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  1     1|         the known steed and damsel dear,~Whose charms such flame
  2     2|        deeds and puissance no less dear~To Charlemagne and France:
  3     2|        thee may my arrival well be dear,~And thou as fortunate account
  4     4|             than son esteemed more dear,~I seek to snatch from France
  5     4|           Rogero, long desired and dear;~Who, when assured it was
  6     5|          woods and land.~ ~ XVIII~"Dear to the monarch, to the daughter
  7     5|         tied,~To scare me from the dear emprize I try.~But charge,
  8     5|          all the rest, his brother dear~Was whelmed with sorrow
  9     5|        Fate has willed her brother dear,~Zerbino, is not here the
 10     5|            justly bound to hold me dear.~Mark, in conclusion, what
 11     5|            hope to king and people dear,~The proof might show Geneura
 12     6|            impart,~I, by that lady dear, my promise plight,~Who
 13     7|           of my fatigues to render dear.~I ended where Eriphila
 14     8|        arms.~ ~ LXII~Oh! prize too dear, oh! too illustrious prey!~
 15     8|            this was a lady passing dear,~And from whose side he
 16     9|           brothers were) to him so dear,~That, for whatever favour
 17    10|      credit be more slow.~Cheaply, dear ladies mine, is wisdom bought~
 18    10|    repossess the thing she held so dear.~Love, no light cause, incites
 19    12|           the Angelica he loves so dear.~He who is lady-love and
 20    12|          to Rogero Dordogne's lady dear.~Who him a truant to himself
 21    12|        when I chase or woo my lady dear,~Let any think I bear with
 22    13|          told; but, tale to you as dear~Now calls me from the beaten
 23    14|         fame, he long had held her dear,~And how his country and
 24    14|      should pay their daring folly dear,~(Who from the ditch on
 25    15|            Guasto next, who render dear~Hesperia to the flower-de-luce
 26    16|        word, sore weeping, cried:~"Dear lord, is this the guerdon
 27    16|            will Parisians hold you dear;~But habitants of all the
 28    17|            from her, esteemed more dear.~-- Seeing that she can
 29    17|          had held above all others dear;~Nor this had given, as
 30    17|          who made league together, dear~To Norandine, and held in
 31    17|      enough to praise and hold him dear,~But wills that all around
 32    18|          the courser of my brother dear?~Say is my brother slaughtered
 33    18|            her aged lover, once so dear,~Aurora roused, their humble
 34    18|           surveyed,~Once hers, and dear to her; as matters are~Esteemed
 35    18| Remembering not, on other day, how dear~They paid for scathing errant
 36    18|       forego,~Whom he held passing dear; but fruitlessly~Would move
 37    18|          Medoro mourned his master dear,~Who well agnized the quartering
 38    19|         that to his lord is little dear,~With parts reversed, would
 39    19|      Aquilant, and he, his brother dear,~Arrive: to them the patron
 40    20|            government they hold so dear~Might finally from them
 41    20|            not esteem my death too dear~A ransom for thy worthier
 42    20|           embraced.~Then, "Kinsman dear, thy birth to certify~No
 43    21|             though quitting one so dear~Was hard) than to content
 44    21|            of my Argaeus; which as dear,~Or more so, than your own
 45    21|     Excited for a spouse I hold so dear.~I, that the beverage has
 46    22|          dames, and to your lovers dear,~You that are with one single
 47    22|           pile I raise,~(Gramercy! dear to many) of the knight~Of
 48    23|            was ever wonted to hold dear,~Worthily dear; for sure
 49    23|      wonted to hold dear,~Worthily dear; for sure so stout at need~
 50    23|       aught, that in her sight was dear,~The body of the dead should
 51    23|             who by him was held so dear;~The beauteous lady, whom
 52    23|           her arms about her lover dear;~And not a word could draw-forth
 53    23|         with his life, esteemed as dear, --~Fell at Orlando's feet
 54    25|         gained it thus, he held it dear,~-- If this had sought to
 55    26|            else but sordid gain is dear;~But they who real goodness
 56    26|          if he could suddenly hold dear~This maid as that, on him
 57    27|            is rejected of his lady dear.~ ~ ~ I~A woman for the
 58    27|    restrain;~Who had well-nigh too dear the experience bought~Of
