Canto

  1     1|        cheap with all except the wight~On whom she did so large
  2     3|       and future taught~To every wight that has its counsel sought.~ ~
  3     3|         curly hair, the dwarfish wight!~Beard overgrown about the
  4     4|         malice moved, alas! poor wight,"~(The weeping necromancer
  5     4|          As ever damsel dame, or wight was seen:~Hard by the barbarous
  6     5|     ascend,~But knew not who the wight, with ready speed~Sprang
  7     5|     strange, not known of living wight,~Since ever close concealed
  8     6|        it oft befalls despairing wight,~Who grisly Death desires
  9     7|       earth or air; yet, hapless wight,~Him ever seeks, and for
 10     7|     longer life than ever mortal wight,~Than Hecuba or she in Cuma
 11     9|         hairs may warrant him, a wight~Stricken in years; who,
 12     9|         he bears, unknown to any wight,~Save him, of the ancient
 13     9|          day have chanced upon a wight~Who on his faith will give
 14     9|         never more should living wight molest;~And, what was appertaining
 15    11|          still Rogero gazed like wight distraught,~And hurried
 16    12|        blade to sway~Till living wight remained not in his view.~
 17    12|          thus appear~So fierce a wight, and harnessed cap-a-pee.~"
 18    12|       harnessed cap-a-pee.~"What wight" (demands Anglantes' cavalier)~
 19    13|      infancy, and the ungrateful wight~Deemed that the thought
 20    13|         Whatever is each several wight's desire:~Since to our scope
 21    13|      slay, full well I know,~The wight, in whom Rogero you descry:~
 22    14|      crown of Tartary, a warrior wight;~The son the famous Mandricardo
 23    15|        horn, which made whatever wight~Should hear its clang betake
 24    15|        to appear;~-- And could a wight, who loosed from Indian
 25    15|       Let these, and every other wight who tries~To subject a free
 26    15|          after, deems a helpless wight to slay~No valour were,
 27    15|          him drag the unmeasured wight along.~"How can it be," (
 28    15|        Damietta; where wayfaring wight,~He heard, was prisoner
 29    15|        now breast, the enchanted wight.~The fruitless blow Orrilo
 30    15|          Whatever pleasure other wight pursues~Seems but the more
 31    16|   self-same crowd;~And here some wight, beside his foeman slain,~
 32    17|        Who unsuspecting, she, or wight beside,~Him would with treacherous
 33    17|       fully thronged with gazing wight,~Whom they of cuirass and
 34    18|        Ughetto was the miserable wight,~Whom to the teeth he clove,
 35    18|         may recount,~Save that a wight had wrought him scaith and
 36    18|          sees that he is not the wight he sought:~ ~ LXXIX~And
 37    18|        torn~From such a puissant wight, I laid a scheme~Her by
 38    18|          they cried) that ribald wight~Who in another's spoils
 39    18|       talk, the stripling, woful wight,~Here cannot choose, but
 40    18|     would set at nought~If every wight futurity were taught.~ ~
 41    19|          lowing herd, the rustic wight~A heifer, missing for two
 42    19|      they there arrive, a crazed wight~They find, extended on the
 43    19|         sea-chest propt; another wight~Is busied in the well by
 44    19|   greater could not be in mortal wight.~ ~ XCVIII~The women who
 45    20|        or more; for -- miserable wight! --~I reckon every day and
 46    20|       was the plot concealed, no wight~Throughout all Crete was
 47    20|        years elapsed, a youthful wight,~Whose fathers sprung from
 48    20|     behoves us place the prowest wight~Whom we can find, to guard
 49    20|         among us such a puissant wight~Our first design would render
 50    20|       law which willed, whatever wight,~Conducted hither by his
 51    20|          passes day~But stranger wight is slaughtered in the fane.~
 52    20|    prince, "I know not wherefore wight~Should suffer pain and peril
 53    21|          Argaeus in the murdered wight.~ ~ LI~"And threatens, save
 54    22|  Atlantes' magic towers Astolpho wight~Destroys, and frees his
 55    22|       whom more worthless living wight is none,~The Count Anselmo
 56    22|        the faithless Pinnabel, a wight~All evil prompt to further
 57    22|        shield's discovery, every wight~Is blinded, or on earth
 58    23|        well divined this was the wight he found~Upon his journey,
 59    23|    without quarrel, had no other wight~Suffered to part, of such
 60    24|   Orlando, furious and insensate wight,~Having torn off the arms
 61    24|          the place for dread,~No wight he found within it, small
 62    24|         to entomb them, may some wight,~Haply by pity moved, be
 63    25|        pains (she said) did ever wight torment,~So cruel, but that
 64    25|          touched with pity every wight;~Told how the maid had harboured
 65    26|    Ferrant his brother; nor less wight~Is Andrew Doria; nor by
 66    26|       and had backed his courser wight;~And, having first defied,
 67    27|      Each hopes alike to be that wight preferred,~The victor who
 68    28|           superior to each other wight,~He beauty was throughout
 69    28|        never introduced whatever wight,~Save he most faithful was
 70    28|       comeliest, of the curtiest wight,~And greatest monarch; Oh!
