Canto

  1     1|          time;~If she, who to like cruel pass has well~Nigh brought
  2     1|         cloth of red.~But not from cruel snake more swiftly flies~
  3     1|           foot the warriors vie~In cruel strife, and blade to blade
  4     1|         mine," Rinaldo cried,~"Too cruel care the loss of thee does
  5     1|         boon bestow.~Ah! false and cruel Fortune! foul despite!~While
  6     1|            maid spectatress of the cruel case.~ ~ LXVI~He sighs and
  7     1|          long had thought~Upon his cruel case, and still in vain,~
  8     2|          her love to plant,~Though cruel Fortune, ill their wishes
  9     2|         say,~`Pity, fair sirs, the cruel loss I weep,~And, as I trust,
 10     2|          into flame~As Pinabel his cruel durance states.~Nor finds
 11     2|          the will of Pinabel,~Such cruel lot fair Bradamant assayed;~
 12     3|          Bastia win and slay,~With cruel rage, her hapless Castellain,~
 13     4|           to tell who launched the cruel dart,~And how the lovers
 14     4|          such fate were just!) who cruel proves!~Not she that life
 15     5|         well placed in court.~When cruel love, my fortune envying,~
 16     6|        sight;~So painful seems the cruel pass and drear.~Thus, in
 17     6|       deceitful show,~Which to his cruel grief he thought he spied!~
 18     6|           remember still,~Amid the cruel penance I endure?~When kindest
 19     6|            plain into two parts: A cruel dame~A bridge maintains,
 20     7|           Who, though at first his cruel art offend,~Is thanked,
 21     8|           Before I die, is yet thy cruel will.~ ~ XLI~"But what worse
 22     8|            keep;~Unused to cut her cruel pastime short,~If she with
 23     8|           LVII~And this it was the cruel usage bred;~That of the
 24     8|   barbarous and so base a foe!~Oh! cruel Fortune! who believed thy
 25     8|         mollify,~Who many days her cruel death delayed,~Preserved
 26     9|          of old Proteus' hears the cruel use~But feels such pity
 27     9|           possess'd~This false and cruel traitor Love? since he~Can
 28     9|          And give her counsel in a cruel case.'~Orlando, hearing
 29     9|        caught.~ ~ XLVII~"Yet him a cruel proposition made,~Granting
 30     9|         sustain)~To rescue him, in cruel durance pent;~Nor other
 31     9|         And yield myself to such a cruel foe.~ ~ LI~"If nothing more
 32     9|          due,~That when before the cruel king I stand,~No longer
 33     9|             By wind, which for the cruel island blows.~ ~ XCII~Such
 34    10|        ingrate for such service -- cruel proved~For such fair love
 35    10|     favouring gale,~Thence saw her cruel lord's departing sail.~ ~
 36    10|            dame~Calls often on her cruel consort's name.~ ~ XXV~Where
 37    10|         ship does float.~-- Where, cruel, dost thou fly so swiftly? --
 38    10|    sorrowing on the steep.~Thrice, cruel to herself, the dame prepares~
 39    10|            claws: but how~Can ever cruel beast inflict on me,~O cruel
 40    10|       cruel beast inflict on me,~O cruel beast, a fouler death than
 41    10|          but that morning bound in cruel wise;~Where (to devour a
 42    10|            magic lore.~ ~  XCV~The cruel and inhospitable crew~To
 43    11|            good,~From Dragontina's cruel servitude:~ ~ V~With this
 44    11|      conceal your beauteous cheer.~Cruel, though answering not, I
 45    11|    champion aid,~But to behold the cruel strife stood nigh.~Lo! a
 46    11|          France, on every hand~The cruel art among all people past:~
 47    11|        ensue;~And Proteus from his cruel hate would cease,~If they
 48    11|       intend,~In vengeance for the cruel monster slain,~Whence he
 49    11|           was it justice moved, or cruel rage,~Slaughter without
 50    11|           evil destiny~Her to that cruel island had conveyed~From
 51    12|         and the semblance wears~Of cruel woe, and ever calls for
 52    13|         assist us at the last,~The cruel storm will us ashore impel;~
 53    13|          who works thee still such cruel woe.~ ~ LIII~"Hard will
 54    14|           the vanquished fled,~The cruel paynim, cheated of his prey,~
