Canto

  1     1|          For here was seized his dame of peerless charms,~(How
  2     1|         down the forest bore the dame,~Till to a sylvan river'
  3     1|         battle's end, the lovely dame,~Before she fly yet further
  4     1|          it grieved him more~His dame should lift him from his
  5     2|     seems hideous to that gentle dame;~And he, who when the lady'
  6     2|   valiant deeds: though, for the dame,~That nothing is so precious,
  7     2|          rival cheat them of the dame.~Towards his horse the good
  8     2|          whither went the gentle dame,~For whom, as he had heard,
  9     2|       cavalier was suitor to the dame,~Who out of Afric passed
 10     2|    changing still, the beauteous dame~Hears what the mournful
 11     2|    furious course,~Called to the dame to stay, and rode and cried.~
 12     2|      some treason to this gentle dame~In his foul heart, the wicked
 13     2|        unweeting foe;~And to the dame -- " 'Twere better that
 14     2|         To rid him of the gentle dame behind.~When lo! a rocky
 15     3|      with ready haste behind the dame,~Who brings her to the sepulchre
 16     3|        in one place (so bade the dame),~In various garb and guise
 17     3|       passed."~Melissa heard the dame with signs of woe,~And thus,
 18     3|       woman's scope) the warlike dame;~And teach by what device
 19     3|      lies, as he is pressed.~The dame, who is forewarned, and
 20     4|     subdued before.~Him hath the dame already flung; by me~Excused
 21     4|            So spake the scornful dame with angry mock,~Speeding
 22     4|         When her Rogero the fair dame discerned,~In fearful peril,
 23     4|      warlike knight or wandering dame.~ ~ LV~The monks and abbot
 24     4|           well suited to a royal dame;~So that the valiant warrior
 25     4|          be the law by which the dame is tried!~Cursed he who
 26     4|     thought is turned to aid the dame.~Grant me but one to guide
 27     4|          the maid~As ever damsel dame, or wight was seen:~Hard
 28     5|        yet was done,"~The gentle dame began, "Sir cavalier,~In
 29     5|        And more than every other dame beside.~ ~ XV~"I, who to
 30     5|        love was cherished by the dame.~To see another to himself
 31     5|       nor was the cry~By courtly dame, or courtly cavalier,~Or
 32     5|          into the chamber of the dame~Had climbed a leman of that
 33     5|  sentences to fire~The miserable dame, or damsel, who~Grants other
 34     5|        But in a hostel first the dame bestowed:~ ~ LXXX~And will
 35     6|         know,~Will such a lovely dame's destruction prove,~To
 36     6|          and good they loath the dame.~But, to return to what
 37     6|        That he was cousin to the dame he wooed,~Lamented much
 38     6|          rode this and the other dame,~Where the foul crew opposed
 39     6|          into two parts: A cruel dame~A bridge maintains, which
 40     6|          at her post the haughty dame arraid~(Sapphire and emerald
 41     7|      pleases best; to knight and dame~A fair occasion, without
 42     7|      were carried closely by the dame~And youth, or if surmised,
 43     7|    memory of his lord nor of the dame,~Once loved so well, preserved,
 44     7|           And thou shalt see the dame, and mark how fair."~ ~
 45     7|          eyes returned the magic dame;~Nor old Atlantes' form
 46     7|          his surprise, so foul a dame discerned,~That in this
 47     7|          wonder then that he the dame forsook,~And banished from
 48     7|     black than pitch; for so the dame~Counselled, well-taught
 49     7|   Rabican was tied,~But that the dame had cried to him, "Take
 50     8|        to Logistilla, knight and dame.~ ~ XIX~Meantime, through
 51     8|       the unhappy lover lost the dame~In that dim air, nor how
 52     9|        joined~By the complaining dame; whom to descend~He will
 53     9|        warrior slay,~To have the dame, whom, so aggrieved, he
 54     9|       reign,~Replace the injured dame, and fealty swear:~She on
 55    10|         weighed~So long upon the dame and broke her rest,~The
 56    10|        XXI~She no one found: the dame her arm withdrew;~She tried
 57    10|       all her might, the unhappy dame~Calls often on her cruel
 58    10|    Thrice, cruel to herself, the dame prepares~From the high rock
 59    10|    Alcina, and before~To him the dame had given the chalice dread,~
