Canto

  1     1|        paynim plights,~And keeps it better than the first he made.~
  2     1|         bleed?~ ~ XX~"Then how much better, since our stake's the same,~
  3     1|         except his head,~And in his better hand a helmet bore:~The
  4     1|           his prayer, but flew with better speed.~Furious, in chase
  5     2|            inexperienced page~Would better rein his charger in the
  6     2|       fruitless fight.~Sure it were better, while they yet are near,~
  7     2|             to the dame -- " 'Twere better that we make~For shelter
  8     3|       Merlin to me the truth should better clear;~And having compassed
  9     3|                 XXXIV~"He, with his better sceptre well contented,~
 10     3|            we may pass them by, for better speed,~Faenza conquered,
 11     3|         feats and fame;~With Adria (better held and surer gain)~Which
 12     4|        guide I pray thee bring,~Who better knows than me the thief'
 13     4|         effaced,~And with a new and better code replaced.~ ~ LXVI~"
 14     5|              Now, that the truth be better understood,~I shall from
 15     5|             Though this I should in better faith conceal.~ ~ XXXVIII~" `
 16     5|         Lurcanio hight, relied with better heart~Than if ten others
 17     5|         insanity.'~(He cried) `your better sense has dispossessed?~
 18     5|             with excess of woe:~Yet better comfort to Lurcanio feigns,~
 19     6|           Who in her keeping has my better part,~To strive with word
 20     6|        lives in chastity,~Wisely on better things has set her heart.~
 21     6|            to advise:~Yet 'twill be better, that informed, in part,~
 22     7|         peeped abroad, but still no better sped;~And cursed a thousand
 23     8|           the croup, nor missed his better side.~The hawk, oft wheeling,
 24     8|       unfenced with arms or mail:~A better and shorter way it were~
 25     8|            him she by its aid might better save.~ ~ XVII~Thus by Rogero'
 26     8|            next the warrior, at his better ease,~The occasion of his
 27     8|            many a goad;~But with no better speed he plied his feet.~
 28     8|              than whose there is no better aid!~Well the religious
 29     8|           not perchance gainsaid my better right --~Of if he had gainsaid
 30     8|            have gone?~Have kept her better than my heart or sight:~
 31     9|            by the desire was led~Of better there his power establishing,~
 32     9|              in my state to found a better right;~In wedlock wished
 33     9|       plights his solemn word, that better aid~She should from him
 34     9|            Nor base be rated with a better foe,~Down with thee to the
 35    10|          Now either leg; but yet no better sped.~Fear banished sleep;
 36    10|             never could be thine by better right.~So be thy theft,
 37    10|           to meet,~To bear him to a better shore rejoicing: he~Appeared
 38    10|           shall behold the fay;~But better contemplate her lofty cheer,~
 39    10|          With Errol's earl upon his better hand,~Who on a field of
 40    10|           in the train.~And to make better sport, as him they eyed,~
 41    10|            knight returns to deal a better blow;~The orc, who sees
 42    10|            had spread them wide for better speed.~Down lights Rogero,
 43    10|             other time,~When it may better please, my tedious rhyme.~ ~
 44    11|             rapid wing,~Which he no better than the mockery bore~Put
 45    11|            the base often plays the better part.~Through thee no more
 46    11|          land;~ ~ XLVII~And that it better were to sue for peace,~First
 47    11|        Phidias' turnery,~Or work of better hand and nicer pain.~As
 48    12|           In passage perilous, with better might.~But should she make
 49    12|            them flies,~And goads to better speed her panting mare;~
 50    12|           And give to his affairs a better form:~ ~ LXXIII~Hence did
 51    12|          unreprest.~That death were better deems this cavalier~Than
 52    12|        would the place explore,~And better certify himself by sight.~
 53    13|           pay!~For what can wait me better than that he,~My gaoler,
 54    14|         made resistance to thy foe,~Better, Ravenna, had it been for
 55    14|          and so secure the main~And better part, dividing on their
 56    14|            rapid Rhine descends.~No better than the sulphur keeps away~
