Canto

 1     1|         make King Agramant, for penance, smite~His cheek, and rash
 2     2|    stops them short,~"So poor a penance will not pay the dare."~
 3     6|  remember still,~Amid the cruel penance I endure?~When kindest I
 4    14|        And that they should due penance undergo,~At least delay
 5    17|      again the people glad,~For penance of his weighty sin." This
 6    18|      three conferred~As to what penance to the wicked two,~So fallen
 7    18|         only short of death his penance urge.~ ~ XCIII~Bound is
 8    21|        ever throw,~As the least penance of so foul a blame,~And,
 9    24|           gan say:~"This is the penance I enjoin to thee;~That thou
10    30|       after, wept and rued,~The penance which we pay is poor amends.~
11    35|         for your misdeed~Should penance by the innocent be done?~'
12    37| Marganor's disastrous fall,~Fit penance for his sins, pleased great
13    43|        dwelt, and worn~By weary penance, praying night and day,~
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