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 1     I|     First book~ ~ THE ARGUMENT~God sends his angel to Tortosa
 2     I|     from their noble war,~When God Almighty form his lofty
 3     I|       he from the rest,~'Twixt God and souls of men that righteous
 4     I|            XXI~"Warriors, whom God himself elected hath~His
 5     I|     directed course we run~The God of Battles thus before us
 6     I|  become,~No wrong is that, but God's most righteous doom.~ ~
 7     I|    move,~And if disarmed, then God himself of Love.~ ~ LIX~
 8    II|       his fury to the house of God,~The image took, with words
 9    II|       away the tyrant went,~Of God's sharp justice naught he
10    II|       Pagans loud cried out to God and man,~The Christians
11    II|    sharpened brand,~Scorner of God, scant to himself a friend,~
12    II|      the earth all fears,~High God defend thee with his heavenly
13   III|        of whose sweet face~The God of Love did in thy heart
14   III|      heaps.~ ~ LXX~"For if our God the Lord Armipotent~Those
15    IV|      it were a thing of naught~God to resist, or change his
16    IV|         He knows, who fears no God, he loves no friend,~He
17    IV|       If not in service of our God we fought,~In meaner quarrel
18    IV|        And know, they shall in God's high service fight,~That
19    IV|        veil for to remove,~The God himself once more had fallen
20     V|     fierce, so fair, so young,~God Mars he seemed descending
21     V|      and where you please:~But God forbid this day you lift
22     V|       at length.~ ~ XLVII~"For God's love stay your heat, and
23     V|        assays,~Whom still your God did keep, defend and save~
24    VI|    field,~A gentle knight whom God from danger shield.~ ~ XXIX~
25   VII|        LXX~"Or rather see whom God's high judgement taketh,~
26   VII|      since that day,~With thee God grant it proves as happy
27  VIII|    number best resemble,~Would God some gladder news I might
28  VIII|       een,~As was his wont, to God for aid he fled;~"O Lord,
29  VIII|       In shape an angel, and a God in speech:~ ~ LXXIX~"What
30  VIII|        the thing.~ ~ LXXX~"Ah, God forbid these lands should
31    IX|       their tents to kill:~But God who their intents saw from
32    IX|     glory crowned,~Are all one God, who made all things of
33     X|        each knight himself and God forget:~She rose and turned
34    XI|        fight in every land,~To God even then a secret vow I
35    XI|      wall,~Lest from my vow to God late made I swerve:~He shall
36   XII|        undertake,~Whether high God my mind therewith inspire~
37   XII|     inspire~Or of his will his God mankind doth make,~Among
38   XII|       burn or break~The tower, God grant therein I have my
39   XII|        by my death,~But if, as God forbid, this night thou
40   XII|        looking up at last, ` O God,' quoth she,~`Who dost my
41   XII|       more? the counsels be~Of God and man gainst my designments
42  XIII|        Annoys, whom to refresh God sends a shower.~ ~ ~ I~But
43  XIII|   soldiers restless sought the god in bed,~But most for thirst
44  XIII|       and witness be~Our angry God our proud attempts doth
45   XIV|       Guelpho shall pray thee, God shall him inspire,~To pardon
46   XIV|        To know all things that God had framed or wrought,~Fire,
47    XV|    XXIX~"But will our gracious God," the knight replied,~"That
48    XV|      To know the folk and what God they confess,~And all whereby
49  XVII|           LXXXIV~He answered, "God for his mercy's sake,~Grant
50  XVII|        kill.~ ~ LXXXVII~"Would God, as drawn from the forgetful
51 XVIII|     VII~"Much are you bound to God above, who brought~You safe
52 XVIII|        from high~Defends, whom God preserves, and holds so
53   XIX|       praises glad~Gave to his God that saved him in this fight;~
54   XIX|   sometime the sacred house of God,~O heavenly justice, if
55   XIX|        his folk he said,~"High God hath holpen well his children
56    XX| Christians win, then praise to God they yield.~ ~ ~ I~The sun
57    XX|   jewels, gold and treasure."~"God shield," quoth Godfrey, "
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