Canto

 1     1|   ceaseless fear~Of the destroying beast, from shade to shade,~And
 2     2|            tis no time to tame the beast, and springs,~With one hand
 3     4|          he may return, pursue~The beast, and up and down, each pass
 4     6|       common flock,~Transformed to beast or fountain, plant or rock.~ ~
 5     6|          was seated either fair,~A beast than spotless ermine yet
 6     8|         tree, to fountain some,~Or beast, she made assume their shapes
 7     8|           nor spur~Could that dull beast to quicker motion stir:~ ~
 8     8|           Send, if thou wilt, some beast to swallow me,~So that he
 9    10|           greenwood tree,~Or other beast with teeth and claws: but
10    10|             but how~Can ever cruel beast inflict on me,~O cruel beast,
11    10|       beast inflict on me,~O cruel beast, a fouler death than thou?~
12    10|           or bear,~Tiger, or other beast, if fiercer rave,~Me with
13    10| inhospitable crew~To the voracious beast the dame expose~Upon the
14    10|          Rogero here and there the beast astound~Still beats, but
15    11|      Olympia frees, and spoils the beast of life:~Her afterwards
16    11|        billows swell, and, lo! the beast! who pressed,~And nigh concealed
17    11|         earthly ball,~So swims the beast, who so much occupies~Of
18    11|         would with that assail the beast at hand,~Between her and
19    11|           now secure~That the fell beast his mouth no more can close,~
20    11|           Now floats the monstrous beast, o'ercome with pain,~Whose
21    11|           monstrous, had I fed~The beast, and in his belly found
22    11|             Some dame, to feed the beast, from countries round.~Nor
23    14|         lamenting, like the hungry beast,~To have come too late for
24    15|           so sturdy and unmeasured beast,~That it ten draught horse
25    17|         eyes;~While every frighted beast before him flies.~ ~ XII~
26    17|           might like the pretended beast's appear,~-- Or whether,
27    17|           will pursue the brindled beast for ten,~Or twenty yards,
28    17|           when~He sees the griesly beast his teeth display.~'Twas
29    18|           to the sight~Of the huge beast's enormous horns unused,~
30    18|          XXII~As the high-couraged beast, whom hunters start~In the
31    18|     through~The greenwood holt, of beast and monster fell,~-- A huntress
32    19|         natural hate and wrath the beast engage;~Love softens her,
33    19|            you needs must feed the beast and bird,~Like Theban Creon,
34    20|          penal pain;~Or like brute beast in sacrifice be slain.'~ ~
35    20|          in flock unite,~And every beast who fears -- the stag and
36    21|            who~More cruel was than beast in forest hoar,~And, prisoned
37    23|          feet, by high or low,~The beast of craven kind, with headlong
38    24|      through the land, did man and beast pursue;~And scowering, in
39    25|           whether home or foreign) beast more fell.~Haply with him
40    26|           the forest prest~A cruel Beast and hideous to the eye,~
41    26|            all lands.~ ~ XXXII~The beast the low and those of proudest
42    26|        Honours divine as well that Beast would reap,~It seems (while
43    26|            Of those who so against Beast advance,~One to the hilt
44    26|       displayed~The Lion, who that Beast is seen to hold~By both
45    26|           few;~And so that hideous Beast those hunters slew.~ ~ XXXVII~
46    26|         know by hands of whom that Beast was slain,~Which had so
47    26|         artist's care.~ ~ XL~"This Beast, when weights and measures
48    26|          one shall more that cruel beast molest~Than Francis, who
49    26|             Which first that cruel Beast to death will gore,~The
50    26|         John;~Each to that hideous beast a cruel foe;~One a Gonzaga,
51    26|        Flisco, Sinibald~Chases the Beast, both striving equally:~
52    26|        round,~Whom that despiteous Beast shall kill or wound."~ ~
53    29|          that his foot he to their beast applied,~Smote in mid-breast,
54    29|       should disappear:~After that beast along the sands he hied,~
55    29|    erspread.~At length the misused beast, with wear and tear~Of the
56    32|             I cannot the unbridled beast arrest;~Who makes me see
57    33|          from day.~When the winged beast has lost Baiardo's traces.~
58    38|          Then made him that plumed beast again bestride,~Rogero's
59    39|          Had in his visage more of beast than man.~ ~ XLVI~With breast
60    42|           swoop,~Until he sees the beast, whose snakes enfold~Rinaldo,
61    42|       driven from upper light that beast of hell~(Where she herself
62    42|        portion is; if he is man or beast.~The weight of horns, though
63    43|            So hated as the serpent beast is none;~And we that wear
64    45|         and torment,~That bird and beast are softened by his cries;~(