 60    10|         light cause, incites the dame aggrieved,~Nor less the
 61    10|         the navy of the invading dame,~And backwards rang the
 62    10|      before!~Not only failed the dame to repossess, ~As thought,
 63    10|        and help them, prayed the dame;~So that they might return
 64    10|          the voracious beast the dame expose~Upon the sea-beat
 65    11|        looked the fair and noble dame.~ ~ XII~Then Phillis' and
 66    11|       bound to a stump, espied~A dame whose feet were wetted by
 67    11|      looks, and known to him the dame appears,~And more appears,
 68    11|      know not (cried the weeping dame) if I~Have thanks to render
 69    11|       had been done the youthful dame, and who~Had done it, --
 70    11|    proofs and clear~By which the dame's affection had been tried;~
 71    11|          such came dressed,~Some dame, to feed the beast, from
 72    11|      that love so kindled by the dame,~On many grounds Orlando
 73    12|      Ceres, when from the Idaean dame in haste~Returning to the
 74    12|      Following the giant and the dame who fled,~He from the wood
 75    12|        thief~Has hid himself and dame in space so brief.~ ~ XIX~
 76    12|         wanting not to knight or dame,~He has supplied the dome
 77    12|       Each ran alike towards the dame, for she~Had placed the
 78    12|          inquiring for the royal dame:~Beside himself, he strayed
 79    12|       with woe.~ ~  XCII~An aged dame was with her, and the pair~
 80    13|      alone, to her drew near~The dame, who with that healing ring
 81    13|        soon as thou (pursued the dame) art near~The place where
 82    13|        and virtues of some noble dame,~If from my lineage any
 83    13|         sum in few~Of this brave dame, and others leave behind:~
 84    13|      Moro and Sforza, while this dame shall be,~From Hyperborean
 85    13|        incense will approach the dame divine,~And hang with votive
 86    13|      richly glows,~-- So by this dame I honour yet unborn,~Each
 87    13|      step-daughter of this noble dame,~Will I, Renata, hight of
 88    13|     either enemy.~Nor paused the dame, in following them who sought~
 89    14|          loud laments, Granada's dame to see,~If she as beauteous
 90    14|       the beauteous bosom of the dame;~Who, (so it from her lovely
 91    15|       find him, who had made the dame his prey,~And take such
 92    16|       lodged a fickle heart; the dame untrue,~And he a traitor
 93    16|      cheek,~Protect the blooming dame or damsel mild.~Age smites
 94    17|         And feminine lament from dame distrest;~And grieving,
 95    17|           not the brother of the dame.~ ~ XVIII~Of all the cities
 96    17|          he, with his bride, and dame, and knight,~To wait upon
 97    17|           XXX~"He afterwards the dame for tidings pressed~Of those
 98    17|       dangled many a fleece.~The dame made Norandino from a hoar~
 99    17|         Than mine.' And thus the dame persists to moan~More Norandino'
100    17|         whose crest he wears,~In dame and knight moves laughter,
101    18|       Discord went, and with the dame,~(Companion of the enterprise,
102    18|        Which thither brought the dame, who much (she wist)~Might
103    18|         dwarf the courier of his dame,~He all his rage extinguished,
104    18|        you see my sister in this dame,~And one of good and virtuous
105    18|        perfect, save that he the dame~Had for his sister vouched
106    18|         be:~But Gryphon, who the dame alone can ill~Excuse, entreats
107    18|         night and day, the armed dame~Scowered, here and there,
108    18|        nor at concert or at ball~Dame beauteous and adorned, than '
109    18|  Sansonnet) had armed to aid the dame.~ ~ CXXIV~While he and Gryphon
110    19|         kept disposed.~ ~ LXVI~A dame, as the Cumean sybil gray,~
111    19|        spears were broken on the dame,~Who was as little moved
112    19|          with herself the gentle dame,~That one so young so well
113    20|         returning yet again; the dame~To him who showed to her
114    20|       that the knight~Was by the dame adopted for her son;~And
115    20|          long prayer to make the dame agree,~Disposed already
116    20|          torrent, saw an ancient dame;~Who with long journey weak,
117    20|        hear,~Makes answer to the dame, in angry tone,~That handsomer
