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  1     I|      wondrous look wherewith he oft surveyed~Men's secret thoughts
  2     I|      thing,~And discords raised oft in disordered sort,~Your
  3     I|        islanders with them, who oft repair~Their earthen bulwarks '
  4    II|         in his wicked arts both oft implores~Help from the Lord,
  5    II|        fairies wild,~She chased oft, oft took, and oft beguiled.~ ~
  6    II|   fairies wild,~She chased oft, oft took, and oft beguiled.~ ~
  7    II|       chased oft, oft took, and oft beguiled.~ ~ XLI~This lusty
  8    II|       many a crime,~Yet this is oft the stair by which men climb.~ ~
  9    II|    trust not uncertain lot,~For oft to see what least we think
 10    II|       sweet,~But greatest hopes oft greatest crosses meet.~ ~
 11    IV|    naught;~For chance assisteth oft the ignobler part,~We lost
 12    IV|      uncle and my realm I fled;~Oft looked I back, but hardly
 13     V|       noble thought revolved he oft~Dudon's high prowess, death
 14     V|       heart,~At head and breast oft times he strucken hath,~
 15     V|      did he harm and scath,~And oft beguile his sight with nimble
 16     V|    endureth~Her keeper lure her oft, but comes at leisure;~So
 17     V|        man's mind is such, that oft we try~Things most forbidden,
 18    VI|      slip by,~And for advantage oft he lets some part~Discovered
 19    VI|  Scantly he breathed, though he oft desired,~His warlike skill
 20    VI|      this fierce combat wishing oft the end,~ Twixt hope and
 21   VII|        Amid these groves I walk oft for my health,~And to the
 22   VII|        and his dame.~ ~ XIX~But oft, when underneath the greenwood
 23   VII|   jennet was by Tagus bred; for oft~The breeder of these beasts
 24   VII|   assail,~And entrance searched oft 'twixt mail and mail.~ ~
 25   VII|       fierce encounters put him oft to pain,~He met Ormanno
 26  VIII|    frushed and hacked they had,~Oft pierced through, with blood
 27  VIII|       Hate seld kept close, and oft unwisely shown:~ ~  LXXIV~
 28  VIII| Meanwhile his timber wrought he oft surveyed~Whereof his ram
 29    IX|        field.~ ~ V~When Fortune oft he had in vain assayed,~
 30    IX|         made the parents strive~Oft which was which, and joyed
 31    IX|        their footings fast,~And oft with furious shock together
 32    IX|           LXXII~Yet wished they oft, and strove in vain to meet,~
 33     X|       win by fight, by which so oft he lost:~Determined thus,
 34     X|     smarting wounds torment him oft,~His body weak and wounded
 35     X|      terms too bold and fervent oft doth preach,~Yet hold I
 36     X|        are the same~Who have so oft amid the dusty plain~Turks,
 37     X|   Argantes wotest what they be;~Oft hast thou fled from that
 38    XI|      dens and shady ground,~For oft resounds from the banks
 39    XI|        the Christians fill them oft,~With rubbish, fagots, stones,
 40    XI|        which light,~So weakness oft subdues the greatest might.~ ~
 41   XII|  plaints to reckoning call,~How oft she swooned at the last
 42   XII|         plaints and sad laments oft reared,~Now to himself,
 43  XIII|         so thick were set,~That oft his sight, and passage oft
 44  XIII|      oft his sight, and passage oft they let.~ ~ XXXVIII~At
 45  XIII|       he found, and viewed them oft,~Like those which priests
 46  XIII|         which death had scorned oft,~Whom no strange shape or
 47  XIII|       these unquiet nights, and oft in vain~The soldiers restless
 48  XIII|    their distress they talk and oft debate,~These sad complaints
 49   XIV|       this foretold~Your coming oft, to seek the champion bold."~ ~
 50    XV|     stir or move;~That look how oft man's eye beheld the same~
