Canto

  1     1|     DARING FEAT;~And from those ancient days my story bring,~When
  2     1|       Rogero, valiant peer,~The ancient root of thine illustrious
  3     2|      mead the fountain-rill,~By ancient trees o'ershaded, glides
  4     2|    Clermont's line~There was an ancient and a deadly feud:~And oft
  5     3|       decree.~ ~ X~"This is the ancient memorable cave~Which Merlin,
  6     3|        noble blood derived from ancient Troy,~Mingling in thee its
  7     3|      again to widowed Italy~Her ancient praise and fame in arms
  8     3|        And they, where Merlin's ancient bones reposed,~From the
  9     4|   through its shadowy groves of ancient oak,~Oft echoes to the champion'
 10     7|       Alcina's spell)~She every ancient passion dispossessed;~And
 11     8|          XLVIII~A pocket at the ancient's side was dight,~Where
 12     8|      that foul crew~The savage, ancient statute, which decreed~That
 13     8|         ensign he foregoes,~His ancient bearing, quartered red and
 14     9|      His way directed where the ancient led.~ ~ XXI~With him did
 15     9|         wight,~Save him, of the ancient nations or the new:~A hollow
 16     9|        his following: who their ancient lord~Had put to death, and
 17    10| straight, he came;~And there an ancient ferryman espied~Put from
 18    10|      sea,~Discoursing with that ancient pilot, fraught~With wisdom,
 19    11|      from his pleasant seat and ancient bound,~Dragged by that arm
 20    11|         Idaean glen unveiled~In ancient days before the Phrygian
 21    13|        for review.~ ~ ~ I~Those ancient cavaliers right happy were,~
 22    13|     Orlando strung.~ ~ XLII~The ancient woman, the assassin's friend,~
 23    13|     LXVIII~"Nor sprung from the ancient root of Aragon,~I of the
 24    14|       we~May modern things with ancient deeds compare,~The battle,
 25    14|         The first beneath their ancient captains wend;~The second
 26    14|       squire and cavalier,~Came ancient men and matrons in her train,~
 27    14|            LIV~He dames, maids, ancient men, and others, who~Had
 28    14|         they once; but 'twas in ancient days;~Chased hence by Avarice,
 29    14|        is the dale,~And full of ancient fir and sturdy beech.~Thither
 30    15|         Is free, he spreads the ancient empire's sway,~So on the
 31    15|        Nigh the famed gulf from ancient Magi hight;~Here they found
 32    15|     chain~To a tough oak, whose ancient trunk they ween~May well
 33    17|   golden hair~Uplifted from his ancient nurse's breast,~Beginning,
 34    18|      hand, in sign affied,~From ancient times, of treaty and of
 35    18|     enemies.~ ~ CXCII~Of old an ancient forest clothed that lair,~
 36    19|        to Monodantes grave,~His ancient sire, through Roland's chivalry)~
 37    19|     that shore,~Which, by their ancient law, enslave or slew~All
 38    19|         sybil gray,~Or Hector's ancient mother of renown,~Made call
 39    19|          the ten; to follow~The ancient usage which those women
 40    20|        Beside a torrent, saw an ancient dame;~Who with long journey
 41    20|         And with the spoils her ancient crone invest;~ ~ CXVI~And
 42    21|      the days of old;~So by the ancient limner ever painted,~As
 43    21|       XXXVI~"The husband had an ancient feud with one~Who was by
 44    21|        I say,~These through the ancient wood pursued their way.~ ~
 45    22|        carrying on his croup an ancient dame,~Encountered with her
 46    22|           Behold the man," that ancient made reply,~"Clear of the
 47    23|        And oft encounter, is an ancient say.~ ~ II~Now mark what
 48    23|       other's foe profest,~From ancient hate and enmity, which run~
 49    23|       Ere yet aware of her, the ancient dame~On Doralice and Mandricardo
 50    23|       show and shape,~Upon that ancient woman, figuring~Like monkey,
 51    23|    through the forest gray~That ancient woman, almost dead with
 52    24|         inclined;~Placing, from ancient Testament and new,~Women,
 53    24|     much more~Fury returns, its ancient bent regained,~And, in discharging
 54    25|       VII~Pursuing thence their ancient road again,~They reached
