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501    41|            those wild waters died.~Rogero, as to Providence seemed
502    41|          pursues, and does upbraid~Rogero first, and comforts finally:~
503    41|           with weak steps and slow Rogero guides.~ ~ LVII~Above that
504    41|          LX~There dwells the young Rogero, well content~With what
505    41|   appertaining to his case;~Now to Rogero's blood, a future race.~ ~
506    41|            His lady's deed, but on Rogero laid)~As well as Bertolagi'
507    41|        grown,~That, like his sire, Rogero shall be hight,~Those Trojans,
508    41|            The vengeance taken for Rogero's dead;~ ~ LXVI~Who shall,
509    41|         will no more recite.~He to Rogero what is fit reveals,~And
510    41|           The goodly courser, erst Rogero's steed,~So well contends
511    41|           career:~That Brigliador, Rogero's gift he crost,~Erewhile,
512    42|          the other sighs~For young Rogero) suffer cruel smart.~Him
513    42|      plaint and wail~Repeating, of Rogero's cruelty~Fair Bradamant
514    42|            to the fair;~Nor thinks Rogero her has so foregone~But
515    42|        seen the damsel in her pain~Rogero impious, proud, and perjured
516    43|          same hermit hoar,~By whom Rogero was baptized before.~ ~
517    43|          troop beheld Sir Olivier.~Rogero more rejoiced than all that
518    43|          the warrior grew.~ ~ CXCV~Rogero from the day he swam ashore~
519    43|           rise,~Roland and Olivier Rogero call~To mind for that Rogero,
520    43|       Rogero call~To mind for that Rogero, in such wise~Renowned in
521    43|         knew the cavalier~For that Rogero, famous far and wide,~Whose
522    44|         than all that lordly train~Rogero graced and lovingly caressed;~
523    44|   Richardetto run~He knew, and how Rogero him bested;~What time the
524    44|         VIII~To honour and to hold Rogero dear,~Him, Sir Rinaldo thought,
525    44|         Charles maintained:~Now he Rogero for a Christian knew,~What
526    44|        side,~And honour he to good Rogero paid.~The prudent sire that
527    44|            toil and grief,~Than by Rogero, who that faulchion bright~
528    44|      Sobrino, and the better peer,~Rogero: not so triumphs that array,~
529    44|       Brandimart;~Nor less of good Rogero had been shown.~Charles
530    44|        Than Roland and his friends Rogero bring,~And mid those lords
531    44|           the king;~ ~ XXX~And him Rogero of Risa's son declare,~And
532    44|          appear.~This runs to fold Rogero to her heart;~More coy,
533    44|              XXXI~The emperor bids Rogero mount again,~Who from his
534    44|           His sister he would make Rogero's bride;~And, before Olivier
535    44|            hidden sleight~To break Rogero's match with Bradamant;~
536    44|          forced to be untrue,~O my Rogero, and surrender me~To a new
537    44|      pursuit,~To our faith to draw Rogero have I wrought;~And finally
538    44|             And other husband than Rogero take.~ ~  XLVI~"If I shall
539    44|          as not affied~To Leo, and Rogero's promised bride."~ ~ XLVIII~
540    44|            afflicted maid torment,~Rogero's mind enjoys not more repose;~
541    44|           than in the rest.~ ~ LII~Rogero said: "If Aymon is disposed~
542    44|         said?"~ ~ LIX~These things Rogero said, and more beside,~Discoursing
543    44|      sorrows that were said~To vex Rogero, most it works her woe~To
544    44|       bower-women, one day,~She to Rogero bade these words convey.~ ~
545    44|        these words convey.~ ~ LXI~"Rogero, I what I was till death
546    44|            have I bestowed on you,~Rogero; and more than others may
547    44|          that in her claim~She for Rogero more than Leo wrought)~And
548    44|       nilling, so must she forsake~Rogero, and for lord must Leo take.~ ~
549    44|        constant maid~Before by her Rogero be betrayed.~ ~ LXXV~Rinaldo,
550    44|           likes him best.~ ~ LXXVI~Rogero, bearing this and sore afraid~
551    44|          that ne'er by him exprest~Rogero's name in any place should
552    44|            wave;~When thither came Rogero; and engaged~Beheld the
553    44|     fondling cheer:~So Leo, though Rogero in his heat~Slaughters his
554    44|        exchange hath made;~For him Rogero loathed; nor aught desired~
555    44|          divide:~Behind him pricks Rogero with such fire,~The warrior
556    44|        bridge and burns his fleet.~Rogero arrived not, till beneath
557    44|          shows,~A city to the left Rogero sees;~And there all day
558    44|           entrance was not barred)~Rogero, and found such hospitable
559    45|          Young Leo doth from death Rogero free;~For him Rogero Bradamant
