Canto

 1     7|        heard on distant floor,~Hoping 'twas her, Rogero raised
 2     8|      lamenting here and there,~Hoping to warn the shepherd with
 3     9|      good Orlando brought,~Not hoping that he would have thriven
 4    11|        embraced the empty air,~Hoping in this to have embraced
 5    13|  severed from my native land, ~Hoping in brief Zerbino to possess,~
 6    18|      hill and plain, the land;~Hoping with errant cavalier to
 7    19|   desire~Rather of death, than hoping that his hand~May snatch
 8    20|  disease of sight or pace.~Nor hoping but by death, alas! to fly~
 9    24| Zerbino Isabella had conveyed;~Hoping, one hitherto by him found
10    24|     and levelled at his crest,~Hoping to part Zerbino to the chest.~ ~
11    27|       of sober sense foregone,~Hoping that so he should conceal
12    30|        night, in piteous wise,~Hoping her lover's anger to allay;~
13    31|    high a fortune and so rare;~Hoping to win the horse without
14    31|   wends afield secure and gay,~Hoping that shame, which to the
15    34|       which courtiers bear,~-- Hoping thereby to purchase future
16    36|         amid the medley flies,~Hoping to see the youth for whom
17    36|     and brethren two betrayed,~Hoping he so the lady should have
18    38|       with the Christian crew;~Hoping by siege or fight to break
19    41|     and feet the warrior rows,~Hoping by force thereof to win
20    42|      darkest was the air;~Thus hoping to have rid him of that
21    43|        the wandering cavalier,~Hoping he there should be unknown,
22    43|   circles doth about her wind,~Hoping now here, now there, to
23    45|         He fled, perchance, so hoping to be loosed~From toils
24    46|     hath erewhile been shown),~Hoping to find the knight, whose
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