Canto

501    34|      That long time sagely lived king Otho's son;~Till other error (
502    35|        dower.~ ~ VI~"Between the king of rivers' horns," (he cries,)~"
503    35|        Sure, her Rogero with the king is gone --~As soon as reappears
504    35|           whither (as she hears)~King Charlemagne pursues, her
505    35|         lord a thrall,~When with King Rodomont he tried a fall.~ ~
506    35|    recite,~Where Argier's mighty king the road impedes;~And how
507    35|    bridge and river to the pagan king.~ ~ XXXVII~"Besides that
508    35|                The pact is just (King Rodomont replied),~But those,
509    35|      furious cavalier.~ ~ XLVIII~King Rodomont prepares his course
510    35|      from the stone;~Mid these a king's, that idly and in vain,~
511    35|          the love of me,~To find King Agramant's Rogero there,~
512    35|             LXVI~To Agramant and King Marsilius flew~The news,
513    35|               LXVIII~The Moorish king, that on the rampart's height~
514    35|         A better warrior of that king demands.~ ~ LXIX~Grandonio
515    35|         battered be.~Go tell thy king no champion of thy grain~
516    35|        pray thee bid the Moorish king send down,~Nor weary me,
517    36|        fear to view~Victory with King Charles's knight abide,~
518    36|        city: more than one~Famed king and emperor, who that list
519    36|  excelled~In feats of arms, that king accompanied;~So stout she
520    36|         Are you alive, and lives King Agramant?~Never will you
521    36|          only grant~Life to that king, but as your lord obey;~
522    36|  occasion may arise~To leave the king; and had there been delay,~
523    36|     otherwise,~She on the Tartar king the fault must lay:~How
524    36|      friendly twain,~To join his king Rogero turns the rein.~ ~
525    38|          Almontes died,~In this, King Agramant was not to blame;~
526    38|       Arles-town whither had his king conveyed~His remnant of
527    38|         in open view;~And, above king, and prince, and peer, beside~
528    38|           Because I grudged that king so puissant shou'd~Exist
529    38|          Araby.~ ~ XV~"They to a king in Persia vended me,~That
530    38|      virginity.~When grown, that king and all his court I slew;~
531    38|          And, after having spent king Agramant,~Will home return,
532    38|          delight,~Wherewith that king received the English lord;~
533    38|       tower,~Till his return, to king Branzardo's sway,~To Fersa'
534    38|     Branzardo's sway,~To Fersa's king, and him of the Algaziers;~
535    38|          On sage Sobrino and the king of Spain,~-- Eldest and
536    38|        to make reply~To what the king of Africa had said.~The
537    38|          these words the Moorish king addrest:~ ~ XLII~"My liege,
538    38|        there be likelihood,~That king who reigns in so remote
539    38|          Thus warily the Spanish king replied,~Proving by this
540    38|         was into exile sent.~But King Sobrino, he that plainly
541    38|        So spake in answer to the king of Spain:~ ~ XLIX~"My liege,
542    38|      reposed more trust,~Than in King Rodomont and in that crew,~
543    38|          Gradasso and the Tartar king, to speed.~ ~ LVII~"While
544    38|       were ill done to leave the king of Spain,~Since all for
545    38| overthrown;~ ~ LXIV~"On pact the king, whose champion in the just~
546    38|         will this pact displease King Charles, I trust,~Though
547    38|        on his part,~That him his king has chosen from the rest,~
548    38|       axes, hath Duke Namus one,~King Salamon the other: Charlemagne~
549    38|       hands the Gospel took,~The king of Africa that other book.~ ~
550    38|         pagan train;~Where their king swears, that he will pass
551    38|        his Moorish reign,~And to King Charles will tributary be;~
552    38|        knightly word,~Should his king mar, or send to mar, the
553    38|       accord,~Him from the field King Charles would bear away,~
554    39|           At sea does Dudon meet~King Agramant, and sore annoys
555    39|           With troubled face the king of Afric stands:~He sighed,
556    39|        that ill counsel flung~On King Sobrino's head, from whom
557    39|       this counsel wrought,~That king pressed forward without
558    39|          IX~They sweat anew, the king who had o'erthrown~That
559    39|        with lifted blade.~Hardly King Agramant his Africk crew~
560    39|       from his eyes:~Nor sees he King Sobrino; disavowed~By King
561    39|       King Sobrino; disavowed~By King Sobrino is the deed, who
562    39|           Tis hence, that feebly King Troyano's son~Resists the
563    39|         to me)~Branzardo and the king of Algaziers~Against the
564    39|     remained;~The town in safety King Branzardo gained;~ ~ XXII~
565    39|          Moorish envoy shows,~To King Branzardo's offer does agree.~
566    39|   sentenced to the oar.~ ~ XXXIV~King Otho's son kind welcome
567    39|          From serving Roland and King Charlemagne;~And after,
568    39|         The sage Sobrino and the king of Spain;~Who, for the deemed
569    39|        two,~When they the paynim king in safety view:~ ~ LXX~Yet
570    39|         ships of deepest draught~King Agramant had made put forth
571    39|     himself and friends.~ ~ LXXV~King Agramant his sails for Africk
572    39|       and proud some shent~Their king, and (as still happens in
573    39|        host to land~Was the sage king of Africa's intent,~Who
574    39|     foaming sea,~Should meet the king at night; that from surprise~
575    39|         And hence for Africa the king had weighed,~Not fearing
576    39|         and pike.~ ~ LXXXIII~The king hears huge and heavy stones
577    40|         place.~ ~ XVI~The Nubian king is charged by England's
578    40|          stream that reigns,~The king of rivers -- when he breaks
579    40|         fed.~When nearer now the king was certified,~How in that
