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 1     1|         vie~In cruel strife, and blade to blade oppose;~No marvel
 2     1|       cruel strife, and blade to blade oppose;~No marvel plate
 3     1|         forfeit to the Christian blade.~ ~ XXXI~And this new vow
 4     1|       how oft Orlando's friendly blade~Had saved her from dishonour,
 5     1|       rove in steel, with belted blade,~Replaced the bridle on
 6     2|         at Sacripant with lifted blade;~And he puts forth his buckler
 7     4|     barbarous twain prepared the blade,~To deluge with that damsel'
 8     5|          cavalier, who bared his blade,~Unknown of all, upon Geneura'
 9     6|    pointed at him full the naked blade.~ ~  LXV~That monster would
10     7|          already with his lifted blade,~Drawn for that end, to
11     7|        plucked or severed in the blade.~ ~  XLII~But that enchantress
12     8|          unprepared, not let his blade,~Amid that crowd, hang idle
13     8|        foul it seemed to use his blade~On dog, and knave unfenced
14     9|   stripling's head the ponderous blade,~Of speech and life it reft
15    11|          left behind, except his blade,~And singly for the rocky
16    11|         he grasped his trenchant blade.~Misjudging of his worth,
17    12|      quickly bared his trenchant blade.~Ferrau stands close, and
18    12|          Where fatal Durindana's blade descends.~ ~ LXXX~Nor safety
19    12|       for as Orlando wheeled~The blade, it turned, descending,
20    12|       ceased not his ensanguined blade to sway~Till living wight
21    13|       worthless life with lifted blade.~Nor think to slay Rogero
22    14|       vain,~That save he won the blade Orlando wore,~He would no
23    14|      shield as well as trenchant blade.~ ~ CXIX~Nor Rodomont to
24    16|       his horse, with brandished blade,~Dispatching into hell the
25    17|        at length, unsheathed his blade,~Wheeled his good courser,
26    18| brandishes on high his trenchant blade,~To assail the newly entered
27    18|      anew his falchion, by whose blade~More than a hundred deadly
28    18|        fork, with his descending blade;~Next Bogio de Vergalla'
29    18|      venge himself, and with his blade,~Now here, now there, an
30    18|         one she severed with the blade,~And from that other cleft:
31    18|         reverenced is Fusberta's blade.~Save Dardinel, Mount Alban'
32    18|        foe,~That at his back the blade appears again.~Forth issued
33    18|       that day by the destroying blade:~Last trooped from caverns,
34    18|     CLXXXI~Rearing the insidious blade, the pair are near~The place,
35    19|          that she pointed to the blade~Which she had girt -- "is
36    19|       and to the handle dyed her blade.~Here shorn of arms, and
37    19|         with shield the twain~Or blade ward off, and now by leaps
38    19|        falls the savage damsel's blade,~That falls not lightly
39    20|        perish by the sacrificial blade.~But Orontea, willing to
40    21|      brother to Gabrina gave the blade,~(So was she named) who
41    22|        times had buried half her blade~Within bleeding flanks and
42    23|        oath in Heaven to gird no blade,~Till Durindana from the
43    23|       with the knife's indenting blade.~ ~ CVII~Here from his horse
44    24|        defence of good Orlando's blade,~Is afterwards by Mandricardo
45    24|          that African with ready blade,~And straight with double
46    25|        Orlando death, that cruel blade.~ ~ XVI~But to have forged
47    25|      spindle, furnished with the blade --~Believed that she beheld
48    26|          so charged with hostile blade,~The Moors those Maganzese
49    26|       helmet pared~With his good blade, or crushed it like the
50    26|       ensued, by whom with cruel blade~Most deadly signs of prowess
51    26|       fury, griped his trenchant blade.~ ~ CXVI~On Argier's king
52    27|         this, agnised it for the blade~So famous, which Anglantes'
53    27|         while he kept the goodly blade."~ ~ LVII~Saying the Count,
54    27|     before thou rear~That goodly blade against King Rodomont.~To
55    27|        him, with Almontes' noble blade,~Embraced his shield, and,
56    27|       the Trojan Hector's goodly blade~To Mandricardo, solely for
57    27|           With fierce Marphisa's blade, -- and on return~To Afric --
58    30|   Mandricardo's head he aims his blade,~But such the fury of the
59    30|     sight diverged the trenchant blade,~Which on the saddle's plated
60    31|        harassed with his furious blade,~He of its final issue stands
61    31|         The infidels that goodly blade should sway.~Good Brigliador
62    32|     assist him with her friendly blade;~And proffered purse and
63    33|      Rinaldo with more skill his blade inclined,~And stunned the
64    36|     thrown, before her trenchant blade~She bared, and hurried to
65    36|          or point, but still the blade~Descended flat: he long
66    36|     begirt him with the knightly blade,~He, as a traitor, well
67    38|          could keep him from his blade.~Nor deemed the Child could
68    38|        LXXXIX~Now with the axe's blade, now with its heel~Their
69    39|       lance, and one with lifted blade.~Hardly King Agramant his
70    41|      from him Brunello stole the blade;~ ~ XXVII~And how beneath
71    41|       pressing need had sent the blade:~ ~ XXVIII~Such pressing
72    41|       fine steel was Balisarda's blade,~That arms against it little
73    41|         assail Gradasso with the blade,~He, loose and walking in
74    41|     bridle grasped, and that the blade.~Orlando's motions good
75    41|        the front,~Smote with mid blade Anglantes' haughty count.~ ~
76    41|        either hand his trenchant blade.~ ~ C~Father of heaven! '
77    43|       When through her flank the blade he would have driven.~Vainly
78    43|         conquest won by Roland's blade,~Sansonet and Astolpho make
79    44|      girt his side, and with the blade,~Frontino and martial Hector'
80    44|         by his might~Had won the blade with mickle toil and grief,~
81    44|        heir should perish by his blade;~And of Augustus him a god
82    44|       dead, and drew his shining blade~Upon a squadron, whom he
83    44|        lay him lifeless with his blade:~Him with his eyes he sought;
84    45|          he envy, guarded by his blade,~King Charles', Orlando'
85    45|       hates because of those thy blade~Put to the rout and slaughtered
86    45|        Bradamant, with trenchant blade~Or lance must with the maid
87    45|       knew against the enchanted blade~As soft as paste would prove
88    46|      help the church with lifted blade;~With scanty and tumultuous
89    46|         and pommel of his broken blade,~Layed at Rogero's helmet