Canto

  1     1|           V~Roland, who long the lady of Catay,~Angelica, had
  2     1|          further on her way.~The lady taken, we repeat our claim~
  3     1|      Propitious Fortune will his lady bright~Should hear the youth
  4     1|     passion, pressed~Towards his Lady, his Divinity;~And she now
  5     1|          of half his weight,~The lady left the croup, and gained
  6     1|      falcon, flies.~Time was the lady sighed, her passion slighted;~'
  7     2|       dame;~And he, who when the lady's pride and care,~Paid back
  8     2|         very charity.~ ~ XIV~The lady prayed that kindly friar,
  9     2|      Pricking to Paris with that lady bright;~Riding, in merry
 10     2|        Paris place his prize~The lady never more shall meet your
 11     2|      spoiler slain,~Give my lost lady to my arms again.'~ ~ XLVII~"
 12     2|       from Marseilles to ask the lady's aid.~ ~ LXV~Whether or
 13     2|          to meet the approaching lady went,~And showed the cave,
 14     2|        and rich vest,~Appeared a lady of no mean degree;~But melancholy,
 15     2|        while astounded there the lady lay,~As the ensuing canto
 16     3|         brave~Was cheated by the Lady of the Lake.~Below, beneath
 17     3|       his bones; where, for that lady's sake,~His limbs (for such
 18     3|        peace."~ ~ LX~So with the lady's leave the volume closed,~
 19     3|   strength, as is the fact.~But, lady, let him not thy knowledge
 20     4|        should the young Rogero's lady kind~Do with Brunello, not
 21     4|        or eclipse.~And there the lady views, with wondering eye,~
 22     4|      necromancer hoar~The gentle lady had desire, and why~The
 23     4|              XXXIX~Then from the lady's toils the wizard clears~
 24     4|         when assured it was that lady, flew~With joyful cheer
 25     4|         take him by the rein the lady there~Approached, and he
 26     4|           For this my praise the lady well might claim,~If manifest
 27     4|      croup.~ ~  LXXII~And as the lady nearer he surveyed,~Her
 28     5|          climbed a leman of that lady fair;~Who, for disguise (
 29     6|       death descry;~For still my lady, my divinity~She is; --
 30     6|        or aid impart,~I, by that lady dear, my promise plight,~
 31     7|              XVIII~The beauteous lady whom he loved so well~Is
 32     7|          If he the coming of the lady hears.~ ~ XXIV~At every
 33     7|      breast,~Nor waits until the lady he undressed;~ ~ XXVIII~
 34     7|          an antidote to sorcery,~Lady (she said), the virtuous
 35     7|      Like one who does Valentian lady's hest.~In him, beside his
 36     7|              LXVIII~"That gentle lady who so loves thee, who~Were
 37     8|      play his part,~Who with the lady bore away his heart:~ ~
 38     8|        After a mighty sweep, the lady bears~To shore, where rock
 39     8|      with loud sobs, the weeping lady cried,~When she beheld the
 40     8|   unagnized, she saw appear,~The lady took some comfort, and laid
 41     8|           Inflamed with ire, his lady's torment heard,~And, against
 42     8|          up, in lieu~Of the fair lady, slain upon the shore:~He,
 43     8|          memory now returned his lady gay,~She rather ne'er was
 44     8|     sweets?"~He of his sovereign lady who with tears~Demands his
 45     8|         LXXXIX~To him this was a lady passing dear,~And from whose
 46     9|      place;~Yet cannot track his lady, high or low.~If he finds
 47     9|        that elder, full of woe~A lady found, if face may grief
 48     9|          of Holland," (cried~The Lady) "know in me, Sir cavalier.~
 49     9|        interposed~Loud sobs, the lady ceased, and silent stood:~
 50     9|         For so was the expecting lady hight,~To whom that island'
 51     9|         in the place his missing lady were;~Whom he prefers the
 52    10|        flying courser's rein)~"O lady, worthy but that chain to
 53    10|          is short.~Half dead the lady is through fear endured,~
 54    10|     wound.~ ~ CXI~This while the lady begs him not to bray~Longer
 55    10|      with thick kisses plies~The lady's snowy breast and sparkling
 56    11|       heed.~And now the vanished lady, whom he sought,~Of that
 57    11|          Twas here the beauteous lady took a mare,~Which liked
 58    11|       worth, as given him by his lady love.~ ~ XV~Afflicted beyond
 59    11|       spied.~ ~ XIX~Of his sweet lady, of his passing fair,~And
 60    11|          Takes the half-lifeless lady in his arm,~ ~ XX~And on
 61    11|     turned him to undo~The naked lady, having cleared the shore,~
 62    11|       griefs Orlando showed,~The lady's shining eyes with tears
