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501 VII| name,~And see whom Fortune chooseth to this game, --~ ~ LXX~" 502 V| Who," quoth the other, "choseth thee to prove~This high 503 X| bend,~You must forsake your Christendom and faith,~And gainst Godfredo 504 XVII| create,~Founder of many churches, that upthrew~His eyes, 505 XII| her children small~Some churl takes before their parents' 506 XVII| good speed.~ ~ XIII~Of bold Circassians with their halberts long,~ 507 IV| speeding:~Medea or false Circe changed not~So far the shapes 508 XVIII| with a stone calm water circleth so.~ ~ XCVII~With that he 509 XVIII| As centres are with their circumference;~The tree they compassed 510 XVII| Syria's coasts as far as Cirene sands,~And southward passed 511 XIII| bring,~In every fountain, cistern, well and spring:~ ~ LIX~ 512 III| is stored of troughs and cisterns, made~To keep fresh water, 513 XIV| and naked soul, you see,~A citizen of this celestial hold:~ 514 IX| while on he went,~How to the city-ward, "Arm, arm!" they cried,~ 515 XVI| wanton habit spied,~His civet, balm, and perfumes redolent,~ 516 IX| Some howl, and weep, some clank their iron chains:"~This 517 V| reap this recompense,~To be clapt up in close and secret mew,~ 518 XI| You know," he said,~"In Clarimont by mighty Urban's hand~When 519 XII| art,~Their swords together clash with dreadful sound,~Their 520 XIX| war forthcast,~The armor clashed and lightened gainst the 521 I| fly,~The horses' neigh and clattering armors' sound~Pursue the 522 III| blood~That flowed here, to cleanse the soul amiss~Of sinful 523 XI| prepared his cloths and cleansing gear,~And with a belt his 524 XVII| they wist not what, that clearly shined~With rays of silver 525 XV| saw how from the crags and clefts below~His proud and stately 526 VIII| justice governed shall be~With clemency, I will no vengeance take~ 527 XVII| Paganism did slide,~That Clement late, now Emireno, hight;~ 528 XX| CXVIII~In days of old, Queen Cleopatra so~Alone fled from the fight 529 XI| the heremite,~And all the clerks and priests of less estate,~ 530 XI| sung around,~It seemed some clever, that sung with art and 531 XVIII| cloud of pure and precious clew there flies.~ ~ XVI~The 532 II| most kind he seems,~Who climbeth high, on earth he hardest 533 XI| alone,~And his audacious climbing ceased not;~At last upon 534 XIII| And mankind feared lest Climenes' child again~Had driven 535 XII| little children do,~With half clipped words to prattle, and to 536 VII| the mould,~His locks with clods of blood and dust bedight,~ 537 VI| stratagem I have devised new,~Clorinda-like in this fair harness dight,~ 538 X| the bleeding, and incision closes:~Beholding then before Apollo' 539 II| thread,~She hated chambers, closets, secret news,~And in broad 540 II| with it in heaven's pure clothing drest,~Through clearest 541 IV| yawning mouth, that foamed clotted blood,~Gaped like a whirlpool 542 XX| The man's breastbone thou clov'st and rent in twain,~So 543 XX| field,~All full of arms that cloven and shattered were;~Of swords, 544 XVI| bended underneath their clusters big,~The grapes were tender 545 XIII| burnt the flowers, burnt his Clytie dear,~The leaves grew wan 546 IV| The marble goddess, set at Cnidos, naked~She seemed, were 547 XVII| jacinths glistered round:~Her coachman guided with the golden rein~ 548 XII| An armor black as jet or coal she hent,~Wherein withouten 549 VII| pastoral's gear,~A kerchief coarse upon her head she tied;~ 550 XV| Numidia's mighty plains they coasted then,~Where wandering shepherds 551 I| fraughted ride~The armed ships, coasting along the shore,~Which for 552 VI| sent,~The herald donned his coat-of-arms, and went.~ ~ XVII~And when 553 XX| swords, their slings held cobbles round:~Each steed to run 554 IV| sovereign spoke,~And swift Cocytus stayed his murmur shrill,~ 555 XIV| stream provides,~And for the cogs was narrow, small and strait,~ 556 IX| made,~And 'twixt his ribs colored somedeal her blade.~ ~ LXXIII~ 557 XI| So stood at Rhodes the Coloss of the sun,~Waist high, 558 XV| bold.~ ~ XXXII~"Thy ship, Columbus, shall her canvas wing~Spread 559 XIV| strikes the earth below,~How comate, crinite, caudate stars 560 XVIII| life and safety sternly combating,~And for the wall was feeblest 561 I| All these together were combined, and knit~With surest bonds 562 IV| underhand,~Before the duke with comely boldness came:~"Brother 563 XVIII| nights and careful days?