Canto

 1     1|     the vain promise which was whilom plight;~And from the stream
 2     4|    safely harboured there;~Who whilom was subdued in fight by
 3     6|  wayward mood did long offend,~Whilom in vain, through strange
 4     6|  France, Astolpho was my name,~Whilom a paladin, sore feared in
 5     7|         Beaming with wrath, he whilom so did fear.~And sternly
 6    12|       obeyed;~King of Noritia, whilom fierce and bold.~But fitter
 7    13|       deceit and frauds.~ ~ V~"Whilom I lived, content in Fortune'
 8    14|       d and loitered, where he whilom prest;~And cast about and
 9    14|    convent-cells were new;~And whilom in the schools long time
10    19|        O Agricane!~In that she whilom thee was wont to spurn,~
11    23|    from the crew;~Whose mother whilom Bradamant had nursed;~A
12    24|      that head-piece gay~Which whilom African Almontes crowned:~
13    25|     braids about her brow, she whilom wore;~Nor less we wondered
14    26|      will many make appear~Who whilom perfect seemed; so fade
15    27|     that monastery flew,~Where whilom he had Discord seen; and
16    27|       solid mound;~With castle whilom was it fortified,~Which
17    27|      had held so passing dear,~Whilom of such debates the fruitful
18    28|  repose,~Ne'er to return; and (whilom of such fame)~His lovely
19    29|        are,~How she by him was whilom served and graced.~Behind
20    33|   things to be, as things that whilom were,~'Tis said, was brought
21    33|     the strait he spied,~Where whilom good Alcides closed the
22    34| champion knows,~Nebuchadnezzar whilom to such pain~God in his
23    38|        shall be;~They who were whilom guilty of the death~Of that
24    41|     thou my faithful seed?"~As whilom said the Saviour to Saint
25    41|      he should have done, when whilom prayed~And called of Christ --
26    42|         And such sweet joy was whilom set at nought,~Such bright,
27    42|  chastity,~Above that wife who whilom bore her name.~Strozza and
28    43|      The Mantuan cavalier that whilom wooed.~ ~ CXV~"The harlot
29    45|     fear~Of that which Argalia whilom swayed;~Astolpho's next;