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 1    II|       and right," quoth she, "I yield consent,~Mine be the honor,
 2    II|     necks to thy sweet yoke may yield:~These be the sheaves that
 3   III|        years would for no labor yield,~His age was full of puissance
 4    IV|       spouse to hasty death did yield,~My father also died, consumed
 5    IV|        And murder him unless he yield the hold,~And me and mine
 6    IV|    earnest suit they prayed:~"I yield," quoth he, "and it be happy
 7     V|         Duke Godfrey's brother, yield,~Unless to thee, the Christian
 8    VI|      ease and rest;~But we must yield whom hunger soon will shend,~
 9    VI|         will thus gan he tell,~"Yield thee my slave, and this
10    VI|       though fall'n, so soon to yield;~I can my fall excuse in
11    VI|    afflict my woful sprite,~Why yield I thus to plaints and sorrowings,~
12   VII|        gan to him loudly call,~"Yield thee," quoth it, "thou art
13   VII|       Heaven did for his safety yield:~But when he saw the man
14   VII|         dead, there did another yield,~Some sighed, some sobbed,
15  VIII| contents as crowns and sceptres yield,~No dear entreaties of so
16  VIII|       him? who shall us certain yield?~Who sees not that, although
17    IX|          and not one tear could yield.~ ~ LXXXVII~But when the
18    IX|  fortune's power," quoth he, "I yield,~And on my flight let her
19     X|      ease could so hard lodging yield,~His wounds so smarted that
20     X|       said;~To sue for peace or yield himself a slave~He durst
21    XI|       he, "thou servant dear,~I yield to follow thy divine advice,~
22    XI|       foes his engines would he yield,~In them his hope to win
23  XIII|      lie, and Sion's fort shall yield."~ ~ LII~This said, his
24   XIV|         moved art to ruth,~Then yield, forgive, and home recall
25   XIV|       To call the knight again; yield thou to it:~And though the
26  XVII|         or make his proud heart yield,~But when he grew unfit
27  XVII|        seemed to cruel death to yield,~When Totila was fled, and
28  XVII|       age foretokens true shall yield~Of future valor, puissance,
29   XIX|         spoke and said:~ ~ XXI~"Yield, hardy knight, and chance
30   XIX|        Or move Argantes once to yield or shrink?~ ~ XXII~"Use,
31   XIX|       prince stepped back, and "Yield thee!" cried,~No hurt he
32   XIX|      foes, now fit to faint and yield,~And both at once to aid
33   XIX|         make the way,~And ere I yield to Death's and Fortune's
34   XIX|         you, to make you fly or yield.~ ~ CXXIV~"And well I know
35   XIX|         stable,~The tower shall yield, or but resist in vain,~
36    XX|         then praise to God they yield.~ ~ ~ I~The sun called up
37    XX|     necks, make them all die or yield, --~What need I more exhort
38    XX|      make her shrink, no danger yield,~By Thermodont was never
39    XX|          yet neither shrink nor yield,~In equal balance hung their
40    XX|        faint, tremble, fall and yield.~ ~  LXVIII~Nor left alone
41    XX|       other wing the Christians yield,~And fly, such vantage there
42    XX|    Indian strong constrained~To yield himself his captive and
43    XX|      and die,~And ready were to yield, retire and fly.~ ~ LXXXIII~
44    XX|      greatest peril is, heavens yield~Strength to my courage,
45    XX|         and thou, brave knight,~Yield, I am Godfrey, yield thee
46    XX|    knight,~Yield, I am Godfrey, yield thee to my might!"~ ~ CXLI~
47    XX|     Aethiop's end,~Answered, "I yield to thee, thou worthy art,~