~Or comest thou to work me grief and 564 XI| boasting words to call,~"Who cometh next? this first is tumbled 565 XII| sprite,~Pale, cold, sad, comfortless, of sense deprived,~Upon 566 VII| XLVI~As in our seas in the Commachian Bay,~A silly fish, with 567 II| Macon's sacred rite,~For us commandeth mighty Mahomet~No idols 568 II| danger with them draw:~Be you commandress therefore, Princess, Queen~ 569 XII| nurse the charge of thee commend,~And sporting with thee 570 XI| the Lord his welfare they commended,~And with him left the worthies 571 IV| high~Above her merit you commenden so,~A hapless maid I am, 572 XVII| Great Caire it hight, whose commons from each side~Came swarming 573 XIX| life contrived~The false compacts and trains unfold aright:"~ 574 XI| blessed all those warlike companies;~And they dismissed returned 575 VI| For thy laments how he complaineth, see.~Oh cruel woman, whom 576 IV| utter his desire,~And by complaining make his griefs appear,~ 577 III| said she, they that her complainings hear~In other sense her 578 III| cypress sad a pile his friends compose~Under a hill o'ergrown with 579 XVII| all the rich red sea it comprehends,~And to those lands, toward 580 II| miswent,~For Heaven decreed to conceal the same,~To make the miscreant 581 VII| the fruitful wind~And thus conceiving of the gentle blast,~A wonder 582 XVI| if I pardon find~None can condemn you, that our trespass hears;~ 583 V| and where I ought~To give condign reward and punishment,~Since 584 IV| worthy's heart;~Each one condoleth with her that her hears,~ 585 XII| my train,~To Egypt then conducted safely see~Those woful damsels 586 XII| nor see~Who calleth and conducts thee to the way~From which 587 VII| streams in noble store,~Whose conduit pipes, united all in one,~ 588 XVIII| downcast,~His other sins confessed and all repented,~And meekly 589 XIII| clear,~But here they are confined by magic's spell,~So that 590 XX| the like by Xanthus old:~A conflict sharp there was meanwhile 591 XX| sage, though bold,~In that confusion, trouble, thrust and throng?~ 592 XIV| when winter's freezing cold~Congeals the streams to thick and 593 XIV| preys:~Beside, the sprites conjured by sacred spell,~All what 594 II| book~ ~THE ARGUMENT.~Ismeno conjures, but his charms are vain;~ 595 V| she to ride.~ ~ LXXIX~The conqueress departs, and with her led~ 596 VII| great stood by to view,~In Conrad's court, the second of that 597 I| the rest.~ ~ LIII~Dudon of Consa was their guide and lord,~ 598 II| sight,~On which the image consecrated lies~Of Christ's dear mother, 599 II| whetstones to desire?~Nor love consents that beauty's field lie 600 I| XVIII~But when recovered, he considered more,~The man, his manner, 601 XIX| yourselves and in your sovereign~Consists your city, not in lime and 602 XIX| hope of gain them move,~Conspired have, and framed their treason 603 VIII| in man that courage could constrain~That his brave look with 604 IX| sharp lance he driveth and constrains;~They sighing left the lands, 605 III| She sighed withal, they construed all amiss,~And thought she 606 VIII| still~By this false hand, contaminate with blood?~Or else depart 607 XVII| eyes, like one that used to contemplate;~Gainst him the second Azzo 608 I| they did choose,~And all contentions then began to die;~The Princes 609 XIII| Felt uncouth strife in his contentious thought,~He thought, what 610 XIV| the witch by art did frame~Continual snow, sharp frost and winter 611 II| Perhaps thy fortune doth control the wind,~Doth loose or 612 I| send him thence with such convenient speed~As with his honor 613 XI| bishops donned their albes and copes of state,~Above their rochets 614 VIII| IX~"Defended gainst Corbana, valiant knight,~That all 615 IX| small or nothing shrank,~Corcutes first he on the face did 616 VII| could stand, when beam and cordage fail,~Wind, thunder, rain, 617 X| bottom down,~But like to cork or leaves or feathers light,~ 618 XIX| blind~A winding hill his corners turned and cast,~A valley 619 XII| He would not leave the corpses fair in field~For food to 620 V| and race of his;~He that correcteth every fault he spies,~And 621 I| wise,~But let the issue correspondent prove~To good beginnings 622 XVII| this frail world grows old,~Corrupted, poor, and bare of men of 623 VI| for every wound or sore~Corruption breedeth or misfortune brings, --~ 624 I| donned a cuirass, some a corslet bright,~And halbert some, 625 XVII| All richly armed in gilden corslets strong,~And by their sides 626 VII| thine inn,~The County of Cosenza, three days past,~This castle 627 XVI| Ceston, could match this for cost.