    IX|     wounded left the knight,~And gainst Achilles turned her weapon
 53    IX|        throng,~But hardy Guelpho gainst Clorinda sweet~Ventured
 54    IX|        so his unadvised thought,~Gainst every band his childish
 55    IX|      tumbling lay:~ ~ LXXXIV~And gainst his face, where love and
 56    IX|     forbare;~But all for naught, gainst him the point he bent~That,
 57    IX|        sore!~But mighty Godfrey 'gainst the Soldan's train~Spent
 58     X|           no cause of fight,~Nor gainst our foes to use your force
 59     X|      people, this besieged town,~Gainst fire and sword with strength
 60     X|       and instruments are framed~Gainst these defences by our adverse
 61     X|          Soldan gan to rave,~And gainst his will wrapt in the cloud
 62     X|       for sin and shameful crime~Gainst kind commit, by those who
 63     X|       Christendom and faith,~And gainst Godfredo false my crown
 64    XI|        down from heaven to fight~Gainst the blasphemous beast and
 65    XI|         the lodgings broad,~That gainst the morn each should himself
 66    XI|          providence and art,~And gainst these towers which to assail
 67    XI|        chance of war expose,~And gainst those towers let their virtue
 68    XI|       light,~They had no shelter gainst so sharp a shower,~Some
 69    XI|          tower, for on that side~Gainst which the Pagans' force
 70   XII|           her strength and power~Gainst Arimon, that struck her
 71   XII|         heaven the proffered~And gainst it still rebel with sinful
 72   XII|       counsels be~Of God and man gainst my designments plain,~Dead
 73  XIII|            LV~While thus he bent gainst earth his scorching rays,~
 74  XIII|         see,~How wrathful Heaven gainst us his sword doth whet?~
 75   XIV|  enchanted wood to cut one tree?~Gainst death and danger who dares
 76   XIV|         And there they heard how gainst the cliffs, besprent~With
 77   XIV|          owls in shining sun,~So gainst the beams of truth our souls
 78   XIV|       sage,~So nature saith, yet gainst her sacred will~Why still
 79    XV|     remain,~But change their hue gainst glimpse of Phoebus' sheen;~
 80    XV|      said, her shallop drove she gainst the sand,~And anchor cast
 81    XV|          s stream;~Then Tripoli, gainst which is Malta placed,~That
 82    XV|          Libya's bounds extends;~Gainst which, from fair Sicilia'
 83    XV|      realms of Fez and Maroc be,~Gainst which Granada's shores and
 84    XV|      Naught helped him his skill gainst tide and wind;~With him
 85    XV|    entire,~Thy wish repugns, and gainst thy will is bent,~Nor yet
 86    XV|         you be prepared,~In vain gainst fate and Heaven's decree
 87    XV|        beams unfold,~Prepare you gainst the hill to mount upright,~
 88    XV|          got,~And climbed boldly gainst the mountain fell;~But forth
 89   XVI|          amid the main,~And hill gainst hill, and mount gainst mountain
 90   XVI|      hill gainst hill, and mount gainst mountain smote,~With such
 91   XVI|           Hardening their hearts gainst false enticing pleasure,~
 92   XVI|        bore great hate and spite~Gainst Christians all, chiefly
 93   XVI|          soft shall be thy bield~Gainst storms of arrows, darts
 94   XVI|          Like chaste Xenocrates, gainst love divine;~O heavens,
 95   XVI|       His be the fault, if aught gainst mine estate~I did for love,
 96  XVII|      sands,~And southward passed gainst the course of Nile,~Through
 97  XVII|         XVI~The people next that gainst the morning rays~Along the
 98  XVII|       thine~Should be discharged gainst that discourteous knight,~
 99  XVII|        should both appease,~That gainst thy foe their courage hot
100  XVII|       new,~That glistered bright gainst Cynthia's silver ray,~Therein,
101  XVII|        in bliss and high renown:~Gainst Odoacer then he fought,
102  XVII|     squadrons trim:~Then he that gainst the Sclaves much honor wan,~
103  XVII|        that used to contemplate;~Gainst him the second Azzo stood
104  XVII|       too late the Turkish king,~Gainst him should arm their troops
105 XVIII|         reduced to his fold,~And gainst his heathen foes these men
106 XVIII|          That turns his forehead gainst the morning ray.~ ~ X~"That
107 XVIII|         XII~It was the time when gainst the breaking day~Rebellious
108 XVIII|     begun~With wondrous splendor gainst the golden sun.~ ~ XL~The
109 XVIII|          Through sweat and labor gainst those rocks sublime~Let
110 XVIII|     engines huge shall fight~And gainst the northern gate my puissance
111 XVIII|         makes the king,~And rage gainst strength, despair gainst
112 XVIII|         gainst strength, despair gainst hope doth bring.~ ~ LXVII~
113 XVIII|       unused shield,~And marched gainst Raymond to the mountain'
114 XVIII|          s height;~Great Solyman gainst Godfrey took the field;~
115 XVIII|          a threefold charge,~And gainst the clouds of shafts draw
116 XVIII|         cleft and split;~But yet gainst every hap whence mischief
117 XVIII|       grows,~Prepared the piece, gainst such extremes made fit,~
118 XVIII|          And rears their ladders gainst the assaulted fort:~He that
119 XVIII|          plain,~For with Rinaldo gainst his yielding lone,~His knights
120   XIX|         ill:"~And thus defending gainst his friends his foe,~Through
121   XIX|         that wears;~ ~ XXXII~For gainst his armed foes he only bends~
122   XIX|        soldiers left he led,~And gainst each entrance new defences
123   XIX|          have won the field;~For gainst his thundering mace availed
124   XIX|      armor clashed and lightened gainst the sky,~And from each side
125   XIX|       and sight,~Vafrine began, "Gainst Godfrey's life contrived~
126   XIX|     refreshed see,~Provided well gainst this last storm and shower,~
127    XX|         and trenchant blade,~And gainst the Persians fierce and
128    XX|          guard;~The strokes that gainst her lord discharged be,~
129    XX|     spend his force in vain,~But gainst the footmen strong his troops
130    XX|   Despair made some run headlong gainst their fone,~To seek sharp
131    XX|         back they came,~And rage gainst force, despair gainst death
132    XX|       rage gainst force, despair gainst death addressed.~Thus of
133    XX|          set, the day was night,~Gainst the brave prince with whom
134    XX|       mine arrows, cruel, sharp, gainst me,~Ah, wretch, how is thy
135    XX|         half helm upon his head,~Gainst whom a hundred fought, yet
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