 55    14|       scaled, upon all hands,~Form cruel garlands for the paynim
 56    14|            the dangerous ford;~For cruel Rodomont of Argier slays~
 57    15|         upon a gate:~For while the cruel battle here was fought,~
 58    15|       slays.~ ~ XLIV~"He, 'mid the cruel horrors he intends,~Takes
 59    15|          Stood by to gaze upon the cruel fight:~Either of these was
 60    16|         roof.~ ~ XXII~But this the cruel sword concedes to few,~So
 61    16|          lie~On Typheus' back, the cruel cavalier~Now executes on
 62    16|           not his valour more than cruel rage,~Heedless alike of
 63    16|         cheer;~Nor thinking such a cruel shock to meet,~Gallops against
 64    16|            skill, they aimed their cruel blows,~With lances at each
 65    16|        When bold French beheld his cruel plight,~For whom he love
 66    17|          Maximine:~Hence Thebes to cruel Creon bent her knees,~Mezentius
 67    17|          of that Saracen, not more~Cruel than strong; 'tis time in
 68    17|             To lose Lucina is such cruel pain,~That life is loathsome
 69    17|          all the day;~Till, of the cruel orc no more afraid,~He climbed
 70    17|          her stay~In Nicosia was a cruel gale~Which had long time
 71    17|           he was rescued from such cruel sorrow.~ ~ LXVIII~"The things
 72    17|       crest or shield,~If she were cruel or were kind, revealed.~ ~
 73    17| dwelling-house, and store;~Nor any cruel name of mockery spare,~Nor
 74    18|       serpent's hide,~In which the cruel Moor his limbs had drest.~
 75    18|          him, and hang,~Fixing her cruel tusks into his ear,~Her
 76    18|          When he breaks forth, the cruel Rodomont.~ ~ XX~At one cross-blow
 77    18|            Like cobweb-threads our cruel enemies~Will find their
 78    18|         him on earth, and with the cruel brand~Unhorsed perhaps eight
 79    18|         sword in either hand,~Made cruel havoc in the close array.~
 80    18|            the square~In which the cruel games appointed were.~ ~
 81    18|        Puts up, and terminates the cruel fight;~And to the monarch
 82    18|            the mast.~ ~  CXLIV~The cruel wind increased throughout
 83    18|        veers his barque before the cruel gale,~And scowers the foaming
 84    18|            So, in their sleep, the cruel paynim bled~Our host, and
 85    19|            pray,~Be not so passing cruel, nor deny~That I in earth
 86    19|           breast.~Zerbino, who the cruel action scanned,~Was deeply
 87    19|          content~The author of her cruel ill is bent.~ ~ XXIX~Her
 88    19|      sheathe the suffering of that cruel blow.~ ~ XXXI~O Count Orlando,
 89    19|         Till then enduring in such cruel wise.~North-wester or cross-wind
 90    19|          espied~At sea, within the cruel city's view,~They had observed
 91    19|        means were left them by the cruel gale.~Again their rugged
 92    19|        engage in fight,~And can in cruel battle lay them dead,~And,
 93    19|            over steeled,~Ready for cruel fight, she takes the field.~ ~
 94    19|         place is governed, lay thy cruel doom."~ ~  CIII~"If I lament
 95    20|         youthful peers,~Who was of cruel Clytemnestra born;~Like
 96    20|        prison flung,~Kept for like cruel use the rest among.~ ~ XXXVII~"
 97    20|             lady fair,~Was in this cruel region known, as through~
 98    20|           Are human bosoms in this cruel land,~I shall not now request
 99    20|           Though this land be more cruel and severe~Than any other
100    20|               XLIV~" `Ah! were the cruel statute less severe~Against
101    20|            Conducted hither by his cruel star,~Upon this miserable
102    20|        clear a passage through the cruel horde."~ ~ LXXVII~"Do as
103    20|                XCIX~They from that cruel and ensanguined ground~To
104    21|           be called; more fell~And cruel than a fury sprung from
105    21|       abominable monster, who~More cruel was than beast in forest
106    22|            inclined.~ ~ V~I in the cruel city left the peer,~Whence,
107    22|            save the lover from his cruel pains.~ ~ XLI~"I fled, not
108    22|        turn,~If memory retrace the cruel flame~Which preyed upon
109    22|         constrained to observe the cruel hest,~Though grieved and