118    20|     found such fair and youthful dame alone,~Without protection,
119    20|          try to bear from me the dame away.~I will not suffer
120    20|       Wherever it may please the dame to ride."~ ~ CXXVI~"And
121    20|          promised, to attend~The dame, wherever she may please
122    21|      obeyed aright.~But that ill dame her former phantasy~Pursuing
123    21|     thought~That love to him the dame no longer bore.~Lo! Fortune
124    21|         with his purpose but the dame,~And home returned when
125    21|           So plucks that impious dame, parforce, the fruit~Of
126    21|          my fear,~(Exclaimed the dame) by you would be resented,~
127    21|        lore;~But this the wicked dame would not concede,~Forbidding
128    21|       honour clear:~For when the dame was to his care commended,~
129    21|        young Zerbino's hate, the dame~Would not by him in malice
130    22|          Again upon the grieving dame bestowed:~But, for she less
131    22|          Rogero answers; and the dame replies,~"Because fast by
132    22|         lies:~Where Pinnabel for dame and cavalier~Did, three
133    22|          And knight his arms and dame her gown foregoes.~No better
134    22|          on his croup an ancient dame,~Encountered with her champion
135    22|          them the ill-accustomed dame,~Who made wayfarers that
136    22|      Away Rogero posted with the dame,~And did not date his crimsoned
137    23|       delay."~And opening to the dame the thought he brewed,~To
138    23|           On him had charged the dame that wizard old;~And made
139    23|        delays, discovered is the dame,~Nor thence will be allowed
140    23|      XXVIII~Each damsel and each dame who her obeyed,~She tasked,
141    23|        aware of her, the ancient dame~On Doralice and Mandricardo
142    24|     shows.~If any ask me who the dame, and why~She mourns, and
143    24|       shall be~To whom the royal dame belongs of right.~And she,
144    25|        sort;~And with them was a dame of visage fair.~Of these
145    25| Accompanying him, the well-known dame,~They to Rogero leave the
146    25|        in a solitary place, that dame,~By slow degrees, in words
147    25|          Next to the hall, where dame and cavalier~In crowds are
148    26|          more a man that martial dame --~Marphisa was; that on
149    26|         unaccompanied they saw a dame,~Who quickly towards their
150    26|         recounted to the martial dame,~How seeking aid for Agramant
151    26|         he fell anew beneath the dame.~ ~ CXXVI~Rogero, when Marphisa
152    27|          walls or columns be the dame,~Her will the restless lover
153    27|      storm: Thus Fortune, fickle dame,~Now smiles upon the paynim
154    27|        lay~At bottom; whence the dame was deeply stirred;~Nor
155    27|       the stream and dragged the dame aground.~ ~ CXV~When afterwards
156    28|           as her conqueror, by a dame received,~Wife of the comeliest,
157    28|          to her bed,~To deem the dame less culpable inclined:~
158    28|      Again beheld that dwarf and dame at play:~And so upon the
159    28|           the youth surveyed~The dame disordered and opprest with
160    28|         visage spy,~Aye find the dame complaint with their prayer.~
161    28|        guise,~The sorrow of that dame is manifest,~Although two
162    28|         saw appear~The beauteous dame, he laid the thought aside~
163    28|       Sarzan knight;~To whom the dame her every thought made known;~
164    28|        with advice that mournful dame to stay,~And lest she quit
165    29|     still, as best he could, the dame defended.~ ~  V~The king,
166    29|          so thought to mould the dame~To his desires. She in that
167    29|      rare a way was taken by the dame.~Spirit! which nobly didst
168    29|         said: "I thee above that dame commend.~Whose death drove
169    29|        And mighty marvel in that dame it raised~To see him rove,
170    29|         the count and hunts that dame,~As questing dog pursues
171    30|         passing good~To him that dame replied, with saddest face;~
172    31|      tell my tale," (pursued the dame again,)~"That, of the crowd
173    31| Flordelice was she, the stranger dame;~That his own self to Brandimart
174    31|        or little less.~ ~ LXI~To dame and damsel in that ancient
175    32|        Demanded who the stranger dame might be?~"That lady to
