Canto

  1     2|              name,~His mother was the child of Agolant.~And she, who
  2     2|            came,~Disdained not on the Child her love to plant,~Though
  3     3|              shall be deemed by men a child of hell.~And work such evil,
  4     3|              in dower shall bring~The child of second Charles, Sicilia'
  5     3|           Than Progue or Medea to her child.~ ~  LIII~"This chief, what
  6     3|             then divide.~Duke Aymon's child, who slumbers not till she~
  7     4|               not 'twixt the poles, a Child~So excellent as him, and
  8     5|               of the hand~Of his fair child, espoused with his consent:~
  9     5|             believes her wronged, his child to free)~Her he shall have
 10     6|               foes,~Who furiously the Child's advance oppose.~ ~  LXI~
 11     6|            head,~Bayed at the gallant Child with angry quest,~To turn
 12     6|                That it would need the Child, to clear the field,~And
 13     6|            LXVIII~This as it may: the Child would meet his fate,~Ere
 14     6|             the foul crew opposed the Child's retreat.~The rabble scattered
 15     6|             wicked crew, that did the Child withstand,~When he the road
 16     7|               seen.~ ~ IX~To meet the Child, Alcina, fair of hue,~Advanced
 17     8|                and quitted great with child.~ ~ LIII~This was sore torment
 18    10|            return. To show~Now of the Child I wish: his weary way~Rogero,
 19    10|            The ferryman put forth the Child to meet,~To bear him to
 20    10|              for ever drowned,~Of the Child's loss by night and day
 21    10|          spied.~ ~ LXXII~Although the Child by every wish was pressed~
 22    11|            more chaste.~The impatient Child had dropt both shield and
 23    11|              To sudden battle him the Child defies,~But he, who will
 24    12|            understood,~Save where the child, enclosed within the womb~
 25    13|           aright who was; but now the child~(No longer his) of care
 26    16|               nor innocence avail the child:~Nor gently beaming eyes,
 27    18|          cavalier.~ ~ CXII~No wishful child more joyfully, 'mid all~
 28    18|           upon thee mickle care,~Poor child, who of that buckler left
 29    18|            thee my quarters, though a child I be;~My life shalt thou
 30    18|            CLXX~Amazed was Cloridan a child should show~Such heart,
 31    20|          XXXII~"To swell, and next to child, and thence to fear~The
 32    20|          dingy dye;~Scarcely Lycaon's child, her furrow done,~Has turned
 33    22|            the duke attack.~ ~ XX~The Child, Gradasso, Iroldo, Bradamant,~
 34    22|               kindly to the inquiring Child replied;~And of the cause
 35    22|             apart to see.~ ~ LXIV~The Child demanded of that elder,
 36    22|        Although three times alone the Child was fain~(And, certes sore
 37    22|           naked maid,~So cruel to the Child who brought her aid.~ ~
 38    22|            Not finding her, it is the Child's surmise~That she is gone
 39    22|              so on me is thrown:"~The Child, so ending his self-colloquy,~
 40    23|              will yet prey~To see the Child; whom she to find once more~
 41    23|               found; that royal maid,~Child of Gallicia's king, fair
 42    23|               Beauteous Angelica, the child of grave~King Galaphron,
 43    24|             words unscared.~Woman, or child, or him he terrifies,~Witless
 44    25|             was addrest;~Whom aye the Child so hurried on her way,~He
 45    26|               She speaks but with the Child, but him descries;~None
 46    26|              that bird imprest~On the Child's shield, he shouts with
 47    26|               hand in fury threw.~The Child, who could not aught but
 48    26|            With Rodomont and with the Child at feud,~Fierce Mandricardo
 49    26|        tempered helm would sheer.~The Child, in anguish, opens either
 50    26|               and Vivian,~Between the Child and paynim in that course.~
 51    26|             As soon as to himself the Child returns,~And is by Vivian
 52    26|             monarch done;~Who neither Child nor damsel more offended;~
 53    27|           that calamity;~And from the Child and damsel new defeat~Encounter,
 54    27|               XXVIII~Marphisa and the Child, of danger clear,~Enter
 55    27|               courser, who~Was by the Child Frontino named anew.~ ~
 56    30|               cannot make the valiant Child refrain~From claiming Hector'
 57    30|               Yet Mandricardo and the Child besought~That they the right,
 58    30|             foe.~ ~ LXVI~Smit was the Child by Mandricardo's hand,~At
 59    30|           rest;~ ~ LXXVII~And how the Child, in rescue of the steed,~
 60    30|             no better -- to abide~The Child's arrival till the time
