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 1     I|     sort,~Your disobedience and ill managing~Of actions lost,
 2     I|          to judge all, good and ill,~Laws to impose to lands
 3     I| daughter.~ ~ LXXXII~The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear,~
 4    II|       partaker of your good and ill,~What counsel sage, or magic'
 5    II|     counsel had'st thou in that ill?"~ ~ XXIII~"My lofty thoughts,"
 6   III|         stout~To rescue her, if ill mote her betide:~With speeches
 7   III|         her cruel sense.~But in ill time of Pagans thither came~
 8   III|         to guard them safe from ill.~Within a valley deep this
 9    IV|    devise, --~As counsellors in ill still nearest are, --~At
10    IV|       mind foreshowed my coming ill.~ ~ XLIX~"Three times the
11    IV|       preserve me to my further ill,~One of my noble father'
12    IV|         this martial guise;~For ill deserves he to be termed
13     V| following her it may betide yon ill;~Refrain therefore, and
14     V|      the stroke,~Then, Tancred, ill you counsel us, I trow;~
15    VI|         art.~ ~ XLIII~The Pagan ill defenced with sword or targe,~
16    VI|    these presages of his coming ill,~Not greatest cause of her
17   VII|    looks, I guess,~Were such as ill beseemed a shepherdess.~ ~
18   VII|     said, "Tancred, thy hap was ill~To wander hither where thou
19   VII|      meant to prove his fortune ill or good,~His shield cast
20   VII|        With doubtful steps, and ill assured pace;~At last his
21   VII|        his head and breast none ill,~His weaker parts he wisely
22   VII|         did his foes no greater ill,~His threatening eyes like
23  VIII|    every breast increased,~This ill spread far, and till it
24    IX|        torments of your endless ill,~Are you still fierce, still
25    XI|  prevailed naught,~His luck was ill, although his skill were
26   XII|    performed, betide me good or ill.~ ~ VI~"But if it fortune
27   XII|         since hardened to thine ill,~Thy cruel heart is to thy
28  XIII|        spread,~A sad presage of ill that should betide,~With
29  XIII|      harms with dread of future ill,~ ~ LV~While thus he bent
30   XIV|       danger lies, and greatest ill:~ ~ LXXIV~"There welleth
31   XVI|        all, chiefly I wish thee ill:~I was a Pagan born, and
32   XVI|      bent to deeds that maidens ill became;~His niece a wandering
33  XVII|        vengeance oft for secret ill:~But if some champion dare
34 XVIII|     free, quite void of spirits ill;~Of horror full, but horror
35   XIX|         and do this knight none ill:"~And thus defending gainst
36   XIX|         the fight to shun,~Doth ill this camp beseem, and worse
37    XX|         army flies,~Their bands ill ranked themselves entangle
38    XX|       their bearers shrink, for ill~Their leaders heard, obeyed,
39    XX|     trouble, thrust and throng?~Ill known he is, and worse he
40    XX|         his host,~Strange lords ill feared are, ill obeyed of
41    XX|   Strange lords ill feared are, ill obeyed of most.~ ~ XVIII~"
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