Canto

  1     1|        were vain,~My pen and pages may pay the debt in part;~Then,
  2     1|             Which, should I tarry, may be overblown.~To woman, (
  3     1|           shows,~Though she awhile may weep and make her moan,~
  4     1|         And well thy foe the loser may I call,~(Who shall no glory
  5     1|         the warrior's name, that I may be~Informed whose valour
  6     2|         the wide world throughout) may well agree."~ ~ V~As two
  7     2|         fury of Bayardo freed,~You may believe the battle does
  8     2|       repair their walls.~And what may best annoy the foes, and
  9     2|        Repose upon my say.~To thee may my arrival well be dear,~
 10     3|           end,~Than what was wont, may well my song beseem.~For
 11     3|          IV~Till when, this chisel may suffice to scale~The stone,
 12     3|             And haply future study may avail,~To bring the stubborn
 13     3|     enchanter sage, did make:~Thou may'st have heard how that magician
 14     3|            virgin from the grave;~"May Fortune, chaste and noble
 15     3|          Nicholas the lame.~But we may pass them by, for better
 16     3|         And pray that stormy waves may lash the beach.~I pass,
 17     3|            XLVI~"Lo! Hercules, who may reproach his neighbour,~
 18     3|        Hercules; and he,~(That you may know their every name and
 19     3|            torrents ran.~And (what may some diversion interpose)~
 20     3|          he with aid of mother wit may try,~And of this ring, well
 21     3|           his escape to thee alone may owe,~Not to the king, the
 22     3|          ring.~ ~ LXXII~"That thou may'st recognise the man, in
 23     3|       sallow skin;~To this, that I may make my sketch complete,~
 24     4|         chances sought,~To whom we may communicate our mind,~Keeping
 25     4|           peak of Apennine the eye~May Tuscan and Sclavonian sea
 26     4|      neighbouring cliffs below.~He may not scale the height who
 27     4|             without his death, she may obtain~The costly ring;
 28     4|             Where'er, they hope he may return, pursue~The beast,
 29     4|        Where, seeking glory, death may be his gain.~Here Arthur,
 30     4|         act achieved, as due,~Fame may your peril and your pain
 31     4|           be,~So that you evermore may live content,~And the king'
 32     4|           lovers, one or more, she may caress;~While man to sin
 33     5|          warmth we share.~This you may witness, and shall judge
 34     5|       Since surer mean our purpose may fulfill;~And if it please,
 35     5|          with me, that your tongue may manifest,~And what betides
 36     5|            and sword.~ ~ LXVI~"You may divine how grieves the sire,
 37     5|          in her cause appears,~Who may upon Lurcanio prove the
 38     6|        Dost live and speak? And so may never hail~From angry heaven
 39     6|      possessor of the fairy's bed,~May be for thee transformed
 40     6|        equal difference lies,~Thou may'st some remedy perchance
 41     6|        guile.~ ~ LXVIII~This as it may: the Child would meet his
 42     6|           with reason I this place may call,~Where, it is my belief,
 43     6|        Then of my person, where it may avail,~Dispose (Rogero said)
 44     7|        foot or horsemen, unespied,~May safely do, without impediment,~
 45     7|   beginning show;~A seed which, we may hope, will soon conceive~
 46     7|        truly know'st: but that she may be seen~Without disguise,
 47     8|        grievous company:~Bur for I may not still pursue this lore,~
 48     9|          one slain a-day, you thus may well~Compute what wives
 49     9|           shore,~As his gray hairs may warrant him, a wight~Stricken
 50     9|          woe~A lady found, if face may grief declare,~And sable
 51     9|          beauty, then in manhood's May,~And force of love, unfelt
 52     9|           all tortures upon me,~He may not loose Bireno, and the
 53     9|          so large a band,~Some one may indicate assurance due,~
 54     9|            his cheating play,~More may within the circling net
 55     9|         who cannot guess~Who these may be, or what the foes demand:~
 56     9|           and said: "That cavalier~May never vail through thee
 57     9|           shore,~Some other chance may interrupt him there:~So
 58    10|            this be not due,~I well may say that hers no tale is
 59    10|            Embarking, I from hence may hope to fly.~Here shall
 60    10|           skipper hither fare,~Who may for pity bear me hence away;~
