Canto

 1    13|        Companion, lady-love, or absent friend;~Whatever is each
 2    18|         II~Often, to shield the absent one from blame,~I hear you
 3    18|          She for those days she absent thought to be,~For her lieutenant
 4    18|     will not let them thence be absent long,~They take their leave.
 5    21|         to repair;~Who, were my absent lord within his fort,~So
 6    24|      sea to sea, had sought her absent mate,~Through Alpine and
 7    25|      And on the fortress of its absent lord,~By night and day,
 8    27|        When he the good Rinaldo absent scanned;~And seeing what
 9    31|   support in peace.~To him long absent, to his love returned,~A
10    43| signified.~Now that her lord is absent, 'tis my will~My scheme
11    44|   spoken with his son,~Rinaldo, absent then from Charles's court;~