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 1     6|    every nerve to strain,~Lest empire over him Alcina gain.~ ~
 2     8|     lay,~For the honour of the empire and the right.~And that,
 3     8|     the Moorish lance~The holy empire and great name of France.~ ~
 4     9|       had linked the fair,~The empire of herself and her domain~
 5    14|        Troyano's son~They holy empire in his wrath defies,~And
 6    15|     alone the rest~Of his fair empire saves, but may the world~
 7    15|         he spreads the ancient empire's sway,~So on the sea, which
 8    15|    Than in new kingdom and new empire won."~ ~ XXXVI~Thus of the
 9    16|     To-day, sire, is the Roman empire sped,~And Christ to the
10    17|      you,~Ye Germans, worthier empire to acquire;~For that is
11    21|  arrayed,~Who then the Grecian empire's sceptre swayed.~ ~ XIV~"
12    26| inherit,~Who nor in wealth nor empire took delight;~But in Rogero'
13    31|     whom its safety Church and Empire owes,~Roland, erewhile so
14    33|  wasting fast~Beheld the Roman empire's feeble reign;~And (for
15    33|    When most opprest the Roman empire lay,~That he might free
16    33|    Vext Italy, and Church, and Empire lack.~ ~ XLIX~"He in his
17    33|      tell,~A war not waged for empire or domain,~But that the
18    38|      the Christian faith's and empire's gain.~ ~ XIX~Charles,
19    38|        And ruin this redoubted empire, say.~Who can advise, is
20    38|        fair,~Who for the Roman empire rests the spear,~Though
21    38|    good warrior lay,~The Roman empire's knight by Charles declared;~
22    43|       the Christian church and empire moan,~Whose best defence
23    44|  sustain~The state -- the holy empire's corner-stone --~The nobles
24    44|         below, between,~To THE EMPIRE'S SAVIOURS, everywhere is
25    44|      Constantine,~With all the empire's force his host to line.~ ~
26    46|      possest --~Hope the Greek empire from his hands to wrest.~ ~
27    46|         who swayed~The Grecian empire's sceptre, at mid-day~This