~ ~ XXV~Of mild denays, 628 VII| the virgin dear~Toward his cottage gently home to guide;~His 629 XII| She gave thee, ere thou couldest christened be,~Nor could 630 I| they hold,~Their shares and coulters broke, to armors trim~They 631 X| with his lords and peers in counselling,~The Turkish monarch sat 632 XIV| weed,~And taught him how to counterfeit and lie~As time required, 633 XIX| wish or want.~ ~ LXV~"Those counterfeited armors then prepare,~Because 634 XVI| part,~Nature would craft in counterfeiting pass,~And imitate her imitator 635 X| arms of yore,~But now was coupled new in marriage yoke;~Young 636 XVII| golden rein~Four unicorns, by couples yoked and bound;~Of squires 637 VII| untroubled nest.~ ~ XXIX~The courier gave the fort a warning 638 XIX| knights," she says, "all courtiers brave, there are,~But Ormond 639 VII| smite,~Which was so hard his courtlax could not bite.~ ~ LXXXIX~ 640 XX| were the men that fled,~In courts, halls, chambers high; above, 641 II| To that I answer, as my cousin is,~In plainest phrase, 642 I| give us succors, by his covenant made."~This said, and thus 643 III| wilt no respite give,~The covenants be," he said, "that thou 644 IX| came by heaps to fight,~Covering, like raging floods, the 645 VI| Prince Tancredi's thrall:~I covet not, led by ambition blind~ 646 V| incline:~But Prince Gernando coveted the place,~Whom though Armida 647 VI| of rule, and spoil, and covetice.~ ~ XVI~"And that to fight 648 V| discovered not~His secret covetise which since appeared;~Yet 649 IV| tender skin,~She looked as coy, as if she list not play,~ 650 I| spring,~Armed, a Mars, might coyest Venus move,~And if disarmed, 651 XIII| never idle found.~But in the Crab now did bright Titan shine,~ 652 XI| that ere springing-day,~The cracks and bruises all amend they 653 XX| erspread --~Thy sons, their cradles, shows, thy marriage bed."~ ~ 654 XIX| he said and smiled,~"The craftsman is in his own craft beguiled."~ ~ 655 XX| their besieged hold;~The cranes from Thrace with such a 656 VII| He shaked his head and crashed his teeth for ire,~His lips 657 XIII| mirksome even it seems;~The crashing rain from molten skies down 658 XVIII| repented,~And meekly pardon craved for first and last.~The 659 I| noble foes durst not his craven kind~Exasperate by such 660 X| lukewarm sweat~And, foaming cream, their iron mouthfuls eat.~ ~ 661 XIX| weak fortress won,~Which creeping through my bosom soft became~ 662 X| entrance passed the knight,~So creeps a camel through a needle' 663 XIV| back to these thy warlike crews,~That all thy soldiers, 664 XIV| earth below,~How comate, crinite, caudate stars are framed~ 665 I| XLIII~The nation then with crisped locks and fair,~That dwell 666 II| greatest hopes oft greatest crosses meet.~ ~ LXX~"For, if thy 667 XII| suspect approve,~For seld a crow begets a silver dove.~ ~ 668 IX| and helm gainst helm they crush.~ ~ LIII~The battle eke 669 IX| mover first, and circle crystalline,~The firmament, where fixed 670 XVII| place~Flowed pure streams of crystals east and west,~With laurel 671 I| plate put on,~Some donned a cuirass, some a corslet bright,~ 672 II| thy helps, and thus thy cumbers spring.~ ~ LXXIV~"Suppose 673 XVII| appear,~Guelpho his son by Cunigond his bride,~And in Bavaria' 674 II| precious handle of this cup of love,~If not religion, 675 XIV| Against the wall there stood a cupboard great~Of massive plate, 676 IV| LXXVI~Thrice twenty Cupids unperceived flew~To gather 677 X| set,~And with empoisoned cups our souls beguiles,~And 678 XV| upon the rolling wave,~With curded foam and froth the billows 679 XVI| silken laces rolled,~Her curles garlandwise she did up-dress,~ 680 IV| among her tresses plays,~And curleth up those growing riches 681 IV| Cupid deigns not wound a currish mind.~ ~ XLVII~"This paragon 682 III| through the plains the mastiff curs toforn,~Flies to the succor 683 IV| mischance.~He choked his curses, to himself he spake,~Such 684 IX| shaked, prest to throw;~His cutlass by his thigh, short, hooked, 685 XVII| which at every tide~The sea cuts off from Persia's southern 686 XX| died that army's lord.~ ~ CXL~Of his great host, when 687 XX| yield thee to my might!"