560    45|         death Rogero free;~For him Rogero Bradamant hath won,~Making
561    45|            foe;~She makes him know Rogero, that in haste~Is gone to
562    45|        joyful word.~He waited till Rogero sleeping lay;~Then softly
563    45|         and so rejoiced,~When good Rogero's fate the warrior voiced.~ ~
564    45|            son was killed by young Rogero's spear;~Which through his
565    45|          of exalted mind~Had heard Rogero's sad estate declare,~And
566    45|            sight;~So, now that her Rogero is away,~To Bradamant, who
567    45|           the gentle maid,~Hearing Rogero, as it were, was flown!~
568    45|          affright;~And she, as her Rogero were in view,~Would blame
569    45|          his wealth apart.~Since I Rogero neither see nor hear,~More
570    45|          thy prey.~ ~ XXXV~"But I, Rogero, shall no sooner spy~The
571    45|       bottom bear!~Ah! turn to me, Rogero! turn again,~And comfort
572    45|           the timid wight:~Without Rogero so I suffer dread;~Dread
573    45|         dread;~Dread lasts not, if Rogero is in sight.~Return to me,
574    45|       sight.~Return to me, return, Rogero, lest~My hope by fear should
575    45|           unused whilere,~While so Rogero pined, the gracious will~
576    45|        XLII~The courteous Leo that Rogero loved,~Not that the Grecian
577    45|       Grecian knew howe'er that he~Rogero was, but by that valour
578    45|          and without sun to cheer,~Rogero lay, upon a grate extended,~
579    45|         recall;~And all this while Rogero's hands doth loose.~"Infinite
580    45|           promptly stake."~ ~ XLIX~Rogero is rescued; and the gaoler
581    45|       dungeon in his place;~Nor is Rogero known, nor are the twain:~
582    45|          The gaoler strangled, and Rogero gone.~Some think that these
583    45|         But more will be deserved, Rogero thought.~ ~ LIII~Thither
584    45|           Than eloquence with good Rogero weighed~The mighty obligation
585    45|      exprest,~Than with sore grief Rogero's heart was shent;~Which,
586    45|         his way was gone:~With him Rogero rides, through Leo's care,~
587    45|          equipt for fight.~ ~ LXIV~Rogero past the night before the
588    45|      damsel had been wont to ride.~Rogero, that but schemes, but hath
589    45|         faulchion layed.~So armed, Rogero in the lists appeared,~When
590    45|         defied,~Who knows not with Rogero she contends,~Seemed to
591    45|         her brand,~And fell on her Rogero, sword in hand.~ ~ LXXIII~
592    45|          low, now high,~Which good Rogero's head and bosom batter,~
593    45|    descending from a troubled sky.~Rogero, at his ward, with dexterous
594    45|            against thee thou didst Rogero know,~On whom depend thy
595    45|         more dear;~And when he for Rogero shall be known,~I know these
596    45|           plate and shell~Deem not Rogero, but the emperor's son;~
597    45|          Leo as a bride.~Not there Rogero tarried to repose;~Nor loosed
598    45|            thee that gift bestow."~Rogero, on whom his sorrows press
599    45|        consort tie,~Beside her own Rogero, she will fain~Do what so
600    45|      lesser woe,~Than, living, her Rogero to forego.~ ~ XCVII~"Rogero
601    45|        Rogero to forego.~ ~ XCVII~"Rogero mine, ah! wonder gone" (
602    45|             XCVIII~"How can it be, Rogero, thou alone~Hast read not
603    45|          willed the maid~Should be Rogero's consort, brought him aid:~ ~
604    45|       strife~Prove Bradamant to be Rogero's wife;~ ~ CIV~And this,
605    45|          will dare;~For she had to Rogero, in her view,~Spoken those
606    45|         the hated Leo bent,~And of Rogero to be repossest,~This she
607    45|        Aymon's no,~Bradamant shall Rogero's consort be;~And they may,
608    45|          yet demur;~That weakly to Rogero so her vow~Was plighted,
609    45|           her vow~Was plighted, as Rogero's was to her;~Where was
610    45|          am advised;~Or was before Rogero was baptized.~ ~ CX~"But
611    45|          near.~ ~ CXIII~These with Rogero, those with Leo side;~But
612    45|          But the most numerous are Rogero's friends,~Who against Aymon,
613    45|         signified;~And combat with Rogero was, he knew,~Unsafe, unless
614    45|     through town,~He sends to seek Rogero, far and near:~And not content
615    46|         After long search for good Rogero made,~Him Leon finds, and
616    46|          what way~She rescued good Rogero let me say.~ ~ XX~Much bent
617    46|         reclined~Mid gloomy shades Rogero they descried;~Firm not
618    46|            lay.~ ~ XXVI~They found Rogero fasting from all food~For
619    46|            grief hath bred;~For by Rogero this remains unsaid.~ ~
620    46|        soothed his moan;~That good Rogero could not choose but yield,~
