Canto

  1     1|         plough (the thunder storm o'erpast)~There, where the
  2     2|      famed damsel, by whose spear~O'erthrown, King Sacripant
  3     2|   fountain-rill,~By ancient trees o'ershaded, glides away;~And
  4     2|          the two on earth and him o' the sky,~Until that hour
  5     3|       dishevelled tresses.~ ~ IX~"O generous Bradamant," the
  6     3|           be the native operation~O certain stones, to shine
  7     3|       fair.~And lo! another Hugh! O noble line!~O!  sire succeeded
  8     3|       another Hugh! O noble line!~O!  sire succeeded by an equal
  9     3|        bind:~And next, victorious o'er the German bands,~Give
 10     3|     succeed;~Whose glories spread o'er seas and land shall be.~
 11     3|         bad counsel led!~ ~ LXII~"O, worthy seed of Hercules
 12     4|          noise is heard without!~"O mighty mother! king of heaven!"
 13     4|       shield he took,~Covered all o'er with silk of crimson
 14     4|          And by the fear of death o'erspread with gloom.~Again
 15     5|        remained half dead.~ ~ LX~"O God! what said, what did
 16     6|       than once their armies have o'errun~Her realm, and towns
 17     7|       pair,~The giantess Eriphila o'erthrows.~That done, he
 18     7|        farthingale or gown;~Which o'er a shift of finest quality,~
 19     7|    clothed her chin,~And wrinkled o'er her front and other skin.~ ~
 20     7|         finger placed, all spells o'erturned;~For that fair
 21     8|        guard,~Remained nigh dead, o'erwhelmed with her distress;~
 22     8|           a greater still.~ ~ LIX~O wretched maids! whom 'mid
 23     9|          made petition~To put him o'er the stream; and she: "
 24     9|       darkest deep below!~ ~ XCI~"O loathed, O cursed piece
 25     9|         below!~ ~ XCI~"O loathed, O cursed piece of enginery,~
 26    10|        cruel beast inflict on me,~O cruel beast, a fouler death
 27    10|           deafening noise and din o'er sea and shore,~By echo
 28    10|         gives to them superiority~O'er every other sort of gem,
 29    10|          is found to save.~Thence o'er that sea he spurred,
 30    10|           flying courser's rein)~"O lady, worthy but that chain
 31    11|       floats the monstrous beast, o'ercome with pain,~Whose
 32    11|           scattered flock forgot, o'er ocean flies;~While so
 33    11|            Oberto, he that reigns~O'er Ireland's people, who
 34    11|           shining eyes with tears o'erflowed.~ ~ LXV~Her face
 35    11|        his bow,~And roves at him, o'er whom no shield is spread,~
 36    12|         as he his foot has lifted o'er~The threshold, he through
 37    12|        old Atlantes' every scheme o'erthrew.~ ~ XXX~Helm on
 38    12|        the forest lost, with wood o'ergrown,~And had begun the
 39    12|       victory?~That paladin am I, o'er whom you dare~To vaunt,
 40    12|           despite.~ ~ XLVI~"Nor I o'er you the smallest vantage
 41    12|     LXXXVII~As where low junipers o'er shade her lair,~Or in
 42    12|         while her eyes with tears o'erflow,~Clear tokens of
 43    13|     Though I am sure," she said, "O cavalier,~To suffer punishment
 44    13|         we Bradamant, nor grieve, O ye~Who hear, that she is
 45    14|           Faenza warn and Rimini.~O Lewis, bid good old Trivulzio
 46    14|         guide.~Malabupherso rules o'er Fezzan's clan,~And Finaduro
 47    14|         on the steed and galloped o'er the plain,~And swore
 48    14|           and turned their bodies o'er;~Moved by strange envy
 49    14|           When lo! he saw a mead, o'ertopt with shade,~Where
 50    14|          face supine,~Exclaimed, "O Lord! although my sins be
 51    14|          reach.~By two fair hills o'ershadowed is the dale,~
 52    15|           worthy praise, when you o'erbore~The lion of such
 53    15|           greater good the risque o'erpays.~ ~ XLVIII~"I peril
 54    15|           in the peer, victorious o'er~The giant, whom he led
 55    16|         told withal,~How vaulting o'er that hindrance at a bound,~
 56    16|           Three leagues above, he o'er the river's bed~Had cast
 57    16|           you here;~Through whom, o'er every nation, you may
 58    16|           him Duke Thraso's horse o'erturns and mawls,~Opprest
 59    16|      breath;~Who charges, smites, o'erturns, and puts to death.~ ~
 60    16|          that Granada guides,~And o'er Marjorca Baricond presides.~ ~
 61    16|          sell;~Fieramont Follicon o'erturned and rolled,~In
 62    17|      might be spied --~In visages o'ercast in death-like sort,~
 63    17|         enterprize wilt thou give o'er.~Alas! thou sleepest,
 64    17|           say to thee; the wealth o' the west,~Which Constantine
