Canto

 1     2|        let me take the certain ford,~Dragging me where the stream
 2    14| attempt perforce the dangerous ford;~For cruel Rodomont of Argier
 3    16|         for it here was ill to ford.~He past his army, broke
 4    18|       sun had traversed Indus' ford!~But mortals Destiny would
 5    20|       open cheer,~Stops at the ford the damsel to arrest:~Stops
 6    20|        to arrest:~Stops at the ford -- where that old beldam
 7    30|        and pricked towards the ford.~ ~ VII~"Hearest thou not?
 8    40|        was formed and worse to ford~Than girdles the infernal
 9    44|     aside,~Thence to a distant ford for safety made;~And many
10    46| fearing on the river-shore,~To ford the stream and make a foe