110    22|          so many go.~ ~ LXXVII~The cruel courtezan by whom was made,~
111    22|            upon the naked maid,~So cruel to the Child who brought
112    23|          would steer,~But that her cruel fate would not consent;~
113    23|           swell,~With pity at that cruel sight and fell.~ ~ XL~Dead
114    23|         with two clubs, maintain a cruel fight.~ ~ LXXXIV~The truncheons
115    23|            innumerable blows,~That cruel hangman Love his hate had
116    23|          Amid the pressure of such cruel pain,~It past into the wretched
117    24|         without time for prayer,~A cruel death shall wait him, as
118    24|           blaming Fortune, and the cruel sky,~Can only utter fond
119    24|          or cheek; but still, with cruel wound,~One and the other
120    24|             and loudly smites each cruel foe;~Like winds, which scarce
121    24|       remain in company,~But bandy cruel war was with fell despite,~
122    25|           deal Orlando death, that cruel blade.~ ~ XVI~But to have
123    25|         did ever wight torment,~So cruel, but that mine more cruel
124    25|          cruel, but that mine more cruel were?~I need not to accomplish
125    25|           suffer at thy hands such cruel pain;~And this thou hast
126    25|           I~Had been compelled the cruel flame to face:~There Flordespina
127    25|          dead,~And had remained in cruel doubt and dread.~ ~  XLVII~"
128    26|          pair ensued, by whom with cruel blade~Most deadly signs
129    26|            from the forest prest~A cruel Beast and hideous to the
130    26|             No one shall more that cruel beast molest~Than Francis,
131    26|            found;~Which first that cruel Beast to death will gore,~
132    26|            to that hideous beast a cruel foe;~One a Gonzaga, one
133    26|             and ire,~To venge that cruel outrage goad and fire.~ ~
134    27|             And legs and arms -- a cruel show -- surveyed;~And, from
135    27|         might and main.~His army's cruel slaughter, with surprise,~
136    27|        hence may you surmise!~What cruel blow King Charles sustained
137    27|            for that day,~Until the cruel fight was at an end,~Wherein
138    27|             With that, ungrateful, cruel and perverse,~And born to
139    28|        that damsel wends,~Him by a cruel death the felon ends.~ ~ ~
140    28|         And, like this wretch, the cruel proof receive:~By anger
141    28|          are his own:~Vext by that cruel one, aye night and day,~
142    29|           in mine history.~ ~ VIII~Cruel King Rodomont, when from
143    29|          so sore~That cavalier, by cruel Fortune spent,~Within her
144    29|           Of faith, so struck with cruel steel and hand,~That her
145    30|           Rogero slain;~A thing by cruel Destiny decreed.~Since they,
146    30|       stroke,~And to the quick the cruel weapon broke.~ ~ LIII~The
147    31|         that suspicious fear, that cruel care,~That martyrdom, which
148    31|        measures.~ ~ V~This is that cruel and envenomed wound~Where
149    31|         and lays him low!~ ~ VI~O' cruel wound! incapable of cure,~
150    31|          blow;~I speak of fell and cruel tidings brought~Some few
151    31|         stroke,~His buckler in the cruel shock is broke.~ ~ XI~His
152    31|            every art.~ ~ XXI~Their cruel and despiteous blows resound,~
153    31|      already were the skies,~Their cruel strokes well nigh fell harmless
154    31|        these eyes~That strange and cruel wonder I had viewed."~She
155    31|            the crowd who hear this cruel woe~Some one, in pity to
156    31|           Some one, in pity to his cruel pain,~May strive the peer
157    32|            lover or for slave.~The cruel stripling knows what pangs
158    32|         such tormenting pain,~Such cruel woe her inmost bosom stirred,~
159    32|           woe is me!~All false and cruel well may be esteemed,~If
160    32|            thou, Rogero, false and cruel be,~That I so pious and
161    32|       darksome was the sun.~ ~ XL~"Cruel, what sin can trouble thee,
162    32|            thy sin atone.~ ~ XLII~"Cruel Rogero, I of theft, beside~
163    33|          to disappear,~No dream my cruel and tormenting pain.~Ah!
