Canto

 1     1|          the approaching knight on foot discerns.~ ~ XII~This was
 2     1|         XVII~Thus, as they are, on foot the warriors vie~In cruel
 3     1|   departure seated in his sell,~On foot the Spaniard left not Aymon'
 4     1|          Endured in wounded arm or foot which bled;~But for mere
 5     1|          Sounding in arms a man on foot espies,~And glows with sudden
 6     2|          knights engage:~One is on foot, the other on his horse:~
 7     2|          has granted,~His foeman's foot upon that inch is planted.~ ~
 8     2|        Alban's knight;~Who then on foot an equal combat sped,~Matched
 9     2|           sir, a band of horse and foot," he said,~"I brought to
10     3|          above the sill~Lifter her foot, and trod the secret cave,~
11     3|       reproach his neighbour,~With foot half burnt, and halting
12     3|            in mirth:~Backed by few foot, and fewer cavaliers,~He
13     4|      before~They at the mountain's foot the cleft espy,~With steps
14     5|               LXXXI~Six knights on foot within the palisade~Stand
15     7|          stately shape and rare,~A foot, neat, short, and round,
16     7|             or rent,~And this, mid foot or horsemen, unespied,~May
17     7|      palfrey, by her art,~With one foot red, black every other part.~ ~
18     8|         him sore;~The dog his left foot worried; while untied~From
19     8|           dispatched to crave~What foot and horse were by the land
20     9|        might,~(The treaty, well on foot, to overthrow,~And nigh
21     9|         with words, till horse and foot he spied~Arrived, where
22     9|            the ground~Shakes under foot and city wall; the skies~
23     9|          bear.~He fears, if he set foot on Ireland's shore,~Some
24    10|        striped blue and black. The foot repair~Each to his separate
25    11|        knew not that, from head to foot, a skin~More hard than diamond
26    12|            XVIII~As soon as he his foot has lifted o'er~The threshold,
27    12|        beside his road,~And to the foot of rising mountain came,~
28    13|       LXXXII~For besides horse and foot, in the campaign~Sore thinned,
29    14|          anew~Brought up a band of foot and cavaliers:~Whom, when
30    14|           This man slays horse and foot, as in the cote,~The wolf
31    14|            Mandricardo, armed from foot to head,~Leapt on the steed
32    16|            she quakes from head to foot with fear,~Her voice so
33    16|           a leg dissevered, flew~A foot, there head divided from
34    16|        horse~Of lightest sort; and foot and cavalry~Sought Paris
35    16|           Thus England's horse and foot, the two between,~Led by
36    16|             Here march supplies of foot, and there of horse:~Her
37    16|         battle hung.~For Horse and Foot, and Captains of those bands,~
38    16|         numerous band~Of horse and foot withdraws, and sends the
39    18| Charlemagne impels his train,~Who, foot with horse to flank, against
40    18|            the ground~Horsemen and foot o'erthrows on every side:~
41    19|       voice is known,~Disarmed, on foot, 'mid many horse, alone.~ ~
42    19|          to have set his venturous foot before.~They holy ceremonies
43    19|            was, excepting the near foot behind~And forehead, darker
44    19|            than was ever crow:~His foot and forehead with some white
45    20|           concede~To sally, or set foot upon the beach,~And hence
46    20|            she strayed,~And to the foot of sunny mountain came;~
47    22|            or lame;~-- Left her on foot, and had that woman old~
48    22|           LI~"She, who remained on foot, in fell despite,~Greedy
49    23|         stood in need.~At a hill's foot, with her avenging brand,~
50    23|     Dispersed about that province, foot and horse;~For the surrounding
51    23|            with amorous fire, from foot to head.~ ~ LXV~From quickly
52    23|          Orlando (such his debt)~A foot upon his prostrate neck
53    27|         was so woe,~He evermore on foot resolved to go.~ ~ LXXII~
54    27|            Sacripant at need moves foot or hand,~And shifts now
55    29|           without,~Locks his right foot or left, in skilful wise;~
56    29|     answered nought,~Save that his foot he to their beast applied,~
57    31|            a vault,~Trampling down foot, o'erturning cavalier,~And
58    31|         many cries -- with rush of foot confounded --~Rose all about,
59    32|      before.~ ~  IV~With horse and foot, of good or evil sort,~Marsilius
60    33|        wall,~Girt with his forces, foot and cavaliers:~A garrison
61    36|           riders call,~Rousing the foot, beat drum and ataball.~ ~
62    37|            who~On horseback, or on foot, their way pursue.~ ~ LXXXVIII~
63    37|    Marganor, with men arraid,~Some foot, some horsemen! armed was
64    38|           embattled stands,~-- All foot -- the Nubian host, for
65    38|         troops divide,~At a hill's foot, wherewith the plains confine;~
66    38|          multitude,~Should set his foot on warlike Africk's strand;~
67    38|        strokes they at the head or foot address;~And these so skilfully
68    39|      behind embraced,~And with his foot the furious peer would throw:~
69    40|            after, need was none of foot or horse,~For so the lion'
70    40|           Here clang with hand and foot the daring knight,~Sprang
71    41|            valiant master, nor his foot can clear;~His left foot,
72    41|           foot can clear;~His left foot, which in that unthought
73    41|           Roland, all from head to foot espied,~After such mighty
74    42|         can retrieve, his crippled foot, save sprained,~And almost
75    42|           shift withal his wounded foot, and so~Benumbed and crippled
76    43|      purchase of my dog one single foot':~ ~ CX~"And he, the truth
77    43|         where~He sits with wounded foot, he makes repair.~ ~  CLIII~
78    43|       paladin did free;~And to his foot restored its vigour lost.~
79    44|                XXI~Home, horse and foot, the Nubian host arraid~
80    44|           first those paladins set foot ashore.~ ~ XXXII~With pomp
81    44|        more than head o'ertops the foot, surmount;~Why would I Aymon
82    44|         LXXXII~With many horse and foot in battle dight,~Who nothing
83    44|         had warred,~Much horse and foot had sent that emperor; here~
84    45|         Good at all arms alike, on foot or horse.~Aymon, who cannot
85    45|       knight,~And oft his hand his foot accompanied;~And lifted
86    46|        close upon his foe;~But his foot fails him, weakened by the
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