~ ~ CXLI~He that till then his proud 688 XX| rich, and rich of gold:~ ~ CXLII~"My loving queen, my wife 689 XX| war for gold or good."~ ~ CXLIII~This said, he gave him to 690 XX| plumes and feathers gay.~ ~ CXLIV~Thus conquered Godfrey, 691 XX| little do that cannot die.~ ~ CXXXII~"Thy triumph is not great 692 XX| hateful were death.~ ~ CXXXIII~"Cruel, myself an hundred 693 XX| dead, dead is my love."~ ~ CXXXIV~Thus mourned she, and from 694 XX| break down thy wall."~ ~ CXXXIX~This said, forth spurred 695 XX| your knight, your slave.~ ~ CXXXV~"But if you trust no speech. 696 XX| fortune, state and fame."~ ~ CXXXVI~Thus plaineth he, thus prays, 697 XX| loss proved her tensure.~ ~ CXXXVII~This while the captain of 698 XX| which he might be slain;~ ~ CXXXVIII~Against Lord Godfrey boldly 699 XVI| princes brings.~ ~ V~The Cyclades seemed to swim amid the 700 XVIII| armor likewise dight,~A Cyclops great became: he feared 701 VI| upon the candid ground:~And Cynthia-like for beauty's glorious light~ 702 XV| five cities then they left Cyrene,~Where that old temple of 703 XVI| that fortress brave,~Like Daedal's prison, or Porsenna's 704 IV| glosing sire his errand daily said,~And sugared speeches 705 II| though stern and stout,~Her dam a dove, thus brought an 706 II| perplexed was her sprite,~Her damask late, now changed to purest 707 XV| hath his grave:~ ~ XVI~Then Damiata next, where they behold~ 708 VII| was her princely offspring damnified~Or aught disparaged by those 709 X| for no loss true virtue damnifies,~Make her our shield, pray 710 XVIII| in a ring,~And sung and danced to move his weaker sense,~ 711 III| LIV~The hands retire, not dangered by their foes~In their retreat, 712 I| Guelphian tree.~'Twixt Rhene and Danubie the land contained~He ruled, 713 XIX| rage and might,~And said, "Dar'st thou of vantage speak 714 IX| infect the earth and air;~To darken heaven's fair light, bid 715 XX| fame etern~His life's short date prolonged, enlarged and 716 X| upbound,~And shook ripe dates down from a palm he found.~ ~ 717 XII| in earth were pight,~When day-break, rising from the eastern 718 II| prime thou hast the imposed day-work done,~What armies conquered, 719 XX| VI~When first he saw the daybreak show and shine,~Godfrey 720 I| With quivering beams which dazed the wondering eye,~That 721 XII| Bury in sleep our foes at deadest hour."~The king with that 722 XVIII| well-nigh choked them, noise deafs their ears,~Smoke blinds 723 XII| again,~Mine eunuch, whom I dearly love, with thee~I leave 724 XII| exiled were,~In deep and deathlike sleep my senses drowned,~ 725 IV| banished maid, of wonted ease debarred,~So grievous seemed, that 726 VII| While thus his thoughts debated on the case,~The hilts Argantes 727 XIX| weary limbs and strength decayed:"~Thus counselled he, and 728 XIX| Repeats, and brings their hid deceits to light,~"Eight knights," 729 VI| treasure."~ ~ LXXIII~The sly deceiver Cupid thus beguiled~The 730 I| begin~Few golden hairs to deck his ivory chin.~ ~ LXI~The 731 I| that not with fading bays~Deckest thy brow by the Heliconian 732 IV| temples shall their costly deckings miss,~With naked walls and 733 XIV| vault, who first at large declares~Armida's trains, then how 734 IX| this skirmish neither part declined,~But fought it out, and 735 VII| native strength at last decrease;~I gan my loss of lusty 736 IX| Lessened the rancor and decreased the ire,~Although Alecto 737 X| great enterprise,~So Heaven decrees, and so command the skies."~ ~ 738 I| love and conquest brave~I dedicate, to you this work I send:~ 739 XIII| growing heat still gathered deeper rout,~The noisome warmth 740 XX| tent,~It soiled, defiled, defaced all the prey,~Shields, helmets, 741 XIX| knight none ill:"~And thus defending gainst his friends his foe,~ 742 XI| Toward that side bent their defensive might~Which lies exposed 743 VIII| wan, with dust and gore defoiled,~Yet spake, though dead, 744 XIX| and crows a prey?~Ah no, defraud not you that champion brave~ 745 XX| down around;~His shield was deft, his helm was rent and tore.~ 746 IV| blushed to see,~And had she deigned her veil for to remove,~ 747 IV| win;~Yet tempered so her deignful looks alway,~That outward 748 IV| in love unkind,~For Cupid deigns not wound a currish mind.