 57    15|           Who quelled Alcina by her better lore,~She with all care
 58    15|          barque is fitted out;~-- A better galley never ploughed the
 59    15|           cut them all (he said) it better were."~And since he scissors
 60    15|             Of fairer visage and of better stature,~Not one among a
 61    16|          Paris we~Six out of ten no better builded see.~ ~ XXVII~Though
 62    16|         XXXIX~Such reasons, and yet better for, that need~Might good
 63    16|         shears, on either hand;~Nor better from his sword escapes the
 64    16|           should his call proclaim:~Better were they than those which
 65    17|           their shores, if we shall better be,~And their transgressions
 66    17|            here the burghers of the better sort~Upon their gay and
 67    17|           semblance foul and stern!~Better it is of him by fame to
 68    17|            his plunder in the gale,~Better than aught possest of scent
 69    17|            And, if I cannot, I were better dead,~Than living without
 70    17|          awhile would make display;~Better to see the martial gallants
 71    17|          when, nor these, nor, upon better view,~His armour nor his
 72    17|         arms and steed.~ ~ CXVII~He better would have gone like naked
 73    17|             the warlike art.~'Twere better he from tower, a worthy
 74    18|             to heaven;~And he, with better counsel, from the side~Cast
 75    18|            wide to leap.~ ~ LI~"Far better 'tis to perish than to be~
 76    18|         ardour glow,~They deem 'tis better to use arms and hands~In
 77    18|       embarks, who deems by sea~The better and securer way to be.~ ~
 78    18|          breast~Nursed the desire a better life to prove,~That she,
 79    18|      tribute paid~To Virtue, worthy better prize to wear.~Now have
 80    18|             men he round him eyed.~"Better it were," he cried, "to
 81    18|            d have thee know~If I am better skilled to find the vein."~
 82    18|           sit down with his loss he better gain~Esteemed, that here
 83    18|           to hazard purse and vest:~Better some remnant of the host
 84    18|            die~With thee in arms is better, on the plain,~Than afterwards
 85    19|          last, with him who steers.~Better than steel that man will
 86    19|            such vantage in disdain:~Better he deemed the law were disobeyed,~
 87    19|             to-morrow's morn~'Twere better thou prolonged thy life:
 88    19|            undecided,~Which was the better champion of the two,~To
 89    20|          with the plunder reft,~And better weighed the issue of their
 90    20|        withal in stipend, know~That better means are wanted to maintain~
 91    20|          Spake; and adopted saw her better lore.~ ~  XXVI~"She would
 92    20|             thy birth to certify~No better sign thy mother could have
 93    20|         friendship tied,~Has oft by better proof than this been tried.~ ~
 94    20|             wise,~In that he had no better kept his seat.~Within herself
 95    21|           work she had in hand,~Who better knew what deadly poisons
 96    22|             love that Rabicane,~For better horse was not to run with
 97    22|          dame her gown foregoes.~No better cavaliers lay lance in rest,~
 98    23|         traitor bleed;~Who found no better succour in the strife~Than
 99    23|            beauty be possessed.~"No better messenger could I devise,"~(
100    23|          thee change thy thought.~A better knight than thee the horse
101    23|      upraised his head,~And, having better heard the cavalier,~Rehearsed
102    24|        which he grew;~And found, as better they observed his cheer,~
103    24|      example shew.~Next, 'twere far better, deemed the cavalier,~If
104    24|              as I know,~That you to better use reserve the brand;~And
105    25|             sore perplexity.~` 'Tis better that I now dispel (she said)~
106    25|            as if relenting Heaven~A better sex to Bradamant is given.~ ~
107    25|             woe,~I, who could do no better, fixed to go.~ ~ LX~" `Into
108    25|        prowess shew.~'Twas now that better audience than before~Aldigier
109    25|            That any preference of a better creed:~This thought makes
110    26|             the advancing crew~Were better marked in Moorish habit
111    26|             valour of the four;~Nor better arms remained for them who
112    26|             who -- wise and ware --~Better than was enjoined performs
