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 1     I|          beheld,~Each land, each city, country, town and field.~ ~
 2     I|     neighboreth by east~The Holy City, faithful folk each one,~
 3     I|        lords would undermine~His city's wall, and lay his towers
 4     I|       child of darkness was;~The city's self he strongly fortifies,~
 5    II|         lost.~ ~ LVI~Emmaus is a city small, that lies~From Sion'
 6    II|        quickly rear,~And build a city in an hour's space.~When
 7   III|         they both approached the city's wall,~When lo! the Pagans
 8   III|          great~Beheld the sacred city and her seat.~ ~  LV~Hierusalem
 9   III|          every side descried~The city's strength, the walls and
10   III|         foe~Might to or from the city come or go.~ ~ LXVI~His
11   III|          by night,~Lest from the city while his soldiers sleep~
12    VI|     wounded knight,~And from the city armed rides by night.~ ~ ~
13    VI|      wide and broad,~Between the city and the camp was spread,~
14    VI|         her renown;~And when her city and her state was lost,~
15    VI|         turret standeth near the city's wall,~From which Erminia
16    IX|       shall behold~This glorious city smoking lie in mould.~ ~
17    IX|       thereby,~A hollow dale the city's bulwarks near~From west
18    IX|      stayed,~And safe within the city's walls the king .~The relics
19     X|      thought,~Too little is this city to sustain,~To raise the
20     X|        and the night~Safe in the city's walls himself he pent,~
21     X|       twain~He would assault the city's mighty wall,~And all the
22    XI|  throughout,~Which riseth on the city's eastern side,~From it
23   XII|         ariseth~To this besieged city by my death,~But if, as
24   XII|       heaven upthrown,~As if the city's self new taken were~With
25  XIII|        the charmed wood,~A fiery city high as heaven up stood.~ ~
26  XIII|       Christian peer,~Before the city's walls last day that fell,~
27   XIV|      many Pagans slain,~The holy city by assault be won,~The land
28    XV|        loss so well it thrived~A city great and rich that it became,~
29    XV|    knight,~Between the shore and city, came and went:~Huge elephants,
30  XVII|          beheld.~ ~ ~ I~Gaza the city on the frontier stands~Of
31  XVII|        Of many a village a small city great;~ ~  LXXI~Against
32 XVIII|      joined he fast;~To beat the city's wall, beneath forth brust~
33 XVIII|           And twixt the camp and city crossed her game,~That durst
34 XVIII|  trembled to behold the wall~And city subject to her shot and
35   XIX|         go.~ ~ VII~They left the city, and they left behind~Godfredo'
36   XIX|     express~Who can? or tell the city's great distress?~ ~ XXX~
37   XIX|          sovereign~Consists your city, not in lime and stone;~
38   XIX|       knew,~And now close by the city's wall he was,~When sun
39   XIX| pilgrimage."~ ~ CXIX~Thus to the city was Tancredi borne,~And
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