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 1     I| ever-blessed day,~When Christian swords with Persian blood were
 2     V|        to shake sharp spears and swords,~Not to be tied in gyves
 3     V|    preach or prate~When men with swords their right and wrong debate.~ ~
 4    VI|   exploit, but when he feels our swords,~I trust we shall so far
 5    VI|        And shaked for rage their swords and weapons keen;~The field
 6    VI|         art,~Plucked forth their swords and soon from earth up start.~ ~
 7    VI|         Their soldiers new, when swords and weapons shone~Yet none
 8   VII|              CXII~The strokes of swords and thrusts of many a spear,~
 9  VIII|     scath,~And brandished bright swords on every side;~Now hushed
10    IX|  unawares burst forth a storm of swords,~Which tremble made the
11    IX|        their shields and cutting swords arrear,~As not defended
12     X|       which about him flew,~From swords and lances, instruments
13    XI|         the western lands,~Their swords were blunt, faint was their
14   XII|       let them use no art,~Their swords together clash with dreadful
15   XII|       They could not wield their swords, so nigh they came,~They
16   XII|     mistress so:~They took their swords again, and each enchased~
17   XII|         leaning stood~Upon their swords, whose points in earth were
18   XII|      maintained the fight,~Their swords both points and edges sharp
19  XVII|        their sides their crooked swords down hing:~Thus set, thus
20  XVII|         And by their sides broad swords and maces hong.~ ~ XXVIII~
21 XVIII|       hands.~ ~ XXXVI~With fifty swords, and fifty targets bright,~
22   XIX|          sky,~And from each side swords, weapons, fire outbrast:~
23   XIX|        false show,~And all their swords are dipped in poison strong,~
24    XX|        against their will,~Their swords are blunt, shields thin,
25    XX|         stick,~Their hands shook swords, their slings held cobbles
26    XX|    cloven and shattered were;~Of swords, some to the body nail the
27    XX|    Arabian trows~He wields three swords, all in one hilt that stick;~
28    XX|          of blood were shed, new swords them hit;~New combats fought,
29    XX|         the furious charge,~From swords, from darts, from weapons
30    XX|          both high advance~Their swords aloft, both struck at once,
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