Canto

  1     1|         greenwood shade.~Rinaldo's horse escapes: he, following,
  2     1|         and astound,~Leaves to her horse the devious way to find.~
  3     1|           of thee does breed."~The horse for this returned not to
  4     1| interruption bore,~And spurred his horse to meet him in mid space,~
  5     1|        warlike Saracen's ill-fated horse,~Well valued while alive,
  6     1|      unknown,~Who at the encounter horse and rider threw,~Deeming
  7     1|        panting hackney! -- man and horse appear~With the long journey,
  8     1|         pain,~He climbed the other horse, nor spake he aught;~But
  9     1|        bear,~But hither speeds the horse to end that care."~ ~ LXXIV~
 10     2|       prize were foul misdeed;~And horse and maid, whose worth outstrips
 11     2|          on foot, the other on his horse:~Small gain to this; for
 12     2|   miserably.~ ~  XII~So turned her horse into the gloomy chase,~And
 13     2|           of the dame.~Towards his horse the good Rinaldo steers,~
 14     2|            the crystal stream.~His horse beneath a spreading beech
 15     2|        XXXVII~"Fair sir, a band of horse and foot," he said,~"I brought
 16     2|           cavalier upon his winged horse!~ ~ XLIX~"Upwards, by little
 17     2|          the cavalier remounts his horse,~And serves the gallant
 18     3|             Besides that his swift horse is taught to wheel,~And
 19     4|      arrayed~In arms, with him the horse is on the wing.~But his
 20     4|       sometime had fought upon her horse,~She from the courser on
 21     4|        give to thee,~And take that horse, which flies so fast in
 22     4|         And take the damsel on his horse's croup.~ ~  LXXII~And as
 23     5|         martial fray.~He stops his horse before the monarch's chair,~
 24     5|          than six yards beyond his horse he bore.~With speed alighted
 25     6|           would he, as before, the horse bestride,~Lest he should
 26     6|             LXII~This gallops on a horse without a bit;~This backs
 27     6|          Who a slow tortoise for a horse bestrode,~That passing sluggishly
 28     6|            view.~That other winged horse, which, at his need,~Obedient
 29     7|            and with saddle dight~A horse more black than pitch; for
 30     8|           From rein, the lightened horse three times and more~Lashed
 31     8|        tore~The stripling, and his horse so terrified,~The courser,
 32     8|  dispatched to crave~What foot and horse were by the land possessed.~
 33     8|          to the rippling waves her horse,~Where best the moistened
 34     8|           rein she ply,~Govern the horse, who swims the surge to
 35     9|          passed ashore,~Borne on a horse 'twixt brown and black,
 36     9|            knight with words, till horse and foot he spied~Arrived,
 37     9|      thrust some soldier slew;~Now horse, now footman of the tyrant'
 38     9|       wreck his hate.~But his slow horse seems restive; while the
 39     9|               LXXVII~To earth fall horse and rider: this the knight~
 40     9|        King of Friesland stung~His horse, and turned his rein, to
 41    10|           hast from other arms and horse conveyed:~Which never could
 42    11|         suffice to stop courageous horse;~'Tis seldom Reason's bit
 43    11|          slipt his bit, the winged horse~Had towered and soared in
 44    11|               On the field lay his horse, already dead.~Rogero paused,
 45    11|         him, expands so wide,~That horse and horseman through his
 46    12|            in fight were seen, his horse did gore~Along the way by
 47    12|          pricked forth his foaming horse,~Happier had he remained
 48    13|        host.~ ~ LXXXII~For besides horse and foot, in the campaign~
 49    14|       consigned,~Maurina's valiant horse and footmen tread.~The new-made
 50    14|          with pain.~This man slays horse and foot, as in the cote,~
 51    14|            Slain by the truncheon, horse and rider died.~ ~ XLVI~
 52    15|            win and hold;~As a good horse before the rest will dart,~
 53    15|            channel goes,~Upon that horse which has no earthly peer,~
 54    15|         Springs in a moment on his horse, and lo!~Up-stream with
 55    15|         beast,~That it ten draught horse burdens had conveyed;~So
 56    16|          with Ariman, two thousand horse~Of lightest sort; and foot
 57    16|        wheel to go.~Thus England's horse and foot, the two between,~
 58    16|          martial game:~Then to his horse abandoning the reins,~And