 61    10|        this bestow!~ ~ XXXIII~"Oh! may I but escape the wild corsair,~
 62    10|            slave!~Rather than this may lion, wolf, or bear,~Tiger,
 63    10|        appaid~By death, which this may worthily requite!~Foul thief,
 64    10|            churl, haughty ingrate, may I thee~Burned, gibbeted,
 65    10|      fashioned best,~Your thoughts may tower more high than hawks
 66    10|        glory of the blest~You here may in the mortal body share."~
 67    10|         man in these his very soul may see;~His vices and his virtues
 68    10|          he who has them, Phoebus, may at will~Create himself a
 69    10|          care~Ever keep fast (what may appear a thing~Impossible)
 70    10|       through the band.~But that I may of all inform you well,~
 71    10|            twixt the ears his blow may light;~Now on the spine,
 72    10|            is this song,~And haply may as well have wearied you;~
 73    10|       delay to other time,~When it may better please, my tedious
 74    11|           this, (but use me as you may)~I, and my shield and courser,
 75    11|         runs with all the speed he may,~Who sees how needed is
 76    11|          the isle. Now" (said he) "may'st thou moor,"~(Thus issuing
 77    11|           much occupies~Of sea, he may be said to keep it all.~
 78    11|       season say~What chanced, and may be heard in future lay.~ ~ ~
 79    12|    fastened to its trunk, her mare may feed.~ ~ LVIII~The Spanish
 80    12|            the number of the flock may mount.~ ~  LXXIX~He held
 81    12|         For hundreds of my scythes may stand~His Durindana in Orlando'
 82    13|            what is love, thou well may'st know~How night and day
 83    13|            Who watches ever how he may derange~And mar our every
 84    13|           any one to you~Perchance may have announced my pressing
 85    13|     stronger arm defeat;~That thou may'st aid him in the peril
 86    13|               LII~"To the end thou may'st escape his ambush, where~
 87    13|           course~Ever, as best she may, with sweet discourse:~ ~
 88    13|            choose, because my tale may have an end.~Why was not
 89    13|         not well, if she more fair~May be entitled, or more chaste
 90    13|           its wives:~And that thou may'st take note of this as
 91    14|      unconquered Duke Alphonso, we~May modern things with ancient
 92    14|             whose illustrious palm may be~Well worthily assigned
 93    14|         its stroke;~Another wreath may round your temples bloom,~
 94    14|          chiefs by whom his troops may be arrayed,~Who for the
 95    14|            various post;~That they may furnish, as their wants
 96    14|         the assault of Paris. They may be~Assured they in the storm
 97    14|         strife, that they~Together may contend, and that some dead~
 98    14|       Thinks, on his way, where he may best alight,~With the intent
 99    14|       Warfare and memorable scathe may grow.~He next from her of
100    14|         coiners him you oftentimes may see~Harbour in some obscure
101    14|           he knew) this Silence he may find.~ ~ XCII~In blest Arabia
102    14|           in gold.~ ~ CI~Lamenting may be heard the aged just,~
103    14|            men their martial worth may know.~ ~ CXIV~With crimson
104    15|         his fair empire saves, but may the world~Reduce, with ensigns
105    15|           dishonour life to flight may owe;~But worse than death
106    15|     succour, form among the blest,~May God dispatch the Archangel
107    15|            ancient trunk they ween~May well be proof against a
108    16|         and this, by what remains,~May be believed; for yet in
109    16|             o'er every nation, you may gain~Eternal glory, bought
110    16|       fickle breeze which blows in May:~Or as the sea which ripples
111    16|      hurrying with what haste they may,~And with wide wheel and
112    16|        dropt, that none~Henceforth may in this city make their
113    17|      remission's bound,~That mercy may with justice mingled be,~
114    17|    iniquity.~The time will come we may such ill requite~Upon their
115    17|          grant, fair sir, he never may confound~Your eyesight with
116    17|         fed.~ ~ XLI~" `Of this you may behold the proof in me,~
117    17|            us in the fell,~That he may feel is issueing from the
118    17|            name to bear;~That thou may'st roar, and wide thine
119    17|        measure,~Save that the king may part them at his pleasure.~ ~
120    18|            is won;~And other means may work upon the rest.~She
121    18|          else he deems the courier may recount,~Save that a wight
