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 1     I|         fort to scale the noble wall,~The Christian folk from
 2     I|        to march to Sion's noble wall,~Unseen, unheard, or undescried
 3     I| defenced with rampire, moat, or wall,~No stream, no wood, no
 4     I|      would undermine~His city's wall, and lay his towers prostrate,~
 5    II|          Of shake this puissant wall, such passing might~Have
 6    II|        field, or to defend this wall,~Point what you list, I
 7    II|      leads us to this venerable wall,~That so we might reward
 8   III|      both approached the city's wall,~When lo! the Pagans their
 9   III|         shelter of the neighbor wall,~Well guarded with his troops
10   III|    brass or adamant,~Or if this wall were built of flaming fire,~
11   III|     devising laid~How that high wall should best be battered,~
12    VI|        lie inclosed within this wall?~I see your workmen taking
13    VI|        standeth near the city's wall,~From which Erminia might
14    VI|         saw high hanging on the wall~Clorinda's silver arms,
15   VII|        shape it had,~Toward the wall it rode with feigned speed,~
16  VIII|     conscience was his castle's wall.~ ~ XLII~"My supper roots;
17    IX|         their rampire and their wall;~This blade, as scythes
18     X|      you follow me, within this wall~With Christian arms hemmed
19     X|       and love unite within one wall."~ ~  LII~While thus he
20     X|       assault the city's mighty wall,~And all the heathen there
21    XI|       That done, they scale the wall which kept them out:~The
22    XI|       first foot this conquered wall above?~Of less account some
23    XI|    likewise assault this sacred wall,~Lest from my vow to God
24    XI|        arms and weapons was the wall,~Under whose basis that
25    XI|         From gate to gate, from wall to wall he flew,~He comforts
26    XI|      gate to gate, from wall to wall he flew,~He comforts all
27    XI|    soldiers, come, assault this wall,~I will not shrink, nor
28    XI|        flat the battlements and wall:~So fell Taigetus hill on
29    XI|      saved by warlike skill the wall nigh broke:~For to what
30    XI|         assayed~With the strong wall to grapple and to close,~
31    XI|    Saracens so tumbled from the wall.~ ~ XLIX~For on their part
32    XI|      the battery naked left the wall.~ ~ LI~The tower above,
33    XI|      puissance could abide?~The wall began, new bruised and crushed
34    XI|      safely under~The shattered wall, where greatest breach he
35    XI|      haste before~Who first the wall and rampire should ascend,~
36   XII|      then, who can, defend this wall!"~ ~ IX~"Too late these '
37  XIII|         toil again repaired the wall.~ ~ XVII~But Godfrey nould
38  XIII|  increased, and built a stately wall~Of burning coals, quick
39  XIII|   charmed,~Built like a battled wall to heaven was reared;~Whereon
40   XIV|     strangers bold,~Against the wall there stood a cupboard great~
41    XV|       bring to Zion's conquered wall."~ ~ XIV~While thus she
42 XVIII|       have, nor without it~This wall can battered be: where others
43 XVIII|        fast;~To beat the city's wall, beneath forth brust~A ram
44 XVIII|        out thrust,~Which on the wall when need she cast;~And
45 XVIII|     their labors hid,~Upon that wall which next the camp confines~
46 XVIII|    assault, these to defend the wall,~A speedy dove through the
47 XVIII|      both know I,~And that high wall by site strong on that part,~
48 XVIII|       all thy might~Assault the wall, and by those crags ascend,~
49 XVIII|       Where plainest seemed the wall, where with their might~
50 XVIII|     people strive~To scale this wall, where weak it seems and
51 XVIII|     Pagan people to forsake the wall,~But to revenge these deadly
52 XVIII|        he fought,~And where the wall high, strong and surest
53 XVIII|         shame," quoth he, "this wall no war doth find,~When battered
54 XVIII|          Come let us scale this wall, though strong and high,~
55 XVIII|    course they take,~And to the wall without resistance drew,~
56 XVIII|        ladders long against the wall they clap,~Unlike in courage
57 XVIII|      upleaped and possessed~The wall, and safe and easy with
58 XVIII|         helped him to mount the wall.~This while Godfredo and
59 XVIII|   Pagans trembled to behold the wall~And city subject to her
60 XVIII|      tower so nigh,~That on the wall, against the boaster's will,~
61 XVIII|  sternly combating,~And for the wall was feeblest on that coast,~
62   XIX|      The brazen hinges from the wall it tore,~It broke the locks,
63   XIX|    mother bore me near Bisertus wall,~Her name was Lesbine, mine
64   XIX|         now close by the city's wall he was,~When sun was set,
65   XIX|    battle prove;~Closed in this wall and trench, the fight to
66    XX|   LXXXII~Where battered was the wall he sallied out,~And to the
67    XX|      ruins shall break down thy wall."~ ~ CXXXIX~This said, forth
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