 71    29| wonder-working ring, and eke the wight~Who gave it to that lady,
 72    31|        and our meat.~Feebly that wight can estimate the charms~
 73    31|          go on before, nor other wight,~Beside a page, to hold
 74    31|   Experience of a more redoubted wight.~ ~  XXV~He gladly would
 75    31|         good Rinaldo's brand,~No wight is left, save he who slaughtered
 76    31|       heads; but that the wizard wight,~Infernal angels, by his
 77    32|        XX~"Ah! Love, arrest this wight who runs so free,~Outstripping
 78    32|         lodging claimed by other wight,~To joust with all new comers
 79    33|     Heard it related by the very wight,~That these fair pictures
 80    34|        regarding who or what the wight.~ ~ XLI~"When I perceive
 81    35|          inclined than any other wight;~And wherefore even from
 82    35|          hid himself form living wight.~"Ye will I not refuse," (
 83    36|      desire to meet the stranger wight,~And armed withal (for,
 84    37|       fitting, that such valiant wight~Should joy a thing so excellent
 85    37|          flung by some wayfaring wight,~And gnaws it in his rage,
 86    37|         bore such hatred to that wight,~As woman to an enemy can
 87    38|     little is the wisdom of that wight,~Who risks his own to gain
 88    39|      knowing old Bardino in that wight,~Bardino who from Monodantes'
 89    39|          club of that mad, naked wight,~Who with the brandished
 90    40|          expert and wary was the wight,~Nor in the shock of either
 91    41|         Moves you and whatsoever wight beside,~That counsels matter,
 92    42|        their works lay dead,~Nor wight was left the woeful news
 93    42|       waited on a vile barbarian wight;~And was so distant he could
 94    42|    service of each former loving wight.~Vext by such thought, which
 95    42|        haply never fell on other wight;~Yet wonted daring counterfeits
 96    42|       you see what must please~A wight" (pursued the stranger) "
 97    43|       within our city dwelled, a wight,~Beyond belief, in every
 98    43|       shed,~You are the happiest wight that ever wed.'~ ~ XXX~"
 99    43|   yourself, disguised like other wight.'~ ~ XXXII~"Sir, a fair
100    43|       goblet drank, there was no wight~But split the wine he to
101    43|        of worthy lineage came;~A wight that spent his youth in
102    43|          a prey was she to other wight.~This to the doctor's heart
103    43|         Anselm, who saw no other wight beside~To tell who was that
104    43|        no unguents hath the holy wight,~Nor is in other human medicine
105    44|          Caesar than with simple wight.~ ~ LVIII~"Can it be true
106    44|          as never yet was living wight;~So that he trembled still,
107    45|       him doth shortly show,~How wight by her is raised, and how
108    45|           and reassure the timid wight:~Without Rogero so I suffer
109    45|          they think by any other wight~Rather than Leo had the
110    45|          a faithful and a paynim wight,~I deem that nought avails
111    46|     sister I -- against whatever wight~Shall here assert a claim
112    46|  Charlemagne vouchsafed to every wight?~With various games that
113    46|          champion will not let a wight~So talk and bulky close
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