122    18|        best he deems their courage may restore.~"If good Almontes
123    18|       ground,~That him his enemies may not enclose.~Lo! loudly
124    18|          When I know how atonement may be made,~By city, castle,
125    18|           inquiry where the knight may use;~But they encounter
126    18|        find; who, at his pleasure,~May vengeance to the guilty
127    18|     distant wide.~He fears the ill may happen which is said,~Unless
128    18|            truth of this my ensign may display.~Which here is seen,
129    18|            The land of Venus truly may be said~That passing joyous
130    18|            contrary.~-- This as it may! -- shall none, in fighting
131    18|      recompense.~ ~ CLXIX~"That he may lack not sepulture, will
132    18|           the slain;~And haply God may will that none shall spy~
133    18|           written in the sky,~Thou may'st the deed be able to explain.~
134    18|      through Fame, my loving heart may weet."~ ~ CLXX~Amazed was
135    18|           shelter hope the pair~As may conceal them well from hostile
136    19|          in earth my honoured king may lay:~No other grace I supplicate,
137    19|          space of life I crave.~As may suffice to give my lord
138    19|          than hoping that his hand~May snatch a vengeance equal
139    19|       shall sway~The land, and you may homeward wend your way.~ ~
140    19|      unfold;~The dames at pleasure may their prowess try,~And shall
141    19|            Marphisa bold,~That she may enter, afterwards is told.~ ~
142    19|       spied.~Thou and thy comrades may repose with me,~For whom
143    20|          is the celebrity,~That it may furnish matter to the page,~
144    20|          Leaving no man alive, who may diffuse~Upon this side or
145    20|          XXXIII~"That the male sex may not usurp the sway,~It is
146    20|               LI~" `But since this may not be, we some have made~(
147    20|            it, though so few,~They may be numbered on the fingers;
148    20|            the stripling's age, in May~Of youth, with courtesy
149    20|         But what he with his bugle may eschew,~Whose dread effect
150    20|          be her guide,~Wherever it may please the dame to ride."~ ~
151    20|      attend~The dame, wherever she may please to wend."~ ~ CXXIX~
152    21|      Schemes how my brother's love may best be bought.~ ~ XVI~"
153    21|       parforce.~But, be it what it may, the mischief know;~Then,
154    21|             And, look on whom they may, must blush for shame.~ ~
155    21|            desire this ample world may see~That, measured by my
156    21|         This noisome life. Nor yet may Heaven deny~Its meed, though
157    21|         And yet he who condemns me may, when I~Am parted from this
158    21|       seeking what her wicked love may boot,~She her old vices,
159    21|          breast,~Ransacks for what may best the occasion suit,~
160    22|        Suspicious of the ill which may ensue,~He moves to assail
161    22|           next espouse the martial may,~With Bradamant; who served
162    22|        presence warrants well, you may,)~'Tis not a thing concluded
163    22|          cried, "But do we what we may!~Let HIM who rules the heavens
164    22|          Merlin's tomb the martial may;~When her a bough, which
165    22|       covered in such wise~That it may quickly be to sight revealed,~
166    22|          stripling aid;~Fearing he may be burnt, while they their
167    23|           never meet, but that men may,~And oft encounter, is an
168    23|            panoply forego,~That it may to Mount Alban be consigned:~
169    23|           Rodomont -- "The steed I may my own;~Since him a champion
170    23|         And purpose of thy quest I may fulfil.~ ~ LXXVI~"But when
171    23|         many read and seen;~By her may this Medoro be belied,~And
172    23|          she, figured in the name, may mean."~Feeding on such like
173    23|        fostering sun~And moon, and may the choir of nymphs provide,~
174    23|         That never swain his flock may hither guide!"~ ~ CX~In
175    23|       would rather shrowd,~That it may less offend him, with a
176    23|          If I o'erpass this bound, may irksome be;~And I my story
177    24|          the wise:~And albeit some may show themselves more sage~
178    24|           a chain.~ ~ III~One here may well reproach me: "Brother,
179    24|      stretched one pair,~Who haply may awake at the last day.~The
180    24|            find it, be it where it may.~Orlando, this not daring
181    24|           Together to entomb them, may some wight,~Haply by pity
