Canto

  1     1|          second oath the haughty paynim plights,~And keeps it better
  2     1|      peer's proposal pleased the paynim well.~And so their hot contention
  3     1|         fortune. By this way~The paynim pricked, by that Rinaldo
  4     1|      owed."~ ~ XXIX~Bristled the paynim's every hair at view~Of
  5     1|          grassy bed.~That of the paynim king, extended straight,~
  6     1|        honours last;~So rose the paynim knight with troubled face,~
  7     2|      close, and sunny glade.~The paynim's arm rings senseless with
  8     7|         Often she goes among the Paynim spears,~Yet never aught
  9    12|          slaughter fell~Amid the paynim host, finds Isabel.~ ~ ~
 10    12|      when and where.~With it the paynim armed his neck and head,~
 11    12|        from his saddle reels the paynim lord.~ ~ LXXXIV~Astounded
 12    13|      Marseilles, from whence the paynim train~She harasses, nigh
 13    13|         And next distributed the paynim horde~Under their proper
 14    14|          wanting to complete the paynim host;~But in the martial
 15    14|       armour bore:~And these the paynim questioned who had manned,~
 16    14|       vanquished fled,~The cruel paynim, cheated of his prey,~Ill
 17    14|       face her pitying eyes.~The paynim thence, whom Love had smote
 18    14|          deemed thy friends, the paynim foe,~That thou art without
 19    14|        Or heard of this upon the paynim side;~King Agramant his
 20    14|         Into the fosse below the paynim foes~Return, amid a storm
 21    14|      Form cruel garlands for the paynim bands.~ ~ CXIII~Meanwhile,
 22    14|    breast and tusk and nose.~The paynim, safe in buckler lifted
 23    14|         to their sore alarm.~One paynim's head he cleft, and other'
 24    15|       slain.~ ~ III~This was the Paynim little skilled to do,~Who
 25    16|      hate to slake:~Where'er the paynim has his hands applied,~He
 26    16|   concave fill,~Sent through the paynim's bones a deadly chill.~ ~
 27    16|         seemed as if each coward paynim grew~More cold than ice,
 28    16|          dead, and overthrew~The paynim numbers which about him
 29    16|         proved disastrous to the paynim throng.~ ~ LXIX~The duke
 30    16|         advancing English either paynim hold,~And bear their prisoners
 31    16|         break their order on the Paynim side,~What time the Christian
 32    16|   arrived to aid their host.~The Paynim camp had on that side been
 33    16|   compass wind,~To fall upon the paynim camp behind.~ ~ LXXVII~The
 34    16|        to the square~Whither the paynim had repaired; hears groan~
 35    17|       nor bow,~Nor what upon the paynim smote beside,~Sufficed to
 36    17|       his spear,~And charged the paynim; nor of life less free,~
 37    17|     Gryphon hardest smote, whose paynim foe~Lost his left stirrup,
 38    17|     enchanted like the rest.~The paynim's labour is a fruitless
 39    18|        sprang~That band upon the paynim cavalier.~From roof and
 40    18|         from thence to free,~The paynim by this game is angered
 41    18|       all smeared with blood the paynim goes,~Safe from the place,
 42    18|      same,~Was journeying to the paynim camp, beside,~Comfortless
 43    18|        moment blown:~This on the paynim's soul so fiercely fed,~
 44    18|           To reunite against the paynim train.~Inflaming every one
 45    18|         on the rear guard of the paynim foe,~Where bold Marsilius
 46    18|       The men of England and the paynim band.~These bold Rinaldo
 47    18|          blood of each trembling paynim nigh,~When they amazed the
 48    18|      Were eighty thousand of the paynim crew,~Cut off that day by
 49    18|  frequent watch-fires light.~The paynim fashions ditch and bastion,~
 50    18|          CLXV~Two Moors amid the paynim army were,~From stock obscure
 51    18|         for they little fear the paynim race,~Slumber with fires
 52    18|        in their sleep, the cruel paynim bled~Our host, and made
 53    20|        man journeys through~Wild paynim countries: danger is there
 54    23|          land of Christian or of Paynim creed,~In occupation of
 55    23|         art the man I seek," the paynim cried.~ ~ LXXIII~" 'Tis
 56    23|       head to feet,~Searches the paynim with inquiring eyes:~Both
 57    23| conclusion, they~Closed, and the paynim king Orlando caught,~And
 58    23|        with the straining of the paynim knight,~The girts which
 59    23|    behind his courser fleet:~The paynim rates the charger, in his
 60    23|    reined or loose."~ ~ XCII~The paynim deems it were discourtesy~
 61    23|     where he weened he might the paynim best~Encounter, thitherward
 62    24|       without further pause, the paynim lord~Hastes gladly to the
 63    24|           Fully the peril of the paynim train;~And said that he
 64    25|          rage,~One and the other paynim cavalier,~The Moorish host
 65    25|   Charles are those who hold the paynim creed,~They will, save quickly
 66    25|        Was dealt the damsel by a paynim crew,~Which her by chance
 67    26|       fierce Rogero's force,~The paynim leader in a thought is slain;~
 68    26|      steer,~Until she showed the paynim, who by force~Had wrested