 55    25|   substance view,~Straitway the ancient flame breaks forth anew.~ ~
 56    26|        Python, oft the theme of ancient lay,~So passing wonderful
 57    26|        thee betide;~This is the ancient bearing of my line;~Tis
 58    27|         or sun.~ ~ XIII~But the ancient foe, deluded by whose say,~
 59    27|    brood,~By one who dwells her ancient cavern nigh~Unearthed, and
 60    27|  somewhat less, and round;~Like ancient theatre, on every side,~
 61    27|       prowess tried,~Meseems no ancient histories record,~Cried: "
 62    27|  brought thus low,~His fathers' ancient seat might reascend:~And
 63    28|  Nearest the roof, there was an ancient hall:~Thither, in solitary
 64    28|      been told"~(Exclaimed that ancient) "wherein truth is none,~
 65    28|       spend,~Admonished by that ancient's evil end.~ ~ ~
 66    29|    inflamed: effaced~In him all ancient recollections are,~How she
 67    31|        are~A real offset of our ancient tree,~You could no better
 68    31|       as a friend,~And of their ancient quarrel make an end.~ ~
 69    31|         air~In darkness, to his ancient nurse withdrew;~And fangless
 70    31|         dame and damsel in that ancient age~They trusted much, that,
 71    32|         VIII~She pardoned every ancient injury,~And him to Agramant
 72    32|     more solid cheer.~If new or ancient were his castle's style,~(
 73    32|        rare;~And damsel in that ancient age was none~More graceful,
 74    33|         That art, whereby those ancient erst pourtrayed~Such wonders,
 75    33|    wrong,~Caesar, whose praises ancient tales repeat.~So that, compared
 76    33|      harass, not o'erthrow~That ancient rival of his goodly reign;~
 77    33|          Who calls to mind that ancient prophecy,~And heedless of
 78    34|        Whom, for the scourge of ancient sins designed,~Haply just
 79    34|         should bless,~If he his ancient error will amend,~Will of
 80    34|        the vest:~White was that ancient's hair, and white withal~
 81    34|         And now Aurora left her ancient spouse,~Not for his many
 82    34|     Grecian and Persian, all of ancient fame;~And now, alas! well-nigh
 83    34|       that the Parcae are those ancient wives,~That in this fashion
 84    35| discoloured hue;~And found that ancient man upon the shore,~Who
 85    35|     story I erewhile suspended,~Ancient of visage, and so swift
 86    35|         river side~Arrives that ancient, of his store profuse,~He
 87    35|        XV~Thus, counter to that ancient's will malign,~Who them
 88    35|     with a different face.~That ancient, with his sweeping beard
 89    37|      alone is bent.~ ~ LXVI~"An ancient woman, seized with her whilere,~
 90    37|     supplies, adorn.~Drusilla's ancient woman, in this space,~Marganor'
 91    38|       that cavalier.~Now, if to ancient sins he should unite~A mortal
 92    39|     found,~Which thither had an ancient knight conveyed:~Of Monodantes'
 93    39|         By signs, whereof those ancient saints had told,~In the
 94    39|          The unsettled mind its ancient seat regained;~And, in its
 95    40|     array,~Or silver plate from ancient altar won.~The mother this,
 96    40|   martial Hannibal, and more~In ancient times, good proof of this
 97    41|  beauteous ground;~And thus its ancient title of Ateste~Shall of
 98    41|     sword's length he holds the ancient peer.~ ~ XC~He hopes, if
 99    41|       To good Orlando, to thine ancient lord,~That thou can'st slaughter,
100    43|       rich, to build.~ ~ XV~"By ancient and chaste dames he there
101    43|     will~Transformed me to mine ancient shape anew.~-- Bethink thee
102    43|     Within that clump a passing ancient snake,~Amid the tangled
103    43|      The honoured ensign of his ancient strain;~In memory that their
104    43|           And because with that ancient knot thou still,~I know,
105    44|          IV~In his retreat that ancient eremite~Could bind his inmates
106    44|      ravished from his hand,~By ancient Aymon's craft his sister
107    45|       Marius this have shown~In ancient days; King Lewis in our
108    45| instances that fill~The page of ancient and of modern story,~That
109    46|        The secret spirit of the ancient page~There Fuscus well instructs