Canto

  1   Int|      unfinished upon the author's death in 1494. It begins more
  2     1|         saved her from dishonour, death, and pain;~And how she so
  3     2|        abhorred,~She would choose death before that hated lord.~ ~
  4     2|        either show~What his foe's death to either can avail,~And
  5     3|            Who hopes the damsel's death, whose fall he sees.~ ~
  6     3|        had nigh found at once her death and tomb.~She, after rising
  7     3|           brother brave perpetual death.~ ~ LI~"In these two princes'
  8     3|          of my lore.~Give him his death; but let him not divine~
  9     4|      brand;~For well, without his death, she may obtain~The costly
 10     4|       knight~From danger sore and death, by love was swayed;~Who,
 11     4|               XXXVI~"Seek not thy death from me; for the petition~
 12     4|          made in vain; but if for death thou sigh,~Though the whole
 13     4|       here,~Where, seeking glory, death may be his gain.~Here Arthur,
 14     4|           at dead of night.~Hence death by fire will be the damsel'
 15     4|        Who shall deliver her from death and shame,~He to the royal
 16     4|           green.~She to delay her death awhile essayed,~Until she
 17     4|      dismayed,~And by the fear of death o'erspread with gloom.~Again
 18     5|          natural foe;~But to deal death to those who seek our good~
 19     5|         He need not be by fear of death dismay'd.~He had a noble
 20     5|       wind!~ ~ LIV~" `Compass her death! 'tis well deserved; your
 21     5|          maintain~Unmeriting such death, and free from stain.~ ~
 22     5|          which brought him to his death.~ ~ XC~He brings not his
 23     5|          to a close,~And pangs of death the failing accents drown:~
 24     5|    daughter's woes,~Redeemed from death and scorn, her virtue shown,~
 25     6|      despairing wight,~Who grisly Death desires till he appear;~
 26     6|          fond desire which did to death impell,~Thence, soaked and
 27     6|          the royal damsel die;~My death too bitter and too dread
 28     6|         Did I, before my own, her death descry;~For still my lady,
 29     6|          move;~But that, alas! my death, as well I know,~Will such
 30     6|           s destruction prove,~To death I with one only comfort
 31     6|         maid shall view~Encounter death in her defence; and he,~
 32     8|        wrath intends.~ ~ XLIV~"If death by drowning in the foaming
 33     8|     devise a torment, so it be~My death, but I shall thank thee
 34     8|           Who many days her cruel death delayed,~Preserved until
 35     8|           punishment~Of loathsome death awaits her on the rock.~
 36     8|         me, that would for her to death have gone?~Have kept her
 37     9|      complete;~Condemned to privy death, till then delayed,~Save
 38     9|           my spouse shall life by death have lent.~ ~ LV~"Not to
 39     9|           ancient lord~Had put to death, and who by them yet more,~
 40    10|           O cruel beast, a fouler death than thou?~Enough for them
 41    10|           and every horrid way~Of death; to Holland shall he take
 42    10|           well I guess, appaid~By death, which this may worthily
 43    11|          lie,~To deal the foe his death, his helm untied,~So that
 44    11|         Towards whom, to deal her death, the giant hies:~So that,
 45    11|         the rout which threatened death,~Had power to scatter at
 46    11|         thanks to render thee for death delayed,~Or should lament
 47    11|           to thank thee that from death, too dread~And monstrous,
 48    11|         that I am not dead,~Since death alone can me from misery
 49    11|           right~Upon his father's death, had crossed the sea~The
 50    12|          me from your own hand my death receive!"~ ~  XVI~These
 51    12|      Influence which him to early death exposed.~Though vain his
 52    12|            arm, and severed head,~Death roams the field in strange
 53    12|           courage unreprest.~That death were better deems this cavalier~
 54    13|        piteous woes.~Next puts to death the felons with his hand~
 55    13|         gaoler, should one day my death decree?~ ~ IV~"Lo! I am
