Canto

  1     1|         false and cruel Fortune! foul despite!~While others triumph,
  2     2|     leave thee such a prize were foul misdeed;~And horse and maid,
  3     2|          He, where the blood ran foul through all degrees,~Disdained
  4     2|          this gentle dame~In his foul heart, the wicked County
  5     4|        away.~ ~ XIV~But deems it foul, with blood of man to stain~
  6     4|     designed,~Doing such outrage foul to all mankind.~ ~ XXIX~"
  7     4|        lead~Quickly to where the foul accuser stands,~I trust
  8     5|   possessed,~Injurious words and foul reproach are said?~And blows
  9     5|         his God to dare,~Who his foul hand against a woman rears,~
 10     5|       tis that he would eschew~A foul ferocious race that shocks
 11     5|       good~Does from too ill and foul a nature flow.~Now, that
 12     5|      caitiffs would have dome me foul despite.~ ~ VII~" 'Tis fitting
 13     5|        put betwixt the pair such foul despite.~No time should
 14     5|           Was manifestly but too foul a snare;~And in Geneura'
 15     5|       stair.~Nor I the traitor's foul deceit perceived,~Until
 16     5|           But charge, so passing foul, you shall abide,~And vouch
 17     5|     LXXIII~"For this perfidious, foul, ungrateful man,~At length
 18     5|        show she was accused with foul intent:~For Polinesso, greedy
 19     6|        bore the maid;~For he too foul, and full of cruelty,~Esteemed
 20     6|   another to the breast,~Of that foul race he cleft; since no
 21     6|        the other dame,~Where the foul crew opposed the Child's
 22     7|         plain,~For punishment of foul ungrateful heart,~And haply
 23     7|      before,~To his surprise, so foul a dame discerned,~That in
 24     8|         hue~Removed, would haply foul and evil be.~Well was it
 25     8|        in every vale.~An act too foul it seemed to use his blade~
 26     8|          clause was kept by that foul crew~The savage, ancient
 27     8|        the flight,~But that with foul reproach he overlaid,~And
 28     8|       departed knight,~By him so foul a fault should be repented,~
 29     9|            Which fair for me, if foul for others blew)~To others
 30     9|       perjured king, and full of foul despite,~Who with my murder
 31     9|     place her in the hand~Of her foul foe, to have Bireno freed;~
 32     9|     smote not, to the assassin's foul intent.~ ~ LXXVI~Whether
 33     9|         hand~Of Beelzebub, whose foul malignity~The ruin of this
 34    10|       this may worthily requite!~Foul thief, churl, haughty ingrate,
 35    10|       passing fierce and full of foul despite;~Who (as I told
 36    10|         mid-way.~Let me not this foul monster's food remain."~
 37    11|       touch no pay.~ ~ XXVI~How, foul and pestilent discovery,~
 38    11|       Ebuda's island fell,~Whose foul inhabitants a monster sate~
 39    11| sometimes dies away,~Or blows so foul, that he is fain to steer~
 40    11|         dripping, and with water foul and gore;~With gore, that
 41    12|          cheer,~Impelled by fury foul, and angry spite,~Calls
 42    12|        of the royal maid,~Or the foul thief by whom she was conveyed.~ ~
 43    12|     presence be~Ravished by this foul robber? Oh! before~Me to
 44    12|        more forbear,~And cried, "Foul miscreant, liar, marched
 45    12|         truce;~And not that this foul Spaniard what he sought~
 46    13|     Withstood the purpose of his foul compeer.~This mighty wrath
 47    14|          broken spear;~And think foul scorn beneath the pounding
 48    14|        she approaching spied~Him foul with blood, and marked his
 49    14|       Gabriel seem who Ave said.~Foul was she and deformed, in
 50    14|      throat.~ ~ CXX~Dripping and foul with water and with weeds,~'
 51    15|          valour were, but rather foul misdeed:~For him, arms,
 52    15|           to our eternal infamy,~Foul Moor usurp; what time on
 53    16|    subdued by appetite.~Though a foul mind the lady's actions
 54    17|     multiplied and infinite,~And foul and pestilent iniquity.~
 55    17|      eyesight with his semblance foul and stern!~Better it is
 56    17|      shows,~A breast with drivel foul, and pointed nose.~ ~ XXXI~"
 57    17|    numerous court,~Both fair and foul, of every age and sort.~ ~
 58    17|           after feat so base and foul, anew~Approaches, with such
 59    18|        For, with so horrible and foul a face~He never Fortune
 60    19|    sprung~Upon the author of the foul emprize.~But he his vantage
 61    20|          Guido and his from that foul haunt retire,~While all
 62    20|         stranger bark could shun~Foul wind or storm, which vexed
 63    20|       the ten.~ ~ XXXVI~"To that foul murderous shore by chance
 64    20|           As unsuspecting such a foul despite:~And, closely guarded,
 65    20|       her vest of pride~With her foul visage, more deformed by
 66    20|      dress;~And now appears more foul, as angered sore,~While
 67    20|          to proclaim her old and foul to sight.~ ~ CXXI~To have
 68    20|       prize of thine.~Or fair or foul, let her remain thy fee;~
 69    21|         resists the will~Of that foul woman, sink of every ill.~ ~
 70    21|    content her evil will,~Of her foul wishes to her lord impart,~
 71    21|          the least penance of so foul a blame,~And, look on whom
 72    21|         slay him who would do us foul despite;~Nor apprehend to
 73    22|        we must strain~By path so foul and crooked, that a day~
 74    23|         charger from a maid were foul despite.~Doubtful he stands,