 59    16|        rested spear,~So wheels his horse, he seems equipt with wings;~
 60    16|     supplies of foot, and there of horse:~Her mantle green for robe
 61    16|            his flanks the prince's horse.~ ~ LXI~Pierced by three
 62    16|            cleft the rider and his horse.~ ~ LXIII~When that fell
 63    16|           he fled,~But reached the horse's croup, and stretched him
 64    16|         dead,~ ~ LXIV~He quits the horse, and thence for safety crawls;~
 65    16|         foe;~For him Duke Thraso's horse o'erturns and mawls,~Opprest
 66    16|         scale the battle hung.~For Horse and Foot, and Captains of
 67    16|            wall a numerous band~Of horse and foot withdraws, and
 68    16|        alone, and reft~Of his good horse, your monarch's son is left!~ ~
 69    16|            more dispute he takes a horse~Of those, who masterless,
 70    16|        Wheeled, here and there his horse, with brandished blade,~
 71    16|           the foe --~And spurs his horse, the Moorish chief to spill.~
 72    16|     charged the steed,~And man and horse reversed upon the mead.~ ~
 73    17|            when mixt with sound of horse and wain,~Loud outcries
 74    17|        ground o'erlaid~By his weak horse, too feeble to withstand~
 75    17|         Sir Gryphon, was he or his horse foredone~With toil, or was
 76    17|            took away the warrior's horse, more white~Than milk, his
 77    18|        king, "Now hence away!"~Nor horse he waits, nor carriage,
 78    18|            at noon across the way.~Horse had he none, but be he whose
 79    18|          his train,~Who, foot with horse to flank, against them go.~
 80    18|       impart."~So saying, from his horse the king descended,~And
 81    18|            the bridge, and issued, horse and man,~It armour, and
 82    18|        prize,~Displayed before his horse in showy wise.~ ~ LXXVIII~
 83    18|       alive?~How didst thou him of horse and arms deprive?"~ ~ LXXX~
 84    18|           wove,~Him we deprived of horse and arm, and we~Are hither
 85    18|           save in taking Gryphon's horse and mail,~He to the knight
 86    18|            tuck and mace and noble horse.~ ~  CVII~The arms which
 87    18|           charmed Orrilo slew,~His horse, his arms the same: him
 88    18|       overthrown the rider and his horse.~ ~ CLXXXIII~The horrid
 89    19|       Disarmed, on foot, 'mid many horse, alone.~ ~ VI~A hundred
 90    19|          Zerbino, captain of those horse, no more~Can at the piteous
 91    19|            That he could mount the horse the swain conveyed;~But
 92    19|                LXXVII~On pieballed horse Marphisa entered, -- spread~
 93    19|       signed.~The horseman did his horse's colours show~In his own
 94    19|        balanced pace, the damsel's horse~To the encounter her with
 95    20|         worse to fear:~Sansonnet's horse was slain, and that which
 96    20|          to career~She spurred her horse, and vanished in the wood.~
 97    21|            cries Zerbino spurs his horse.~ ~ ~ I~No cord I well believe
 98    22|        lays~His course, and as his horse had wings to flee,~Traverses
 99    22|            her land.~He backed his horse, and so the rowels plied,~
100    22|          that Rabicane,~For better horse was not to run with lance,~
101    22|        Might to some city lead the horse behind.~He waited all that
102    22|         year~And month; and of his horse and arms deprive~Whatever
103    22|         the place of forfeitry,~Of horse and arms and feminine array,~
104    22|            Those who would take my horse and arms away;~For we have
105    22|           fight,~Rogero turned his horse, and, in the wheel,~Handled
106    23|       where~With whom to leave his horse with more content,~As knowing
107    23|          brewed,~To her the flying horse Astolpho shewed.~ ~ XIII~
108    23|         headlong hurtling from his horse.~ ~ XVI~Backed by Astolpho,
109    23|          that before,~On which his horse from Pinnabel she bore.~ ~
110    23|            that province, foot and horse;~For the surrounding district,
111    23|            With this she trapt the horse; then chose a maid,~Old
112    23|            eternal Hierarchy,~That horse, so richly trapped and passing
113    23|        better knight than thee the horse doth ride,~And vainly would
114    23|            pay the hire as well as horse;~And be this at the pleasure
115    23|        reversed, the rider and his horse.~On the hard ground was
116    23|        bone:~ ~ XCI~Here stopt the horse; but him he could not guide,~