 56    13|     appeared well nigh reduced to death.~ ~ LXXVI~When she beheld
 57    14|           golden round~Was at his death on Tessira conferred;~His
 58    14|          XLVI~In running to their death the wretches vie,~Nor cease
 59    14|          such a mode to die,~Than death itself, does to the troop
 60    14|        stake~Strangely to die the death of frog or snake.~ ~ XLVII~
 61    14|       barbarian's boast:~Nor when death snatches this or that away,~
 62    15|           cried)~And wouldst that Death to-day thy course arrest,~
 63    15|           may owe;~But worse than death loath thus to save my head.~
 64    15|          hand,~Which manifests of death the tokens true;~And shows
 65    16|          Sir Gryphon, threatening death;~ ~ IX~But like most cunning
 66    16|     infected,~And in the dread of death, -- I heard report~That
 67    16|         whom you from slavery~And death to save, a subject's vows
 68    16|          gain,~By young Zerbino's death, a glorious force,~And wounded
 69    16|            o'erturns, and puts to death.~ ~ LXVI~Sir, think not
 70    17|    generous sprite~The thought of death -- approach he fast or slow --~
 71    17|            forego~Of anger and of death the noisome lore;~And be
 72    17|        Mid tears and groans, with death before his eyes.~ ~ XXVI~"
 73    17|       bereave,~Assure thyself thy death will pain me more~Than mine.'
 74    18|           were pursued~And put to death by Olivero's son;~Who at
 75    18|        scourge,~And only short of death his penance urge.~ ~ XCIII~
 76    18|          where blood is shed,~And death is dealt, in the tumultuous
 77    18|          too is gone~The king; on death or vengeance all intent.~
 78    18| slaughtered are,~From the hand of Death and of Tisiphone:~For that '
 79    18|          thou remain;~That, if my death be written in the sky,~Thou
 80    18|        prove;~As well such famous death I cover, I:~What other thing
 81    18|          head.~Oh! blessed way of death! oh! happy fate!~For 'tis
 82    19|        from his heart,~Even after death performs his faithful part.~ ~
 83    19|        steers,~And, desperate, of death returns in trace.~Cries
 84    19|        die,~But who would not for death this being forego,~Until
 85    19|     falchion, in desire~Rather of death, than hoping that his hand~
 86    19|     stripling spies,~Nigh hurt to death in that disastrous fray,~
 87    19|          others will I tell:~Who, death before their eyes, the vext
 88    19|         timber broke:~And certain death to make the port would be,~
 89    19|           you we doom, and him to death."~ ~ LXIX~At what she deemed
 90    20|         Like me, ten opposites to death would smite."~ ~ IX~Sir
 91    20|         So should I not esteem my death too dear~A ransom for thy
 92    20|         pain.~And thee protracted death but more torment.'~`So I
 93    20|           pace.~Nor hoping but by death, alas! to fly~So vile a
 94    20|      martial peers~Deliver by his death from slavery.~Since if Marphisa
 95    20|  vengeance somedeal satisfied~Ere death; for oft ten thousand, maid
 96    20|         bow,~Dealing on all sides death or wounding sore,~Was rained
 97    20|        know of her whose timeless death you mourn;~But to be strangled
 98    20|       life she would exchange for death.~ ~ CXLI~"She, since thou
 99    21|           itself as near,~Or even Death; but with him heavier weighed~
100    21|         for him would I defy~Even death itself; and let the world,
101    21|           His case, not more with death than lasting stain,~If in
102    21|        desperate man who saw that death was nigh,~And sure to follow,
103    22|           enterprise,~Even to the death, against that single one,~
104    22|           with her, defended~From death, or her good Fortune, rather
105    23|        not succeed,~At least, nor death, nor shame, nor loss ensue.~
106    23|             V~When she has put to death the treacherous peer,~Who
107    23|           peer,~Who to put her to death had erst intent,~To seek
108    23|          people rise, to punish ("Death!" their cry)~Zerbino for
109    23|           on a plain~The youth to death conducted by the train.~ ~