 63    11|         down~Descending from the lady's bosom fair,~Parts which
 64    11|       had he made,~But, were his lady there, to lend her aid.~ ~
 65    12|        that he has purloined his lady gay.~Other accuses him of
 66    12|        Nor sees the giant or the lady more,~And vainly glances
 67    12|      Seemed to Rogero Dordogne's lady dear.~Who him a truant to
 68    12|       Nor when I chase or woo my lady dear,~Let any think I bear
 69    13|       love.~ ~ XLV~The beauteous lady who desires in vain,~Rogero
 70    13|         that her woeful case~The lady wept alone, to her drew
 71    13|        name,~So now I pray thee, lady, to unfold~The praise and
 72    13|       Afford a passage; and, the lady dead,~To the sore mischief
 73    14|      Spanish camp; meanwhile the lady sleeps."~ ~ XLI~He who for
 74    14|        Doralice (such the gentle lady's name),~Who, at the root
 75    14|       that cavalier!~When so the lady's needs such help require.~
 76    15|     discerns,~Ill tidings of his lady Gryphon learns.~ ~ ~ I~Though
 77    15|        One and the other, to his lady fair;~Who, though it sorely
 78    16|     chain,~Though his desire his lady should gainsay,~And, every
 79    16|           Though a foul mind the lady's actions speak,~Her, wheresoe'
 80    16|        Who was the lover of that lady gay;~But deemed to excuse
 81    16|         profest,~Unceasingly the lady's knight carest;~ ~ XV~And
 82    17|          for you how to free~The lady; but content thyself to
 83    17|   retreat,~Was hid his beauteous lady's visage sweet.~ ~ XLVII~"
 84    17|         Casts off, and folds his lady to his breast.~ ~ L~"Whereas
 85    17|         His joy or sorrow to his lady gay;~One, with a painted
 86    17|           That warrior, with the lady and the rest,~Had to the
 87    17|        and lord, and knight,~And lady, in a gentle group bestowed,~
 88    18|    chearful brow)~"How fares our lady? wither sent art thou?"~ ~
 89    18|          Nor mine nor thine that lady will I say,~Who is another'
 90    18|        had spread,~The beauteous lady armed, and warriors twain,~
 91    19|           Save for the youth the lady has no eyes,~Nor with his
 92    20|       one extended.~Such was the lady's motion, such the course~
 93    20|         I pity,' (said Elbanio) 'lady fair,~Was in this cruel
 94    20|        Of passing beauty was the lady gay,~But little pleasing
 95    20|        was a count, who bore~The lady with him (Pinabello hight):~
 96    20|          passing fair~Is this my lady than thou courteous art,"~
 97    20| victoress cried,~Laughing, "This lady I to thee present,~And the
 98    22|      Rejoiced, Rogero clasps his lady free,~Crimsoning with deeper
 99    22|       And having to the mournful lady turned,~Besought her, after
100    22|           XXXIX~"Loving a gentle lady and a gay,~The daughter
101    22|           XLVIII~"No cavalier or lady by that rest~Without some
102    22|     cavaliers to swear.~So ill a lady has the Castellan,~So wayward,
103    22|     errant cavalier.~"Unrobe the lady," (said the elder hoar,)~"
104    23|       Who, next, offended by his lady fair,~Into the fury falls,
105    23|         wander by close path the lady sent,~Until the western
106    23|       mountain stood,~And to the lady like Mount Alban showed;~
107    23|    damsel hight.~"Go," (says her lady, and describes the way)~
108    23|         at his side surveyed~The lady, who by him was held so
109    23|      held so dear;~The beauteous lady, whom false tongue had said~
110    23|       much: because to wrest~The lady from his hand, was neither
111    23|         to Mandricardo cried~His lady, Doralice) "my hackney's
112    23|      wont to stray~The beauteous lady, sovereign of Catay.~ ~
113    23|         and sought~To think) his lady would with shame pursue;~
114    23|      care,~Love in her heart the lady wounded more,~And kindled
115    23|          That oft the ungrateful lady must have lain,~Together
116    23|          by that most ungrateful lady's spite,~Whose faithlessness
117    24|          That pricked beside the lady, fair of hue.~More; that
118    24|          was read~The ungrateful lady's writing, he repairs,~Little
119    24|        body of the cavalier.~His lady, during this, whose crimson
120    24|         Moorish host.~ ~ CXI~The lady, with bold heart, 'twixt
121    25|          laid upon them by their lady gay,~Neither would in that
122    25|       For Paris, with the gentle lady, steer;~And with them goes
123    25|        In the desire to give his lady aid.~ ~ XVII~As hare from
124    25|         what in some sort on his lady ran,~Besought the stripling
