Canto

 1     8|      which never can be paid:~The English duke, above the rest her
 2     9|           move and arm~Germans or English, to the miscreant's harm.~ ~
 3    10|        And afterwards how aid the English knight.~She wills the first
 4    10|       afterwards shall say~Of the English knight, who spent more time
 5    10|     holding of the British crown,~English, Scotch, Irish, and the
 6    10|       those who yonder lodge, the English see~Camped eastward; and
 7    10|        Having from end to end the English force~So viewed, he next
 8    14|          sovereign's ear~That the English had already passed the sea;~
 9    15| Charlemagne, in trust,~To him the English duke a present made~Of that
10    16|       advancing host,~Composed of English and of Scotch allied,~With
11    16|           bridge; from whence his English power~To the left-hand by
12    16|      earth as well.~The advancing English either paynim hold,~And
13    18|         leading succours from the English shore,~Had lodged them in
14    18|          When Sansonnetto and the English knight~She sees approaching
15    18|          With Sansonnetto and the English knight,~So supplicate Marphisa,
16    19|         give, of him inquires the English knight~What kept his mind
17    19|           boldest is of these the English peer;~Knowing how soon his
18    20|             LXVI~Then cried: "The English duke, Astolpho, I~Thy cousin
19    20|          Marphisa: to himself the English peer~Exclaimed, "Why wait
20    20|            Whose dread effect the English duke has shown;~And let
21    22|        illusion, pant~To slay the English baron, angered sore;~But
22    27|         traversing the French and English camp,~And other squadrons
23    27|           martial wise,~Italians, English, French, were seen, and
24    27|           raven tear~His faithful English, French, and German train,~
25    33|    soaring through the world, the English knight~Arrives in Nubia'
26    33|  wonderment his followers spy~The English cavalier so make his way,~
27    34|           sees or comprehends the English knight~What wavers so, above
28    38|  Wherewith that king received the English lord;~Who well remembered
29    39|         Charles's part,~Italians, English, Germans; of renown~Are
30    39|        his illustrious chief, the English lord.~ ~ XXV~Astolpho leading
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