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 1     I|     Foretold the heathen how the Christians came,~How thitherward the
 2     I| everywhere~About the town, these Christians will destroy us,~The aged
 3     I|       Paynims large,~And on poor Christians laid the double charge.~ ~
 4     I| expectation vain,~In these false Christians, and some new content,~Our
 5    II|      vain;~Aladine will kill the Christians in his ire:~Sophronia and
 6    II|        vengeance hot~Against the Christians, whom he faulters thought;~
 7    II|      Bethlem's infants kill,~The Christians soon this direful news receave,~
 8    II|          out to God and man,~The Christians mourned in silent lamentation,~
 9    II|        Persia late,~She with the Christians had encountered eft,~And
10    II|     Highness this,~You blame the Christians, them my thoughts acquite,~
11    II|    drives salvation's barge,~The Christians fled, whither they took
12    II|   unrevenged all:~Nor Turks, nor Christians, if we perish such,~Have
13   III|       had entertained been~Since Christians Antioch did to bondage bring,~
14   III|        thither came~A troop, and Christians that pursued the same.~ ~
15   III|     wheeled all,~And 'gainst the Christians' backs and sides they showed~
16   III|        their force sustained~The Christians' rage, that followed them
17   III|        he least doth think."~The Christians at his words enraged be,~
18    IV|     sends them forth to work the Christians woe,~False Hidraort their
19    IV|           Let Asia subject be to Christians' might,~A prey he Sion to
20    IV|          spin.~ ~ XXV~"Go to the Christians' host, and there assay~All
21     V|      unguilty blood?~By wounding Christians, will you again~Pierce Christ,
22     V|        presume so far,~That many Christians have they falsely slain,~
23    VI|     ARGUMENT.~Argantes calls the Christians out to just:~Otho not chosen
24    VI|       renowned knight,~Among the Christians bold I not refuse."~The
25    VI|      guard the walls against the Christians bold,~And in such fury and
26    IX|   Solyman doth move~By night the Christians in their tents to kill:~
27    IX|       his light hath lost,~These Christians shall assail with sudden
28    IX|        found not as he hoped the Christians' guide~Unware, ne yet unready
29    IX|         fields about;~The beaten Christians run away full light,~The
30    IX|          might wonder.~ ~ LI~The Christians by their guide's ensample
31     X|       this suffice, by him these Christians shall~In fight subdued fly,
32     X|          by heaps they wend,~And Christians slain roll up in webs of
33     X|      heaped up mountains high of Christians dead,~I in their camp who
34     X|     Before one town us and these Christians shall~In peace and love
35    XI|      flying darts nor stones the Christians dreed,~Nor arrows shot,
36    XI|        Though large and deep the Christians fill them oft,~With rubbish,
37    XI|       sayest thou? amongst these Christians bold,~First leap he forth
38    XI|        town,~Instead of that the Christians late beat down.~ ~ LXV~The
39   XII|         And after them a band of Christians fling,~Whom Solyman drove
40  XIII|       sacred spring;~But yet the Christians spared ne'er the more~The
41  XIII|      trembling fear make all the Christians flee,~When they presume
42  XIII|       Lay woful thousands of the Christians stout,~The faithful people
43   XVI|      great hate and spite~Gainst Christians all, chiefly I wish thee
44 XVIII|        cut the plank whereon the Christians passed.~And had performed
45 XVIII|       that I~May kill a thousand Christians first, then die."~ ~ XCIX~
46    XX|       cruel fight~Makes with the Christians and their faithful power;~
47    XX|      Armida; first the field~The Christians win, then praise to God
48    XX|         greater slaughter on the Christians made;~For where he turned
49    XX|        But on the other wing the Christians yield,~And fly, such vantage
50    XX|        loth to lose~The day, the Christians fight, resist and die,~And
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