125    25|      true,~With whom so bright a lady deigned to pair,~So wonderous
126    25|         sex to wear.~But all the lady's vows were ill appaid,~
127    25|       queen;~Expecting from that lady, for his pain,~Favour and
128    25|         as I a woman were --~The lady me in that rich garment
129    25|        men to queen or high-born lady show.~Here oft I laughed
130    25|  courtesy and kindness led,~That lady prays me to partake her
131    25| counterfeiting day;~`Marvel not, lady,' (her I thus addrest,)~`
132    25|         the lymph engulphed that lady viewed:~Nor answered she
133    26|        farther art,~All that her lady had to him addrest;~And
134    26|        base,~And lover could his lady change away,~Nor yet with
135    26|     seated by the fount.~And -- "Lady, you are mine," the Tartar
136    26|        Swiftly in succour of the lady wended.~No less was by the
137    26|        Is he, the brother of his lady fair;~And vows himself his
138    27|           Who is rejected of his lady dear.~ ~ ~ I~A woman for
139    27|    Eastward or west, so far that lady bear,~That France should
140    27|       But finally they lose that lady's view;~When, like a lyme-dog,
141    27|           Nor would consent that lady to forego,~The cause of
142    27|          to such grace~As modest lady may, nor do amiss)~Believed,
143    27|       bound, reveres,~And by his lady on the selfsame day,~There
144    27|        So parts, constrained his lady to forego,~The king of Argier,
145    27|          his sovereign lord than lady swayed,~And who of reason
146    28|         weeping, to her lord the lady reads;~She knows not how
147    28|       bosom rent,~Was such, that lady neither slept nor fed:~So
148    28|        come;~A third time by the lady sent, she said:~-- `Engaged
149    28|           Suffered from King and Lady, from his breast.~The self-same
150    28|          whom persuaded, had the lady given~The remnant of her
151    29|        again applied~To that sad lady, heartless with affright;~
152    29|             XXIII~Meanwhile that lady from the fire does lift~
153    29|     first will trial make" (that lady said)~"Of this choice liquor
154    29|      Reversed upon the sand that lady fell.~ ~ LXVI~If but two
155    29|        wight~Who gave it to that lady, full or pride!~Since Roland,
156    30|              Sir, what befel the lady of Catay,~Who scaped, in
157    30|      proud that in his right~His lady had adjudged the amorous
158    30|        while unceasing tears the lady shed,~Nor, I believe, would
159    30|         in his absence, said~The lady these sad words, and more
160    30|       stay;~Nor ever thence that lady stirred again~Until the
161    30|       course,~Together with that lady, as he says,~Where in weak
162    30|      Such fair companionship the lady lauds,~But neither likes
163    31|          Towards evening, with a lady by his side;~Sable his shield,
164    31|        takes his way beneath the lady's lead.~ ~ LXV~Thitherward
165    31|        In company the knight and lady made.~They daily post till
166    31|        From the bridge looks his lady, sore bested,~And tear employs,
167    32|       Gascon's story heard,~That lady suffered such tormenting
168    32|       words her fury charmed:~"O lady, born to such illustrious
169    32|    seemed to please the mournful lady more~Than her first thought;
170    32|   obtained the warrior bold.~The lady took the lance, but nothing
171    32|       towers appear:~When she, a lady fair, of semblance kind,~
172    32|          swung.~ ~ LI~Before the lady and behind her ride~More
173    32|    stranger dame might be?~"That lady to the king of France" (
174    32|        the reign~Whereof a royal lady fills the throne;~Whose
175    32|          valour, and, to win the lady's smile,~Illustrious deeds
176    32|      shadows fill.~Arrived, that lady finds the portal barred,~
177    32|       LXXVIII~So does by her the lady, that erewhile~Had thither
178    32|       cloudy screen;~So when the lady doffs her iron case,~All
179    32|      LXXXV~"Sir Tristram and his lady reached the Hall,~When now
180    32|        inn,~So long as that fair lady lodged therein.~ ~ LXXXVI~"
181    32|        cold dismayed~That lovely lady's loss in Tristram's power:~
182    32|         were a thing unmeet;~One lady must dislodge, and one remain;~
183    32|       came, 'tis ordered so:~One lady must remain, one lady go.~ ~
184    32|        One lady must remain, one lady go.~ ~ XCVIII~The lord some
185    32|       has a shrewd suspicion,~"O lady, let it be no cause of blame,~
186    33|              LXVI~And found, the lady messenger, with maid~And
187    35|         peer.~When good Rogero's lady, comfortless,~To that fair
