Canto

 1     1|        fair domain;~And told how oft Orlando's friendly blade~
 2     2|       story stale;~But makes him oft repeat and piece his tale.~ ~
 3     2|   ancient and a deadly feud:~And oft to blows the rival houses
 4     2|       the rival houses came,~And oft in civil blood their hands
 5     3|          land,~And her quick eye oft glances at his hand;~ ~
 6     3|   glances at his hand;~ ~ LXXVII~Oft glances at his resless hand,
 7     4|   shadowy groves of ancient oak,~Oft echoes to the champion's
 8     5|          into the open air.~Here oft I made my lover climb to
 9     5|          as taught,~Let down (so oft I used) the corded stair.~
10     5|        And this to me the damsel oft has said,~Of hers I am assured;
11     6|     foaming sea.~ ~ V~But, as it oft befalls despairing wight,~
12     7|      fair posterity~Of what, was oft predicted, should ensue?~
13     8|       his better side.~The hawk, oft wheeling, with her talons
14    10|        fleets.~Rogero drops, and oft the stroke repeats.~ ~ CIII~
15    10|          or snout is thrust:~And oft the dog's dry teeth are
16    10|          courser in mid sky;~And oft were fain to find himself
17    11|        rein, in mid career,~Will oft suffice to stop courageous
18    12|       thee live."~ ~ XLIV~-- "So oft have I had Roland on the
19    12|       had Roland on the hip,~And oft," (exclaimed the boaster) "
20    13|    pursues,~While sobs and sighs oft interposing break~Her soft
21    13|          Of fortune: (that which oft awaits the good)~Exiles,
22    13|          full ease had told,~And oft and oft rehearsed, amid
23    13|       ease had told,~And oft and oft rehearsed, amid the rede,~
24    14|         fell.~And many times and oft, by foes offended,~Thy holy
25    14|     quoth Discord in reply;~"But oft have heard him mentioned,
26    14|     obscure and close repair.~So oft he changes home and company,~
27    15|       now before and now behind,~Oft threat the peer by night
28    15|        open day;~Lion and dragon oft of poisonous kind,~And other
29    15|      This: for that Aquilant had oft before~Reproved him for
30    16|       would his plan bewray,~Who oft on him had vain reproof
31    18|          LXIV~But Valour, who so oft befriends her own,~Makes
32    18|          And such her worth, she oft with naked brand~Had pressed
33    20|          roving company:~But, as oft happens that in youthful
34    20|      such sometimes is found) he oft is slain~In the first charge:
35    20|         satisfied~Ere death; for oft ten thousand, maid and wife,~
36    20|     perfect friendship tied,~Has oft by better proof than this
37    20|          among each other share;~Oft marking, still with harness
38    20|       long detained a slave;~Who oft had told how she her native
39    21|         ill.~ ~ XVII~"Now, as it oft befalls a cavalier~Who seeks
40    23|      meet, but that men may,~And oft encounter, is an ancient
41    23|       With sorrow and repentance oft assailed,~She from her inmost
42    23|         HE who with the innocent oft sides,~Nor those abandons
43    23|          thou gloomy cave,~Where oft, by many wooed with fruitless
44    23|   wretched sufferer's head,~That oft the ungrateful lady must
45    24|    neighbouring rest,~Accustomed oft to seek the fountain-wave,~
46    25|         What vows she vowed, how oft that night she prayed,~To
47    25|        high-born lady show.~Here oft I laughed at some, with
48    26|       cause of woe.~That Python, oft the theme of ancient lay,~
49    27|  Algerine.~ ~ CIII~King Agramant oft moved, between the pair,~
50    27|       judgment ween;~But he, who oft was with her on their round,~
51    27|        sighs that burn;~And Echo oft, for pity of his woes,~With
52    28|        nor fed:~So that for pity oft the youth repented~He to
53    28|   Converse with different women, oft allay,~As it would seem,
54    28|      bestow what others buy,~And oft replaced their squandered
55    29|         as a pain,~That, risking oft to tumble in the course,~
56    30|         erred his Doralice, that oft was drowned~In tears, and
57    30|        kisses, while the maid~As oft to him who writes her heart
58    31|        bravely had gainsaid,~But oft endangered in that deadly
59    32|       night believed.~ ~ XII~How oft of dormouse, badger, or
60    32|        Behold Rogero comes"; and oft ascended~A turret, from
61    32|         she strays,~By which she oft to meet Rogero went,~Hears
62    33|           And Bruci, these shall oft molest, you see:~Yet not
63    33|           Lo! from the realm, as oft as they attack,~Alphonso
64    33|          Sage Merlin said -- and oft renewed that say --~He was
65    33|         by his counsel ware,~How oft the Franks from Italy recede.~
66    33|            Twould seem; perusing oft what they behold~Inscribed
67    33|          of Sericana's lord.~Him oft he reached where casque
68    34|        was ever on his side;~And oft with horrid foes of monstrous
69    36|          pent,~'Twas known, that oft, through you, was turned
70    36|          one ravening flame, and oft was spent~The fire, in fane
71    37|      with hate corroded so,~That oft they hide the good they
72    37|          embrace the lovers, and oft say~A last farewell, which
73    38|         on the plain,~Worsted so oft, or broken, shall you be.~
74    38|         broken, shall you be.~If oft united Africa and Spain~
75    40|        own.~ ~ LIX~Orlando (as I oft have certified)~In fury,
76    41|       himself sustain.~Often and oft to rise the Marquis strove,~
77    42|      peer~Sate at the board, and oft and often prayed,~That without
78    42|        is on his lips.~ ~ XCVIII~Oft with desire was good Rinaldo
79    42|          to weep than smile.~"So oft reminded, to maintain my
80    43|    ornament and fair device;~And oft repeats, not all this wide
81    43|       cavalier.~ ~ CXLVII~Though oft of money he had small supply,~
82    44|         descended,~Whose sins so oft and oft had heaven offended;~ ~
83    44| descended,~Whose sins so oft and oft had heaven offended;~ ~
84    45|        and anon, anew~On that so oft repeated by the knight,~
85    45|          retired the knight,~And oft his hand his foot accompanied;~
86    45|      damsel bright~('Twixt which oft sobs and tears were interposed),~
87    46|       youthful knight;~Nor (what oft gives success in martial
88    46|   thought.~ ~ CXXXIV~So shifting oft his hold, about the Moor~