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  1     I|     bright angels sing;~Inspire life in my wit, my thoughts upraise,~
  2     I|        move:~Tancred he saw his life's joy set at naught,~So
  3     I|         her blood, he spent his life therefore.~ ~ LVIII~But
  4    II|        her aught:~"I grant them life," quoth he, "your promised
  5   III|     lasting bliss,~Thou well of life, whose streams were purple
  6   III|   thrall, ere fates him of this life deprive,~For to his hateful
  7   III|     kill,~Love hath disarmed my life of all defence;~An easy
  8   III|     strong Argantes thought his life was sure,~He could not safely
  9    IV|     Arbilan that reigned in his life~On fair Damascus, was my
 10    IV|      poison gainst thy harmless life provides:'~This said, to
 11    IV|    wretch condemned to lose his life~Awaits the falling of the
 12    IV|       is the cause my guiltless life is sought,~For on my ruin
 13    IV|         but thou canst cure,~My life and kingdom let thy mercy
 14    IV|       lookings fixed,~As if her life and death lay on his saying,~
 15     V|       wronged knight his foe of life deprives:~Far from the camp
 16     V|  Against him Tancred argued for life,~With honest reasons to
 17     V|      And in her quarrel venture life and limb.~With sighs and
 18     V|        Defender of my state, my life, my right.~I wish my hapless
 19    VI|          And stood as still, as life and sense they wanted,~Save
 20    VI|      joy, her comfort, hope and life depend.~ ~ LVI~Her the sole
 21    VI|         many a bloody fray;~Her life had full of haps and hazards
 22    VI|          she esteemed above~Her life and body's safety, told
 23    VI|       care exciteth~To save his life, that saved and honored
 24    VI|        out,~And for my sake her life in danger is;~Himself forthwith
 25   VII|      tresses then,~That country life I hated as a crime,~And
 26   VII|      willing mate~In shepherd's life which I admire and love;~
 27   VII|             XXII~"So, though my life hath most unhappy been,~
 28   VII|        he maketh,~Wherein man's life keeps chiefest residence;~
 29   VII|        tempered armor could his life protect,~He leapt aside,
 30   VII|       swift flight, his hope of life reposed;~Himself fast after
 31   VII|         seat upstart:~"Unworthy life I judge that coward swain~
 32   VII|       in peace and rest,~And my life's hazard at their ease behold.~
 33   VII|      hand to hand,~And took his life with it, and many a lake~
 34   VII|         In whose sweet grace is life, death in his wrath,~Among
 35  VIII|         the hands escaped, with life away,~Of that great prince,
 36  VIII|       bones I swear,~That of my life I had not care nor ruth,~
 37    IX|         was,~I know not how his life could him sustain,~Except
 38    IX|         he lust,~And guides our life, our death, our end and
 39    IX|        through the heart, where life doth chiefly bide,~And that
 40    IX|      just,~That at his back his life and blood forth glide;~Even
 41    IX|          and drew his sword and life both out.~ ~ LXXXI~Among
 42    IX|    boast,~Or he should save his life, when on the land~Lay slain
 43     X|        disguised,~And scant his life is left him for his own,~
 44     X|  thought,~I longed to change my life, and place of biding,~That
 45     X|        of his death untrue,~His life is safe, good fortune long
 46    XI|     cannot prove;~My lord, your life with greater care protect,~
 47    XI|         us you love,~Your happy life is spirit, soul, and breath~
 48    XI|         I swerve:~He shall this life defend, keep and preserve."~ ~
 49    XI|        deeply wound, or else of life deprive.~At this their good
 50   XII|     while these strong walls my life protect~Behold thy flames
 51   XII|      despiseth,~For praise this life, for glory take this breath."~"
 52   XII|        more than half my tap of life was run,~Rich by rewards
 53   XII|        thy dear~Must change her life, and leave this sinful ground,~
 54   XII|    thought it good,~To save her life, some other path to tread,~
 55   XII|       hit or light,~And if weak life yet in their bosoms lie,~
 56   XII|     hour arrives~That her sweet life must leave that tender hold,~
 57   XII|       and faith;~And though her life to Christ rebellious were,~
 58   XII|      with water he requites~The life that he bereft with iron
