Canto

  1     1|       hope to quit the score were vain,~My pen and pages may pay
  2     1|          more faithfully~Than the vain promise which was whilom
  3     1|           of my fame so false and vain!"~ ~ LIII~Not with such
  4     1|          cruel case, and still in vain,~And found a woman his defeat
  5     1|       smite, he would not lash in vain.~Such are his bone and sinew,
  6     2|        such credit to the tidings vain~Of the false courier of
  7     2|        curses and with threats in vain.~There (fruitless every
  8     2|        desire and hope alike were vain)~Both barons bold, and fearful
  9     2|          the empty air, with fury vain.~This in the feathered monster
 10     2|        County's first intent~Made vain, the wily traitor sought
 11     3|         Ah! luckless youths, with vain illusions fed,~Whither by
 12     3|       blinds his foes,~And render vain each necromantic sleight,~
 13     4|      black for white:~But all his vain enchantments could not blind~
 14     4|          did, to make descend~The vain enchanter from his wondrous
 15     4|        thy coming makes my labour vain.~ ~ XXXIII~"Ah! then unless
 16     4|           the petition~Is made in vain; but if for death thou sigh,~
 17     4|           took his bridle, but in vain;~For he was restive to the
 18     4|          the skies,~When sight in vain the cherished youth pursues.~
 19     5|           lover often I excite~So vain and bootless an emprize
 20     5|        shall confess your own are vain;~And say, as I the root
 21     5|          assured; of no surmises,~Vain, worthless words, or idle
 22     6|        did long offend,~Whilom in vain, through strange and secret
 23     6|      flame and spark,~Sometime in vain kept back and held at bay.~
 24     6|        said; (but the resolve was vain)~Nor by the beach two miles
 25     7|          revenge, 'twas false and vain.~By hate and malice was
 26     7|   thoughts, and other thoughts as vain, he weighed~Before she came,
 27     7|        days pursued her search in vain;~By shadowy wood, or over
 28     7|       mute, Rogero, listening,~In vain to her reproof an answer
 29     8|     beauty.~ ~ XXXVII~Landward in vain her eyes the damsel bright~
 30     8|         whosoever seeketh, not in vain,~His help, than whose there
 31     8|     thinking on his folly past in vain:~"My heart," he said, "oh!
 32     8|          shepherd weep for her in vain.~ ~ LXXVII~"My hope, where
 33     8|     thinking that like images are vain,~When fear, or when desire
 34     8|           she has expected him in vain~Well nigh a month, and nought
 35     8|          country seeks for him in vain;~To whom the story in due
 36     9|     himself or uncle, driven~By a vain love, he cares, and less
 37     9|           from the fatal field in vain.~The ball his shoulder from
 38     9|         wedlock man should woo in vain,~Till he to Holland should
 39     9|          and protest are alike in vain;~My town and me, with Friesland'
 40     9|          perform no more,~Me with vain words instead of help have
 41     9|      which never yet was drawn in vain,~And still with cut or thrust
 42     9|          So that he after have in vain to say,~"Why hasted I no
 43    10|    Almighty God! how fallible and vain~Is human judgment, dimmed
 44    10|          her loved Bireno, but in vain.~ ~ XXI~She no one found:
 45    10|         monster's rugged scale in vain.~"For heaven's sake turn
 46    11|          s spells and trance~Made vain by Merlin's stair; and on
 47    11|           strange fight, who by a vain~And miserable superstition
 48    11|      which she to hide desired in vain.~To sum the beauteous whole,
 49    11|       though her rivals strove in vain.~Nor haply had the youth
 50    12|         he France had searched in vain.~ ~ VI~I say not is, but
 51    12|          cavalier, and threats in vain,~And Brigliadoro drives
 52    12|         toiling, like himself, in vain~Above, that building, and
 53    12|        time and trouble, still in vain delayed,~While haply her