~ ~ 749 IV| hopes were dead through his delaying;~At last her earnest suit 750 I| is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate;~Boldly they charge, but 751 VI| him praised thus he naught delighted,~Nor that the king upon 752 XVIII| they that heard his tongue deliver~Of every land the language 753 XX| To serve and succor their deliverer stout,~And with them left 754 VI| Discovered seem; thus art deludeth art.~ ~ XLIII~The Pagan 755 XIX| sovereign's hands,~What thou demandest shall he gladly grant,~Nor 756 VIII| them like one whose heart denieth~To think that done, he sees 757 XI| skill,~Dwelt in those savage dens and shady ground,~For oft 758 IV| remorse, not granting nor denying,~Upon his eyes the dame 759 II| drops her vermeil cheeks depaint;~Her sorrow was for her 760 IX| against Heaven's wisdom bent,~Departed now, bright Titan's beams 761 XIII| Whereon this strange disease depastured long,~But now restored, 762 V| lives were on his words depending.~ ~ LXXV~Guasco the fourth, 763 XI| sound,~And to lay ope the depth thereof to sight,~He willed 764 IX| with sharp taunts he gan deride,~He lifting up uneath his 765 I| one,~Down from the hill descended most and least,~And to the 766 XVII| faith denied,~Of Mahomet's descent a warrior~There set his 767 V| hold,~I would them first deserve, and the desire;~And were 768 V| three it seemed good success designed~To make the lords of love 769 XII| Of God and man gainst my designments plain,~Dead is Clorinda 770 VI| begin;~For when last need to desperation driveth,~Who dareth most 771 II| train or trap,~"Thou proud despiser of inconstant mart,~I bring 772 XI| stood near the battlement,~Despising perils all, and all mishap,~ 773 VII| not fly, of arms thyself despoil,~And let thy hands with 774 X| unfold~Of things to come, or destinies foretell,~Too rash is your 775 XIII| conquer fortune, fate, and destiny strange.~ 776 XVI| her palace great and fair~Destroys for grief, and flies thence 777 V| prudent counsel are~Esteemed detractors from your courage bold;~ 778 XIV| silver wings again~Her false devices thus Armida wrought,~This 779 III| foes;" then further thus deviseth,~"Haste, haste, for vain 780 XX| sweet saint I have thy head devote,~Thou must my sacrifice, 781 III| target hold,~Themselves devoutly in their temples placed;~ 782 XV| From greedy waves, with dewy beams up flies,~Or as the 783 XX| gold and rich anmail,~His diadem did on his helmet flame,~ 784 XI| went and sought~Divine dictamnum, out of Ida wood,~This herb 785 VI| revenge till unrevenged she dieth;~So mad Argantes fared, 786 XIX| the victor knight~Naught differed from his conquered foe in 787 IX| Avernus deep,~For little differs death and heavy sleep.~ ~ 788 XIII| stood~If his vain honor were diminished naught,~When dried up from 789 VII| whose sweat and toil their dinner gains,~Nor ever greedy soldier 790 VII| thine arrow's sharp head dip~In yonder thievish Frenchman' 791 XI| this day to stand~And give directions, but with shield and sword~ 792 VIII| of knights a chosen band,~Directly toward Thrace we took the 793 III| dight,~Their king meanwhile directs them all aright.~ ~ XII~ 794 II| The Christians soon this direful news receave,~The trump 795 IX| blood, through dust and dirt he ran,~O'er heaps of bodies 796 XI| thrust the piercing sting;~Disabled thus from fight, he gan 797 XIX| underbound;~But he, his disadvantage great that knew,~Let go 798 XVIII| speak? -- why not thy face disarm?~ ~ XXXII~"Com'st thou a 799 IV| queen-like state, my flight hath disarrayed me,~My father died, ere 800 I| And when occasion served disbarked it,~Then sailed the Asian 801 VIII| There dwelt he safe with his disciple true,~And feared no treason, 802 VII| The art, the honor and the discipline.~ ~ LXIX~"If ten like thee 803 II| all the chance at large disclosed,~She wondered at the case, 804 XX| Late called Immortal, now discomfited,~It lost that title proud, 805 VI| Not greatest cause of her discomfort were,~She saw his blood 806 VII| perchance my heart,~Of her discomforts, may unload some part.~ ~ 807 VII| Christian crew."