Canto

 1     2|              Rogero was his valiant father's name,~His mother was the
 2     3|         guilt,~By whom his princely father's blood was spilt.~ ~ XXV~"
 3     3|          are his seed:~And, lo! the father walkes between his heirs.~
 4     3|            Both Henrys! -- mark the father and his boy.~Two Guelphs:
 5     3|           son, ill-trusted with the father's beams;~Where Cygnus spread
 6     4|        scout;~(Fitting with him the father of all lies)~Watches his
 7     4|            LVIII~"Her he before her father does pursue,~Perchance yet
 8     6|          And housed within the holy father's shed,~There secretly awhile
 9     6|         lawful claim~After my royal father, Otho hight.~More dames
10     6|            sister torn,~Who was her father's universal heir:~For that
11     8|        death-like dye.~"Misericord! father," when the friar was near~(
12     8|        charms~Discovers in the holy father's arms.~ ~ LXII~Oh! prize
13     9|           land,~Me of the count, my father, to demand.~ ~ XXVI~"I without
14     9|       afflicted sprite,~Cried to my father, I would rather shed~My
15     9|          wed.~ ~ XXVII~"My gracious father, he who took but pleasure~
16     9|          breast before.~ ~ XXXI~"My father next, defending on a day~
17     9|             XXXVII~" Mid many in my father's service, I~Select two
18     9|           followers, who~Bred in my father's court, from infancy~Had
19     9|          Who did my brothers and my father kill,~And, in my state to
20     9|             Towards me, torment the father day and night;~But as lamenting
21     9|      dominion rent;~Through him, my father and my brethren slain;~Through
22    10|             The fate of her unhappy father dead,~He saw her bathed
23    11|           crown, his right~Upon his father's death, had crossed the
24    12|        guide her thither, where her father reigned,~King Galaphron,
25    13|  compassionate my sorrow.~ ~ VI~"My father in his city of Bayonne,~(
26    13|       Christian he)~To ask me of my father as a bride,~By stealth he
27    13|       person this to do,~For by his father he was forced to wend~In
28    13|        Exiles, and cheated of their father's reign,~She shall behold
29    14|           shall bring her where her father keeps~I' the Spanish camp;
30    15|         guide."~"I thank thee, holy father, for thy say,~(To him the
31    15|           Though the author has the father's name mis-said;~One for
32    16|         flesh and blood,~Got by one father; -- and so puts upon~The
33    17|             burden bore:~Her to her father, who was there, they gave.~
34    20|          maid,~And left for him her father: she in word,~As well as
35    21|            Her only brother and her father true;~And was advised, the
36    23|           To be among the forts his father swayed.~For Altaripa here
37    23|            the rest,~Is the unhappy father's visage drest.~ ~ XLVII~
38    23|        Which straight the miserable father knew;~And on the woman's
39    23|          all the town is risen, the father sends.~The prince, who deems
40    24|            love witnessed, when thy father's land~Thou quittedst for
41    24|               LXXXVIII~The reverend father, who with natural sense~
42    25|             error had to learn;~Nor father, brother, nor even mother
43    27|             she is harboured in her father's hold.~ ~ VII~Guard thyself,
44    28|             treasure,~Wherewith his father had endowed that home;~And
45    28|        manners framed to win;~Whose father at Valencia kept his inn.~ ~
46    28|         Seek favour in her Heavenly Father's sight.~Loud laughed that
47    30|              How by Troyano was thy father slain;~And yet Troyano's
48    31|           at his sight~All like his father deemed the stranger knight.~ ~
49    33|           said),~As well to him his father whilome read;~ ~ XXVI~"And
50    33|        betrayed,~He, that his royal father seized and sold,~Whose succour
51    34|        there enrolled~Amid my royal father's chivalry,~In mickle fame
52    34|            s reign,~Through him, my father brought beneath his sway,~
53    34|            nought bested.~For on my father, bent on gain and gear~And
54    34|      complained,~Since foully by my father had he done,~And me would
55    34|          meed;~ ~ XXVIII~"And if my father would not have been won,~
56    34|          though I sought him, at my father's hest,~And pious love for
57    34|         amend,~Will of his realm my father repossess,~And will in future
58    34|            month, the kingdom by my father lost~Restored; and, to repair
59    34|            mean,~Extinguished is my father's every foe;~And, conquered
60    36|            is not vain.~Seed of one father, on one womb ye lay;~And
61    36|        Heaven I vow,~That Christ my father worshipped, to adore;~And
62    36|            so reveres and lauds his father's worth,~He even deems him
63    37|         those so loved, as brother, father, son,~A long divorce and
64    37|           It chanced, that in their father's fortilage,~A knight of
65    37|            and in silence, near his father's seat,~Where must pass
66    38|         show)~Rogero of Risa was my father, whom~An evil brother traitorously
67    38| consanguinity;~ ~ XVII~"And, for my father thee, as kinsman, served,~
68    38|             magnified,~And much her father, much her noble line:~He
69    41|            Of battle, for his royal father's sake,~And his own honour,
70    41|           his trenchant blade.~ ~ C~Father of heaven! 'mid spirits
71    43|             Five years my consort's father had been dead,~Since to
72    43|           thou heirdst erewhile thy father's land:~Now will I that
73    43|           bent~On journeying to her father; for her sake~If wholly
74    43|            those eternal Three,~The Father, and the Son, and Holy Ghost,~
75    44|            Now good Rinaldo, of his father wide,~And of the imperial
76    44|          And vouch in valour as his father's peer,~"Witnesses of his
77    44|              If I shall not obey my father's hest,~Nor mothers, I my
78    44|            Shall Leo with his royal father be,~And I, encircled with
79    44|           LIV~"What shall I do? her father then pursue,~On whom for
80    44|        grief of heart shall son and father cost.~ ~ LVII~"Can it be
81    44|             not thee?~And could thy father force thee him to take,~
82    44|        squadrons through:~He to his father a quick courier sent,~To
83    45|            sister's husband's town,~Father of him, whose arms in their
84    45|             If ever Constantine, my father, trow~That I have aided
85    46|          wide,~He will persuade his father to forego.~None of the virtues,
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