110    23|           feud~With injuries, and death and shame pursued.~ ~ LVIII~
111    23|          hundred broke and put to death.~ ~ LXI~Above a third he
112    24|          be condemned to pain,~Or death, it should be thine his
113    24|          s treachery~Moved him to death the felon to pursue;~The
114    24|      before~Nigh caused Zerbino's death, among them bore.~ ~ XXXVI~
115    24|           And her shall even unto death maintain~Against whoever
116    24|           at his hand~Well merits death, for his foul trespass due,~
117    24|          time for prayer,~A cruel death shall wait him, as his fee.~
118    24|          And, if thou must choose death, in place of worse,~Then
119    25|       Fully the cause while he to death was led.~Them mournful Aldigier
120    25|      garden made,~To deal Orlando death, that cruel blade.~ ~ XVI~
121    26|         first that cruel Beast to death will gore,~The foul destroyer
122    27|        wings in vain,~Having grim death behind them and before,~
123    28|      damsel wends,~Him by a cruel death the felon ends.~ ~ ~  I~
124    28|         still has kept, and after death will keep.~ ~ XVII~"The
125    28|         new:~For, without risk of death, thus evermore~The intruders
126    29|          that dame commend.~Whose death drove Tarquin from his royal
127    29|      Isabel might be;~That, if to death that damsel he had shent,~
128    30|         you, prepared for life or death am I:~Yet would I fain not
129    30|          more he past~In doubt of death; so deeply him had gored~
130    31|     despite!~Permit not, sir, the death of such a knight.~ ~ LXXIV~"
131    32|         That I more bitterness in death may taste.~ ~ XXIII~"Yet,
132    32|         Never so welcome had been death to me."~ ~ XLIV~Resolved
133    32|        deal the mortal blow,~What death could ever yield thee more
134    32|        France's son,~At risque of death, to venge that galling flout;~
135    33|           such tedious sleep like death appear,~Such watching is
136    33|      beyond all wont, severe --~I death in watching, life in sleep
137    33|           sleep assay.~But oh! if death such sleep resemble, Death,~
138    33|        death such sleep resemble, Death,~Even now I pray three stop
139    33|        lean, and dry;~Fouler than death; the pinions they expand~
140    34|        And that I but to work his death desired.~ ~ XLII~"Then,
141    34|         went,~He never should see death, and hence the Son~Of God
142    34|     outlasts it by a thought.~For Death and Nature have their watchful
143    35|         oblivion, direr pain~Than death. O Princes, wary and discreet,~
144    35|           of poetry,~That envious Death may wholly them consume.~
145    35|         what no more~Time nor yet Death from me shall take away;~
146    36|         whom she hated so,~Her to Death's door her anger would have
147    36|         edicts and all equity~The death of him that causes death
148    36|          death of him that causes death ordain;~Nor, since you justly,
149    36|          That me so many times to death has shent,~Under the faith
150    36|          man to slay,~And let his death my thousand deaths appay!"~ ~
151    36|           die, the occasion of my death."~ ~ XLVI~Angrier than venomed
152    36|          in that just~Will put to death Marphisa, rages so,~She
153    36|          LXV~"But here, before my death, for in this glade~I knew
154    37|          Has dragged her lord, in death and fate's despite.~ ~ XX~
155    37|        brutal scorn;~And has with death and all extremities~Threatened
156    37|    passing fear among~The people, death can cause no worse affright;~
157    37|           His new desire to cruel death should bring.~ ~ LIV~"But
158    37|        Tanacro, as a grace, would death bestow:~Resolved to die,
159    37|       bank into a vale below;~But death was to the wretched dame
160    37|           avenging dear Olindro's death?~ ~  LXI~"She showed herself
161    37|         the blow;~Should'st die a death too easy: since I wot,~For
162    37|       LXXII~" `In seeing this thy death, it gives me pain,~My sacrifice
163    37|        hand, that dealt the other death.~ ~ LXXVII~"Love, pity,