 54    12|       early death exposed.~Though vain his magic tower of steel,
 55    12|         magic tower of steel, and vain~Alcina's art, Atlantes plots
 56    12|         time he Argalia's helm in vain~Sought in the brook; yet
 57    12|          thrust is never dealt in vain:~Each mighty blow from Roland
 58    12|          her is spent,~He for the vain pursuit no longer tarries,~
 59    12|         attacking Paris' walls in vain,~He (for no other means
 60    12|      undertaken, hard emprize and vain.~The road ran red, ensanguined
 61    13|     wrought.~ ~ XXVII~"But all in vain, for I was fixed and bent,~
 62    13|     beauteous lady who desires in vain,~Rogero should not his return
 63    14|      Castile, or of Navarre;~When vain was lance or cannon's thundering
 64    14|     Paris-town (nor is the terror vain)~More of the puissant warrior
 65    14|             nor swore the king in vain,~That save he won the blade
 66    14|        ineffable Goodness, who in vain~Was never sought by faithful
 67    15|        Sir Aquilant had warred in vain,~And Gryphon bold: next
 68    15|     bestowed his time and toil in vain.~It was with this he Mars
 69    15|          toil will be bestowed in vain;~And now a new Aurora climbs
 70    16|         time and trouble spent in vain,~He, if his heart be placed
 71    16|           faithless Origille, his vain delight:~Yet evil use doth
 72    16|        bewray,~Who oft on him had vain reproof bestowed:~But to
 73    18|       XXXV~As tiger rages, who in vain descends~Into her den, and
 74    18|           at their control.~Since vain is every other remedy,~Wait,
 75    18|     renders aye his every purpose vain.~If one on all sides thins
 76    18|           which Almontes' son was vain,~That of the quarters, good
 77    18|         was his task,~Who beat in vain upon Mambrino's casque.~ ~
 78    18|          Might well have rendered vain their faithful care~Amid
 79    19|  scorching ray.~ ~ XXX~She, if of vain desire will not die,~Must
 80    19|       wrought a thousand feats in vain~For this ungrateful fair,
 81    19|          strike home, or smite in vain,~Blows ring, and echo parted
 82    20|      herself bound, and that 'tis vain to stir,~-- A captive made
 83    20|        design would render wholly vain.~If one can singly slay
 84    20|           have won the victory in vain;~For they will be enslaved,
 85    20|           have done, had rendered vain.~ ~ CXVIII~Vainly the young
 86    21|       opposing Scot offended:~But vain was not the spear-thrust
 87    21|          ill design is schemed in vain.~So fell Argaeus by Philander'
 88    22|       feet, and searches still in vain~Throughout the house, hall,
 89    22|          should take that path in vain,~The damsel stood suspended
 90    22|      exclaimed the woman: "Why in vain~Waste you so many words,
 91    23|         at last, expected long in vain,~The wished for twilight
 92    23|           that wretch perused, in vain~Seeking another sense than
 93    23|           hand.~ ~  CXV~With such vain hope he sought himself to
 94    24|       smote the impassive skin in vain.~So had heaven's King preserved
 95    24|        seen~To threaten stroke in vain, or make good,~He seems
 96    24|          morn and evening, but in vain,~Flordelice after Brandimart
 97    24|         utter fond complaints and vain.~"Why sank I not in ocean, (
 98    24|           the well-loved youth in vain.~ ~ LXXXVII~She with such
 99    24|          for a pleasure, rash and vain,~Had scrupled not his anger
100    25|         mad desire; but speaks in vain.~ ~ XXXIX~"She, who requires
101    25|          waking, finds the vision vain.~ ~ XLIV~"What vows she
102    25|      helped his actions, spake in vain.~ ~ LXXIX~The other heard
103    25|            if Agramant applied in vain;~And, since with her he
104    26|         blows;~She marvels how in vain they never fell.~The iron,
105    26|            and makes their labour vain,~Who would against his arms
106    26|       Switzer, that henceforth in vain~Would he uplift his horn