 65    17|       king subjoined, so powdered o'er~With jewels, gold, and
 66    17|   youthful lord, by him laid low.~O'ercome with wonder each
 67    17|         reversed, upon the ground o'erlaid~By his weak horse,
 68    18|          Marphisa Norandino's men o'erthrows.~Due pains Martano'
 69    18|      feared in their alarms,~Lest o'er the wall Sir Gryphon
 70    18|          Sir Rodomont, with pride o'erblown,~Inflamed with anger
 71    18|    Antaeus bred'st, and Hannibal,~O Africa! thou never bred'
 72    18|        who cried aloud:~ ~ XLIII~"O valiant men," he -- "O companions,"
 73    18|            O valiant men," he -- "O companions," cries,~"O brethren,
 74    18|            O companions," cries,~"O brethren, stand, and yet
 75    18|          ground~Horsemen and foot o'erthrows on every side:~
 76    18|        alarmed, he hurries there, o'erthrown~So many men, such
 77    18|          his own shame and infamy o'erlaid?~And this the woman
 78    18|   determined, in the public sight~O' the city, guilty of that
 79    18|       From lofty saddle Sansonnet o'erthrew,~Famous for price
 80    18|        more fear (his weaker hope o'erthrown).~The sorrowing
 81    18|          s, those Zerbino's brand~O'erturns, all rivals in the
 82    18|       devoutly cries:~ ~ CLXXXIV~"O holy goddess! whom our fathers
 83    19|          that cruel blow.~ ~ XXXI~O Count Orlando, O king of
 84    19|             XXXI~O Count Orlando, O king of Circassy,~Say what
 85    19|           hard would this appear, O Agricane!~In that she whilom
 86    19|     repulse and insolent disdain.~O Ferrau, O ye thousand more,
 87    19|       insolent disdain.~O Ferrau, O ye thousand more, forlorn,~
 88    19|             to gild -- the matter o'er.~Young Love was bridesman
 89    19|       pleasures, where, with tree o'ergrown,~Ran stream, or
 90    19|            face, reins, and bosom o'er'~He comes upon them,
 91    19|            And lowers the bridge; o'er which, in warlike weed,~
 92    19|           He, as the mournful hue o'erpowered the clear,~Was
 93    19|     champion from his sell,~So to o'erthrow he shall not rise
 94    19|          myself with pain,~Who is o'erwearied with the former
 95    20|          if women there bear sway~O'er men, as men o'er them
 96    20|        bear sway~O'er men, as men o'er them in other place.~
 97    20|      steers~In search of plunder, o'er the billows borne.~With
 98    20|      lacked but they~Granted them o'er their households sovereign
 99    20|           received them wandering o'er the sea.~'Twas here they
100    20|         disdain,~That he achieved o'er dames and cavaliers~The
101    20|       unfinished warfare. Covered o'er~With arms stand Aquilant
102    20|          Of gown and palfrey, if, o'erthrown in fight,~Her champion
103    21|        appears to bear, contends. O'erthrown,~The Fleming falls
104    21|          good Hermonides on earth o'erthrew.~ ~ XI~Thinking
105    21|           deems her comrade true,~O'ertaken and defrauded of
106    22|        finds Rogero, who in fight~O'erthrows four barons from
107    22|       wending, on the hither side o' the sea,~Makes Thrace;
108    22|          Thou hast to understand, O gentle knight,~My visage
109    22|           and little fame:~Him he o'erturned, made alight as
110    22|    warrior pricked, who, powdered o'er~With snowy flowers, a
111    22|         white flowers had purfled o'er his vest.~But moved him
112    22|       provide,~I shame from thee, O shield, no more abide.~ ~
113    23|     twilight streaked the horizon o'er;~And she her courser
114    23|          toil; and with fine gold o'erlaid~A piece of silk of
115    23|          perceived the strife was o'er,~Nearer the field of
116    23|         might;~And by the surcoat o'er thine arms I know,~(Instructed
117    23|         rich, he sees,~And dotted o'er with fair and many trees.~ ~
118    23|         thither, where a mountain~O'erhangs in guise of arch
119    23|           not of its former boot,~O'erbalanced by the present
120    23|        prey~Wholly was he to that o'ermastering woe.~This is
121    23|           point, my history,~If I o'erpass this bound, may irksome
122    24|         his naked hand the brutes o'erthrew;~And gorging oftentimes
123    24|          keep; but in the end,~To o'ermastering assault was
124    24|          in the fray~Such vantage o'er the Scottish prince obtains,~
125    24|        face, which with her tears o'erflows,~Towards the sufferer,
126    24|        And bear the storm abroad, o'er land and main,~By which
127    25|        every stroke he never less o'erthrew~Than one, and oftener
128    25|         covet not, nor yet aspire~O'er land or people to hold