182    24|   quittedst for my sake; and, if I may~In any thing command thee,
183    24|            themselves as best they may:~At length a cavalier arrests
184    25|          his name to teach~That he may know to whom his thanks
185    25|             Me, it is possible you may have seen,~I know not when
186    25|         side;~Or haply it a sister may have been,~Who to her waist
187    25|         thou hast ordained, that I may be~The first and last example
188    25|         brother, greet the martial may,~And her arrival with much
189    25|          goes,~Which Love directs, may well by you be wist.~She
190    25|          and light.~-- This, as it may! -- strong, valiant, wise,
191    25|         his way some faithful Post may throw;~Nor more delays:
192    25|         ask, that I~Yet once again may to our army speed;~So that,
193    25|            The African cantonments may be freed:~I will some fit
194    26|          you here remain,~Yourself may witness, so would interfere,~
195    26|            VIII~Some one, meseems, may crave the stranger's name,~
196    26|       through~His bleeding cheeks: may like disastrous fate~O'erwhelm
197    26|          That he himself the other may retain;~Deeming her worthy
198    26|         higher flight,~More easily may, even to heaven, assay,~
199    26|          Rogero, with that guiding may,~Had vainly by the rugged
200    27|           We with the same success may well suppose)~He to his
201    27|          ravage and another leave,~May so their course amid that
202    27|           number slaughtered hence may you surmise!~What cruel
203    27|         But because haply some one may pretend~I have till such
204    27|        Thou to the fierce Marphisa may'st apply~To leave his trial (
205    27|          such grace~As modest lady may, nor do amiss)~Believed,
206    27|         sober reason erred:~For we may deem a hundred good abound,~
207    27|        that I hold, aright?~That I may hear thee speak with better
208    27|         better ease~Sit so, that I may have thee in my sight."~
209    28|           with her evermore --~`So may this journey prosper! as
210    28|         And warrant it, that other may believe,~Is better than
211    28| untranslated by Rose)~ ~ XLIV~"You may believe he shameless deemed
212    28|         nor grace avail,~The money may, with which our bags are
213    28|       experiment our last.~Then we may deem our own not worse inclined~
214    28|           of a hundred worthy fame may tell,~For one whose evil
215    29|           A hundred and a thousand may be won;~But none beside
216    29|       glory the historic page~They may with worthy argument supply;~
217    29|         keep him from that fool he may contrive;~But by the feet
218    29|            LVIII~Where he somedeal may shun the noontide ray,~With
219    29|       drags on that mare,~That she may follow with more ease, so
220    29|       faltering sound,~And that he may less tedious deem the rhyme,~
221    30|            margin fell;~At leisure may'st thou have her cured," (
222    30|        some voice in happier verse may sing.~ ~ XVII~To say so
223    30|            the strife his champion may succeed;~And teaches every
224    30|     exclaims she) can I find~Which may avail to minister repose,~
225    30|          leave.~ ~ XXXV~"Much evil may ensue and little gain~Out
226    30|           I dare,~Albeit the thing may easily be true;~For such
227    30|         That her, by night or day, may bravely stead.~Meanwhile
228    31|            joy's increase.~Service may be endured, though nought
229    31|         fall on, and do as best ye may,~For we parforce must meet
230    31|       mayst conceive what mischief may ensue~To Charles and to
231    31|            pity to his cruel pain,~May strive the peer in Paris
232    31|        knight,~With better fortune may maintain the fight.~ ~ LXXVIII~
233    31|           he to Arles and Narbonne may retreat,~With such few squadrons
234    31|       saved his person, the defeat~May venge upon the foe, by this
235    31|          by this delay:~His troops may rally quickly in that post,~
236    31|         course~Remains, which thee may from thy peril clear.~And
237    31|            peace resign the horse,~May'st live, if life be deemed
238    31|            just excuses, that thou may'st no more~Me for my failure
239    31|       Altafoglia and Poictiers,~He may for ever silence the mis-say.~
240    32|            in Arles conveyed.~Well may you fancy with what joy
241    32|           more bitterness in death may taste.~ ~ XXIII~"Yet, ah!
