Canto

1    10|    their fancies are;~Like a straw fire their every appetite.~
2    12|   near the palace door,~With straw and barley heaped in plenteous
3    22|      discomfited like men of straw,~-- The shield withdrawn --
4    23|    such bold defy,~We wax or straw, too haughty were the strain":~
5    24| easily the fire consumes the straw."~ ~ XL~"Then gazing upon
6    25|     it were~Befitting man of straw, not warrior true,~With
7    27|    Than ever lightly-kindled straw took fire.~King Rodomont
8    35|    pimps, flatterers, men of straw,~Buffoons, informers, minions,
9    40|      As if on feathers or on straw, did light;~And, like cloth