129    25|          writing, that the period o'er,~For which he was to
130    25|         the lair,~Who, flourished o'er with gold, wore plate
131    26|          may like disastrous fate~O'erwhelm all evil doers,
132    26|       Screened from the sun by an o'ershadowing mountain.~ ~
133    26|         her sword, when armed all o'er,~And on her courser leapt
134    26|        the paynim knight,~Tracked o'er the level by those footsteps
135    26|       wear,~The bird which reigns o'er other fowls of air.~ ~
136    26|          Mandricardo cried, "give o'er,~Or else with me divide
137    26|          the brand.~ ~ CXVIII~Him o'er the field his courser
138    26|        his head.~ ~ CXIX~Rodomont o'er the plain pursues his
139    27|       cousin Richardet, with odds o'erlaid,~When from the paynim
140    27|           the king of Tartary all o'er,~Approached to gird him
141    27|       distant nigh~Three leagues, o'erlooks a little copse,
142    27|          rock is heard to mourn:~"O female mind! how lightly
143    27|            And who of reason thus o'erpast the bound,~And ill
144    27|         tempest, with such scathe o'erlaid,~As should in Africk
145    27|       bank the stream was covered o'er~With boat of little burden,
146    28|          a place was yielded him, o'eright~The cavalier, he '
147    28|           Of grandeur was exalted o'er the rest,~And that, for
148    28|     return ere yet two months are o'er;~Nor by a day o'erpass
149    28|     months are o'er;~Nor by a day o'erpass the term prescribed,~
150    28|       sire with many children was o'erlaid,~And was to poverty
151    28|      shall hear him, if his wrath o'erblow,~Yet greater praise
152    28|           whence every comfort is o'erthrown:~No remedy the
153    29|          prodigious deeds.~ ~ ~ I~O feeble and unstable minds
154    29|       upon thee bestow what shall o'erpay,~By much, that honour
155    29|          this ample world does so o'errun,~Reject not lightly
156    29|           Unthinking, and perhaps o'ercome by wine,~Which neither
157    29|            XXVII~Depart in peace, O spirit blest and fair!~--
158    29|     career,~The barrier tops, and o'er the bridge would fly,~
159    29|        from whence he tumbled, to o'erthrow;~Deeming it sole
160    29|          powdery sea-sand covered o'er;~And here, while so employed,
161    29|          Springs on her back, and o'er the sea-beach bare~For
162    29|         LXIX~As in this course to o'erleap a ditch he sought,~
163    29|        stones which that ill road o'erspread.~At length the
164    30|    believe, would ever have given o'er,~Save by the hope consoled,
165    31|           and lays him low!~ ~ VI~O' cruel wound! incapable
166    31|           suspicion than by sure!~O wound! whose pangs so wofully
167    31|         spake not in a tone~To be o'erheard in what he inly
168    31|       vault,~Trampling down foot, o'erturning cavalier,~And
169    31|        and Rinaldo are~Victorious o'er the routed Moorish foe.~
170    31|         whom the valiant Sansonet o'erthrew,~And those that
171    31|        darkness seeks the knight,~O'erturning all who cross
172    32|        who rode before.~These she o'ercomes, and had o'ercome
173    32|      These she o'ercomes, and had o'ercome that maid,~But that
174    32|       repeated cess,~All Africa's o'erburdened towns oppress.~ ~
175    32|   Collected there, from cavaliers o'erthrown,~As serve to hide
176    32|             The period so prefixt o'erpast by one,~By two, three,
177    32|          cry?~Suffer who hates me o'er my heart to reign?~One
178    32|         reave,~To scape from this o'erwhelming wretchedness.~
179    32|          words her fury charmed:~"O lady, born to such illustrious
180    32|        reach the tower, ere Night o'erlays~The world, whose
181    32|          has a shrewd suspicion,~"O lady, let it be no cause
182    33|            now the Huns, replace.~O'ermatched, he then for peace
183    33|          called in to harass, not o'erthrow~That ancient rival
184    33|           Where the twelfth Lewis o'er the hills is gone;~Has
185    33|      great king captived and host o'erthrown.~ ~ LIV~"This host
186    33|       erthrown.~ ~ LIV~"This host o'erthrown upon Pavia's plains,~
187    33|     turned her back upon the foes o'erthrown.~They, that intent
188    33|         one sufficed -- with such o'erwhelming woe~Were they
189    33|          them had cast to ground,~O'erwhelmed with rage and
190    33|          soar a course less free.~O'er the wide land of Gaul
191    33|       further side~Of Egypt, bent o'er Africa, to stray;~The
192    33|         cavalier so make his way,~O'er every wall, o'er every
