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  1     I|       war much suffered he;~In vain 'gainst him did Hell oppose
  2     I|      Hell oppose her might,~In vain the Turks and Morians armed
  3     I| thought,~Whom spirits proud to vain ambition move:~Tancred he
  4     I|       far sought war,~Of glory vain to gain an idle smook,~And
  5     I|    that never aught reports in vain,~A valiant youth in whom
  6     I|    quoth he, "some expectation vain,~In these false Christians,
  7    II|   conjures, but his charms are vain;~Aladine will kill the Christians
  8    II|     dark shores,~Where circles vain and spells he used to make,~
  9    II|    sough in grief, in fear, in vain;~Then to the king his loss
 10    II|      pleasing tales his lord's vain ears he fed,~A flatterer,
 11    II|   field you once forsake,~Then vain by sea were hope of victories.~
 12   III|   deviseth,~"Haste, haste, for vain delay increaseth fear,~These
 13   III|       hurt his only dear,~From vain pursuit at last returned
 14   III|       stand you gazing here in vain?~Pale death our valiant
 15   III|      valley stayed,~And for in vain he thought the labor spent,~
 16    IV|     And yet he thought, -- Oh, vain conceit of man,~Which as
 17    IV|    From death and ruin: but in vain I prove thee,~If right,
 18     V|      undermine,~Gainst him yet vain did all her engines prove,~
 19     V|        Those idle names of his vain pedigree?~Then let him say,
 20     V|        He termed him proud and vain, his worth in fight~He called
 21     V|        murdered, for a quarrel vain,~By young Rinaldo in his
 22     V|      destroy us for your glory vain,~Unstayed as rolling waves
 23     V|     were void, her crafts were vain,~Some other where she would
 24     V|         then, these shifts are vain," replied he,~"These titles
 25     V|      with heat and cold,~Shall vain reports appal your courage
 26    VI|      Long time Tancredi had in vain attended~When this huge
 27    VI|  dwells."~ ~ LXXVIII~With such vain hopes the silly maid abused,~
 28    VI|      these things,~Such wishes vain afflict my woful sprite,~
 29   VII|       whilst Tancredi seeks in vain to find,~He is entrapped
 30   VII|  pursued, but still pursued in vain.~ ~ II~Like as the weary
 31   VII|   youth was spent, my hope was vain.~I felt my native strength
 32   VII|      entreated by the speeches vain~Of his false guide, to pass
 33   VII|        the stroke fell down in vain,~Against a pillar near a
 34   VII|    driveth,~Yet seeketh all in vain, but finds no way~Out of
 35   VII|        forces were employed in vain,~At last a voice gan to
 36   VII|      And gainst the subtle air vain battle made.~ ~ LIV~"The
 37   VII|   raging spent his strength in vain,~Waste were his strokes,
 38   VII|        makes the Pagan's onset vain,~And wounds his hand, which
 39   VII|     strove to stop him, but in vain,~With these strong lets
 40   VII|       were waste, their onsets vain,~But while Argantes thus
 41   VII|      idle blows they struck in vain;~Argantes at the instant
 42   VII|       barons for their fear so vain,~Himself the camp gate boldly
 43  VIII|        the world's allurements vain,~In wilful penance, hermits
 44  VIII|    exceedeth all~The conquests vain of realms, or spoils of
 45  VIII|    which, to view his face, in vain I started,~For from his
 46    IX|     When Fortune oft he had in vain assayed,~And spent his forces,
 47    IX|        but strove therewith in vain,~The Pagan's steed, unmarked,
 48    IX|  foolish kindness, and oh pity vain,~To add our proper loss,
 49    IX|        they oft, and strove in vain to meet,~So great betwixt
 50    IX|     him hit before.~Oh comfort vain for grief of so great force,~
 51    IX|         his force and blows in vain.~ ~ LXXXIX~A thousand hardy
 52    IX|        could recount uneath~In vain the Turks resist, the Arabians
 53     X|        then I bore,~As when on vain and foolish things men dream;~
 54    XI|       went.~ ~ LXXII~His labor vain, his art prevailed naught,~
 55   XII|         Too late these 'scuses vain," the knight replied,~"You
 56   XII|       bear this broad sword in vain,~Nor yet am unexpert in
 57   XII|    fond attempt, but prayed in vain.~ ~ XX~"At last," quoth