164    37|      sorrow, anger, and desire~Of death and vengeance, all together
165    37|           his defence:~But speedy death appears too kind a pain,~
166    37|          He all the bitterness of death should know.~ ~ XCIV~But
167    37|          whom the hangman-crew to death escort;~And the quick rowel
168    37|        sacrifice knife have died.~Death, sure, is worse, and more
169    37|       Which every woman doom'd to death and shame.~With the intention
170    38|         were whilom guilty of the death~Of that unhappy pair, who
171    38|        plain;~For he is doomed to death who thither goes,~By joint
172    39|       well he knew~Her hate, than death more hateful, would ensue.~ ~
173    39|         the dread~Of dying either death, by both is sped.~ ~ LXXXVI~
174    40|             Could better than thy death the Christian cheer,~Whence
175    40|      XXXVIII~"Thy subjects by thy death deprived will be~Of hope,
176    41|          loth to put that lord to death.~ ~ V~The Danish warrior
177    41|         They gaze upon inevitable death.~ ~ XVI~On a despiteous
178    41|           So curst their lot) the death from which they fly.~ ~
179    41|         through shameful fear.~If death must be my certain portion,
180    41|       Christian made;~Who for the death of Pinabel whilere,~(His
181    42|       king of Paradise~He, before death, was able to demand,~And
182    42|         he should joy in heart~At death so holy, and is certified~
183    42|         and leaves unhappy at her death;~ ~ XCII~"Yea, Italy; that
184    43|     himself from being stied~Till death, in thy dark dungeon prisoned
185    43|        Justly this growing ill my death will be,~Of little remnant
186    43|         will be found,~Whether my death be speedy of be slow.~Thereat
187    43|         natal influence, short~Of death; but with immortal being
188    43|        being such woe~Is coupled, death is not of direr sort.~For
189    43|         CXLII~" `If worthy of one death thou deemest me,~Worthy
190    43|        debt paid --~My melancholy death will profit nought:~When,
191    43|      friends, beloved in life and death, was left.~ ~  CLXVIII~There
192    43|          how thy foes will by the death of thee~Be freed henceforward
193    43|           reft of him remain:~His death, with such surpassing glory
194    43|         Profit to others, went to death of yore."~ ~ CLXXV~These
195    44|      tight,~That nothing short of death the tie could loose.~Benignant
196    44|        that array,~Touched by the death of him, their comrade dear,~
197    44|        blown,~Sobrino's fate, and death of Brandimart;~Nor less
198    44|         Rogero, I what I was till death will be;~And be more faithful,
199    44|       obeys the rein:~Yet prison, death, and every pain and woe~
200    44|          that died, six Grecians' death less smart~Would cause that
201    45|      ARGUMENT~Young Leo doth from death Rogero free;~For him Rogero
202    45|      would have flung the fear of death behind:~Nor had bold Bradamant,
203    45|            Her consort to a cruel death was doomed.~ ~ XLI~The cruelty
204    45|          pursues,~That might from death to life the Child recall;~
205    45|            And though he sees his death is manifest,~Never will
206    45|         his naked side:~For never death can come more happily~Than
207    45|         to complain:~He called on Death, and therein comfort found;~
208    45|      stubborn pain;~Nor saw, save Death, what other power could
209    45|    whatsoe'er betide;~For, bating death, I know not aught, whereby~
210    45|         he, as best he could, his death would hide;~This place to
211    46|       repair,~And him in spite of death and destiny~(Beyond all
212    46|        way)~Where nigh reduced to death the stripling lay.~ ~ XXVI~
213    46|       lest he should his wish for death withstand.~ ~ XXX~Him with
214    46|         intent~Of putting thee to death from court I went.~ ~ XXXV~"
215    46|         shear:~Nor would I by thy death be free to woo:~That from
216    46|         Condemned some other evil death to die,~About whose brows
217    46|        Ulien's son.~More than one death would she consent to die,~