193    33|         his way,~O'er every wall, o'er every turret high,~Some
194    33|          instant, rends~The food, o'erturns the vessels, and
195    34|           earthward makes.~ ~ ~ I~O fierce and hungry harpies,
196    34|      Alcestes did us in that war; o'erthrown~By him four armies
197    34|         with salt rheum mine eyes o'erflow.~Thus in eternal
198    34|   polished stone of sanguine dye.~O mighty wonder! O Daedalian
199    34|    sanguine dye.~O mighty wonder! O Daedalian sleight!~What
200    34|         sell had lighted, cries:~"O gentle baron, that by will
201    34|          realm and wealthy dower,~O'er which aye turns the restless
202    34|          exceed all measure,~They o'er that valley's better
203    34|           vernal flower.~ ~ LXXIX~O'erturned, here ruined town
204    34|          lime~-- Your witcheries, O women! -- he explored.~The
205    35|        those which waves and sand o'errun.~ ~  XIII~Along that
206    35|            direr pain~Than death. O Princes, wary and discreet,~
207    35|           her where, successively o'erthrown,~Three kings she
208    35|          detested life.~ ~ XXXIX~"O loving damsel (she made
209    35|       haught.~ ~ XLII~"Wherefore, O brutish man, for your misdeed~
210    35|      those so many, by your lance o'erthrown,~Your armour should
211    35|            You shall do by me, if o'erthrown, what you~By other
212    35|           glorious name is spread o'er land and sea,~And render
213    35|           the enclosure sped,~And o'er the bridge and through
214    36|          to jealous fears a prey,~O Bradamant, because Rogero
215    37|        your way pursue;~Nor halt, O women, in your high emprise,~
216    37|   Achilles, how,~Francis Pescara, O unconquered peer,~Would
217    37|       lady fair~A captive thence, o'erwhelmed with sorrow so,~
218    37|       holy obsequies at last were o'er,~And by the priest was
219    37|       nigh had with Tanacro died, o'erthrown~By that so sudden
220    37|    swiftly darts away,~Where most o'ergrown with brushwood is
221    37|         by Bradamant's gold lance o'erthrown;~She seems a bolt,
222    38|          I eithteen years had not o'erpast, before~I added to
223    38|          thrust~A heap of stones. O what things may he do~That
224    38|      waste.~ ~ XL~"I now on this, O peers! your counsel crave.~
225    38|       even balance hope and fear,~O'errated still; and which
226    38|        the sky~Lifted his hands, "O God, that for our sake"~(
227    38|          for our sins to make;~-- O thou that found such favour
228    39|    scaping one.~Him, if in strife o'erlaid, Rinaldo slays,~Bradamant,
229    39|      Strove in all ways Rogero to o'erthrow;~Fierce and despiteous
230    39|      sweat anew, the king who had o'erthrown~That truce, and
231    39|         souls! Oh great felicity!~O grace! which rarely man
232    39|     rarely man from God receives;~O strange and wondrous miracle,
233    39|           countenance as sicklied o'er by dread,~He stands,
234    39|         shows her joy; which woes o'erblown~Had made the mightiest
235    39|         warriors, that their eyes o'erflow.~" `Tis time" (Astolpho
236    39|         the monarch chased,~As to o'ertake him in his swift
237    40|        elephants uprear,~Which so o'ertop the turrets of the
238    40|       might,~The paynims charged, o'erthrew, hewed down and
239    40|           gored:~But all at once, o'erburthened with that weight,~
240    40|          swains~Bears off, in his o'erwhelming waters drowned;~
241    40|          be had of armour, rusted o'er~And brown with age, Orlando
242    41|         the reeling vessel's side o'erpeer;~And every billow
243    41|           weathered, others rise.~O'erstrained, the vessel splits;
244    41|       many more succeed,~That the o'erwhelming wave the pinnace
245    41|         king with grateful thanks o'erflowed;~And deemed, and
246    41|        into the flood~In the end, o'erwhelmed by those wild
247    41|         heavens for him ordained,~O'er those hard stones, against
248    41|      paladin believes the warfare o'er,~And that deprived of
249    42|      Orlando, when the strife was o'er,~Was nothing evil; ever
250    42|          did lie;~But afterwards, o'erthrown by earthquake's
251    42|       earthquake's shock,~A cliff o'erspread the plain with
252    42|       earth, and visage crimsoned o'er; and prayed~That sage
253    42|       courser's housing broidered o'er,~As the proud surcoat
254    43|          arrives where, conqueror o'er his foes~Orlando was,
255    43|         and heals Olivier.~ ~ ~ I~O Execrable avarice! O vile
256    43|            I~O Execrable avarice! O vile thirst~Of sordid gold!