107    26|         take that steed away.~But vain was my design; for him parforce~
108    26|         prayer and menace proving vain,~Aye cursing him and execrating
109    27|         like Icarus, for wings in vain,~Having grim death behind
110    28|        weary, shifts his place in vain,~Whether he right or left
111    28|         having interrupted him in vain,~Nor having power to make
112    29|     appease his wounded spirit in vain.~He builds a bridge, and
113    29|       Orlando cried, and cried in vain;~And, could the palfrey
114    30|            I sorrow and lament in vain~For what I said in other
115    30|           and Marsilius strive in vain,~With labour sore, this
116    30|           than all, who sought in vain~To soften Agrican's infuriate
117    30|          the enchantment had been vain.~So reels the Tartar, by
118    30|       sword, which never falls in vain,~Which was enchanted to
119    30|         your title to that ensign vain,~Which now you cast away,
120    30|         said, to seek Angelica in vain)~He of that pair those evil
121    31| throughout the realm of France in vain;~Here by the cognizance,
122    31|          rendered Turpin's labour vain,~Who tasked himself to tell
123    32|         return, but offers him in vain,~Renowned Almontes' daughter,
124    32|        she to her fort returns in vain;~Nor finds him here nor
125    32|      other's thrall.~-- Alas! how vain the hope! that thou shouldst
126    32|          never yet was couched in vain.~Gothland's good king next
127    32|           long entreaties made in vain,~The castellain refused
128    33|       done.~Rinaldo, after labour vain and sore~To await him at
129    33|       kiss the stranger's feet in vain.~ ~ CXVII~"Nor angel" --
130    34|          entreating mercy long in vain,~He sickened sore and sank
131    34|  cleansing stream, long sought in vain;~But found at length a limpid
132    34|          the eternal leisure,~And vain designs, aye frustrate of
133    35|         fortuitous nor wrought in vain;~But that is may his worthy
134    35|          might expect his wits in vain."~ ~ X~'Twas so Christ's
135    35|          king's, that idly and in vain,~Had thither, seeking Frontalatte,
136    36|           the plain,~She hears in vain exclaim, in vain entreat,~
137    36|         hears in vain exclaim, in vain entreat,~Rogero, who beholds
138    36|       tale which I deliver is not vain.~Seed of one father, on
139    37|        error wrought:~But all was vain; the more he loved the dame,~
140    37|           see Drusilla venged; in vain denies~That woman, who misdoubts
141    39|       lamented and had grieved in vain,~Gazing with longing eyes
142    39|        his efforts for relief are vain.~Astolpho bade them hence
143    39|      nimble quarry, is pursued in vain,~As if ashamed they in that
144    40|       brought; how often sighs in vain,~Whoe'er foregoes the sceptre
145    41|        distant sees that rock, in vain~Eschewed by him and his
146    41|     Mahound I hold but as an idol vain;~In Jesus Christ, the living
147    41|    Sobrino at Orlando smites; but vain~Against the valiant count
148    43|     Repeating the beloved name in vain,~With all her force her
149    43|        hope to-day thou renderest vain!~Ah! what designs, fell
150    43|        was placed; and, when with vain~Lament the women had bemoaned
151    44|      thereon shall aye be made in vain;~Nor shall it be by any
152    44|         Dispose of her, by him in vain affied,~Of his old sire
153    44|         hope deceived him and was vain,~Would sire and son deprive
154    44|        here and there~Laboured in vain such onset to withstand,~
155    44|      practised Greek,~Made him in vain his hated rival seek.~ ~
156    45|         shadows lengthen, causing vain affright;~And as the shadows,
157    45|           her head, nor treats as vain,~Nor vouches what avows
158    45|           plot, a plot devised in vain;~And ye deceive yourselves (
159    46|     afterwards, in person went in vain,~To find the warrior of
160    46|         assistance is employed in vain,~The last relief remains