164    33|           An eye of fire it had, a cruel look,~And, like ship-sails,
165    33|          with design to shun~Those cruel claws, which, pouncing from
166    33|            By a perpetual hunger's cruel stings.~ ~ CVIII~Whene'er
167    35|           Wounded by jealousy with cruel sting.~I left her where,
168    36|    faulchion slew thy son.~ ~ VIII~Cruel Sclavonian! say, whence
169    36|           Nor even have pity of my cruel woe?~Dare, valiant heart,
170    36|         Rogero slew~And brought to cruel pass Galacielle,~Marphisa
171    37|          would venge them on their cruel foe,~In haste towards the
172    37|            son,~A long divorce and cruel we sustain,~As our fell
173    37|          prove the savage use that cruel peer~Has there established,
174    37|           sting,~His new desire to cruel death should bring.~ ~ LIV~"
175    37|            Many, and many slain in cruel sort.~A statute for his
176    37|         that his impious rage~That cruel man might on the hag assuage.~ ~
177    37|            advised to the sway~And cruel statute of that tyrant stern;~
178    37|            Had graved that mad and cruel law; the pair,~In imitation,
179    38|          rancour and despite,~Like cruel foe, I purposed to offend,~
180    38|     Sansonet,~That with her in the cruel city were;~Vivian, and Malagigi,
181    38|         And aye cries out upon her cruel fate.~ ~ LXXI~Nought can
182    38|         occasion of such grief and cruel pain.~ ~ LXXIV~Meanwhile
183    39|            perished by the foe.~As cruel some, as weak and proud
184    40|         was certified,~How in that cruel strife his town had sped,~
185    41|            XV~A fierce assault and cruel coil doth keep~Upon all
186    41|  Flordelice, pricked at heart with cruel fear,~Filling the heavens
187    41|             Ah! ruthless sword,~So cruel, Durindana, can'st thou
188    42|           For young Rogero) suffer cruel smart.~Him that in chase
189    42|      hindered thee~To the end, the cruel outrage, foul and fell,~
190    42|        XXXVII~Him his ill star and cruel fate conveyed~To swallow
191    42|       stands,~To save him from the cruel monster's hands.~ ~ LV~The
192    43|      multiplies,~And into rage and cruel hate is run,~To fly from
193    43|            She, worsted, from such cruel war withdrew;~And by a meaner
194    43|                LXXXIII~"As no less cruel and less hard to abide~He
195    43|      Battered, and crippled by the cruel stroke.~ ~ CI~" `My mighty
196    43|        sank his heart beneath that cruel blow,~'Twere long to say;
197    43|         place, and one~Fitting the cruel deed which should be done.~ ~
198    43|       Martyred and crippled by his cruel wound.~ ~ CLII~From tears
199    43|          lifeless as they were,~Do cruel scathe, and vent her fierce
200    44|      promised bride."~ ~ XLVIII~If cruel thoughts the afflicted maid
201    44|          pain;~Who no less for his cruel woe, when known,~Lamented
202    44|      Succoured the Bulgars in that cruel fight;~Who hardly had escaped
203    45|            could gain)~Knew what a cruel slaughter had ensued:~For
204    45|          Ungiardo, worst among the cruel, who~Marvellous mirth to
205    45|          me, my lord, I pray, this cruel foe,~That by his torment
206    45|          warrior of the unicorn~To cruel Theodora; but one day~Of
207    45|         consumed,~Her consort to a cruel death was doomed.~ ~ XLI~
208    45|          set him free;~So that his cruel aunt should have no right~
209    46|          warrior brave,~And him to cruel Theodora gave.~ ~  LI~He
210    46|      Greeks the Trojans scathed in cruel sort,~When her gates opened
211    46|        Return, to bandy fierce and cruel wound.~Wheeling with wondrous