Canto

  1     1|       This, when all trained with lance and sword to fight,~He led
  2     1|       courser fleet,~Grappled his lance, and sprang into his seat.~ ~
  3     1|      spurs, and lays his levelled lance in rest.~In tempest wheels
  4     2|       whizzing sound,~With rested lance, he darted from on high;~
  5     3|        thee,~Who both by knightly lance and prudent lore,~Shall
  6     3|       thief be thrown~By thy good lance, who keeps thee from thine
  7     3|          with his counsel and his lance,~Shall win the honours of
  8     4|        bring~Nor mace, nor rested lance, nor bitting sword,~Wherewith
  9     4|        often times, to sight, the lance he shook;~And flinching
 10     4| master-stroke to see,~Achieved by lance or sword in single fray.~
 11     5|        said, he would avouch with lance and sword.~ ~ LXVI~"You
 12     5|           third trumpet, laid his lance in rest;~As well Rinaldo
 13     7|            she to Rogero cries;~A lance he takes, and threats her
 14     7|           mid career she laid her lance in rest,~And made earth
 15     8|        Argalia's, next Astolpho's lance,~And source of mighty fame
 16     8|           perished by the Moorish lance~The holy empire and great
 17     9|      thickest stand,~He rests his lance, and sticks in his career~
 18     9|         allowed to lie.~The heavy lance Orlando from him flung,~
 19     9|      faulchion sprung.~ ~ LXX~The lance now broke, his sword the
 20    10|      Norfolk's gonfalon~You see a lance into three pieces broke;~
 21    10|           in the rest~Carries his lance, and beats, with downright
 22    10|        Rogero does not smite~With lance or faulchion where the tushes
 23    11|        the brother, bearer of the lance,~After, the paladin, Astolpho'
 24    12|      Noritia's king, who lays his lance~In rest against the paladin
 25    14|         of Navarre;~When vain was lance or cannon's thundering car.~ ~
 26    14|            nor more. But with his lance in rest,~The Tartar monarch
 27    14|            The son of Agrican his lance regained,~Who weaponless
 28    14|          He pricks, with levelled lance, among his foes,~Shouting,
 29    14|     multitude he slew,~Before his lance was broke upon the crew.~ ~
 30    14|         Christians in array,~With lance, sword, axe, and wild-fire
 31    16|          their hands, is seen the lance,~Their thighs and stirrups
 32    16|         There needs than knightly lance, well placed in rest;~But
 33    16|           Appeared, with levelled lance, their youthful head:~With
 34    16|          coursers on, with rested lance,~When either warrior to
 35    16|         quiver, helmet, sword and lance;~Destined by these to die
 36    16|          from a squire receives a lance, and spies~King Prusion
 37    16|         throng,~If good Rinaldo's lance had proved more strong.~ ~
 38    17|       where they should couch the lance,~For furtherance of his
 39    17|          for a day;~At first with lance, and next with sword or
 40    17|              XCIII~Already he the lance upon his thigh~Has rested,
 41    17|          off by foreign knight.~A lance he snatches, and to Gryphon
 42    18|          He in this time a mighty lance had spanned,~And spurred
 43    18|         whose sword can cleave or lance can gore?"~But step by step
 44    18|         bore,~And, to avenge him, lance and falchion shook;~Remembering
 45    18|     spurred her courser, and with lance in rest,~Imperious at the
 46    18|         bound,~With the enchanted lance of gold in hand,~Which at
 47    18|         long time, with sword and lance,~Desired to prove the paladins
 48    19|         for his lord confest,~His lance uplifting, wounded overhand~
 49    19|           against nine one single lance can do.~ ~ LXXXI~Of smooth
 50    19|      swiftness bore;~Who poised a lance so massive in the course,~
 51    19|           addrest.~Speared on her lance she left him on the plain,~
 52    19|         not rise anew,~Levels her lance; and the black champion,
 53    20|         Marphisa grasped a mighty lance, and thrust,~Encountering
 54    20|       from cavalier the sword and lance;~And even from the east
 55    21|     stroke intended;~But his weak lance was shivered by the blow,~
 56    21|       rended~His shoulder, by the lance pierced through and through,~
 57    22|         horse was not to run with lance,~And him had he from the
 58    22|           No better cavaliers lay lance in rest,~Nor have for years
 59    22|          the fight.~"If with this lance alone thy foes are laid~
 60    22|               LXXXI~With the same lance with which he overbore~Sir
 61    23|     shield the knight:~But he the lance abandons, which the son~
 62    23|       wont to bear in flight;~The lance, by which whoever in the
 63    23|          at the losel couched his lance.~ ~ LIX~The shining armour
 64    23|           other of the band,~With lance unmoved, he pierced the
 65    23|          will repeat,~If his good lance at the encounter flies.~-- "
