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 1     I|        see,~There learned this maid of arms the ireful guise,~
 2    II|   parents' joy and pleasure,~A maid, whose fruit was ripe, not
 3    II|        all, on went this noble maid,~Until the presence of the
 4    II|        idol is of that eternal maid,~For so at least I have
 5    II|   intreat this groom~And silly maid from danger to redeem,~Condemned
 6    II|     the king admired the noble maid,~His purpose was not to
 7   III|     the rest on went the noble maid,~She broke the helm, and
 8   III|       armed hand~To strike the maid, but gazing on her eyes,~
 9    IV|        commenden so,~A hapless maid I am, both born to die~And
10    IV|    trust thou wilt an helpless maid restore,~And repossess her
11    IV|     Than doth deliverance of a maid distrest;~And since thou
12    IV|    refuse,~Thou dost forsake a maid in cause most just,~And
13    IV|        woods among,~A banished maid, of wonted ease debarred,~
14    IV|     restless waited I, unhappy maid,~What hand should first
15    IV|   words thus would content the maid:~ ~ LXVIII~"If not in service
16     V|      he for the journey or the maid.~ ~ XIII~But in his noble
17    VI|        hill beheld the warlike maid,~As white as snow upon the
18    VI|        constrained~The hapless maid her passions to forbear,~
19    VI|     was chief.~ ~ LX~The silly maid in secret longing pined,~
20    VI|      such vain hopes the silly maid abused,~Promised herself
21    VI|        I envy the glory of the maid,~Yet envy not her shape,
22    VI| trusted most,~To whom and to a maid, a faithful one,~Part of
23    VI|     and how slow she went!~Her maid, to see that all the coasts
24   VII|   Rambaldo, who for that false maid~Forsook his country and
25     X| followed late the sly enticing maid,~And with them Tancred,
26     X|       an ireful look the angry maid~Thus threatened us, and
27    XI|    well.~ ~ XLVI~Thus shot the maid: the duke with hard assay~
28    XI|     Argantes, and with him the maid, defends~The walls above,
29   XII|   Argantes eke accompanied the maid~From place to place, which
30   XII|      bestow,~Than for a feeble maid in warlike deed~With strong
31   XII|        mused, thus devised the maid,~And turning to the knight,
32   XII|     seas, the strong and hardy maid,~He saw her leave her arms
33   XII|      mine ire:"~This said, the maid and he with sober pace~Drew
34   XII|      steed, on foot he saw the maid,~Their courage hot, their
35   XII|       he mourned, appeared the maid,~Fairer than erst, yet with
36   XII|      shape and portrait of the maid.~ ~ XCV~With sacred burning
37   XII|    when first I knew the hardy maid~Excluded was among her Christian
38  XIII|     Out of the body of a noble maid~Who with me lived, whom
39   XIV|      on his forehead gazed the maid,~As in his spring Narcissus
40   XVI|  woe-begone was never nymph or maid~And yet her beauty's pride
41  XVII|    dame, a virgin, but a royal maid;~And worthy seems this war
42   XIX|       mine honor, let me die a maid.'~ ~ XCIV~"He lift me by
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