188    35|        her, and courteously that lady prayed~To tell her whither
189    35|     despite.~Meanwhile Dordona's lady craved the field;~And loud
190    35|        tis allowed to ask," (the lady cried,)~"Tell me in courtesy
191    36|      mount anew.~ ~ XI~I of that lady fair, of mickle might,~Told
192    36|          rather she, that gentle lady thought,~Had joyed her love;
193    36|       Child to aim her blow,~The lady spent her rage in other
194    36|       betrayed,~Hoping he so the lady should have won;~How Risa
195    37|         all I fain~Would of that lady tell, I wished to unfold,~
196    37|      court did lie;~With him his lady was; of manners sage;~Nor
197    37|         He deemed that, when the lady should depart,~His soul
198    37|       Where must pass knight and lady, took his stand.~Through
199    37|         Lungavilla,~And she, his lady wife, yclept Drusilla.~ ~
200    37|       The wicked love he to that lady bore.~The holy, hospitable
201    37|           Thinks to bear off the lady in such wise,~That bold
202    37|      Olindro slain, they led his lady fair~A captive thence, o'
203    37|        peer:~In that so chaste a lady and so fair,~A wife's and
204    37|       stand off,' -- the furious lady said; --~ ~ LXXI~" `Shalt
205    38|     cause had gone,~Against that lady's will, the youthful lord;~
206    38|         had served to prove~That lady's little wit or little love.~ ~
207    38|    design,~Much that illustrious lady magnified,~And much her
208    39|         Brandimart in haste that lady goes,~And both her arms
209    40|        lord attend:~Love for his lady fits him with a rein~And
210    41|      XXXII~With her own hand the lady wrought that vest,~Becoming
211    41|           And made the trembling lady's heart beat double.~ ~
212    41|         on her bed~They left the lady, grieved and trembling sore.~
213    41|         of Pinabel whilere,~(His lady's deed, but on Rogero laid)~
214    42|        what she does withal, the lady true,~That sees her knight
215    42|          loving more that Indian lady, who~Now waited on a vile
216    42|         fruits of that faithless lady's love~In him such passion
217    42|         And he, in likeness of a lady grand,~With sovereign art
218    42|        polished pair,~That other lady, in mid air, sustain.~Their
219    42|        fames a twain.~Next was a lady, that from Heaven shall
220    42|    triumphs bright,~Without that lady fair shall captive be."~
221    42|  distinguished, of such grace,~A lady was, of alabaster made,~
222    43|          The senior every modest lady, who~E'er on unlawful love
223    43|            XXXV~"I, having to my lady made a show~As eastward
224    43|          more~Anselm exhorts the lady to be true.~His going doth
225    43|    Immersed in her despair, that lady swore,~Sooner the sun bedimmed
226    43|            LXXXVI~"Though to the lady's promise and protest~He
227    43|        Appears, yet noble is the lady's guise.~With pleasing visage
228    43|      thee be tried;~Go forth the lady at her farm to find,~Without
229    43|      advise~What form he to that lady's eyes should take:~I say,
230    43|       prest,~And bade her to the lady bear the boon.~That in the
231    43|    culled that cavalier~With his lady fair; unto whom the fay~
232    43|          serving man to call his lady went~Prepared his lord's
233    43|   maintain,~And utter scorn, the lady as his own:~And haply may
234    43|         she had worked it so the lady thought;~And then was grieved
235    45|           without more said,~The lady is adjudged to have lost
236    45|         to die; if he forego~The lady, he foregoes his life no
237    45|        Or he would perish by the lady's sword.~Charles undertook
238    45|           bold Astolpho, and the lady who~Afterwards bore it,
239    45|     least evil would betide.~The lady, ere the westering sun descend,~
240    45|    believe that more content~The Lady Bradamant in Paris lies;~
241    45|         from his rival, with the lady wive."~Forthwith this challenge,
242    46|        injury he had done~To his lady love -- how ingrate, how
243    46|        would obtain for thee~The Lady Bradamant; which was all
244    46|        made to see.~Thine is the lady; her in peace possess;~Far
245    46|        wedlock clear~Wherein the lady hath to thee been tied,~
246    46|      aright;~And he hath won the lady for his wife:~So comes to
247    46|    Hercules' side,~From her, his lady mother, Eleanor;~And to
248    46|       tide,~A loser to Dordona's lady, vest~And arms suspended
249    46|      well nigh at that sight the lady died.~Rogero, quickly to