 59   XII|    herself prepared;~And as her life decays her joys increase,~
 60   XII|        lordship on the man,~His life within his heart they close
 61   XII|        him deprived~Of signs of life; yet did the knight remain~
 62   XII|        careful servants used~To life again their dying lord to
 63   XII|     thread of this blood-guilty life?~ ~ LXXVI~"Pierce through
 64   XII|    happy death should join what life doth sever,~0 Death, 0 Life!
 65   XII|     life doth sever,~0 Death, 0 Life! sweet both, both blessed
 66   XII|        her side this breath and life to lose,~What did I not,
 67  XIII|          Who feared not loss of life nor loss of limb.~No savage
 68  XIII|      country's cause,~To hazard life before me none should be:~
 69  XIII|          So that each tree hath life, and sense each bough,~A
 70  XIII|      that wood~Hath sense, hath life, hath speech, like human
 71   XIV|       air,~This wisdom is, good life, and worldly bliss,~Kind
 72    XV|        man repine to die,~Whose life, is air; breath, wind; and
 73    XV|     dwell,~In faith profane, in life are rude and fell."~ ~ XXIX~"
 74   XVI|      The bud and blossom of the life of man,~Nor e'er doth flourish
 75   XVI|       shield,~And to defend thy life. will lose mine own:~This
 76   XVI|      had~To leave me thus twixt life and death in doubt?~Could
 77 XVIII|       harms.~Remembrance is the life of grief; his grave,~Forgetfulness;
 78 XVIII|       on whom so it light,~That life and soul it did not only
 79 XVIII|         liberty they fight, for life and all,~And oft with arrows,
 80 XVIII|     tried,~"Here will I give my life for Sion's aid,~Here will
 81 XVIII|     What shall I do? If here my life be spent,~I spend and spill,"
 82 XVIII|         prince had brought,~For life and safety sternly combating,~
 83   XIX|     thou this hour must end thy life untrue?~If this thou fear,
 84   XIX|        heaved his curtlax good,~Life in his grace, and death
 85   XIX|         even with the plain,~My life is done, mine empire trodden
 86   XIX|        fatal hour~That ends our life, and ends our kingly power."~ ~
 87   XIX|         or on light ground,~The life and freedom of that champion
 88   XIX|          And with them took his life, and here on high,~In memory
 89   XIX|        began, "Gainst Godfrey's life contrived~The false compacts
 90   XIX|     Save not my kingdom, not my life I said,~But save mine honor,
 91   XIX|        stolen, O vain,~O feeble life, betwixt his lips out fly,~
 92   XIX|      then complain,~Medicine is life's chief friend; plaint her
 93   XIX|         and wound,~That hope of life her love and skill soon
 94   XIX|      treason false to bring thy life to end."~ ~ CXXVII~Then
 95    XX|        he and she,~Each other's life did keep, defend, and guard;~
 96    XX|         cruel weapon lost their life~Gentonio, Guascar, Rosimond,
 97    XX| breaking felt the fatal line~Of life, and would meet death with
 98    XX|       faints, she falls, 'twixt life and death she strave,~Her
 99    XX|      mourning for the dame~Whom life and death had made forever
100    XX|       sharp death their knot of life untied,~Together fainted
101    XX|       praise and fame etern~His life's short date prolonged,
102    XX|      then, as he that set sweet life at nought,~The greatest
103    XX|    hurts, forgot both death and life.~ ~ CXVI~One struck, the
104    XX|         feared bondage, and her life did hate,~All hope of conquest
105    XX|          The castle where man's life and soul do bide;~The cruel
106    XX|        large doors made for his life and breath,~Which passed,
107    XX|       death, where naught could life persuade.~ ~ CXXIII~Well
108    XX|      displeased with luck, with life, with love;~There from her
109    XX|        And tell him, when twixt life and death I strove~My last
110    XX|          Com'st thou to save my life? alas, what scorn,~What
111    XX|       was that thee of love and life I prayed,~Let death now
112    XX|       death now end my love. my life, my shame.~Yet let not thy
113    XX|      crowned, not scorned, your life I save;~Your foe nay, but
114    XX|    handmaid and your thrall:~My life, my crown, my wealth use
115    XX|       pleasure;"~Thus death her life became, loss proved her
116    XX|      pleasure;~I set no rent on life, no price on blood,~I fight,