Canto

  1     1|        of need;~Presaging wisely Fortune would rebel~That fatal day
  2     1|       road),~Commit the chase to fortune. By this way~The paynim
  3     1|       arms his helmet bright.~If Fortune now compel thee to forego~
  4     1|      bestow.~Ah! false and cruel Fortune! foul despite!~While others
  5     1|        piteous cries;~Propitious Fortune will his lady bright~Should
  6     1|       might,~The loss be his, if Fortune never more~Him to enjoy
  7     2|      love to plant,~Though cruel Fortune, ill their wishes meeting,~
  8     2|         and thy care,~If envious Fortune do but play me fair."~ ~
  9     3|      virgin from the grave;~"May Fortune, chaste and noble maid,
 10     3|    without a strain.~All else is Fortune's in this mortal state;~
 11     3|      exalted line.~Dark Fate and Fortune wreck not in their ire.~
 12     5|       court.~When cruel love, my fortune envying,~Willed I should
 13     5|        shall manifest~Of my good fortune, I alone am blest.~ ~ XXXVII~" `
 14     5|   compare.~Then since my happier fortune is above~Your wishes, yield,
 15     5|             LXXV~Above all other fortune, to the knight~Was welcome
 16     7|       tries; --~She all Rogero's fortune knew, how freed;~Then borne
 17     8|      tears and in lament.~ ~ XL~"Fortune what more remains, that
 18     8|        him new misfortunes rise:~Fortune does seldom any measure
 19     8|         so base a foe!~Oh! cruel Fortune! who believed thy sway~Was
 20     9|  Friesland's land,~Would try his fortune (as he said), for he~A pledge,
 21    10|         comfort in distress~Whom Fortune's wheel beats down in changeful
 22    11|      where she had been crost~By Fortune, till her native realm was
 23    11|     scorn~Which Love put on her, Fortune too pursued,~Who sent the
 24    12|          and now in other place.~Fortune, at length, where caged
 25    12|     passing, with his brand.~Him Fortune saved; for as Orlando wheeled~
 26    13|       Whilom I lived, content in Fortune's smile,~Rich, blameless,
 27    13|       men shall sovereign wisdom fortune call.~ ~ LXIV~"Other the
 28    13|          this excel,~In the rare fortune of its women thrives;~Nor
 29    13|   remains a widow, in disdain~Of fortune: (that which oft awaits
 30    13|    beauty, virtue, chastity,~And fortune, that like youthful plant
 31    14|          light on him would be a fortune rare:~Yet have I hope to
 32    15|       Conquest fruit of skill or fortune be,~To conquer always is
 33    16| transfixt my breast.~ ~ XII~"But fortune, by her double bounty, shows~
 34    16|         well placed in rest;~But Fortune even more than Valour needs,~
 35    16|         certain way,~When hollow Fortune thus had sported long,~She
 36    17|        where you are, I doubt my fortune ill,~For by your succour,
 37    17|          monarch to the cave did Fortune guide,~When the orc's wife
 38    17|        Love and Pity bound: till Fortune brought~A pair of warriors
 39    17|          Though he Wit less than Fortune served in save)~And running
 40    17|    rabble's flout,~Makes, by ill fortune, to the gate resort,~He
 41    18|     knight,~With Valour and with Fortune for his guide,~Charges,
 42    18|      part sustain.~What this day Fortune offers to our eyes,~If now
 43    18|  Englishman, and Frank.~ ~ LVIII~Fortune still blocked their path
 44    18|          good Rinaldo comes: him Fortune guides,~And for his sword
 45    18|      humble sail.~ ~ CXLVI~While Fortune on the sea annoys this crew,~
 46    18|         and foul a face~He never Fortune had beheld, with glee~Heard
 47    18|        lock before~Would grapple Fortune, when she turned her face,~
 48    18|     named the pair;~Who, whether Fortune pleased to smile or frown,~
 49    18|      able to explain.~So that if Fortune foil so fear a feat,~The
 50    19|          know,~Who on the top of Fortune's wheel is seated;~Since
 51    19|   enslave or slew~All those whom Fortune to this kingdom bore;~And
 52    19|     descend,~While we with equal fortune thus contend?"~ ~ CII~"Meseems,
 53    20|       other place.~He: "Since my fortune has been here to stay,~I
 54    20|        all those others that his fortune run,~Who the Dictaean city
 55    20|      That each upon our coast by Fortune thrown,~Before he in the
 56    20|     cries, in his despair,~"Fell Fortune, with what change dost thou
 57    21|        he designed;~His projects Fortune baffled with new arts.~This
 58    21|         dame no longer bore.~Lo! Fortune for her an occasion wrought,~(
 59    22|      heavens ordain the rest,~Or Fortune, if he leave it in her sway;~
 60    22|          to plain,~And find that Fortune will by fits rebel.~Anew
 61    22|          From death, or her good Fortune, rather say;~And Pinnabel
 62    22|        could she never (such her fortune's spite)~Find out the way
 63    23|     towards the abbey steer.~But Fortune, good or evil, had decreed~
 64    23|    ascribe her stay,~But this to Fortune charge, that so decides,~
 65    23|         I.~But what thou seekest Fortune here supplies;~And this
 66    23|      means a rein will be;~Since Fortune, who his wishes well appaid,~
 67    23|        every one,~Whom choice or fortune hither shall convey,~Stranger