~Tancred at this discourse a little stayed,~His arms, 808 VII| hushed and still~His wise discourses heard, with great attention,~ 809 XVII| be discharged gainst that discourteous knight,~His heart unworthy 810 XIII| But when far run he had discoverd it,~Himself for wonder with 811 XV| forth, prefixed for this discoverment,~Nor is it lawful of the 812 XIX| while the squire his late discovery said,~To break his talk, 813 XII| comforted he waked, and men discreet~In surgery to cure his wounds 814 VI| And was received, he so discreetly wrought,~First of the watch 815 V| heard, each cause be well discussed,~As far from partial love 816 XIII| food~Whereon this strange disease depastured long,~But now 817 I| So we, if children young diseased we find,~Anoint with sweets 818 XVIII| But all his shape and face disfigured quite;~The lances stayed 819 V| sought so far,~May seem disgraceful to the place yon hold;~If 820 II| uncouth arms yclad and strange disguise,~From countries far, but 821 XIII| feed~Nor ugly monster could dishearten him,~Nor whirlwind, thunder, 822 VII| with his glorious boast~Dishonors and defies Christ's sacred 823 II| murmur rose~That showed dislike among the Christian peers,~ 824 XI| warlike companies;~And they dismissed returned the way they came,~ 825 VII| the field~Ran masterless, dismounted was his guide;~Here one 826 I| in disordered sort,~Your disobedience and ill managing~Of actions 827 XX| But with less terror, and disorder less,~The Gascoigns kept 828 VII| offspring damnified~Or aught disparaged by those labors base;~Her 829 VII| shone~With Cynthia's self, dispeared were and gone.~ ~ XLV~Amid 830 XIII| these her plants the wood dispoilen shall,~Now, now the fatal 831 I| s enemy, Oblivion's foe,~Disposer true of each noteworthy 832 X| received wounds to worse disposes,~A quintessence therein 833 IV| win the crown whence I am dispossest;~For like renown awaiteth 834 III| durst their feeble eyes dispreed~Upon that town where Christ 835 VI| ypraised,~Of that was doubt and disputation raised.~ ~ LV~All long to 836 VI| fall,~And with her thoughts disputed of his praise,~And every 837 XIX| call,~And thine estate, dissemble it no more,~From me thy 838 VII| troubled soul bred such dissension;~After much thought reformed 839 XII| night, with secret speed~Dissevered from the press the damsel 840 XIV| eye-glance can~Of that cold frost dissolve the hardness great~Which 841 XI| Then reason is it, nor dissuade thou me,~That I likewise 842 IV| which I begin,~I will the distaff hold, come thou and spin.~ ~ 843 XI| fell, and with his blood distained the land,~His holy blood 844 X| To ease the griefs of his distempered thought,~But little ease 845 III| hole below,~And there this distich under-writ, which says,~" 846 VIII| sword did wield,~From which distilling fell the lukewarm blood,~ 847 XII| prince, and gently 'gan distrain,~Now him, now her, between 848 I| To stay his passage, or divert awry~Elsewhere his forces, 849 X| from this course I will diverted be."~While thus he spake, 850 XIII| In the fresh streams he dives his sweaty hands,~Their 851 VII| watery prison, where she diveth:~For with such force there 852 XX| death's strokes each hour divideth?~Com'st thou to save my 853 V| his breast his wiser soul divined~Some hard mishap upon his 854 II| pledge behind.~ ~ LV~A hard division, when the harmless sheep~ 855 II| estate,~Till Macon's sacred doctrine fall and fade,~Till woeful 856 VIII| And sample left to all of doing well,~That future ages may 857 XIV| LIII~"Rinaldo there had dolt and left his own,~And on 858 V| himself and hear our upright dome.~ ~ LVI~"But let him come 859 XVIII| ropes which as men would the dormant tossed,~Now out, now in, 860 III| aid down send~That were at Dothan to his prophet sent,~Thou 861 VI| goodly countenance bore,~She doubted lest her purpose were bewrayed,~ 862 XIII| tower,~And reared high his down-fallen rams again:~His workmen 863 XVIII| kneeling low with heavy looks downcast,~His other sins confessed 864 IX| that from their wounds downpour~The streams of blood and 865 XV| brook her silver streams downpours~With gentle murmur from 866 V| And as a thief be after dragged from thence,~To suffer punishment 867 IX| and Olipherne,~O fierce Draguto, by thy hands were killed!~ 868 XIII| old,~Those waters cool he drank in vain conceit,~Which more 869 VII| fort a warning blast;~The drawbridge was let down by them within:~" 870 XI| But with assured faith, as dreading naught,~The holy work begun 871 XIX| thousand foes he strives,~Yet dreadless, doubtless, careless seemed 872 VI| from sleep, where he had dreamed long,~"Oh stay," he cried, " 873 IV| coals of fire.