 61    32|              Benign and humble to the Child alone.~ ~ XXXV~When Bradamant
 62    33| great-grandfather whilere~-- I then a child -- was wont to tell to me.~
 63    34|              speak.~ ~ XI~"Lydia, the child of Lydia's king, am I,~To
 64    34|            peer,~Who was resolved his child should highly wed;~Not him
 65    35|           there descended.~She to the Child, as bid, her message said,~
 66    35|               and rampart strain;~Nor child nor elder was there, but
 67    36|               to smite and pierce the Child intended,~Pitiless, and
 68    36|              mid-heart.~Unable at the Child to aim her blow,~The lady
 69    36|            esteemed at nought,~Of the Child's friendship had no further
 70    36|               the voice; which in the Child amazed~And those two damsels
 71    36|              Their mother, great with child, and six months gone,~Aboard
 72    37|           foul a wrong,~Disturbed the Child and damsels' placid air~
 73    37|               its vigour wasted so,~A child, a woman, everywhere may
 74    38|                 ARGUMENT~To Arles the Child, to Charles Marphisa wends,~
 75    38|             the maid~As kinswoman and child, the monarch said.~ ~ XX~
 76    38|             his blade.~Nor deemed the Child could equal him in fight,~
 77    38|              credence to express.~The Child, that at her brother aims
 78    38|            content,~Nor willingly the Child by him would die.~But here
 79    39|             Too well Rinaldo kept the Child at bay.~With troubled face
 80    40|            mother this, that bore the child away;~Rapes and a thousand
 81    40|               love wherewith I to the Child am bound,~To his story brings
 82    40|            Meanwhile a servant of the Child's, at hand,~-- Faithful,
 83    40|          state to leave that crew~The Child, who loved those monarchs,
 84    40|             Dane;~But when he saw the Child without a spear,~He flang
 85    40|               equal due,~And from the Child as courteous answer won.~--
 86    41|         ARGUMENT~His prisoners to the Child the Danish peer~Consigns,
 87    41|            And Dudon thus allowed the Child to take~Those seven, and
 88    41|           wave and wind,~So gains the Child that shore with labour slow;~
 89    41|                thither by his aid the Child should wend;~Wherein his
 90    41|           small repair;~Wherewith the Child somedeal his strength restored,~
 91    41|            long lamented,)~Till she a child should in the forests bear,~
 92    41|              are;~ ~ LXIV~And how the Child, in might and beauty grown,~
 93    43|             joyful mood.~He, that the Child a Christian made whilere,~
 94    43|               XIV~"And to prevent the child from being won,~As was erewhile
 95    44|             Rinaldo his sister to the Child hath plight,~And to Marseilles
 96    44|            wonderous honour done.~The Child departs, resolved on Leo'
 97    44|               hermit hoar.~ ~ XVI~The Child who, so long banished, had
 98    44|            and Milo's son,~Her to the Child by promise had affied;~Who
 99    44|            XLIV~"Aymon and Beatrice's child, the slave~Of Love am I;
100    44|              But I will die ere I the Child forsake,~And other husband
101    44|               they faced the foe.~The Child, who mid the Greeks, from
102    44|         knight;~Present what time the Child with lance in rest~Succoured
103    45|       Ungiardo hastens to declare~The Child who put the imperial host
104    45|            lord;~And made the valiant Child, who had no dread~Of such
105    45|                that witness true,~The Child is captive in Novogorood,~
106    45|              her prayer, commands~The Child to be delivered to her hands;~ ~
107    45|           laments her so,~Fearing the Child is reft from her and gone;~
108    45|             who prepared the wretched Child to kill,~By torture new
109    45|           XLVI~Lovingly Leo clipt the Child, and, "Me,~O cavalier! thy
110    45|          might from death to life the Child recall;~And all this while
111    45|              cause to have repaid~The Child with scathe, and none to
112    45|         thousand deaths, not one, the Child will die.~ ~ LVIII~Right
113    45|              doth bear;~And (what the Child's disguisement well may
114    45|               that maid~Saith, to the Child, her brother, mighty scorn~
115    46|             embrace.~By the lamenting Child I know not how~Is liked
116    46|              it not irk thee," to the Child he cried,~"To tell the cause
117    46|              fluent speech, about the child are seen:~Him have they
118    46|           refrain:~He swoops upon the Child, unheeding aught:~So sore
119    46|               shoulder-bone below~The Child was smit, and left so sore