Canto

 1     1|    Who on king Charles', the Roman emperor's head~Had vowed
 2     9|    wedlock, he conveyed.~The Roman senator thence parting wends~
 3    15|   And rights of Charles, the Roman Emperor,~Would cease to
 4    16| To-day,~To-day, sire, is the Roman empire sped,~And Christ
 5    26|   And made most havoc in the Roman court;~For it had slaughtered
 6    28|      Who pleased the king, a Roman cavalier,~Hearing ofttimes
 7    28|  such strange spectacle, the Roman knight~Cleared up his brow,
 8    28|   squires beside,~He and the Roman knight together ride.~ ~
 9    28|      proposal to content~The Roman youth; and thus it is, the
10    33|      wasting fast~Beheld the Roman empire's feeble reign;~And (
11    33|   age,~When most opprest the Roman empire lay,~That he might
12    33| sacked and ravaged lies,~The Roman pastor bites his lips through
13    38|    lineage fair,~Who for the Roman empire rests the spear,~
14    38|   that good warrior lay,~The Roman empire's knight by Charles