Canto

  1     1|     queen,~"And God preserve my honour in his care,~Nor suffer
  2     3|        poet dreams.~To him such honour shall the church decree;~
  3     4|   through your means he see~His honour raised anew, now well-nigh
  4     5|    vouch, to the prosperity~And honour of the king, and of his
  5     6|         Of friends at once, and honour, which was more.~The cavalier
  6     7|        all the rest to him such honour do,~And on the knight with
  7     7|         LX~"If thine own single honour move not thee,~And the high
  8     8|         s disposal lay,~For the honour of the empire and the right.~
  9     8|       fly;~I, what is worse, my honour lost deplore;~For if I sinned
 10     8|         woman, who~Has lost her honour, in this earthly ball?~What
 11     8|   couldst, wealth, friends,~And honour; say what more thy wrath
 12     8|  Sacripant~Preferred before his honour and his crown,~The beauty
 13    11|     Knew him, because a page of honour he~Had been in France, and
 14    12|       of thee~Protection for my honour I implore.~Then shall it
 15    13|  thrives;~Nor of its daughters' honour more I tell~Than of the
 16    13|     glows,~-- So by this dame I honour yet unborn,~Each hitherto
 17    14|    arrayed,~Who for the lilies' honour shall chastise~The hands
 18    14|         the swain who them such honour showed,~Her thanks at parting
 19    14| foreigner or citizen,~Ready for honour and for Christ to die;~Who,
 20    15|      victory~Is to a chief less honour wont to bring;~And that
 21    15|        But cannot peril against honour weigh,~Far dearer than my
 22    15|  Eastern strand,~And would seek honour in their native land.~ ~
 23    16|      here, who with me goes,~My honour safe in his protecting stay;~
 24    16|       by the stream, enjoys~The honour first to assail the barbarous
 25    16|          and in dread~Abandoned honour, order, and their ground:~
 26    17|      coward knight,~That of his honour makes so passing light;~ ~
 27    18|      that injury,~With all such honour as to perfect knight~Could
 28    18|        content."~-- "Here is my honour all at sake," apart,~"Meseemeth,"
 29    18|         the joust, of which the honour due,~And prize was Sansonnet'
 30    18|     defend in fight;~And I more honour hope than trouble dread~
 31    18|      humane,~Meseems, if in his honour I forego~This life of mine,
 32    19|   availed to you!~Say what your honour boots, what goodly fee~Remunerates
 33    19|       the battle, I concede.~No honour 'twere to-day to prove my
 34    20|         were for a woman known,~Honour and place from women I might
 35    20|    lately wrought~Such deeds in honour of their lineage? who~Lately
 36    21|        for shame.~ ~ XXIV~" `My honour has been ruined by thy mate,~
 37    21|      without stain~Of thine own honour, what I sought of thee!~
 38    21|         needed most,~So that my honour be not wholly lost,~ ~ XL~" `
 39    21|     remedy~Lies in yourself: my honour else is gone,~And that of
 40    21|       had he else preserved his honour clear:~For when the dame
 41    22|       will is law; therefore is honour due~To constant heart throughout
 42    22|       lover's pain,~So that her honour should receive no slight;~--
 43    23|  Saracen conclude the fray~With honour, which he haughtily had
 44    24|      ward,~How to save life and honour from surprise;~And keeps
 45    25|    bosom here of either knight,~Honour, be sure, and duty strongly
 46    25|       change of creed,~I for my honour make this sole request;~
 47    26|    years be known,~To the great honour of a future age.~What time
 48    27|     ring of might.~But here his honour touched the monarch deemed,~
 49    27|       woman, shame,~Rather than honour, would pursue his name.~ ~
 50    27|     kindlier mien, the landlord honour paid;~For he the port of
 51    28|      youth he sees,~Studious to honour him, and bids purvey~Store
 52    29|        did enact,~"If thou mine honour wilt ensure to me,~Beyond
 53    29|    shall o'erpay,~By much, that honour thou wouldst take away.~ ~
 54    29|        And to the real pitch of honour fly.~That to their glory
 55    29|         Their courage and their honour, held more dear~Than life,