 69    26|         offends;~Nor throws that paynim knight, nor even bends.~ ~
 70    26|         the left side smote that paynim peer,~And (for the blow
 71    26|          Who should in joust the paynim king affront,~He thought
 72    26|        For a new combat with the paynim lord,~Wheeled, to attack
 73    26|         Rogero followed fast the paynim knight,~Tracked o'er the
 74    26|    Vivian,~Between the Child and paynim in that course.~This warrior
 75    26|      CXXI~Rogero storms upon the paynim's crest;~And, could that
 76    26|          was plied;~On which the paynim, little courteous, came;~
 77    26|      pair.~ ~ CXXXIV~They in the paynim camp will find each foe,~
 78    27|          o'erlaid,~When from the paynim monarchs him he freed~By
 79    27|       Not to the ramparts of the paynim crew~Of Agramant as yet
 80    27|          danger clear,~Enter the paynim ramparts; and, with eyes~
 81    27|        dame,~Now smiles upon the paynim monarch, who~Besieges royal
 82    27|  Throughout the squadrons of the paynim race.~Happy was he who found
 83    27|         sore wondering stand the paynim train;~And Rodomont remains
 84    27|           And with that pair the paynim camp forsakes.~ ~ CXI~As
 85    27|          Wherever that afflicted paynim goes,~He fills the kindling
 86    27|        the wind~Poured forth the paynim knight, to fury stirred;~
 87    27|      speak of aught,~Seeing that paynim mute and lost in thought.~ ~
 88    27|         present" (made reply the paynim knight)~"Than sample, chosen
 89    28|           Fully I believe," that paynim cried,~"The tale of women'
 90    28|    impious visage and severe~The paynim scared, ill pleased the
 91    28|       question in this wise,~The paynim monarch from the table rose:~
 92    28|         was his common wont) the paynim spied,~Advancing by a narrow
 93    28|        Loud laughed that godless paynim at the thought,~Who every
 94    28|       born with evil taste, that paynim rude~No sooner tasted, than
 95    28|         him stint his lore,~That paynim, stirred to fury, broke
 96    29|        ARGUMENT~Isabel makes the paynim take her head,~Rather than
 97    29|          with dagger drawn, that paynim fell~In fury on all women
 98    29|         goodly kernel shell,~The paynim would not pass beyond the
 99    29|   chastity.~ ~ XII~She sees that paynim monarch's passion blind~
100    29|         XIII~She cried unto that paynim, foul to see,~Already threatening
101    29|      while e'er~Abandoned by the paynim cavalier.~ ~  XX~When herbs
102    29|       madman must I school," the paynim said,~And was approaching
103    29|   Between his teeth, the furious paynim cried.~And, shifting here
104    30|        following of the Frank or paynim rite~King Agramant and Charles
105    30|        gone with her to find the paynim rude;~And weened to have
106    31|     About those arms, was by the paynim taken.~ ~ XLV~"Few days
107    31|     slaughter all, nor grant one paynim grace;~And, ere they were
108    31|         well is proved upon that paynim crew~The force of Vivian
109    31|         ends,~Describing how the paynim fell reversed,~To his great
110    31|         LXVII~Brandimart, at the paynim's proud discourse,~His weapon
111    31|     fierce career.~ ~ LXVIII~The paynim's courser, ever used to
112    31|         though hard to move, the paynim's breast.~ ~ LXXV~Moved
113    31|         about him and espies~His paynim bands dispersed in panic
114    31|         he stained the mead with paynim gore,~Nor splintered heads;
115    31|      knight~By whom assailed the paynim quarters are,~He in his
116    31|          his pavillion stay.~The paynim king in armour was arrayed,~
117    32|       prayer~Of any one amid the paynim throng,~She thought foul
118    32|        every one, throughout the paynim train,~Deems that betrothed
119    32|   sincere delight,~Those tidings paynim prince and monarch read:~
120    32|         with him had brought the Paynim aid,~And ne'er was seen
121    33|          If so impassive was the paynim's scale,~Know, charmed by
122    34|       Incestuous love for a fair paynim maid~Had blinded so that
123    35|          in Arles the vanquished paynim lay.~-- Sure, her Rogero
124    35|          might match against the paynim peer.~When good Rogero's
125    35|         deeds;~But that the wily paynim vantage-ground~In that streight
126    35|         to bear,~Straight to the paynim's bridge resolves to hie;~
127    35|        Replied in answer to that paynim haught.~ ~ XLII~"Wherefore,
128    35|           And sent by that proud paynim to Argier:~These warriors'
129    35|       All others, taken from the paynim train,~Bradamant left suspended
130    35|         and afoot, did part~That paynim monarch from the bridge
131    35|         And by the bride to that paynim led,~Exclaiming: "Mount,
132    35|      cries i' the hearing of the paynim train.~Serpentine comes,
133    35|      stinging answer stirred~The paynim's fury to a mighty flame;~
134    35|  Wheeling as well, at that proud paynim spurred~Her horse with levelled
135    36|        sword in hand, and to the paynim's scathe."~ ~ LXXIX~Ah!
