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 1     I|           the Christian Peers and Knights;~And all the Lords and Princes
 2     I|      noblest wise~'Gainst Persian knights and many a valiant band;~
 3     I|           and Engerlan,~For hardy knights approved were and known;~
 4    II|        manage war with blows like knights,~Our praise in arms, our
 5   III|          turning to the Christian knights, he cried:~"Lordlings, behold,
 6    IV|        defied.~ ~ XVII~"Among the knights and worthies of their train,~
 7    IV|         to withstand,~And conquer knights in warlike equipage,~Of
 8    IV|        these captains, lords, and knights of skill,~Appoint me ten,
 9    IV|         said,~Their general their knights encompassed round,~With
10    IV|          souls of young and lusty knights;~These were the arms wherewith
11     V|       While thus Armida false the knights misled~In wandering errors
12     V|        impression,~'Twixt two old knights, and matrons twain she went,~
13     V|            Yet, for the lords and knights of greatest name~Became
14     V|        when Duke Godfrey wist his knights were gone,~Within his breast
15    VI|           wrath so moved were the knights and lords.~Then Godfrey
16    VI|        not the guise~Of Christian knights, though fall'n, so soon
17    VI|       haste,~Forgetting what good knights to virtue owe,~Otho his
18    VI|           time amazed,~To see the knights assail, and eke defend,~
19   VII|          his place:~The Christian knights so full of shame and ire~
20   VII|     Except thou swear her valiant knights to aid~Against those traitors
21   VII|          wise heart,~How his bold knights to victory aspired,~Fresh
22  VIII|           be,~To hearken news the knights by heaps assemble,~The man
23  VIII|       delay,~And with him took of knights a chosen band,~Directly
24  VIII|        poisoned snake,~Of all our knights that hath destroyed the
25    IX|        hell the angels drove;~The knights delivered from the witch,
26    IX|         soldiers slain, the hardy knights were killed,~Legions of
27    IX|         in every rank~The boldest knights, of all that chosen crew,~
28    IX|      Which tremble made the Pagan knights and lords.~ ~ XCII~These
29    IX|           the heathen bands,~What knights they slew, I could recount
30    IX|           they ran,~The Christian knights huge slaughter on them made;~
31     X|      Godfredo hears his lords and knights repeat~How they escaped
32     X| threatening guise;~Dumb stood the knights, so dreadful was his word;~
33     X|         those worthies, lords and knights, he sends;~ ~ LIX~And thus
34    XI|          XVII~Now when the hungry knights sufficed are~With meat,
35    XI|          the soldiers, called the knights:~ ~ XX~"Arm, arm at once!"
36    XI|       most dismayed the Christian knights,~And added courage to the
37    XI|       bold Latines,~When of these knights the wondrous acts he spied,~
38    XI|         LXXVI~And with a thousand knights and barons bold,~Toward
39    XI|      interposed glad~To cause the knights their arms aside to lay;~
40   XII|           their hurts the wounded knights attend.~ ~ II~Their wounds
41   XII|        deed~With strong and hardy knights herself to show.~Why take
42   XII|           what mourning Christian knights behoved:~ ~ LXXXVI~"O Tancred,
43   XII|    achievements fit~For Christian knights He would thee home recall;~
44   XIV|           who for pardon sue:~Two knights to find the prince are sent
45   XIV|         in this sort:~ ~ XXX~"Sir knights," quoth he, "if you intend
46   XIV|           green.~ ~ XL~Amazed the knights amid these wonders passed,~
47   XIV|            Now fits the time, sir knights, I tell and show~What you
48   XIV|         words outthrew:~`Alas! my knights are slain, my prisoners
49    XV|     ARGUMENT.~The well instructed knights forsake their host,~And
50    XV|         the waves them throw,~The knights for their fair guide to
51    XV|           their guide began, "Sir knights, take keep~How all these
52    XV|         brave~And troops of hardy knights, yet on these sands~The
53    XV|           fairly forward bore the knights her charge;~Now through
54    XV|           to guard the place,~The knights pressed forward with assured
55    XV|        But when her eyes upon the knights she cast,~She start, and
56    XV|           now slow:~But still the knights unmoved passed by,~These
57    XV|           to the palace gates the knights retire,~While in their stream
58   XVI|      Porsenna's grave.~ ~  II~The knights passed through the castle'
59   XVI|           that princely gate.~The knights these stories viewed first
60   XVI|         firm, constant, still the knights forthwent,~Hardening their
61   XVI|              LXXIV~This said, her knights, her ladies, pages, squires~
62  XVII|        renown,~ ~ VIII~But by his knights still cruel wars maintained.~
63  XVII|       conquered all the lords and knights in place,~What would she
64  XVII|       aught,~When Godfrey's hardy knights and princes strong~I captive
65  XVII|         Had not Rinaldo fierce my knights all slain,~And set those
66  XVII|        than,~And 'twixt the angry knights his sceptre cast:~Then to
67  XVII|         ire~At thy commands these knights should both appease,~That
68  XVII|         end and mine."~ ~ LVI~The knights she set upon the shore all
69  XVII|         this day,~Richer in hardy knights than this of thine;~Such
70 XVIII|    worthies him behind,~All hardy knights, whom Dudon late did guide,~"
71 XVIII|       penticle protected well~The knights, from all that flew and
72 XVIII|     gainst his yielding lone,~His knights were entered and the Pagans
73 XVIII|          the gore,~And drowns the knights in whom it lived before.~
74   XIX|        prowess dies~The monsters, knights and giants in all lands,~
75   XIX|        passage and each tent:~The knights he notes, their steeds,
76   XIX|          Their banner spread, and knights on horseback leapt,~With
77   XIX|         Armida set with dames and knights around,~Sullen she sat,
78   XIX|          deceits to light,~"Eight knights," she says, "all courtiers
79   XIX|        was concluded mongst those knights and lords,~Their counsel
80   XIX|        ring was made~Of lords and knights that filled the chamber
81    XX|        fatal strife~He slew? what knights his courser fierce made
82    XX|         Upon their people ran the knights he brings,~Pricked forward
83    XX|       done, he stays, and all his knights recalls,~And scorns to strike
84    XX|      bestow,~Yet suffered not her knights and lovers near~Their rival
85    XX|       might find grace?~For in my knights, and all that take my part,~
86    XX|         As his sharp sword killed knights and soldiers tall.~ ~ LXXIX~
87    XX|         For by his hand a hundred knights were slain,~But time forgot
88    XX|     herself in row with Godfrey's knights,~With them she serves, she
89    XX|          said, he gave him to his knights to keep~And after those
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