~ ~ III~The dreary trumpet blew a dreadful 874 IX| and lost,~These are the dregs, the wine is all outrun,~ 875 XV| the ice, the frost, and drifted snow,~Oft made them feeble, 876 XIV| lies,~One sup thereof the drinker's heart doth bring~To sudden 877 XIX| day and night,~In riot, drinking, lust and ravishment,~And 878 XIII| dive and wash, and hereof drinks,~But earth itself weak, 879 XX| bow,~Weak is the shot that dripile falls in snow.~ ~ CXXV~" 880 XX| watery eyes~Disdain and love dropped down, rolled up in tears;~ 881 IX| triumphant on the plain,~Drowning in blood him that from blows 882 XVI| XXXIII~"What letharge hath in drowsiness up-penned~Thy courage thus? 883 V| But when the night her drowsy mantle spread,~And filled 884 XVIII| play, such as we see~The Dryads painted whom wild Satyrs 885 IX| above,~Where heat and cold, dryness and moisture strive,~Whose 886 XIII| doth rain down send,~As duck and mallard in the furrows 887 I| read perhaps will move the dullest hearts:~So we, if children 888 IX| darkness, and the shadows dun~Dispersed he with his eternal 889 VII| and shepherd grooms that dwellings were;~And that sweet noise, 890 IV| treasons of thy wretched eame,~Who poison gainst thy harmless 891 II| love with plough of virtue eared,~Her labor goodness; godliness 892 II| a little way,~A man that early on the morn doth rise,~May 893 I| they fought,~Her courage earned to have assailed the knight;~ 894 IX| him was none of all that earth-bred crew~That heaped mountains 895 X| thinks him most secure is eathest shamed;~I hope the best, 896 XV| light,~That at his lowest ebb bear it he might.~ ~ VIII~ 897 XVII| makes an isle; but when it ebbs again,~The passage there 898 IX| celestial song~The palace echoed from the chambers pure,~ 899 XVI| pale for dread became the eclipsed sun,~The whirlwind blustered 900 III| crowned with roses red,~In Eden's flowery gardens gathered 901 IX| point he bent~That, what the edge had spared, pierced and 902 XII| Their swords both points and edges sharp embay~In purple blood, 903 VIII| heard, to heaven he lift his een,~As was his wont, to God 904 XIII| frozen heart,~Such strange effects, such passions it torment,~ 905 VI| strong contention should eftsoons begin,~Amazement strange 906 XII| another's fire.~ ~ XXXIV~"To Egypt-ward, where I was born, I went,~ 907 XVIII| Eighteenth book~ ~THE ARGUMENT.~The 908 VIII| Eighth book~ ~THE ARGUMENT.~A messenger 909 XX| strength, some heart, some elbow-room.~ ~ XVI~"This host, with 910 IX| made,~His broken spear the eldest boy down threw,~And boldly, 911 XI| Eleventh book~ ~THE ARGUMENT.~With 912 XVII| old,~And twined of sixty ells of lawn and more~A turban 913 XII| night was all the world embarred;~But yet the tired armies 914 I| thousand stout Camillo had,~Embattailed in walls of iron brown:~ 915 XII| both points and edges sharp embay~In purple blood, whereso 916 VI| hardy, and audacious love,~Emboldened had this tender damsel so,~ 917 X| fearful on his seat,~Whom he emboldeneth and excites to fight;~Godfredo 918 XII| rives~Her curious square, embossed with swelling gold,~Her 919 XVI| mayest,~Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced."~ ~ XVI~He 920 XIV| bright, there smiled the emerald green.~ ~ XL~Amazed the 921 XV| Now make a carknet rich of emeralds green;~Now mingle both, 922 I| Not as we list erect we empires new~On frail foundations 923 II| you achieve renown by this emprize:~For if our fleet your navy 924 XX| weapons bright,~All quivers emptied were on them alone,~In parts 925 VI| presumption, and in dreadful show,~Encelade like, on the Phlegrean strand,~ 926 XV| whereunder lies in bed~Enceladus, whence with imperious sway~ 927 XVIII| end must bring~The strong enchantments of the charmed spring.~ ~ 928 IV| and restless fear,~The sly enchantress felt her gain the nigher,~ 929 XV| site and seat,~The ships encompass shall the solid main,~As 930 XVI| thrown;~Thy foes, pardie, encountering thee in field,~Will spare 931 X| And to content, and to encourage thee,~Know this, which as 932 XX| thus prays, and his desire~Endears with sighs that fly and 933 III| good beginnings would have endings blest:~Against the rest 934 V| with sweet and humble grace endured~To let him point those ten, 935 V| the falcon newly gorged endureth~Her keeper lure her oft, 936 VIII| And laid her down by her Endymion's side,~Such was the light 937 XX| angry Soldan would,~And did enforce his strength, his might, 938 VI| virtue noble ladies wear,~Enforcest her against her will, to 939 XIV| your tender limbs to toil engage;~In calm streams, fishes; 940 II| A frown forbids, a smile engendereth love.