113    26|      strained his goodly sword;~And better braced the covering shield
114    26|            To finish our own combat better were,~A cause of strife
115    26|      Exclaimed, "Sirs, listen to my better lore;~A good remembrance '
116    26|           he fell, helpless, on his better side;~And, as he rose in
117    26|       Esteem foul scandal; as their better course,~In chase of those
118    27|           Moor:~Wounded beneath his better shoulder fled~The first,
119    27|            this view, observes with better heed,~The youthful king,
120    27|             He from his birth would better have been mute.~ ~ LXXVI~"
121    27|           should it need,~And every better means of battle fail,~With
122    27|          And he advised him) as the better deed,~To leave that wretched
123    27|          Was seen, extending on the better hand.~ ~ CXXIX~The victual,
124    27|           true~So ably schooled, he better wisdom taught.~Valerio was
125    27|        purer strain,~'Twas that she better hid her wanton vein.~ ~
126    27|           st thou offer which could better please~At present" (made
127    27|            may hear thee speak with better ease~Sit so, that I may
128    28|           But I in him thy peer and better find.'~ ~ VIII~"Impossible
129    28|          that other may believe,~Is better than to make the experiment,~
130    28|          Store of provision for his better ease.~While still his thoughts
131    28|            every thing beside~Could better have given credit, freely
132    28|             to every other's share,~Better than one might she keep
133    28|           As to pursue his way with better speed.~ ~ LXXXVII~He straight
134    29|            me, shall believe~He had better held -- aye, better bit,
135    29|             had better held -- aye, better bit, his tongue,~Than ever
136    29|           hermit, lest she from the better road~Should wander, and
137    29|                 XLVII~Roland, whose better wit was lost withal,~I know
138    29|            the furious knight.~With better luck than wit, one woodman
139    30|              Was with good bark and better weather bound;~And how she
140    30|     stubborn mail,~That clothed the better armpit with its scale.~ ~
141    30|           which peer~Would have the better of the warlike twain:~But
142    30|            broke: for he, below~The better arm, first smote his Tartar
143    30|       prayed~Her -- who could do no better -- to abide~The Child's
144    31|         molest,~They reason and our better wit obscure,~And from it
145    31|           flew.~He kept his seat no better than the twain;~Forthwith,
146    31|            this other dance succeed~Better or worse than me, would
147    31|          ancient tree,~You could no better testimony bear~Than the
148    31|             the valiant knight, and better seen~That at another time,
149    31|           from a thousand fly;~And, better than some famous cavaliers,~
150    31|            Deserter by the bribe of better pay.~Of Montalbano these
151    31|            her baffled knight,~With better fortune may maintain the
152    31|           arms in single fight,~For better proof, will vouch upon thy
153    32|         wholly armed.~Meanwhile her better Spirit, at her side,~With
154    32|          shame?~ ~ XLV~"Were it not better to the field to go,~Where
155    32|            rain or snow.~ ~ LXIV~To better speed fair Bradamant aroused~
156    33|                 XLIII~"And see with better auspices return~The valiant
157    33|         unlike the past, was read~A better promise of the day begun:~
158    33|            one of these requite,~-- Better than by a woman ye have
159    34|            passing aye from good to better deed,~In little time to
160    34|          LVII~"We will discourse at better leisure more,~And you what
161    34|             They o'er that valley's better part extend.~There wilt
162    35|      Flourish in courts, and in far better guise~And better odour,
163    35|             in far better guise~And better odour, than the good and
164    35|          monarch send~A knight that better can with me contend."~ ~
165    35|             as the maid commands,~A better warrior of that king demands.~ ~
166    35|           thus the knightly course,~Better mine embassy wouldst thou
167    35|              And cried, "Not that I better hope to fare,~But that to
168    36|            abide,~Esteeming him the better of the two,~Break in between
169    36|              But vainly; for, since better weapons lack,~Each other