242    32|        untrue,~Wrath at the wizard may I well profess;~But cannot
243    32|         sad lament by sorrow bred,~May be unheard of any, bites
244    32|           All false and cruel well may be esteemed,~If thou, Rogero,
245    32|          is none in heaven, I well may say,~If Heaven its vengeance
246    32|             beside~All other sins, may justly thee arraign.~That
247    32|          aye thy breath with glory may be spent?~There, should
248    32|           to have slain thee haply may repent;~But, should his
249    32|          before~Thou die, thou yet may deadly vengeance take,~Who
250    32|            her thought~Things that may chance, she finally foresees~
251    32|       seems, as well all judgments may,~Wherein the losing party
252    32|          the damsel gain, and much may lose;~ ~ CVI~"And save the
253    32|             no less than courtesy,~May she a shelter claim in you
254    33|         Italy our host befalls~You may discern as painted on these
255    33|            truth annoy,~Never more may I see or hear what's true!~
256    33|           woe,~The pains of waking may I never know!~ ~ LXIV~"Blest
257    33|           so you.~ ~  LXXIII~"This may suffice you all; and need
258    33|            from his primaeval doom may save.~Here, save I err in
259    33|      having Nile at his command~He may divert the stream to other
260    33|         hears the deafening strain~May not in panic terror fly
261    34|           to the spirit cried: "So may Heaven send~A respite from
262    34|    distress,~And give him hopes he may even yet pretend~That I
263    34|           though come from France, may be unknown~What there hath
264    34|       odours shed;~The gift (if it may lawfully be said)~Which
265    35|          and I with busy lip,~If I may have them back, these fain
266    35|       wrought in vain;~But that is may his worthy cradle be,~Whereof
267    35|         poetry,~That envious Death may wholly them consume.~Besides
268    35|         whoe'er~Knoweth not these, may well be said to be~One without
269    35|      quests, by which she worthily~May hope a great and glorious
270    35|           what thou, if conqueror, may'st command.~ ~ XLVI~"But
271    35|     company,~To carry me to Africk may afford;~Nor will I halt
272    35|        there resolved to try,~That may release him from his jailer'
273    35|          faith with him, that thou may'st be~Ready and well prepared
274    35|         takes him not, although he may of right,"~He cries i' the
275    35|           course have run,~My fall may furnish an excuse more fair."~
276    35|     simplicity,~Which some already may in malice wrest.~Ferrau
277    36|        bold; but when that martial may~Has for her brother recognized
278    36|            With thee I to eternity may dwell.~ ~ XXXIII~"If thou
279    36|         and loves, untaught by me, may know:~But sorest vext sad
280    36|            And I, that thy desires may be appaid,~Will die; but
281    36|         his seed;~As thou Atlantes may'st have heard proclaim.~
282    36|         Whereby some fair occasion may arise~To leave the king;
283    37|      goodly rhymes hath strown,~As may with envy swell the neighbouring
284    37|             This for yourselves ye may yourselves purvey:~For many,
285    37|            or six alone I dwell,~I may offend and anger all the
286    37|            And, that such exile us may more torment,~From those
287    37|           that purpose to fulfill.~May my sweet consort not the
288    37|         child, a woman, everywhere may tread,~And often dry-shod
289    37|         That borough fire and ruin may expect.~ ~ CXVIII~Nor hence
290    38|       Rogero stayed.~The stripling may appay the warlike fair~In
291    38|          their care~And holy skill may be that martial fair.~ ~
292    38|          and for his first desert,~May give him bands, Biserta
293    38|            that people inexpert~He may to battle train, in plate
294    38|           of stones. O what things may he do~That in the Saviour
295    38|        prisoner I convey;~Or how I may as well our Africk save,~
296    38|          his lore to shew,~That we may learn the best, and that
297    38|          befitting steer,~For what may chance, of good or evil
298    38|       homeward with what haste you may to steer,~I counsel, your
299    38|       survives; the rest are dead.~May it please Heaven no further
300    38|          Argier's lord; of whom it may be said,~Where he as true
301    38|         the victory use art,~Which may be yours, if you are ruled
302    38|         shame and scorn, she never may,~Not without hatred of her
