Canto

 1     2|      XXIII~Now good Bayardo had believed the tiding~Of that fair
 2     4|        eye,~What she had scarce believed from other's lips,~A feathered
 3     5|        at heart,~Had he in full believed his rival's boast,~Would
 4     6|         youthful champion knew,~Believed he was so wary and discreet,~
 5     6|        I endure?~When kindest I believed Alcina's will,~And fondly
 6     7|     restless at her stay,~Often believed some hinderance, yet unscanned,~
 7     8|          Oh! cruel Fortune! who believed thy sway~Was of such passing
 8    12|       left or right;~Which they believed the damsel could not choose~
 9    14|      bade him to repair.~He had believed he to Avernus' cell,~Where
10    14|        there enshrined,~Whom he believed he must go far to find.~ ~
11    15|      made of gold;~Which ('twas believed) the warrior's relicts were,~
12    16|         by what remains,~May be believed; for yet in Paris we~Six
13    16|    fierce than flame.~The Moors believed that with Rinaldo's thew~
14    17|          CVII~Whether the youth believed the tale or no,~He the excuse
15    18|  kindled burn;~ ~ XXVII~And she believed, that she with greater power~
16    18|            LXXVIII~Sir Aquilant believed, at the first show,~His
17    18|        good avail,~For Aquilant believed him easily;~And, save in
18    18|       to sea outright,~Where he believed less broken was the swell;~
19    19|  interlaced.~ ~ XXXVII~When she believed they had prolonged their
20    21|    thought,~Nor this would have believed: to aid his friend~Intent, (
21    22| Impassive is the shield as well believed,~Since it no damage in the
22    23|      his return present;~And he believed that Heaven had, in its
23    23|       to make him sane.~For she believed there was no cavalier,~But
24    23|       enough that so their lord believed.~ ~ LII~When, the next morn,
25    24|     blood,~They might have well believed Orlando dead:~This while
26    24|          Zerbino marvelled, and believed with pain,~Although the
27    25|     furnished with the blade --~Believed that she beheld a cavalier:~
28    26|         cause,~Whom certes they believed a cavalier,~And not a damsel,
29    26|          and in amaze,~At times believed that Paladin was Mars,~Who
30    26|       to repair;~That if he had believed he clutched the knight~Faster
31    27|        Deluded by a phantom, he believed~Angelica was with Orlando
32    27|  blushed the blessed angel, who believed~He ill obedience to his
33    27|         lady may, nor do amiss)~Believed, when she past sentence
34    27|       the Moorish host with him believed.~ ~ CVI~All know what exploits
35    27|        good their consorts they believed.~-- "Think each man as he
36    28|        drew,~And, what he least believed, within espied;~For he beneath
37    28|         was no dream, his sight believed.~-- `A scorned and crooked
38    28|   awhile had thought --~When he believed that all asleep were laid;~
39    28|     best by Isabel the cavalier~Believed his former love would be
40    29|       its favour would be lost, believed,~Unless 'twere as a gift
41    29|     withstand,~That brutish man believed her, and, in sign~Of faith,
42    30|         at his foeman's casque, believed~He with the stroke of his
43    31|        were,~We ill should have believed your ancestry:~Since neither
44    31|        conclude;~Nor this had I believed, save with these eyes~That
45    31|       lips, he scarce had these believed:~But credited fair Flordelice'
46    32|       every day and every night believed.~ ~ XII~How oft of dormouse,
47    32|    rehearsed, the Gascon knight believed,~Nor without cause believed
48    32|     believed,~Nor without cause believed the news he bore,~A rumour
49    34|     others he descried,~Who, he believed, no dram of theirs had spent;~
50    35|         i'faith I swear,~I well believed all lovers perjured were."~ ~
51    39|         plow:~Nor would he have believed in him who said,~A hundred
52    40|       to encounter such a force believed,~But would, if 'twere opposed,
53    40|    Agramant grieving he had not believed,~What time that sage foresaw
54    40|         far the ships he spied,~Believed they were the fleet of Agramant,~
55    42|         grievous blow,~That all believed it to its rest was gone;~--
56    43|       and bright,~Nor because I believed her love so true,~Nor for
57    43| evermore,~Her coming, it may be believed, is dear.~From thence she
58    45|    spear they fought, those two~Believed that they should have performed
59    45|        cavalier~Of the unicorn, believed he from his foe~Was safe;
60    45|     little time and for disport~Believed, and took his line in evil
61    46|  peerage stand~Amazed, who well believed the Grecian peer~With Bradamant
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