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 1     I|      Europe raised to make proud Asia thrall,~If our beginnings
 2    II|          land so far remote~From Asia's coasts, or Phoebus' glistering
 3    II|       fall and fade,~Till woeful Asia all lie desolate.~Sweet
 4    II|        quiet bring,~So that poor Asia her complaints may cease,~
 5   III|          quoth she, "this day~Of Asia's hopes the groundwork found
 6    IV|          what comes or goes,~Let Asia subject be to Christians'
 7    IV|        before it kindles so~That Asia burn, consumed with the
 8    IV|          he sought,~To bring all Asia subject to his might:~There
 9  VIII| robberies day and night~Until to Asia's wars at last he came,~
10    IX|       rose in arms to make proud Asia thrall,~Those lands were
11    IX|          treasures stolen, where Asia's wealth he hoardeth;~Now
12    IX|          kingdom now shall fall,~Asia her freedom, you shall praise
13    IX|         with courage strove,~For Asia's mighty empire, who can
14     X|          ends the stars~Allot to Asia's troubles, broils and wars.~ ~
15     X|        Egypt won,~Shall fill all Asia with his prosperous frays,~
16     X|          but trifles yet, though Asia's kings~Shrink at his name,
17   XVI|       begun,~"All Europe now and Asia be in war,~And all that
18   XVI|     Christian faith permits, and Asia's war.~ ~ LIV~"Ah, let our
19  XVII|         grew so great, that over Asia's lands~And Lybia's realms
20  XVII|         rays~Along the coasts of Asia have their seat,~Arontes
21  XVII|        virtue's aid~To venge all Asia's harms, her wrongs to right,~
22 XVIII|         He had returned Afric or Asia won.~ ~ VI~Thus marched
23   XIX|          his thought,~Hither all Asia is, all Afric, brought.~ ~
24   XIX|          proud, that spoiled all Asia's lands,~And with them took
25   XIX|          shall prove~To win lost Asia from his Christian foe,~
26    XX|        for her honor's sake~Whom Asia makes her champions, by
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