117    23|       might be drest,~And rode the horse that damsel backed whilere;~
118    23|           Threatens and scares her horse, and makes him fly.~ ~ XCV~
119    23|   re-pieced.~ ~ XCVI~He mounts his horse, and watches long, before~
120    23|       blade.~ ~ CVII~Here from his horse the sorrowing County lit,~
121    24|            them bore.~ ~ XXXVI~The horse, that had the others of
122    24|         the duel tore~Him from his horse, together with the sell,~
123    24|           as it might,~He from his horse dismounted on the plain,~
124    24|           bowning him to climb his horse; when, lo!~The Tartar king
125    24|        might,~They on his mournful horse Zerbino placed,~And traversed
126    24|            river from the sun,~His horse's reins and saddle to undo;~
127    24|         meet;~Armed or unarmed, on horse or on my feet."~ ~  XCIX~
128    24|          helm defends the wretched horse,~Like Mandricardo, and he
129    24|         The African, who feels his horse give way,~The stirrups quits,
130    26|     Marphisa with Rogero moved her horse~At this, nor waited other
131    26|            stroke, he overbore~The horse and rider, bleeding in the
132    26|           away~Frontino, that good horse, by Rodomont:~Him had she
133    26|         sister had commanded me)~A horse much loved by her, and highly
134    26|         Rinaldo's sister owned the horse,~He would presume to take
135    26|         from her hands that goodly horse.~ ~ LXII~Richardet (though
136    26|         flame,~As well as that the horse was his delight;~As well
137    26|            the first who moves his horse,~With mighty heart, and
138    26|            right now left upon his horse inclined;~Then him, 'mid
139    26|         took leave, and turned her horse once more:~Nor ceased that
140    26|        fighting field~From him the horse, from thee good Hector's
141    26|         shall answer him about the horse:~You then with him, if you
142    26|         steed.~Let him resign that horse, or -- once for all.~I say
143    26|        stroke, and he has lost the horse!~But Richardetto drives,
144    26|          dark domain;~And the good horse, who never moved before,~
145    26|         had not reached the flying horse.~ ~ CXXXI~At the first hearing
146    26|          unfinished combat for the horse;~Marphisa will not quit
147    27|     contest which arose~About that horse, his work should not impede;~
148    27|     Rodomont form him detained his horse,~Nor yet would meet him
149    27|           where with his spume~The horse was making his rich bridle
150    27|         Albracca, by a thief,~This horse is mine; which might be
151    27|        Otherwise hope not for that horse, save first~Me, on this
152    27|            on his side,~Longer his horse to Argier's lord allow,~
153    27|            his right,~And how that horse was taken from him sought;~
154    27|         And from beneath the naked horse conveyed.~ ~ LXXXV~Marphisa,
155    27|         When of the robbery of the horse advised,~In visage is disturbed,
156    28|        descended, and regained his horse.~Goaded by Love, he goads
157    28|        with such care for his good horse's plight,~As is becoming
158    28|      Seeing he, for two days, that horse's might~Had taxed too hardly
159    28|         The king ascend, or nimble horse bestride:~This he encounters
160    29|           Peril unparalleled!) the horse will go~Into the deep and
161    29|          can meet,~-- Smote on his horse's head, a fearful blow;~
162    30|           at the brim~Arrived, his horse to water in the tide;~Nor
163    30|           VIII~Then leaping on his horse, by different way~The country
164    30|             And whip and spur, his horse towards the sea.~ ~ XII~
165    30|            and croup, till of that horse~Scarcely the head above
166    30|          surges hide.~He spurs his horse amid the billows high,~Wholly
167    31|       crupper sank each staggering horse:~Rinaldo's rose so quick,
168    31|            Rinaldo, "If we for thy horse~Have to contend in fight,
169    31|          Beside a page, to hold my horse, shall stay."~So spake Mount
170    31|          two;~Sansonet's sword and horse a pathway clear;~And well
171    31|           of way,~Light from thine horse and doff thy warlike gear,~
172    31|        Batoldo spurred, his gentle horse,~And at the champion with
173    31|            fate, the rider and his horse.~ ~ LXX~When either steed
174    31|           river's deepest bed;~The horse is uppermost, the knight
175    31|          From that dread field, on horse of easy pace.~Borne to the