~ ~ XXI~It was amazement, 941 XVII| there in the Guelfian tree~Engrafted was, which of itself was 942 VII| and sonnets made,~And them engraved in bark of beech and bays;~ 943 VIII| carcass did enfold;~With words engraven in the marble gray,~The 944 XV| her seat?~ ~ XXIV~Now deep engulphed in the mighty flood~They 945 VII| complain,~And wished I had enjoyed the country's peace;~I bade 946 XX| s short date prolonged, enlarged and drew,~And then, as he 947 I| thoughts upraise,~My verse ennoble, and forgive the thing,~ 948 VIII| treason false and guile enorm."~Thus spake the angry knight 949 XIX| them, many followed that enquest,~But these alone found out 950 XII| records of long enduring story~Enrol their praise, their fame, 951 V| mutinies, and what therefore ensueth:~Lastly he praised the dead, 952 XX| bands ill ranked themselves entangle shall,~And few of them to 953 XI| cries within his ears no enterance~Could find, for naught he 954 VI| now draws he nigher,~Now enters in, now speaks, now comes 955 VI| I shall,~Among you had I entertainment kind~When first I was the 956 VII| A shepherd fair Erminia entertains,~Whom whilst Tancredi seeks 957 XV| seas betwixt those isles enthrong,~And how they shouldered 958 XII| in pieces rend,~And deep entomb me in his hollow chest:~ 959 XII| Which in thy bosom cold entombed thou hast.~ ~ XCVIII~"For 960 IV| call,~And sends Armida to entrap his foe:~She tells her birth, 961 XX| How his sad country him entreats and prays,~His house, his 962 V| and procured,~No suit, no entreaty, intercession wanted;~There 963 V| of unbelieving man,~Found entry there, where ire undid the 964 III| Ycleped night, had thick enveloped~The sun in veil of double 965 VIII| Alecto strowed wasteful fire,~Envenoming the hearts of most and least,~ 966 IV| half were laid to show,~Her envious vesture greedy sight repelling;~ 967 II| burial,~So might we die, not envying them that live;~So would 968 XIV| it:~And though the youth, enwrapped in fond desire,~Far hence 969 XVII| alas,~Next them, of Est the Epaminondas went,~That smiling seemed 970 VIII| stood, and often read~That epitaph of my dear master dead.~ ~ 971 XX| the east no dame~Should equalize thy fortune, state and fame."~ ~ 972 IX| the weak, the low,~Were equalized by his murdering blow.~ ~ 973 VI| Desire of vengeance so o'ercame his senses,~That he forgot 974 XI| set, or else with clouds o'ercast.~ ~ LVIII~Upon the bulwarks 975 IX| I~The grisly child of Erebus the grim,~Who saw these 976 I| great, have in the same~Erected trophies to his cross and 977 XV| the folk that Lotos ate erewhile.~ ~ XIX~Next Tunis on the 978 V| their mistress he received erewhiles:~This foolish crew of lovers 979 IX| shone,~In purple robe, o'erfret with gold and stone.~ ~ 980 X| brimstone, pitch and lime,~O'ergoes that land, erst sweet and 981 III| the walls to keep him out;~Ermina as he armed rode, him spied,~ 982 IX| Jove,~And those untruly errant called I trow,~Since he 983 XIX| from knighthood true thou errest far,~Since like an engineer 984 IX| called I trow,~Since he errs not, who them doth guide 985 XIX| still unconquered, though o'erset, appears.~ ~ II~But mongst 986 XVII| steep,~Whose woody fronts o'ershade the silent deep.~ ~ LV~Now 987 XX| thievish wolves, when night o'ershades the land,~That seem like 988 I| serves the time, if thou o'erslip not it,~To free Jerusalem 989 XV| stand~That with his trees o'erspreads the waters near,~Against 990 XVI| word she smiled, and ne'ertheless~Her love-toys still she 991 XIX| defence his quickness far o'erwent,~And pierced his side, which 992 V| the tyrant news,~Or his espials certify their king,~Oh let 993 VI| wound, and shame on shame espieth,~Desire of vengeance so 994 IX| his men fast flying did espy,~And thither ran, and thus, 995 VI| stop their journey once essays,~But place and passage yielded 996 XVII| Pharaohs called had been.~ ~ V~Established was that kingdom in short 997 II| time, the place, and our estates require;~Think on thy sins, 998 XII| Baptize the child, high Heaven esteems her dear,~And I her keeper 999 XIV| glistering beams doth place,~Estranged hath from my foreknowledge 1000 XII| perchance doth reign~In mighty Ethiop, and her deserts waste,~ 1001 XVII| phoenix doth begin~To fly to Ethiop-ward, at the fair bent~Of her


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