Canto

 1     1|     brought my feeble wit which fain would climb~And hourly wastes
 2     2|        the dare."~And when they fain would veer, with fiercer
 3     5|         will appear,~If you are fain the history to hear.~ ~ ~
 4     7|        thousand fathoms deep he fain would lie~Buried in earth,
 5     9|       so sore,~The mariners are fain to strike all sail,~And
 6    10|        in mid sky;~And oft were fain to find himself ashore:~
 7    11|       the knight,~Whom he would fain see conqueror in the fight:~ ~
 8    11|       blows so foul, that he is fain to steer~Another course,
 9    14|     hear, is fair" (he cried).~"Fain would I now be certified,
10    15|    Oriental regions to explore;~Fain to retrace alike the course
11    15|  pursuit of bold Astolpho sped.~Fain had Orrilo shouted "Hola!
12    18|         his object knows,~Would fain the wish content; but him
13    18|       doughty deed,~On them she fain would prove her martial
14    18|    friends and good companions; fain~That Sansonnet the tourney'
15    18|      and such fair loyalty;~And fain would make the youth his
16    18|         loathed burden he would fain be clear;~But, lest his
17    20|    great act of courtesy, which fain~The warrior would have done,
18    21|   advised, the traitor would be fain~By her, the remnant of her
19    22|         he to some friend would fain~Present him, rather than
20    22|        for the love of her were fain,~As his good sire had been,
21    22|       times alone the Child was fain~(And, certes sore bested)
22    23|   deprive her of the steed were fain,~Her to proclaim who was
23    23|      door, and window: he would fain~Question his host of this,
24    25|       helmet found.~And she was fain to trim the locks which
25    26|        as if about to smite,~He fain by proof their prowess would
26    26|   choice," said Aldigier, "were fain~To flourish faulchion, or
27    26|        bear off Rogero's ensign fain,~He for king Agramant shows
28    26|         I strive once more;~And fain would see, according to
29    26|    Marphisa to seek Paris is so fain,~That parting she forgets
30    27|      quarrel to the root,~Would fain accord them; but with little
31    27|     obey his sentence both were fain;~That he who was by her
32    27|        of the other said,~Would fain behold that monarch's kingdom
33    30|   jennet for thy hackney were I fain~To barter," cried the madman
34    30|         would do what all would fain~Behold by the relenting
35    30|         death am I:~Yet would I fain not die so ill content,~
36    31|       strife was ended would be fain,~So that his knightly honour
37    31|     blame, a mean devise,~Would fain withdraw from that disastrous
38    32|         heavy slumber would she fain partake!~For she that time
39    32|       she cried) -- "Shall I be fain~To follow one, that strives
40    32|     Surpass all other warriors, fain would find;~Resolved, should
41    33| ermatched, he then for peace is fain to sue;~Nor long survives,
42    33|      nostrils king and duke are fain;~Such an insufferable stench
43    34|       on earth shouldst thou be fain,~Thee will I satisfy." To
44    34|         as best he might, would fain persuade~To leave to Lydia'
45    34|         no more, the peer~Would fain discern if more in torment
46    35|       may have them back, these fain would sip.~ ~ III~Astolpho
47    35|        the world at large would fain make clear~Thy breach of
48    36|         Rogero; whom the damsel fain~Would make her prisoner,
49    36|        her faulchion, and would fain~Wound horse or rider in
50    36|        pious grown;~Which anger fain had made more hard than
51    37|      that is to tell, and all I fain~Would of that lady tell,
52    37|    could I do by thee as I were fain,~Nothing should lack that
53    37|       what I would,~I have been fain to slay thee as I could!~ ~
54    38|         my faulchion, who~Would fain have taken my virginity.~
55    39|   raised without his aid.~While fain to ransom him, he thinks
56    39|       Roland, whom the warriors fain would take.~ ~ XLVIII~Seeing
57    39|         and -- were the warrior fain~To taste that sweet -- he
58    39|        The wretched crews would fain that danger shun,~And ever
59    39|        repulsed the wretch that fain would board;~Whose hand,
60    40|       fly the royal Agramant is fain,~And sees Biserta burning
61    40|         in their rage and fury, fain would fill;~The pilot sighs
62    41|      Orlando; who was therefore fain,~And to heaven's king with
63    41|      conduct you in my way were fain;~I' the way of safety fain
64    41|      fain;~I' the way of safety fain would have you move~With
65    41|     intent~To send him where he fain would turn his prow.~Meanwhile
66    43|       the enchanted wine.~ ~ VI~Fain would he think awhile, of
67    43|       more than needs, I am not fain.~Now put away the enchanted
68    43|     whereof I tell,~To Rome was fain to send an embassy;~That
69    43|       living warriors should be fain.~Those Decii; Curtius, in
70    44|    plight his daughter, whom he fain~Would marry to the Grecian
71    44|       the gentle Bradamant, who fain~Would do far more than she
72    44|         To grant my prayer; and fain would have you see~That
73    45|        steel, and into it would fain~Enter, that stripling to
74    45|         Renews the assault; now fain would batter down~Gateway
75    45|        her own Rogero, she will fain~Do what so can be done;
76    46| discourteous deed have done.~He fain would have replied, but
77    46|    Dudon and Marphisa wend;~Who fain with that fierce paynim
78    46|        aloof, with wary ward~As fain to keep the paynim king
79    46|         to the ground.~Rodomont fain would close upon his foe;~