Canto

 1     2|       tangled ally~And oftentimes bent back her bloodless face,~
 2     2|        defence.~ ~ XXVI~For he is bent again to try the fate~Of
 3     2|         wizard's blow the warrior bent,~Which made some deal his
 4     2|            gave a ready ear; and, bent~To help the maid, imprisoned
 5     3|        sight.~His fair endeavours bent to bless and stay~The people,
 6     3|           to her will the spirits bent.~And they, where Merlin'
 7     4|       Averse to kill, than he was bent to die.~To know who was
 8     5|           please him was entirely bent,~Who never could or would
 9     5|          her, alive or dead:~Nor, bent to wreck her on this fatal
10     5|         to his fell despite,~And, bent to take his life, this ambush
11     5|           of so deep a dye,~That, bent to follow him, he well nigh
12     5|       combat in Geneura's quarrel bent,~With ensigns strange, not
13     6|    discerned her light and fickle bent,~Still loving and unloving
14     8|       tell you of these two,~More bent Anglantes' champion to pursue;~ ~
15     9|             LXVII~As wary fowler, bent on greater prey,~Wisely
16    10|       lips comprest and eye-brows bent,~Shall listen to the tale
17    10|          show his heart so deeply bent,~But that he in the cool
18    10|      night and day complains;~And bent to end her woes, with many
19    11|          needed not; since he was bent~More than behoved, her wishes
20    12|        give it to Orlando was she bent,~But first she would upon
21    12|           for dauntless mind;~Who bent to joust pricked forth his
22    13|         vain, for I was fixed and bent,~Rather than sate his ill
23    14|           son,~Where Agramant was bent to storm foresaw,~And every
24    15|       speed,~Secure himself, and, bent -- to make him pay~The price
25    16|           breast and flies: while bent to wreak~Vengeance, the
26    17|           recreant is his natural bent;~And next, on Gryphon to
27    17|       Hence Thebes to cruel Creon bent her knees,~Mezentius ruled
28    17|        And follow, wheresoe'er he bent his way.~To lose Lucina
29    18|      monarch's altered cheer,~Who bent to clasp his neck, towards
30    18|           himself of that Martano bent;~And heard that he to Antioch
31    18|         prove her warlike prowess bent)~"I will be with you at
32    18|           to satisfy the king was bent,~Replied: "You recompense
33    19|        author of her cruel ill is bent.~ ~ XXIX~Her ill but festered
34    19|           and the black champion, bent~To slay Marphisa, spurs
35    20|      their threshold cluster,~Who bent on change of realm in springtide
36    20|       whom he leads, perceive his bent,~And truly deem he is about
37    20|      terror smote the dames, that bent to fly,~When in their ears
38    20|         had thither borne, and -- bent to post~On her old track --
39    21|        was instructed in her evil bent,~He -- if before he had
40    22|          you are of such constant bent;~Be not displeased at what
41    23|        has no present need.~ ~ XV~Bent, since a course in air was
42    23|      crossed her path on mischief bent,~Or even questioned witherward
43    24|           s neck the Tartar fell,~Bent by the weighty blow Zerbino
44    24|         Fury returns, its ancient bent regained,~And, in discharging
45    25|         found written of a female bent~On love of female, mid mankind
46    26|           inch at their encounter bent.~Marphisa, who would willingly
47    26|           to appease the warriors bent,~Exclaimed, "Sirs, listen
48    27|         mighty space,~Who sits so bent, and with such downcast
49    28|         find a girl whose natural bent~And face to both of us should
50    28|        execute Astolpho's project bent,~Journey by many a hill
51    28|       That from Valencia they had bent their way.~ ~ LV~"The travellers
52    29|           Isabella in her mind is bent~To slay herself with her
53    30|          to Agrismont his way had bent.~ ~ XCII~There, hearing
54    31|      obscure,~And from it natural bent our judgment wrest:~Wound,
55    31|       inch the champions backward bent.~ ~ XIV~The chargers such
56    31|           to those lords' opinion bent,~Though that hard counsel
57    32|     caused the youth's delay;~She bent to slay her, grieving evermore,~
58    32|          burden will thy heart be bent?~What treatment will thine
59    33|         eyes the warriors had not bent.~When such despiteous war
60    33|        the further side~Of Egypt, bent o'er Africa, to stray;~The
61    33|            bethink thee, 'tis our bent~To sin, and thine to pardon
62    34|         bested.~For on my father, bent on gain and gear~And avarice,
63    34|        remedy the Lydian king was bent;~And thither, where Alcestes'
64    36|    beginning I would say -- when, bent~On mischief, fiercely closed
65    37|         that, gentle ladies, I am bent~Ye whom I love and honour,
66    37|        but that, on that alone is bent.~ ~ LXVI~"An ancient woman,
67    37|           made,~And to the palace bent her steps again:~A flask
68    37|       that old crone on vengeance bent:~Such was their fierce desire,
69    39|     Agramant his sails for Africk bent:~His barks ill-armed and
70    40|       issued forth upon dry land,~Bent to find Charlemagne that
71    41|     hundred yards had gone, when, bent~With years, and with long
72    42|       told his love, with eyelids bent~On earth, and visage crimsoned
73    42|         and that gate, an arch is bent;~Of equal breadth, but different
74    43|    incline the matron to his evil bent.~ ~ XXXIV~"So often she
75    43|           as Lizza convoy her, if bent~On journeying to her father;
76    44| Constantine to have that town was bent~Anew, late won by the Bulgarian
77    45|          circles him, on mischief bent;~And evermore she rages
78    45|          for he desperate was and bent to die,~And he, as best
79    45|          to exclude the hated Leo bent,~And of Rogero to be repossest,~
80    46|     Rogero let me say.~ ~ XX~Much bent was this Melissa (as I know~
81    46|          time before she had been bent:~Long time before desirous