 51    XV|        s eye beheld the same~So oft the colors changed, went
 52    XV|   twisted sure, though breaking oft:~Into this desert, silent,
 53    XV|        wide,~His stern his back oft smote, his rage to whet,~
 54    XV|        frost, and drifted snow,~Oft made them feeble, weary,
 55    XV|        They walked, they rested oft, they went, they stayed,~
 56   XVI|         courage, shame and ire;~Oft looked he back, oft gazed
 57   XVI|        ire;~Oft looked he back, oft gazed he on the fight,~But
 58   XVI|       would have died fain,~And oft he wished the earth or ocean
 59   XVI|      begun, all that sect~Which oft thou shaken hast to earth
 60   XVI|         the vengeance bear,~And oft Armida shalt thou call in
 61   XVI|      left one stone.~ ~ LXIX~As oft the clouds frame shapes
 62  XVII|       Turks and Persians war he oft did wage,~And oft he won,
 63  XVII|        war he oft did wage,~And oft he won, and sometimes lost
 64  XVII|        His armies forth to war, oft with good speed.~ ~ XIII~
 65  XVII|        sky~Takes open vengeance oft for secret ill:~But if some
 66  XVII|       then he fought, but wrong~Oft spoileth right, fortune
 67 XVIII|      had iterate~Their welcomes oft, and oft their dear embrace,~
 68 XVIII|         Their welcomes oft, and oft their dear embrace,~Toward
 69 XVIII|        admired Silenus old~That oft appeared set on his lazy
 70 XVIII|      piteous look, and changeth oft her cheer,~An hundred sighs
 71 XVIII|         brand, nor cared though oft she prayed,~And she her
 72 XVIII|     when men in dreams are laid~Oft in their idle fancies roam
 73 XVIII|         east such message used, oft with good speed.~ ~ LIII~
 74 XVIII|     receive and mercy cry;~Then oft the duke his engines great
 75 XVIII|       fall;~For need so cowards oft courageous prove,~For liberty
 76 XVIII|    fight, for life and all,~And oft with arrows, shafts, and
 77 XVIII|      cast.~In his swift pulleys oft the men withdrew~The tree,
 78 XVIII|      men withdrew~The tree, and oft the riding-balk forth threw:~ ~
 79 XVIII|       The mighty beam redoubted oft his blows,~And with such
 80   XIX|        retired, now struck out,~Oft with his sword his foe's
 81   XIX|       Which, burned and builded oft, still keeps the name~Of
 82   XIX|        broad, royal, great,~And oft he asked, and answered oft
 83   XIX|      oft he asked, and answered oft among,~In questions wise,
 84   XIX|    astound, and in his thoughts oft cast~What treason false
 85   XIX|       desire, or love suppress?~Oft of his worth with thee in
 86   XIX|        let me dwell.~Thus taken oft, escaped oft I have,~Ah,
 87   XIX|         Thus taken oft, escaped oft I have,~Ah, see what haps
 88   XIX|       So often captive, free so oft again,~Still my first bands
 89    XX|    strong, in arms well proved, oft tried.~ ~ VII~Such was Godfredo'
 90    XX|        chosen crew,~With whom I oft have conquered, triumphed
 91    XX|       have conquered, triumphed oft,~Your lands and lineages
 92    XX|        usual thing,~As you have oft, this day, so win the field,~
 93    XX|       from night's azure mantle oft doth run~Or fall, a sliding
 94    XX|       Upon his feeble foes fell oft and thick,~To move three
 95    XX|     power, and in that fit~Shot oft and oft, her shafts no entrance
 96    XX|        in that fit~Shot oft and oft, her shafts no entrance
 97    XX|         the sick or frantic men oft dream~In their unquiet sleep
 98    XX|         them in this sport,~And oft would speak, would cry,
 99    XX|  battles past~That Antheus-like oft fell oft rose again,~Evermore
100    XX|      That Antheus-like oft fell oft rose again,~Evermore fierce,
101    XX|      away, loosed and untwined:~Oft strove she, but in vain,