 58   XII|     for religion new,~Nor with vain shows of fear and dread
 59   XII|      they struck, or thrust in vain.~ ~ LVI~Shame bred desire
 60   XII|       you ask," quoth she, "in vain,~Nor moved by prayer, nor
 61   XII|       were gone and might were vain,~Of their first fierceness
 62   XII|    desire,~At hell's wide gate vain sorrow doth thee place,~
 63   XII|    heaven's joys envy,~And thy vain sorrow thee of bliss deprive,~
 64   XII|       was waste, my speech was vain:~ ~ CIII~"Ah, had I gone,
 65   XII|      slain his love.~O promise vain! it otherwise fell out:~
 66  XIII|       They solemnize, thus the vain Parians thought.~ ~ V~No
 67  XIII|     His characters and circles vain he made:~ ~ VI~He in the
 68  XIII|   assault against that fort in vain,~Till he had builded new
 69  XIII|        A spirit false did with vain plaints betray;~A whirling
 70  XIII|     unquiet nights, and oft in vain~The soldiers restless sought
 71  XIII|      cold,~Those he desired in vain, new torments been,~Augmented
 72  XIII|        waters cool he drank in vain conceit,~Which more increased
 73  XIII|       lives?~See whither glory vain, fond mankind drives.~ ~
 74  XIII|       distress we stood~If his vain honor were diminished naught,~
 75   XIV|        A narrow room our glory vain upties,~A little circle
 76   XIV|       clay,~Lest worldly error vain my voyage let,~Teach me
 77   XIV|     truthless guide~That leads vain men amiss and makes them
 78   XIV|        absence shall lament in vain,~And wail his loss and theirs
 79   XIV|        of lusty age,~For glory vain, or virtue's idle ray,~Do
 80   XIV|    sudden joy, whence laughter vain doth rise,~Nor that strange
 81    XV|      overdaring wit of mankind vain,~Till Lord Ulysses did those
 82    XV|     aspire you be prepared,~In vain gainst fate and Heaven's
 83    XV|       enticing man to pleasure vain."~Thus passed they forward
 84    XV|       unmoved passed by,~These vain delights for wicked charms
 85   XVI|      Armida shalt thou call in vain,~At thy last gasp; this
 86   XVI| surpass~I will, but what avail vain words, alas?~ ~ LXIV~"O
 87   XVI|     beauty; fortune, wealth in vain.~ ~ LXVI~"But thee, vain
 88   XVI|       vain.~ ~ LXVI~"But thee, vain gift, vain beauty, thee
 89   XVI|     LXVI~"But thee, vain gift, vain beauty, thee I scorn,~I
 90   XVI|       or Titan's heat,~Or like vain dreams soon made, and sooner
 91  XVII|   shafts that fly~Light not in vain; some work the shooter's
 92 XVIII|     His idle loves and follies vain lamented;~Then kneeling
 93 XVIII|   smiled, and said,~"O shadows vain! O fools, of shades afraid!"~ ~
 94 XVIII|      From thence where late in vain they placed were:~But he
 95 XVIII|         quoth he, "my blood in vain!"~With that his steps from
 96 XVIII|    last withdrew,~He strove in vain their entrance there to
 97   XIX|  foresee thy fate,~Thy fear is vain, thy foresight comes too
 98   XIX|    trodden down,~Whose fall in vain I strived to withstand,~
 99   XIX|        and all his strength in vain;~For Tancred from the blow
100   XIX|         nor should his word be vain,~To kill the man that had
101   XIX|     thoughts abide,~Yet all in vain the man by wit assays,~To
102   XIX|        untimely, hard to keep,~Vain modesty farewell, and farewell
103   XIX|      Fair virgin, nor to me in vain you run:'~A sweetness strange
104   XIX|        which now are stolen, O vain,~O feeble life, betwixt
105   XIX|        yield, or but resist in vain,~For fear her anchor is,
106    XX|        these new foes would he vain trial make.~"After so many
107    XX|     you take,"~For thus in his vain foes he cherish would~The
108    XX|     then, and make their onset vain;~For if I guess aright,
109    XX|     ire and spend his force in vain,~But gainst the footmen
110    XX| followed it.~ ~ LXV~But yet in vain the quarrel lighted not,~
111    XX|       than the stream~Of their vain thoughts that bears them
112    XX|      he, but all his vows were vain,~Mahound was deaf, or slept
113    XX|      be?~But since all hope is vain all help is waste,~Since
114    XX|         Oft strove she, but in vain, to break that band,~For
115    XX|      and sought, nor sought in vain,~Some famous hand of which