580    40|        aid:~By him with evil eye King Pepin's son,~So strong in
581    40|       reign,~Sobrino soothed the king, while in his heart~He other
582    40|         yield.~ ~ XLIII~Eastward King Agramant had turned his
583    40|           Which had conveyed the king of Sericane~Erewhile from
584    40|       Sericana's knight~Heard by King Agramant his griefs displaid;~
585    40|         to fight,~Like courteous king, the kindly offer made:~
586    40|          to be~Most opportune to King Troyano's son;~And much
587    40|        The battle is to me (that king replies)~I am prepared for
588    40|          he should not find that king elsewhere,~Who, so he heard,
589    40|        France, in that long war,~King Agramant had born away the
590    40|        of all the passing train;~King Agramant or the Emperor
591    40|           Who first broke faith, King Agramant or Charles?~ ~
592    40|    promise plight:~He loves that king, and from his side to veer,~
593    40|          mickle vaunt,~Nasamon's king a prisoner he desired,~Agricalt,
594    41|  therefore fain,~And to heaven's king with grateful thanks o'erflowed;~
595    41|         fight~With the redoubted king of Sericane;~And knew that
596    41|       and not haply without art.~King Agramant arrives that very
597    41|         Men should be wanting in King Charles's host~To guard
598    41|     nought be done~Unworthy of a king, through shameful fear.~
599    41|      their coursers steer;~I say King Agramant and King Sobrine:~
600    41|          I say King Agramant and King Sobrine:~The pebbly beach
601    41|          upon earth descried~The king Sobrine, assailed no more
602    41|           for special grace, the King of heaven~A body charmed
603    41|        with him of Sericane,~The king yet little seems his foe
604    41|         Nor at his coming is the king dismaid;~Who by his name
605    41|    seamed,~Beneath his mail, the king of Sericane.~From whom his
606    41|           Nor worse the southern king's in the career:~That Brigliador,
607    41|       speech;~Albeit the Moorish king, with bitter blow,~Has made
608    41|          worser vengeance on the king has wroke,~In face, throat,
609    42|       manned,~That pardon of the king of Paradise~He, before death,
610    42|      courser dear~To Sericane is King Gradasso gone,~Against the
611    42|      worthy warriors, and before~King Charles, exalt his prowess
612    43|      pinions flew,~Scowering the king of rivers, to that isle~
613    44|        in fight,~Therein arrives King Otho's valiant son.~To Paris
614    44|         short-lived wear.~To-day king, pope, and emperor leagued
615    44|          would that union speed:~King Charles and Aymon will,
616    44|        Nor knew that Aymon, with King Charles' consent,~Unto the
617    44|       crew,~Homeward to send the king of Aethiopy~Devised, together
618    44|          Africk go;~But to their king, first, thanks Astolpho
619    44|        with his worthiest train,~King, duke, and her, the partner
620    44|         lords present him to the king;~ ~ XXX~And him Rogero of
621    44|           Nor emperor, pope, nor king, is raised more high~Than
622    44|          The Marquis Olivier and King Sobrine,~What shall I do?
623    44|      this wide world through,~By king or keysar was possest than
624    44|          One day stood up before King Charlemagne;~And, "Sire,
625    44|   brought,~Privily take her from King Charles's court,~And thence
626    44|        And afterwards the Tartar king's, he steeled;~Bade rein
627    44|         all his host.~ ~ LXXXIII~King Vatran, chief of the Bulgarian
628    44|         and with strong hand~The king to earth beneath his courser
629    44|       borne~To ground the Bulgar king his life did yield)~His
630    44|          they cried,~To be their king, their captain, and their
631    44|        their guide.~ ~ XCVIII~As king or captain them will he
632    45|      have shown~In ancient days; King Lewis in our own;~ ~ III~
633    45|         Lewis in our own;~ ~ III~King Lewis, stepfather of my
634    45|         was their mischance,~One king of Hungary, one king of
635    45|         One king of Hungary, one king of France.~ ~ IV~'Tis plain
636    45|         yoke and lordship of his king.~ ~ VIII~Ungiardo from the
637    45|      envy, guarded by his blade,~King Charles', Orlando's, or
638    45|          paid.~ ~ XXII~Meanwhile King Charlemagne upon his side,~
639    45|       thou wilt bemoan.~ ~ LXXXI~King Charles and peers him sheathed
640    45|       morn,~To appear before the king; to whom that maid~Saith,
641    45|        Sorely by this disturbed, King Charlemagne~Bade Bradamant
642    46|         the dome of Keysar or of king.~ ~ VI~If she had dwelt
643    46|          Since they that had for king proclaimed the knight~Besought
644    46|  Wherefore the Bulgars him their king had made;~Their royal line
645    46|     right in her oppose."~ ~ LVI~King Charlemagne and all his
646    46|      Dudon, nor Sir Olivier,~Nor King Sobrino can caress enow:~
647    46|         they -- of their elected king possest --~Hope the Greek
648    46|         resort;~There left it to King Proteus, Egypt's lord,~In
649    46|         a god adore.~The prudent king of Hungary is descried,~
650    46|     clothed in sable.~ ~ CII~The King of Argier he; that for the
651    46|   harness, sword, and lance,~The king betook him to the court
652    46|          lied;~That so he by his king had ever done,~Him none
653    46|        deck'd the youthful lord,~King Charlemagne begirt him with
654    46|       shown.~ ~ CXX~Clad was the king in other goodly mail;~Yet
655    46|      right,~Seizing his arm, the king so rudely swayed,~Bringing
656    46|          fain to keep the paynim king at bay.~For the wise champion
657    46|        the vigour of the Moorish king:~Rogero had address; had
658    46|          was the shock wherewith King Rodomont~With battered head