170    36|           young Rogero 'scaped, who better ran.~Bereaved of thee, they
171    36|       finish it, be ye content:~For better things I promise to report,~
172    37|             now befriend you in our better age.~ ~ VIII~Erewhile Marullo
173    37|          another are the twain;~Nor better ere were paired in wedlock'
174    37|        Through her sweet style (and better know I none):~But who is
175    37|        break my promise, I~Until my better leisure, will delay~Her
176    37|      sheared --~And knowing not how better to disguise~Their shame,
177    37|         Twill safer, usefuller, and better be~To leave this road, and
178    37|          this resolve she ends;~And better how can she expend her breath~
179    37|             she said,)~`And this at better leisure will explain.'~The
180    37| insufficient for such foul offence.~Better they deem, mid pangs prolonged
181    37|            I know not, I, if it was better done~Or worse, by her, that
182    37|           touching her defence; but better far,~If they were losers
183    38|        Biserta placed,~And laid the better part of Africk waste.~ ~
184    38|           he tens should write;~The better to excuse him in your sight.~ ~
185    39|          draw the sword,~Until they better certified shall be~Who broke
186    39|             who with more might~And better hold had clasped the madman
187    39|             end,~To his own matters better will attend.~ ~ LXIV~Upon
188    40|         proofs and rare.~ ~ XXII~So better could be seen each warrior'
189    40|               Sobrino cries)~"Could better than thy death the Christian
190    40|        Agramant): I know~In arms no better can I find than thee,~Though
191    40|           doubtful sprite,~If it be better to depart or stay:~Lastly
192    40|            can maintain.~But to win better audience for my rhyme,~My
193    41|        those shallows free,~Through better course, into a safer sea.~ ~
194    41|            may depart, who, save ye better play~The warrior, in to-morrow'
195    41|            dripping hair.~After, at better ease, to him God's word~
196    41|             bold paynim lord, would better speed;~But (for he felt
197    41|             left and right.~ ~ LXXX~Better than good Frontino horse
198    41|            bay:~Bold Olivier, whose better arm was freed,~And with
199    41|           heart)~To change it for a better coat with speech;~Albeit
200    41|         touched him slightly in the better hand.~But this was play,
201    42|            XI~Orlando levels at his better side,~Beneath the lowest
202    42|         which a warrior was undone,~Better than whom in Paynimry was
203    43|            have no steadier aim, no better care,~Stung by thy venom,
204    43|              From proof itself what better profit springs?~ ~ VII~"
205    43|           and sew,~Minerva knew not better; did she sing,~Or play,
206    43|             If thou, thyself, hadst better stood the touch."~ ~ L~Here
207    43|         thee in strife,~I could not better have bestowed my life.~ ~
208    44|        friendship heart united are,~Better than under roof of lordly
209    44|         buried lies:~Nor could they better love, if from one womb~And
210    44|            the enchanted sword with better right~Would have been worn
211    44|          With good Sobrino, and the better peer,~Rogero: not so triumphs
212    44|        valour or nobility of blood,~Better than his; nay, none so passing
213    44|            die I will not; but with better right~Shall Leo die, who
214    44|             me;~And that it seemeth better in thy sight~To wed with
215    44|        Would cause that prince; and better had he borne~To lose as
216    44|            had no need, in trace~Of better or of more abundant place.~ ~
217    45|   dispossess.~For all things can he better bear than one;~Than see
218    45|            Thou shouldst not him by better speed prevent.~ ~ XCIX~"
219    46|            Nor beams the sun upon a better pair~'Twixt Ind and where
220    46|         worthless life deprive;~For better I without a soul could dwell~
221    46|              And Bradamant upon his better hand,~Across the fields
222    46|             with the paynim was the better right.~Yet cannot she her
223    46|       swayed,~Bringing his left his better hand to speed,~That he pulled
224    46|          round.~At once he past his better leg before~Rodomont's knees
225    46|            gains~The freedom of his better arm anew;~And with the right