 75    23|         thinks he has endured so foul a wrong.~ ~ LI~That night
 76    24|       Well merits death, for his foul trespass due,~This is a
 77    24|      arrests the pair,~That with foul scorn and outrage bars their
 78    25|        Till the discourteous and foul pact was made~With that
 79    25|         lord take part?~Oh! what foul cowardice, how foul a crime~
 80    25|         what foul cowardice, how foul a crime~His baptism will
 81    25|       could endure~Between aught foul and her to passing pure.~ ~
 82    26|       below.~ ~ XV~'Twas hence a foul mistake the assaulted made;~
 83    26|         with scathe,~And brought foul scandal on the HOLY FAITH.~ ~
 84    26|          trace~But little of its foul iniquity.~The world, when
 85    26|          to death will gore,~The foul destroyer of each country
 86    26|          his own brand,~Which by foul felony (as erst exprest)~
 87    26|        such guise the two~Esteem foul scandal; as their better
 88    27|         scanned;~And seeing what foul rout and disarray~Might
 89    28|        appeased his woe;~For, if foul shame had fallen upon his
 90    29|       she knows;~Well knows what foul intention is behind,~Which
 91    29|          cried unto that paynim, foul to see,~Already threatening
 92    30|     weened to have chastized his foul misdeed,~That from a woman
 93    31|      what he inly said;~Who thus foul scorn would to the rest
 94    31|          should esteem it were a foul misdeed,~Unless I proved
 95    31|         others knew,~Must for so foul a fault be my excuse;~And,
 96    31|       That dost by chivalry such foul misdeed."~ ~  XCVIII~Guido
 97    31|        to the knight appears~Too foul to be endured, to wipe away:~
 98    32|       paynim throng,~She thought foul scorn to stain her generous
 99    32|         so faithful deemed.~What foul and felon act, what treachery,~
100    32|        the sky~Was banished into foul and darksome part;~If mighty
101    32|      conclude thy life with such foul shame?~ ~ XLV~"Were it not
102    32|       skill,~By those so passing foul and broken ways,~(By season
103    32|           Yet, for he would that foul discourteousness~Of Clodion
104    32|        He cries, `I deem it were foul wrong and sore,~If so such
105    33|      appear,~Beyond the Alps, of foul event or fair,~Even from
106    33|     style adorn,~Usurped by that foul troop of churlish vein,~
107    33|     wombs suffice not to receive~Foul and defiled the loathsome
108    33|           And hopes that now the foul, rapacious band,~Will not
109    34|          filthy brood.~ ~ II~Too foul a fault was his, who did
110    34|      before a smoke,~Obscure and foul, offends his nose and eyes.~
111    34|          should take,~And for so foul a sin my vengeance slake.~ ~
112    34|       that dismal seat~And those foul fumes, a dawn of daylight
113    34|        with displeasure,~Was the foul world, wherein we dwell
114    34|         garden, clear~Of earth's foul air, will joy eternity~Of
115    34|        diverse dyes and colours, foul and fair.~Yarns to her reel
116    34|          mingled by that second, foul from fair.~"What is this
117    35|          glory tread,~As through foul fault of sordid lordlings,
118    35|        the darkness tomb,~Though foul his name, if Cirrha him
119    35|         the harmonious line.~His foul proscription passes without
120    35|         his boasts, had been too foul a scorn.~ ~ LVI~Yet still
121    36|           Were practised by that foul and evil band~Of soldiers,
122    36|      places fell.~ ~ IV~Though a foul vengeance in that blow was
123    36|     Brother, convicts you of too foul a wrong,~In leaving thus
124    37|       that felon knight, for his foul scorn,~A fierce revenge
125    37|        hear, yet more to see, so foul a wrong,~Disturbed the Child
126    37|     Promising vengeance for that foul despite.~They leave the
127    37|          from the right way~Into foul Error's crooked maze; and
128    37|          nor slakes his mood,~By foul abuse upon the carcase done,~
129    37|          The poisoned draught of foul effect had brewed.~From
130    37|        And insufficient for such foul offence.~Better they deem,
131    38|       course outrun.~Yet lapt in foul and loathsome ease, while
132    39|            My liege, this is too foul an oversight,~A stripling
133    39|          But favoured not by his foul destiny~Was that intention,
134    41|      lances keen:~But I into too foul a fault should fall~Meseems,
135    42|      through violence or through foul deceit,~With mortal damage
136    42|          end, the cruel outrage, foul and fell,~Done by that band
137    42|     Smites her and venges many a foul affront,~Counsels the paladin,
138    43|    saddened Paradise.~Greasy and foul and beggarly her vest;~Nor
139    43|       possest,~Who for a boon so foul and filthy prayed.~Yet ceased
140    43|      deed! which I~Found in such foul and filthy work, espy!'~
141    44|          left but to obey.~Yet a foul fault it in her eyes appears,~
142    44|         Alas! what blemish is so foul to sight~In damsel? What
143    44|       Nor yet in older time that foul despite,~Done to Proserpina,
144    44|  appeared to ride,~These hopes a foul and furious wind anew~Far
145    45|           And drive from me that foul, consuming Fear.~ ~ XXXVIII~"
146    46|       lips unsealed,~He should a foul discourteous deed have done.~
147    46|       For such would be for me a foul excuse."~The Tartar's arms
148    46|        fetid Acheron, and hell's foul repair,~The indignant spirit