176    31|            rare;~Hoping to win the horse without a peer,~Baiardo,
177    31|           thou in peace resign the horse,~May'st live, if life be
178    31|            field of combat for the horse and sword.~ ~ CVII~It seemed
179    32|         Africa before.~ ~  IV~With horse and foot, of good or evil
180    32|        squire's reply:~He give his horse the head -- his story told --~
181    33|         monarch wield.~Behold! his horse falls under him; yet he~
182    33|          is the way.~But that good horse the greenwood threads, and
183    33|           they regained the goodly horse, agreed,~Saved from that
184    33|        into open air.~Thus of that horse himself the king possest.~
185    33|             when astride~Of winged horse, arriving through the air,~
186    34|          VI~He speedily his winged horse forsook;~(Him to a sapling
187    35|       trust, you fall,~I will your horse and armour have (she cried),~
188    35|                XLIX~Scarce for her horse the martial damsel can~Find
189    35|            that knight this goodly horse,~Whence the proud Moor was
190    35|           the career,~Gave me this horse, that I might give it thee.~
191    35|           proud paynim spurred~Her horse with levelled lance the
192    35|        high-minded damsel gave his horse,~And said, "Yet was this
193    36|            XVII~She leapt upon her horse, and thither hied~Where
194    36|    faulchion, and would fain~Wound horse or rider in the paunch or
195    36|                XLIV~She pricks her horse behind the two, and gains,~
196    37|         dale;~But seats her on her horse's croup; so do~Her comrades
197    37|       LXXXVIII~They with them on a horse a woman haul,~(Whom stricken
198    37|                XCI~He on a sumpter horse the prisoner sent~To Constance-town,
199    37|         upon the head,~That on his horse's neck he fell half dead.~ ~
200    38|       thought each soldier had his horse,~Born ready reined and saddled
201    39|        throws the struggling ox or horse.~ ~ LV~As soon as down,
202    40|           need was none of foot or horse,~For so the lion's beak
203    40|       these, and those in herds of horse),~Chaldaean, Perse, and
204    40|            To bold Rogero bore his horse and brand,~That he might
205    40|       mailed whilere)~Leaps on his horse, nor -- having seized his
206    41|           the vantage of Rinaldo's horse;~Which made Gradasso seem
207    41|       withal~If 'twas the fault of horse or cavalier;~For seldom
208    41|          the paynim overmatched in horse,~In arms and faulchion,
209    41|          Better than good Frontino horse is none~To obey upon a sign
210    41|           field, espied~The goodly horse, which had Sobrino thrown;~
211    41|               LXXXII~He seized the horse (for none the deed gainsaid)~
212    41|           warrior's rear.~A goodly horse the Christian champion bore;~
213    41|           the noise was scared the horse that bore~Upon his back
214    41|           the power the frightened horse to steer.~Gradasso follows
215    41|            haggard face beside his horse lies low;~And issuing widely
216    42|           from sight;~With him his horse: this in Rinaldo bred~Much
217    42|         Every ten miles he changes horse and guide,~And whips and
218    42|          up which might go~A laden horse; so easy the ascent.~To
219    43|        Anselmo hears, and from his horse alights,~Gives it his man;
220    43|            was said.~Here changing horse and guide, to Rimini~Rinaldo
221    44|          arms restored;~As knowing horse and arms were his whilere,~
222    44|            disappear.~ ~ XXI~Home, horse and foot, the Nubian host
223    44|          mount again,~Who from his horse had lit, in reverence due;~
224    44|         haste.~ ~ LXXXII~With many horse and foot in battle dight,~
225    44|        Bulgars he had warred,~Much horse and foot had sent that emperor;
226    45|         all arms alike, on foot or horse.~Aymon, who cannot strive
227    45|            Leo's care,~Equipt with horse and arms, that were his
228    45|          himself anew,~Saddled his horse, and sallied from his tent;~(
229    46|           in likeness of a hackney horse,~Constantine's son encountered
230    46|           neither lighted from his horse, nor bowed~His head; and,
231    46|       other gear.~Astolpho led his horse of noble race:~Sir Dudon
232    46|         would have divided man and horse.~ ~ CXXIII~As if about to
233    46|           pulled headlong from his horse.~ ~ CXXV~Yet leaps from