303    38|           in such a way~As that it may be known of all mankind;~
304    38|    perpetual peace;~ ~ LXXXIV~"And may your joint and fearful wrath
305    38|           if I my word forego!~And may it me and mine alone offend,~
306    38|          That all in briefest time may comprehend,~My breach of
307    40|       navies viewed.~What outcries may be heard, what sounds of
308    40|          sounds of woe,~How rivers may run red with human blood,~
309    40|           destroy;~That it no more may Christian France annoy.~ ~
310    40|        safety cavalier~And footman may approach the very wall;~
311    40|           their conduct go,~Safely may follow them; for at its
312    41|       Anglantes' peer.~Befall what may, by me shall nought be done~
313    41|        blood, will die.~ ~ XLV~"Ye may depart, who, save ye better
314    41|          Agramant and Olivier;~Who may be deemed well matched in
315    42|       savage action led astray,~It may deserve excuse; in that
316    42|       course to run,~In the end he may prevent the paynim peer~
317    42|           how he is hight,~That he may know and tell who brought
318    42|           those four gates as well may be.~ ~ LXXIX~By cunning
319    42|            supper-board, that thou~May'st see the marvel promised
320    43|           shows,~So that the fruit may now be gathered, I~(Did
321    43|         not withal, where fail she may,~She faithful, modest may
322    43|          may,~She faithful, modest may be deemed by you:~But is
323    43|         Then faithful you the dame may justly ween.'~ ~ XXVII~"
324    43|         chaste wife's lord thereof may drink; but they~Drink not,
325    43|           small~To that, which she may hope to make her own;~Then
326    43|           evermore,~Her coming, it may be believed, is dear.~From
327    43|         haply not with us the tale may rest)~That in the very sin
328    43|           And in the mode he deems may best avail,~He supplicates
329    43|           opened where that virtue may be tried.~ ~ LXXXV~"With
330    43|        above,~How stands his heart may well to thee appear,~If
331    43|       support his wife, as best he may,~From falling into such
332    43|           I for one night her arms may fill,~Him may she take and
333    43|       night her arms may fill,~Him may she take and do with him
334    43|         lady as his own:~And haply may she to some losel flee,~
335    43|            thee, there is nought I may~Ever possess, without thee,
336    44|    illustrious blood below,~A race may spring, that brighter than
337    44|           wherever that bright sun may glow;~And which, when years
338    44|           omits that monarch which may do~The warrior honour, mid
339    44|        beauty or be daring what it may,~Dexterity or prowess, worth,
340    44|       Rogero; and more than others may divine:~I know that to a
341    44|          resists the griding tool, may break:~But, save the form
342    44|           edge to flake:~Love this may wholly splinter, ere he
343    44|            wholly splinter, ere he may~Another's beauty in its
344    44|          flight (to flee~He rather may be said than to retreat)~
345    44|  determines to repose,~As where he may his wearied courser ease,~
346    45|          to do:~"Truly the Bulgars may be said to be~Vanquished,"
347    45|           revenge deferred,~My son may mourn upon the Stygian shore.~
348    45|         foe,~That by his torment I may soothe my woe."~ ~ XVIII~
349    45|            foregone,~No matter who may claim it in the course:~
350    45|             And by the damsel this may well be done,~Good at all
351    45|          and leaves in April or in May,~And next beholds it, when
352    45|        this by some, unquestioned, may be said;~Knows he is gone,
353    45|         one afford~Some dame, that may his former love efface;~
354    45|           is guessed by none.~Well may they think by any other
355    45|          long or short, or what it may,~Albeit to Leo's service
356    45|          far and nigh,~Believes he may for force and daring pit;~
357    45|            other thing.~Whereby he may be known, afield will bring.~ ~
358    45|          Child's disguisement well may stead)~Of equal size and
359    45|          that her stifled fury she may vent:~Now on this side,
360    45|            In such confusion, they may well believe~That fierce
361    45|      Rogero's consort be;~And they may, without strife, without
362    46|         try~If any counsel succour may supply."~ ~  XXV~It suddenly
363    46|      Securely every one that wills may wend;~And offers open lists
364    46|        came, he saw, he conquered, may be said.~ ~ XCVII~Elsewhere