Canto

 1     2|    Its sides descended thirty yards and more,~Worked smooth,
 2     5|      the spear,~More than six yards beyond his horse he bore.~
 3     7|      beldam backward six good yards and more:~ ~ VII~And came
 4     9|       new:~A hollow iron, two yards long, whose small~Channel
 5    17|      beast for ten,~Or twenty yards, and, after, stop to bay;~
 6    19|    keep the sea;~For mast and yards are gone, and by the stroke~
 7    29|    And raised a fabric ninety yards in height,~From its extremest
 8    29|   narrow bridge, and only two yards wide,~He flung across the
 9    29|      tall cliff, twice thirty yards in height,~Cast himself
10    33| courser -- prest.~Above three yards in length appeared to view~
11    39|   first victim's breast,~(Two yards beyond his back the lance
12    41|   strained;~And not a hundred yards had gone, when, bent~With
13    42|   galleried,~And of a hundred yards, on every side.~ ~ LXXV~
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