621    46|         him so hated once by thee;~Rogero who repaid that hate am
622    46|              XXXVI~"What time I as Rogero was unknown,~Thou madest
623    46|           When he the stranger for Rogero knows,~With lips and brow
624    46|           And that he him doth for Rogero know~Not only that goodwill
625    46|         Grecian cavalier~Than good Rogero for Rogero's woe.~For this,
626    46|      cavalier~Than good Rogero for Rogero's woe.~For this, as well
627    46|            my host was overthrown,~Rogero, by thy wond'rous valour,
628    46|            if I had known~Thou was Rogero, as I know it now,~So me
629    46|          replaced.~ ~  XLI~"That I Rogero hated, ere I knew~Thou was
630    46|         hated, ere I knew~Thou was Rogero, will I not deny.~But think
631    46|           And saddled, and to good Rogero brought;~ ~ XLVII~Who, though
632    46|     proclaimed the knight~Besought Rogero thither to repair~Through
633    46|            crown receive and wear.~Rogero's squire who served this
634    46|         which at Belgrade~Erewhile Rogero for the Bulgars won;~How
635    46|           news, which say~How good Rogero's jailer was found dead,~
636    46|           Nor was his visage seen) Rogero sped.~He, on the following
637    46|           pair:~Then holding still Rogero by the hand,~So spake, while
638    46|          said:~ ~ LVII~"Since here Rogero is not, to contest~The bride'
639    46|           Or more desert than good Rogero vaunt."~ ~ LVIII~She spake
640    46|            time to feign;~And from Rogero's head the helm withdrew;~
641    46|         She in the stranger knight Rogero knew;~ ~ LX~And ran forthwith
642    46|         and all that audience, how~Rogero's daring, how Rogero's might,~--
643    46|           how~Rogero's daring, how Rogero's might,~-- Albeit to his
644    46|                LXII~So that to her Rogero being brought,~Who would
645    46|           knight conveyed;~And how Rogero, that the rescue wrought~
646    46|        continuing, said~That which Rogero had for him achieved;~And
647    46|         person did persuade~To beg Rogero's pardon, and his son~And
648    46|       Greek emperor's son,~He bids Rogero on his faith repose;~For
649    46|            None of the virtues, in Rogero spied,~Moved Bradamant's
650    46|            air conveyed,~For young Rogero made a lodging gay.~The
651    46|          in fray.~Worthiest of all Rogero is espied,~Who always conquers,
652    46|               CV~To Charles and to Rogero opposite,~With a loud voice,
653    46|        said the knight,~"Who thee, Rogero, to the field defy;~And
654    46|          in listed plain."~ ~ CVII~Rogero, with the leave of Pepin'
655    46|          contend.~ ~ CIX~They tell Rogero that, as newly wed~The combat
656    46|            A timid troop, they for Rogero fear,~Ill matched they deem
657    46|           willingly~She battle for Rogero would have done!~If lifeless
658    46|          the damsel's part~To make Rogero leave to her the quest:~
659    46|          shield his levelled spear~Rogero guides, and that good buckler --
660    46|         and pure.~So here so there Rogero plied his sword,~He more
661    46|        both hands outright~Lays at Rogero's helm with all his might.~ ~
662    46|        aught:~So sore astounded is Rogero's brain;~So wholly overclouded
663    46|          that sight the lady died.~Rogero, quickly to revenge the
664    46|           Rodomont.~ ~ CXXVI~He at Rogero rode, who that rude shock~
665    46|           flank and thigh, by good Rogero's sword.~ ~ CXXVII~Rodomont,
666    46|         his broken blade,~Layed at Rogero's helmet with such might,~
667    46|       might have dismaid:~But good Rogero, who should win of right,~
668    46|          Fell on his feet; because Rogero's sword~Gave him, 'twas
669    46|             advantage in the fray.~Rogero stands aloof, with wary
670    46|        with him in fight;~ ~ CXXIX~Rogero flank and thigh dyed red
671    46|           might he scaled~At young Rogero; whom he smote so sore,~
672    46|            paynim knight.~ ~ CXXXI~Rogero lost no time, and with fierce
673    46|           again he rose:~He gripes Rogero so, fast locked they stand.~
674    46|        vigour of the Moorish king:~Rogero had address; had mickle
675    46|    contends.~Collected in himself, Rogero wrought,~To keep his vantage
676    46|         His arms the good and bold Rogero wound;~Against his left
677    46|           crimsoned herbage float.~Rogero, holding Fortune by the
678    46|        disastrous fray.~ ~ CXXXVII~Rogero at his vizor doth present~
679    46|           his vigour tried~To pull Rogero down, and nought replied.~ ~
680    46|            dagger too,~Would wound Rogero underneath the reins:~But