 66    23|         LXXXIII~One and the other lance parforce must split,~In
 67    25|          without more delay,~(His lance was broken at the other
 68    26|      which is best in fight,~With lance or sword, till one to ground
 69    26|         peers.~ ~ VII~"With you a lance or two I would have crost~
 70    26|     trumpet-strain;~Nor broke her lance in her impetuous course,~
 71    26|        Gan bend bow, and brandish lance and sword.~ ~ XVI~Rogero,
 72    26|         gores his gullet with the lance,~The emperor Charles the
 73    26|         meets the coming foe.~His lance each warrior levels in the
 74    26|    Intended, levels such a mighty lance,~He showed himself, as he
 75    26|       alone.~ ~  LXXX~"I too with lance and sword do doughty deed,~
 76    26|         And, levelling the sturdy lance she bore,~Defied, and next
 77    26|        knight astride;~And on his lance with bending shoulder lay,~
 78    26|         drawn,~Let fall his ready lance upon the lawn;~ ~ CVI~And
 79    31|         shock is broke.~ ~ XI~His lance Guichardo levelled, when
 80    31|        alike for his wide-wasting lance.~ ~ XCIV~He seeks the paladin,
 81    32|        Astolpho, and with him the lance of gold,~By whose sole touch
 82    32|           bold.~The lady took the lance, but nothing guessed~Of
 83    32|           behoves that they, with lance in hand,~Achieve their footing
 84    32|        with those two, or more, a lance must break.~Then with as
 85    32|           Offering, with levelled lance and lifted glaive,~To prove
 86    33|        draws not sword nor lays a lance in rest:~All, save that
 87    33|         treason, without couching lance,~Has given the victory to
 88    33|         host with fever, not with lance;~Nor of a thousand one returns
 89    33|          from their horses by her lance of gold;~And who had suffered,
 90    33|          been unhorsed by hostile lance~In the first course which
 91    33|           the kings' request.~Her lance she levels, at three strokes
 92    33|         No paladin or knight with lance in rest,~Against the worst
 93    35|         Of those so many, by your lance o'erthrown,~Your armour
 94    35|       from the ground.~The golden lance its wonted work has done;~
 95    35|           Her horse with levelled lance the warlike dame.~As the
 96    35|       should not harm me with his lance,~I am already quelled by
 97    36|        smitten on the shield,~Her lance unhorsed; but for the vanquished
 98    36|           plain~The manage of the lance so quaintly knew?~And of
 99    36|          but schemed to guide~Her lance in mode the stripling least
100    36|          rival low,~Than with the lance to pierce her in mid breast,~
101    36|           She at her opposite her lance addrest;~And hardly touched
102    36|        that such power was in the lance's thrust.~ ~ XXIV~This while
103    36|       arms and seat,~He rests his lance, but holds the stave suspended,~
104    36|        She has no mind again with lance to thrust,~Again that martial
105    36|          blow:~Away the enchanted lance that damsel flings,~Unsheathes
106    37|         pride~With her victorious lance on earth had laid,~How,
107    37|         He issued, to assail him, lance to lance.~ ~ L~"To overthrow
108    37|           to assail him, lance to lance.~ ~ L~"To overthrow him,
109    37|     bravely run,~That, though his lance he raised not from the rest,~
110    37|        earth, by Bradamant's gold lance o'erthrown;~She seems a
111    39|         yards beyond his back the lance did pass)~In briefer time
112    39|          All touched by that gold lance she overthrew;~Doubling
113    39|           pursue~One with couched lance, and one with lifted blade.~
114    40|    profits prayer.~He couched his lance, their keeper overthrew,~
115    40|          nor -- having seized his lance --~Forgets he is a paladin
116    41|      Moorish train,~With sword or lance, the faithful to offend;~
117    41|           sky flew every shivered lance,~At that loud noise, the
118    42|      vaunting, that with sword or lance~He took him from a Paladin
119    42|      surcoat of the cavalier.~His lance he grasped, his sword was
120    43|        heart was such a blow;~Nor lance, nor spear, I deem, so sorely
121    44|         any knight that e'er laid lance in rest:~But much more;
122    44|          scaly rind;~And the long lance appeared a palm behind.~ ~
123    44|          what time the Child with lance in rest~Succoured the Bulgars
124    45|           with trenchant blade~Or lance must with the maid his prowess
125    45|       barded steed he backed, nor lance he shook;~Nor other weapon
126    45|         faulchion took.~ ~ LXV~No lance he took: yet was it not
127    46|      courser, harness, sword, and lance,~The king betook him to
128    46|        And at each other run with lance in rest.~The spears seem
129    46|           sky.~ ~ CXVI~Rodomont's lance which smote in the career~
130    46|              CXVII~And -- but his lance resists not that fierce