 56    30|         offend;~And learn, 'tis Honour pricks me to the field,~
 57    30|      wend,~And do him grace and honour without end.~ ~ LXIX~Each
 58    30|        brotherhood,~-- I say in honour, not in age, for twain~In
 59    31|       And to each other fitting honour pay.~Agramant's host the
 60    31|       deem, I ill should render honour due,~If thus unvenged by
 61    31|      fain,~So that his knightly honour took no stain.~ ~ XXIV~The
 62    31|         I repair;~And, where to honour you I had in thought,~I
 63    31|      Received the cavalier with honour due.~ ~ XLII~When she, that
 64    31|     secure to win~That battle's honour, wends the paladin.~ ~ CX~
 65    32|    Outshines his fellows, him I honour well:~But therefore hold
 66    32|      The damsel with surpassing honour greets.~ ~ LXXVIII~So does
 67    33|       Thousands of years ago in honour stood,~Things which had
 68    33|       than pitch had dyed~Their honour, heretofore so fair of show;~
 69    34|     waste on love, some seeking honour, lose~Their wits, some,
 70    36|      drest,~Fearing to lose the honour of the fight,~If first that
 71    36|         If so Rogero could with honour do,~He willingly the warriors
 72    37|      stifle, but that still~The honour of the sex survives in part:~
 73    37|       For fear of not receiving honour due:~For, as nought good
 74    37|    blown~The noble strain, your honour's noble theme;~Reynet Trivulzio
 75    37|         render good account and honour due,~More than one page
 76    37|        end,~That gentle dame to honour and commend.~ ~ XXIII~Ladies,
 77    37|         bent~Ye whom I love and honour, to content.~ ~ XXV~As said,
 78    37|      done.~ ~ XLII~"If your own honour, sir, and of those three,~
 79    37|         his substance, that his honour take.~But the heart cries
 80    38|         III~Yet to preserve our honour not alone~Deserves excuse,
 81    38|    beneath the mantle gore)~His honour to his pleasure it behoves~
 82    38|         man beyond his life his honour treasures,~Esteemed by him
 83    38|         atone~The crying sin of honour once foregone.~ ~ VII~To
 84    39|         Where Afric's realm and honour are at stake.~ ~ VI~"Let
 85    39|       good England's knight the honour wear~Of every vantage; while
 86    40|   contend;~Deeming too sore his honour 'twoud offend.~ ~ LII~"If
 87    40|   liege-lady sore,~But moved by honour and by duty more.~ ~ LXIX~
 88    41|      father's sake,~And his own honour, no device more gay~Than
 89    41|        Charlemagne~Would render honour due, forthwith to wend;~
 90    42|        of gallant cavalier,~Him honour moves the selfsame course
 91    42|       good:~As well because his honour him compelled,~As for the
 92    42|        birth,~Equal in country, honour, charms and worth.~ ~ LXXXVI~
 93    42| released;~Thus shall he know if honour or if blame~His portion
 94    43|     make the firmest heart from honour swerve;~ ~ XXXVII~"And I
 95    43|     there was one that would my honour buy!'~She nought replies;
 96    43|         To make a woman to true honour rise,~Save chaste in name
 97    43|    prophet is foretold,~Argais' honour will be bought and sold.~ ~
 98    43|        addrest,~`I recommend my honour'; -- and indeed~Took leave,
 99    43|    Grecian train;~Not with more honour to themselves, with more~
100    44|      mighty grace and wonderous honour done.~The Child departs,
101    44|         paynim band.~ ~ VIII~To honour and to hold Rogero dear,~
102    44|      proffers, on his side,~And honour he to good Rogero paid.~
103    44| standing straight.~ ~ XXVIII~To honour those fair pillars that
104    44|        which may do~The warrior honour, mid his martial train:~
105    45|     mother nursed, yet that she honour due~Might have, she garments,
106    45|       can raise;~That such high honour and such courtesy~Were upon
107    46|         that band, whom they~So honour, unless dazzled is mine
108    46|      his throne~Had risen to do honour to the pair:~Then holding
109    46|       is descried,~Who does due honour to his ripened lore,~In
110    46|         lord,~Deserv'st not any honour at this board.~ ~ CVI~"Albeit