 68    23|       was brought~By his unhappy fortune to the fount,~Where his
 69    24|     shape,~Which it will be rare fortune if he 'scape.~ ~ XLII~So
 70    24|         Into his presence led by fortune be,~Without more mercy,
 71    24|              LXXVII~She, blaming Fortune, and the cruel sky,~Can
 72    25|      night and day,~And now that Fortune to King Charles is fled,~
 73    26|     daring mind,~And Alexander's fortune, him I see;~Without which
 74    26|  generous heart,~In good or evil fortune, everywhere.~Him he implores --
 75    27|     Sericane and Circassy;~While Fortune, who would probe thee to
 76    27|        Yields to the storm: Thus Fortune, fickle dame,~Now smiles
 77    27|           as the fickle goddess, Fortune, led,~The lots are drawn,
 78    27|       one or two of evil way,~My fortune wills that I should be their
 79    27|         Venice, who,~For my good fortune, to this inn was brought,~
 80    28|          from Rome;~But, on what Fortune gave him, lived at leisure,~
 81    28|       will shake,~Nor whatsoever fortune is behind,~Her memory, which,
 82    29|          That cavalier, by cruel Fortune spent,~Within her loving
 83    29|       furious way,~But that kind Fortune saved her from the peer.~
 84    30|          Orlando dies.~ ~ XV~But Fortune, that of madmen is the guide,~
 85    30|       further words forbear.~How Fortune rules the matter let us
 86    30|      blame shall fall,~But we to Fortune will impute it all."~ ~
 87    30|        side;~But he parforce his fortune must abide.~ ~ XXV~Gradasso
 88    30|         And when he should tempt Fortune, when eschew --~Reminds
 89    30|          eagle bear;~But if your fortune shifts on listed plain,~
 90    30|       one and all.~And then (had Fortune ordered matters so,~As the
 91    31|          In rapture cries, "What fortune tempted me~With you, my
 92    31|          of Seine;~When, as good Fortune wills it, they descry~Gryphon
 93    31|        him the hand of Heaven or Fortune sway)~He first to put the
 94    31|      baffled knight,~With better fortune may maintain the fight.~ ~
 95    31|      well might thank propitious Fortune's care.~ ~ LXXXII~Marsilius
 96    31|       night~Blest with so high a fortune and so rare;~Hoping to win
 97    33|      behold, the pride of Spain.~Fortune to Lewis a fair face shall
 98    33|      paid.~Those over whom false Fortune's wheel had rolled,~Erewhile,
 99    33|          in mid-way.~Behold! how Fortune light does shift and veer,~
100    33|        to his prey,~But his rare fortune, heard Baiardo neigh;~ ~
101    34|        it is not in the power~Of Fortune to bestow, or take away.~
102    35|         can bestow,~Or bounteous Fortune upon men can shower,~Shall
103    35|    pledge my fay;~If, by strange fortune, thou thy seat maintain,~
104    36|         set afloat.~ ~  LXI~"But Fortune, that had destined you whilere,~
105    37|        possest~In her, despising Fortune's every wound.~Worthy of
106    37|        that, in evil hour,~Their fortune has conducted to his tower."~ ~
107    38|          royalty;~And -- such my fortune -- by a month or two,~I
108    38|         be foregone~The glorious Fortune, which for you has stayed,~
109    40|         his rich mansion breaks,~Fortune the faction of the Moor
110    40|         crew, alone,~As wind and fortune ordered it, was bound:~The
111    41|     Scathe upon scathe malicious Fortune sends,~And when one woe
112    42|         Which kind and favouring Fortune in the flow~Of rolling years,
113    42|          any age,~Well proved by Fortune in her love or rage.~ ~
114    42|     clean.~And now -- to try thy fortune -- to the test!"~He said,
115    42|         vase,~About to prove his fortune in the draught.~Then of
116    43|       whose word,~Alas! I of the fortune made assay,~Whereby my cherished
117    43|        home and poor.~ ~ XII~"If Fortune's care I was not, who denied~
118    43|       not done,~Ere his paternal fortune was outrun.~ ~ LXXVI~"The
119    43|      cries,~Nor noble blood, nor fortune, are enow~To make a woman
120    43|           Ah! what designs, fell Fortune, dost thou break!~Ah! wherefore
121    44|      resort~They prisoned are by Fortune false and fell,~What friendship
122    44|     scorn with me;~Hath doubtful Fortune good or ill in store;~I
123    44|       Than any stroke, by fickle Fortune sped,~Or Love's keen anger,
124    44|          him inquired;~But Leo's fortune his desire gainsayed;~Which
125    45|         we see poor mortal go~On Fortune's wheel, which runs a restless
126    45|       yet despair, for spurns~Of Fortune; since her wheel for ever
127    45|      trust is grown,~In his good fortune and his peerless might,~
128    45|       the night;~And saith, that Fortune, taken by the hair,~Without
129    45|         not have died.~O happier Fortune! had I breathed my last~
130    46|          and wise --~Because ill Fortune bore her long despite;~Lo!
131    46|     their throne,~Bless the good fortune which their hope repayed,~
132    46|      three months are done;~Save Fortune otherwise of him dispose.~
133    46|         clothes.~By the hand him Fortune leads in age more staid;~
134    46|   herbage float.~Rogero, holding Fortune by the front,~Lest he should