 59    27|            old had held so passing dear,~Whilom of such debates
 60    28|          way a place he holds more dear.~Here him new love inflames
 61    28|            on a stream and hamlet, dear~To Ceres and to Bacchus,
 62    28|           the corse of her Zerbino dear:~I left her, where from
 63    28|            to that gentle race and dear,~By whom alone the world
 64    29|            nobly didst esteem more dear~Thy plighted faith, and
 65    29|            their honour, held more dear~Than life, excited others
 66    30|           life's sake esteem yours dear;~For one without the other
 67    30|        embracing wife and children dear,~Mother and brethren and
 68    31|           meeting with his kindred dear~By Pinnabel, the felon knight,
 69    31|         good Guido would have been~Dear to his brethren bold; but
 70    31|       begin: "My lord, your cousin dear,~To whom its safety Church
 71    31|            self to Brandimart more dear:~Who in pursuit of him to
 72    31|           who the Country loves as dear~As man can love a brother,
 73    31|          life be deemed so passing dear;~But live afoot, unmeriting
 74    32|         loves Rogero and to him is dear;~And then the host so rarely
 75    32|          there~Whereof I spake, so dear in Clodion's eyes;~Whom
 76    33|           rude Switzer pay Bicocca dear,~Paid by the Frenchman in
 77    34|            make the Lydian monarch dear abide.~The Armenian, an
 78    34|           and all of us so passing dear;~ ~ XXVII~"And if the honest
 79    34|         his many years to her less dear,~Rising from bed, Astolpho
 80    35|           that she to Maro was not dear,~Marvel not this should
 81    36|          the just to view.~For his dear cousin fearing the event,~
 82    36|          loved, but not alike were dear.~For this the stripling'
 83    36|         rejoices, as this sight is dear~To Bradamant, when, through
 84    36|       given you birth, that spirit dear~Forthwith ascended into
 85    36|       Bradamant to him at heart is dear;~And by what obligations
 86    37|            virtuous and to thee so dear,~Thy well-earned glory through
 87    37|         charge, to you in aught is dear,~'Twill safer, usefuller,
 88    37|           a thing so excellent and dear,~Olindro he, the lord of
 89    37|            will not lose a prey so dear;~And while to cure Drusilla
 90    37|            breath~Than in avenging dear Olindro's death?~ ~  LXI~"
 91    38|             from her that held him dear,~Displeases ye, and scarce
 92    38|          she, his consort true and dear;~That to the stripling evermore
 93    38|            do;~In sobs his consort dear to hers gave vent,~When
 94    39|         cost our Moorish cause too dear.~Let sin of broken faith
 95    40|           alike to both is passing dear.~Good horses and good armour
 96    41|         his consort and his sister dear;~And how he by his wife
 97    42|        Orlando's heart, for one~So dear to him, might sudden fury
 98    42|            of one, above a brother dear,~Nor can refrain from many
 99    42|          so much was Angelica more dear.~Rinaldo prayer unable to
100    42|             since with his courser dear~To Sericane is King Gradasso
101    42|       ground to prize and hold her dear~Than one, whose wife is
102    43|             it may be believed, is dear.~From thence she bade me
103    43|      island which Tiberius held so dear;~And trees that in Hesperian
104    43|           beauties, to his eyes so dear,~Parforce must he revisit,
105    43|        affection, whom she held so dear,~That she obliged herself
106    43|            that holy man to God so dear,~But he on Olivier will
107    44|          honour and to hold Rogero dear,~Him, Sir Rinaldo thought,
108    44|        death of him, their comrade dear,~As they for such a glorious
109    44|          and his unjust sire; less dear his flight~With Helen paid
110    44|        right."~"Thy valour, damsel dear, deserves from me~The boon
111    44|         liegeman, and to him right dear;~Who, since upon the Bulgars
112    45|           alas! return, O radiance dear!~And drive from me that
113    45|         hold him than thyself more dear;~And when he for Rogero
114    45|     evermore~Will be, thou wast so dear, she used to tie~Thy trappings,
115    45|           to thee thy forage bore:~Dear wast thou to my lady-love:
116    46|            and the Aonian choir so dear.~ ~ IV~With Julia, a new
117    46|         for her deserts I hold her dear,~If that fair prize some
118    46|          kinsmen whom he held most dear;~Hence justly he becomes