Canto

 1    10|        ensigns they display,~And names of British lords, to him
 2    11|        falcon hight,~I hear (all names the inventor has bestowed);~
 3    18|       who,~And Time had of their names effaced record.~Palidon
 4    23|    hundred parts, their cyphered names are dight;~Whose many letters
 5    23|     charcoal or with chalk their names pourtrayed,~Or flourished
 6    26|       smiling lands defaced,~The names unknown to them, though
 7    26|          XXXIX~"The chiefs whose names are graved upon the stone,~
 8    26|        Those worthy peers (whose names you sculptured see,~And
 9    26|           Him Francis of Pescara names the text;~Alphonso, hight
10    28|         her due.~ ~ XII~"Jocundo names a time to wend his way,~
11    30| inscribed in the same way,~Their names are writ as destined to
12    34|     ORLANDO'S WIT.~ ~ LXXXIV~The names of those whose wits therein
13    34|       culled for other care,~The names were graved on little plates,
14    34|       tickets that the different names display.~Wherefore and whither
15    35|          man upon the shore,~Who names, engraved on metal, thither
16    35|      forest stag he wended.~With names he filled his mantle to
17    35|      store profuse,~He all those names into the turbid tide~Discharges,
18    35|         s water light~The worthy names, which lasting praise should
19    35|      snowy grain;~Who catch what names they can, and evermore~With
20    35|      devouring river dooms,~Some names are rescued by the birds
21    35|         burden, and suspends~The names about an image, raised in
22    35|    dispense~Idly, all those fair names, as 'twould appear,~And
23    35|    turbid water seek to draw~The names, which in their sight appear
24    35|          vile mouths awhile such names convey,~Then drop the load,
25    35|       not, shall save~Your noble names from Lethe's laxy wave.~ ~
26    40|   courteous answer won.~-- Their names on either side announced --
27    42|         of that band~The several names with mickle praise explain~
28    42|          mid air, sustain.~Their names were carved upon the marble
29    42|       The marble all those other names revealed.~That pair's alone
30    45|       This truth, and more whose names I shall not sound;~All into
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