176    32|       three are monarchy who the dame escort,~And what their kingdoms
177    32|         the place is occupied~By dame and knight already housed,
178    32|        bridle, drove the furious dame,~Levelling against those
179    32|        abode,~Sir Tristram and a dame their course addrest:~Whom
180    32|      please his sight,~Nor other dame to love or to caress,~The
181    32|    warder cries to that Islandic dame,~Who of her sentence has
182    32|          be your usage, that the dame~Who yields in beauty, from
183    33|       Ulany, the message-bearing dame,~(Whose style no longer
184    34|      drew,~In the outer porch, a dame of hoary hair.~On summer-day
185    34|         line.~ ~ LXXXIX~A second dame replaced the work when done~
186    35|       ever on the wing.~I to the dame return, who was whilere~
187    35|        comfortless,~To that fair dame, as comfortless, drew near,~
188    35|       wonted kindness cried that dame, "I ne'er~In spending life
189    35|       levelled lance the warlike dame.~As the charmed weapon smites
190    35|          refuse," (subjoined the dame)~"Albeit I to meet another
191    36|       destiny!~ ~ LXII~"I to the dame as descent burial gave~As
192    37|       And well he merits, that a dame so blest,~(Blest with all
193    37|          other lips, that gentle dame inspires;~And gives her
194    37|         Another Artemisia is the dame,~Renowned for love of her
195    37|          single end,~That gentle dame to honour and commend.~ ~
196    37|          Worthy of story, many a dame supplies;~But that, through
197    37|         worse by him to stranger dame is done.~ ~ XLII~"If your
198    37|          to the shame and woe~Of dame or cavalier, who thither
199    37|     shock he thought,~And to win dame and palm in the career;~
200    37|           LII~"No fairer was the dame than chaste and right,~And
201    37|        death was to the wretched dame refused;~Who lay with shattered
202    37|      vain; the more he loved the dame,~The more be to appease
203    37|        judgment so,~But what the dame could clearly comprehend,~
204    37|        her own pleasure bids the dame proceed,~So that she cut
205    37|       waves contend:~Towards the dame, with vengeful thoughts
206    37|      shield,~Harness and captive dame, to quit the field;~ ~ XCV~
207    37|           XCVI~Not only they the dame and martial gear,~But many
208    37|       band divides the Islandick dame;~Who deems, at court 'twere
209    39|      together with that faithful dame.~ ~ XLIV~He stretched his
210    41|         Of losing Brandimart the dame pursued.~She him whilere
211    42|             support the honoured dame:~(So says the scroll): for
212    42|     judgment, should the married dame~Be from espial by her lord
213    43|          early tide~Erewhile was dame and damsel more than one:~
214    43|   pinions overspread~Love of the dame, whose praises thus I blow,~
215    43|    unseen,~Then faithful you the dame may justly ween.'~ ~ XXVII~"
216    43|       speech and feeble said the dame~What to remember takes my
217    43|    Esteeming her the cause, that dame so sore~I hated, I would
218    43|         with the beauties of the dame inflamed;~ ~ LXXV~"And for
219    43|       thee at length,' he so the dame addrest,~`I recommend my
220    43|       and dances to the air.~The dame, that hears the voice and
221    43|         CIX~"Great marvel in the dame, then longing, bred~That
222    43|          bore the message to the dame addressed,~And after wrought
223    43|       laid;~And so much less the dame maintained her ground,~When
224    43|         would kill the faithless dame;~And he with one destructive
225    43|         into the net wherein the dame~Herself erewhile had fallen,
226    43|      concealed Astolpho from the dame~Till he to her with Sansonetto
227    44|          window throw~Damsel and dame upon the knights below. ~ ~
228    45|         three times and four the dame has hent,~And to uplift
229    45|       sword contend against that dame~From the suns rise until
230    45|      realm, till one afford~Some dame, that may his former love
231    46|     would have bowed before~That dame, discharged his trophies,
232    46|      work, he spurred behind the dame;~Who thither led (nor tedious
233    46|        of the rite~Had been that dame, presageful of the event;~