Canto

 1     1|        his other arms he wears),~Aye wont to rove in steel, with
 2     5|        And other bridal bond for aye eschewed,~To pass her days
 3     5|       bared to sight~His visage, aye within his helmet pent:~
 4    10|         Heaps promises and vows, aye prompt to swear,~Which afterwards
 5    13|       Here the fell tyrant Love, aye prompt to range,~And faithless
 6    13|           What time they robbing aye, by hill and plain,~Scower
 7    13|          is not this Rogero, who~Aye present to my heart, is
 8    14|        sad Ravenna trembles,~And aye shall weep her loss, this
 9    14|     scanned~Nor dwelt elsewhere; aye guested by the crew~Of Benedict,
10    14|     whole runlets in his thirst;~Aye wonted simple water to decline,~
11    15|        And Logistilla wills, for aye in doubt~Of hinderance from
12    15|         steer,~Where angry winds aye vex the rude domain:~So
13    15|   mindful what his dangers were,~Aye fastens on his door the
14    15|        ere he rest,~As shall for aye be told. My next will tell~
15    18|     about him flows,~And renders aye his every purpose vain.~
16    18|      sallied, and returned anew,~Aye leaving bloody signs when
17    18|        the miserable crew.~While aye descending night, with deeper
18    19|          boisterous swell.~While aye more passing proud and arrogant,~
19    19|         the patron who from land~Aye keeps aloof, explains the
20    19|      corslet's mail,~The strokes aye harmless on the breast-plate
21    20|      night:~And (as her townsmen aye were wont to greet~The stranger)
22    20|        The mighty multitude, for aye intent~To smite, and clad
23    21|       That weak and friendly, as aye wont to be:~My brother was
24    23|        or to sleep resigned,~Has aye Rogero present to her mind.~ ~
25    23|        was he wont with pleasure aye to see,~But now with more
26    23|  fomented.~ ~ CV~But stirred and aye rekindled it, the more~That
27    24|      collected in a hurry, fare;~Aye watchful, if the trace I
28    24|         sphere,~Together go, for aye together dwell.~No sooner
29    24|    curling lock of golden grain,~Aye calling on the well-loved
30    25|         damsel was addrest;~Whom aye the Child so hurried on
31    25|          he that wish fulfil, --~Aye in his troubled, interrupted
32    25|     speed or no, I hold it wise,~Aye to pursue whatever give
33    25|          since Ferrau took them, aye has stayed~Imprisoned in
34    26|       beginning even to our day,~Aye has that monster grown,
35    26|          that monster grown, and aye will grow;~And till much
36    26|         and menace proving vain,~Aye cursing him and execrating
37    27| perceives himself in evil hands,~Aye weeps, and mercy of that
38    27|       fickle mood," (he cries,) "aye prone to turn!~Object most
39    27| sovereign see, a real friend~Was aye to be preferred in wrong
40    28|        about him, night and day,~Aye weeping, to her lord the
41    28|          the stripling gall,)~He aye betakes himself; while evermore~
42    28|       they of lovely visage spy,~Aye find the dame complaint
43    28|     bestride:~This he encounters aye on prow or poop,~And bears
44    28|          Vext by that cruel one, aye night and day,~Whom he might
45    28|       the day and night~Ensuing, aye by heavy thoughts opprest;~
46    28|         streaming eyes,~And sobs aye issue from her burning breast,~
47    29|    believe~He had better held -- aye, better bit, his tongue,~
48    29|        Cygnus were of yore.~She, aye by beetling cliff and darksome
49    29|     argument supply;~So that for aye Parnassus' hill and well~
50    29|       divides.~Thither directing aye his course outright,~Where
51    29|         along the sands he hied,~Aye gaining on the mare in this
52    29|         hunger was distrest;~And aye to glut himself with meat,
53    30|     avail to minister repose,~If aye, by this or that desire
54    30|    Aurora -- on his way~Ushering aye the sun -- no sooner stirred,~
55    30|    excess of pain;~And memorable aye had been that blow,~Had
56    30|       and more beside,~Lamenting aye; while her attendant maid~
57    31|         III~That which the heart aye sees, though undiscerned~
58    31|   cavalier,~(For generous bosoms aye such practise use)~And is
59    32|        and gladsome sight!~ ~ XI~Aye sick with hope deferred,
60    32|       feeds,~Another and another aye succeeds.~ ~ XVI~And then
61    32|        to the field to go,~Where aye thy breath with glory may
62    32|        talks, while fell despair~Aye racks the houseless prince
63    33|          Whose clangours helpful aye in peril are,~And deems
64    34|     hideous birds, that cavalier~Aye scared them with the bugle'
65    34|     prompt to ire;~Sure, passing aye from good to better deed,~
66    34|        him befriend.~Feeding him aye with hope from day to day,~
67    34|         breath appears to shake,~Aye, without fill or fall, the
68    34|        wealthy dower,~O'er which aye turns the restless wheel,
69    34|       leisure,~And vain designs, aye frustrate of their end.~
70    35|          his mantle to the brim,~Aye thinned the pile, but ne'
71    35|        high-minded maid, to whom aye welcome are~All noble quests,
72    37|      exercise~Of goodly labours, aye your way pursue;~Nor halt,
73    37|         they that ride~With her, aye mindful how they had been
74    37|         he the sex's cause would aye defend,~Foe to their foes,
75    38|     young Rogero as ingrate,~And aye cries out upon her cruel
76    38|      within thy holy womb,~While aye thy virgin flower preserved
77    39|        blow;~And, if ever smote, aye strove to smite~Where he
78    40|   grieving people, and in tears,~Aye beat their bosoms, and for
79    40|      rely;~ ~ XLII~And therefore aye, throughout that warfare
80    41|      comforts him -- that Christ aye heaven allows~To them, that
81    41|        can return; so Brandimart aye plies,~And presses Sericana'
82    42|        human wilfulness -- which aye takes part~With our weak
83    42|        desirous ardour shew~That aye her praises should be widely
84    43|        he often wont devize;~And aye contemplating that city
85    43|          patience could sustain,~Aye reverence to the serpent
86    43|       wont to rein the cavalier,~Aye to inflame his heart, aye
87    43|        Aye to inflame his heart, aye vex his wound:~At length
88    43|    departure see,~But Flordelice aye followed thee," she cries:~"
89    44|           But what thereon shall aye be made in vain;~Nor shall
90    45|      danger run~To be exiled, or aye with troubled brow~Regarded
91    45|       none)~And wastes his host, aye frustrate of his will;~So
92    46|       from her plighted faith -- aye good and wise --~Because
93    46|          And charged with viands aye the board appeared.~ ~ C~
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