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 1     2|         Or rise upon the furious stroke, and carry~Their swords
 2     4|         to the champion's sturdy stroke.~ ~ LII~Through this roves
 3     9|       And, ever where he dealt a stroke, changed blue,~Yellow, green,
 4     9|      should bewail;~The glancing stroke his courser's belly tore,~
 5    10|        Rogero drops, and oft the stroke repeats.~ ~ CIII~As eagle,
 6    11|     stood nigh.~Lo! a two-handed stroke the giant made~Upon the
 7    12|      dreadful battle wages,~That stroke or thrust is never dealt
 8    12|       stedfast hand,~Who, by the stroke unshaken, nothing reeled:~
 9    13|    minister of light.~Nor is the stroke content to blind the foe;~
10    13|        slimy trail.~Dire was the stroke; yet should no wonder breed,~
11    14|      fair lily, rescued from its stroke;~Another wreath may round
12    15|         blows, Astolpho sped~One stroke, above the shoulders and
13    16|        his might pass for a fair stroke in list,~Though planted
14    16|         hay or grain;~For at one stroke, so matchless was his force,~
15    17|           And more than one good stroke and one good thrust.~Eight
16    17|       And on his temples smote a stroke so shear,~It seemed that
17    17|          Gryphon was the first a stroke to deal,~Which might have
18    17|         parts, nor thrown away a stroke.~ ~ CIII~Each one might
19    18|          And. slaughtered by the stroke, the warrior bleeds.~ ~
20    19|       yards are gone, and by the stroke~Of the huge billows beating
21    19|     merry game,~Is ever moved by stroke of heavy ball.~So hard the
22    19|          her sword with circling stroke.~ ~ C~" 'Twas well for me,"
23    21|       the youth's left flank the stroke intended;~But his weak lance
24    22|      fiends, had little from the stroke to fear:~I of the buckler
25    23|        close,~Which, at a single stroke, lopt off the head;~When,
26    24|         from the fray,~Seeing no stroke upon the madman told.~Since
27    24|          foe is seen~To threaten stroke in vain, or make good,~He
28    24|      many, in the end~One mighty stroke he cannot scape or fend.~ ~
29    24|     knight.~ ~ LXVII~The fearful stroke was mightier in show,~Than
30    24|         swords cross; and to the stroke succeed~Quick sparks; or
31    24|   straight with double force the stroke repaid.~ ~ CIV~Rodomont
32    25|          his ire.~ ~ XV~At every stroke he never less o'erthrew~
33    26|          With the same downright stroke, he overbore~The horse and
34    26|         pagan winced not for the stroke.~ ~ LXXVI~Him on the left
35    26|        sped,~With all her might, stroke upon his head.~ ~ CXIX~Rodomont
36    26|      pursues his man.~-- Another stroke, and he has lost the horse!~
37    27|    rear-guard falls the vengeful stroke,~Not charged alone, but
38    27|        suspends not the avenging stroke~Till hunted to the Moorish
39    29|          by the madman's furious stroke laid low.~In the same breath
40    30|          hand.~ ~ LII~But yet no stroke well worthy of their might~
41    30|        his cuirass opened to the stroke,~And to the quick the cruel
42    30|    answer he delayed)~He dealt a stroke more terrible than e'er.~
43    30|        reels the Tartar, by that stroke astound,~He from the bristle-hand
44    30|     casque, believed~He with the stroke of his descending sword~
45    30|     split.~But that he stopt the stroke in wary wise,~And broke
46    31|           and unhorsed by such a stroke,~His buckler in the cruel
47    31|        yet those lords~Parry the stroke, who scarce discern their
48    34|          dun:~For surer proof, a stroke or two would smite~With
49    36|            LVI~In that, a mighty stroke Marphisa sped,~Meaning to
50    39|      vigorous was that warrior's stroke, while under~His bosom,
51    41|        Saint Paul,~When (blessed stroke!) he smote him from his
52    41|          Stunned by that furious stroke, he pressed the shore,~And
53    41|    warrior is not by the furious stroke,~Which opened plate and
54    41| unstained and sheen.~The furious stroke astounded Milo's son~By
55    41|       career:~The County by that stroke astounded sore,~Has not
56    42|        on the sand,~Slain by the stroke of fierce Gradasso's brand.~ ~
57    42|     strongest living knight~That stroke, by which a warrior was
58    42|       monster fell~To strike one stroke in answer, ill or well;~ ~
59    43|        and crippled by the cruel stroke.~ ~ CI~" `My mighty obligation
60    43|       made~Between you, that the stroke I might have caught,~And
61    44|   various forms impart,~Than any stroke, by fickle Fortune sped,~
62    45|        arms, secure from hostile stroke,~Which erst to Trojan Hector
63    46|            such its force --~The stroke would have divided man and
64    46|     renew:~Then threatened other stroke; but that fine sword~Bore
65    46|          might,~That him another stroke might have dismaid:~But