Canto

 1     3|        Chased into Barco. It were hard to say,~If most he shine
 2     4|           of adventurous quest or hard assay:~And, ere the first
 3     4|          dame, or wight was seen:~Hard by the barbarous twain prepared
 4     5|       strong castle which he held hard by;~And gave me two to bear
 5     7|            with stedfast aim, ~So hard Rogero smote her, that he
 6     7|      taught,~Of this glad life to hard necessity~Had yielded up;
 7    10|         mastery, of the two,~'Tis hard to judge where preference
 8    10|          extent,~As even would be hard to have below.~Clustering '
 9    10|       block,~Can never cleave the hard and rugged rock.~ ~ CV~With
10    11|         head to foot, a skin~More hard than diamond cased the Paladin.~ ~
11    12|         plates of metal, tempered hard.~ ~ XLIX~Alike a charmed
12    12|           from mountain hoar~More hard, unless report from truth
13    12|      spell, it nought~Imports, if hard or soft its temper were.~
14    12| slaughtered band,~Has undertaken, hard emprize and vain.~The road
15    13|          such cruel woe.~ ~ LIII~"Hard will it seem to slay, full
16    14|           CXVIII~He in a cuirass, hard and strong, was drest;~A
17    15|        loud laughter, to his seat hard by~He drags along, enveloped
18    17|        year;~So numerous, it were hard to count his stock:~Wont
19    17|        fruitless task,~Of arms so hard Sir Gryphon is possest;~
20    18|           Which he bears out on a hard grinding stone;~Seized by
21    18|       warrior smite,~But harm (so hard the dragon's hide) no more,~
22    19|           her haughty heart, once hard and curst,~And more when
23    19|         again to life return,~How hard would this appear, O Agricane!~
24    19|          stroke of heavy ball.~So hard the temper of her corslet'
25    20|         were I than a tiger, more~Hard were my heart than diamonds,
26    20|       LXXXII~Not yet from earth's hard visage has the sun~Lifted
27    20|           To strike, and laboured hard to force the door.~But such
28    20|           or evil lot endure.~The hard and pertinacious crone replied,~"
29    21|       sleep profound,~In silence, hard upon Zerbino gazed;~Then
30    21|          quitting one so dear~Was hard) than to content her evil
31    21|    against all right,~I should so hard a sentence undergo.~Let
32    22|           very day, within a town hard by.~ ~ XXXIX~"Loving a gentle
33    23|          eyelid sorely strain,~So hard she gazed, his movements
34    23|       rider and his horse.~On the hard ground was Mandricardo thrown,~
35    23|            And in the open air on hard earth lay.~He marvelled
36    24|       since all that best~Moves a hard heart, Sir Odoric now exprest.~ ~
37    24|       from his fellows, hunts him hard,~And circles round about;
38    24|       from day,~His solitary cell hard by did stand:~Within himself
39    26|      Against a knight, who him so hard has prest,~I trust my injury
40    28|           what he had slighted~As hard to credit, were it but hearsay:~
41    29|        found the madman's skin as hard as bone;~Yea, harder far
42    31|       addrest,~It touched, though hard to move, the paynim's breast.~ ~
43    31|         opinion bent,~Though that hard counsel he could ill endure;~
44    32|      damsel should concede~'Twere hard, before I yield to her in
45    33|           fury heat,~And fast and hard their swords were heard
46    35|           such as 'tis, to do~The hard and dread adventure, passing
47    35|           to return again,~Ere on hard earth thy bones shall battered
48    36|         And use is second nature, hard to change.~ ~ II~Among the
49    36|           royal maid,~To prove it hard or soft the listed plain,~
50    36|          find a vent,~And ice, so hard erewhile, is seen to flow;~
51    36|          anger fain had made more hard than stone.~ ~ XLI~Would
52    36|       lighted torch did glare.~As hard as he can smite, he smites;
53    37|         Such end to compass is no hard assay;~For, besides fearing
54    39|    separate channels wear,~Uproot hard rocks, and mighty trees
55    39|       heavy, long, and wide.~Into hard timber turn and solid beam,~
56    39|       whirled a sapling round,~So hard, so heavy, and so strong
57    39|         day remain in sight:~For, hard by Arles, where sleeps the
58    40|           without any harm on the hard ground,~As if on feathers
59    41|       what was best;~For them too hard the mortal peril prest.~ ~
60    41|          him ordained,~O'er those hard stones, against that steep
61    41|        presses Sericana's monarch hard,~Turns round, and, like
62    42|       wonted tale;~She cursed her hard and evil destiny;~Then loosening
63    42|          was out of sight;~Though hard to clamber was the rugged
64    42|        LXXIV~Of serpentine and of hard porphyry are~The stones
65    42|         and must think)~For it is hard that notion to undo,~Unless
66    43|                XXXI~"I thought it hard to leave my consort's side;~
67    43|         As no less cruel and less hard to abide~He deemed a woe
68    43|          in the career,~But had a hard and bloody conquest won:~
69    43|           Even is averse had been hard Destiny,~And all heaven'
70    43|           could ill~Be salved, is hard to heal. Meanwhile they
71    44|         heed not that the deed is hard to do,~Or if the attempt
72    45|         no peril would appear~Too hard a feat for him; and knew
73    46|        CXIX~Rodomont had not that hard dragon-hide~Which heretofore