257    43|        And was by misery evermore o'erlaid;~The husband so,
258    43|           wouldst betray me then, O wife, for gain,~If there
259    43|         emprize.~ ~ XLV~"My wish, o'erpassing every fitting
260    43|          the good Rinaldo.~ ~ LV~"O happy town! whereof" (the
261    43|    courtesy thy lords shall show,~O thou fair city, in succeeding
262    43|      paladin, "the sound~Hath not o'erpast the Alps; for never
263    43|      judge the lot of envoy fell:~O day, that ever wept by him
264    43|           his woful wife deplore.~O heaven, what tears, what
265    43|        prayers, he takes the time o' the day;~Figures the heavens
266    43|       Albeit thou know'st me not, O cavalier~I am thy kin, and
267    43|           was named.~ ~ XCVIII~" `O' the fairies am I one: with
268    43|    alights,~Gives it his man; and o'er the threshold wends;~
269    43|          hollow~And central womb, O earth, the wretch to swallow?~ ~
270    43|        The give against the take, O husband, place;~And, as '
271    43|           course an-end to Cagli; o'er the height,~Rifted by
272    43|      repair.'~ ~ CLXIII~"Is this, O Brandimart, is this the
273    43|           stands Bardino, weeping o'er the bier,~Who under Age'
274    43|         the County said:~ ~ CLXX~"O comrade bold and true, there
275    43|           sumptuous cloth of gold o'erspread.~So willed Orlando;
276    43|        the winds; and with a sign o' the cross~Lulls the loud
277    44|           from Sardinia; and then o'er~The foaming sea his venturous
278    44|           be forced to be untrue,~O my Rogero, and surrender
279    44|     chivalry~They, more than head o'ertops the foot, surmount;~
280    44|           he the secret knows.~He o'er his humble fortunes makes
281    44|    warrior cried,~That stander-by o'erheard the knight complain,~
282    44|      thought.~ ~ LXIII~"All power o'er me have I bestowed on
283    44|    whilere.~ ~ XCV~Into the power o' the Bulgars many fall,~
284    44|      until~That Grecian leader he o'ertake and kill.~ ~  XCIX~
285    45|           puissant far than Hope, O Fear! thou art;~To thee,
286    45|     return.~Return, alas! return, O radiance dear!~And drive
287    45| whensoever thou thy gladsome ray,~O my fair sun, from me dost
288    45|         clear my mind, so clouded o'er and black."~As Philomel,
289    45|           younglings lack,~Mourns o'er an empty nest, or as
290    45|        clipt the Child, and, "Me,~O cavalier! thy matchless
291    45|            LXIX~To look like Leo, o'er his breast is spread~
292    45|         fail.~ ~ LXXX~Didst thou, O miserable damsel, trow~Whom
293    45|        her, should not have died.~O happier Fortune! had I breathed
294    45|  unharnessed wholly, and untied.~"O my Frontino, if thy merits
295    46|         Alexander of Farnese, and O~Learned company that follows
296    46|            not simple grief alone~O'erwhelmed him, to such height
297    46|          pavilion had embroidered o'er;~Cassandra hight; that
298    46|          hind before;~Which falls o'ertaken on the dusty plain,~
299    46|        year and month were wholly o'er,~And wholly past was
300    46|         more fury, with more rage o'erflows,~Than in mid winter