136    36|       read,~He should rejoin the paynim's ensignry,~Till he found
137    38|           He could not leave the Paynim without shame;~And, if his
138    38|         kings and princes of the paynim train;~And when he once
139    38|        well the Christian as the paynim foe:~For, harassed sore
140    38|          seen upon the plain~The paynim host in different squadrons
141    38|         him, the champion of the paynim clan,~Thither two priests
142    39|        most of them that led the paynim bands,~But too unequal seemed
143    39|         to know --~By that proud paynim, who the deed had done,~
144    39|       Had gone, with many of the paynim horde,~The sage Sobrino
145    39|       damsels two,~When they the paynim king in safety view:~ ~
146    39|      either train,~Christened or paynim, killed in that last fight,~
147    39|     weighty ships so shocked the paynim foe,~That many vessels to
148    40|          Nor unprovided find the paynim host.~ ~ XIX~For steel,
149    40|      arrows and with slings, the paynim band;~And sent the assailants
150    40|          with dead bodies of the paynim horde,~Blood issued from
151    40|       wide,~Fell Bucifaro of the paynim band;~And -- every hope
152    40|   inisled, is heard to roar.~The paynim messenger unceasingly,~Like
153    41|     Pressed on the leader of the paynim band~Why he should not the
154    41|     Marquis Olivier,~Against the paynim Mars together start;~(Name
155    41|         double plates encase the paynim foe,~These hinder much that
156    41|        him he flies:~For him the paynim overmatched in horse,~In
157    41|     plate and chain~As that bold paynim lord, would better speed;~
158    41|      Moor,~And storms about that paynim cavalier;~Upon Frontino,
159    41|       His vantage that redoubted paynim lord,~He found a place wherein
160    41|      eyes or thought,~And to the paynim's throat his knife applied.~
161    42|       Upon the Christian and the paynim side;~Since he again had
162    42|       the end he may prevent the paynim peer~From ever vaunting,
163    43|        had done;~Had slain those paynim kings in the career,~But
164    43|         hide the bones of either paynim lord~Beneath Biserta's ruined
165    43|      brought the corse of either paynim knight,~And would on either,
166    44|          evil followers, and the paynim band.~ ~ VIII~To honour
167    44|         the kings slain upon the paynim part,~The news from Sicily
168    45|           twixt a faithful and a paynim wight,~I deem that nought
169    46|        Who fain with that fierce paynim will contend.~ ~ CIX~They
170    46|         memory lost~Of what that paynim had in Paris wrought,~When
171    46|       martial feat~That with the paynim was the better right.~Yet
172    46|      right and left the peer and paynim start,~And at each other
173    46|       The spear would pierce the paynim's panoply;~And end that
174    46|     sword,~He more than once the paynim's armour bored.~ ~ CXXI~
175    46|         his thought.~But him the paynim well awakes again,~Whom
176    46|     ground,~And, as he past, the paynim's bridle took~With his left
177    46|          That he pulled down the paynim from his steed.~ ~ CXXVIII~
178    46|         ward~As fain to keep the paynim king at bay.~For the wise
179    46|         in his fist yet held~The paynim, which with all his might
180    46|          on his kneepan fell the paynim knight.~ ~ CXXXI~Rogero
181    46|       was the warrior, prest~The paynim with his feet, his arms,
182    46|           And with his knees the paynim's belly prest.~ ~ CXXVI~
183    46|         less opprest the doughty paynim lay,~Pinned to the ground
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