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 1    IV|       he could give~To aid his mistress, banished from her right.~
 2     V|   favors blamed,~That of their mistress he received erewhiles:~This
 3    VI|      Her handmaid ready at her mistress' will,~To arm her helped,
 4    VI|  coasts were clear,~Before her mistress, through the streets was
 5    VI|      in his tent;~Tell him thy mistress comes to care his sore,~
 6    VI|      To bring his lady and his mistress word,~She might be welcome
 7    VI|      likewise, when he saw his mistress gone,~It booted not to sojourn
 8   VII| Erminia's steed this while his mistress bore~Through forests thick
 9   VII|    same,~If aught but good his mistress fair betide;~Then wished
10   XII|        would have strained his mistress so:~They took their swords
11   XII|        The buried ashes of his mistress sweet:~ ~ XCVI~Before her
12   XII|       0 marble dear on my dear mistress placed!~My flames within,
13  XIII|      To lay in marble cold his mistress dear,~The lively color from
14   XVI|      fight,~But oftener on his mistress and her flight.~ ~ VII~Then
15   XVI|      neat,~He rose, and to his mistress held the glass,~A noble
16   XIX|         So was he fixed on his mistress trim,~So gazed he, and fed
17   XIX|      forth leapt,~But up their mistress start, and twixt them stepped:~ ~
18   XIX|  bright;~Ask me the head, fair mistress, of some foe,~For to your
19   XIX|    bashful face~Said, "For thy mistress choose no other dame~But
20   XIX|      what flame, what fire thy mistress fries.~ ~ XCVII~"Unhappy
21    XX|        Alvante, that durst his mistress wound, fell down,~And she
22    XX|        or disarmed; his foe or mistress kind~Despised alike, like
23    XX|     dear.~His arm that did his mistress kind enfold,~The Turk cut
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