Canto

 1     2| exclaimed, `These champions will assay~Their force with him who
 2     2|          resolved the emprize to assay,~And free Rogero from the
 3     4|        adventurous quest or hard assay:~And, ere the first day'
 4     4|         would your warlike worth assay,~Prepare the worthiest enterprize
 5     5|      after, of this love he made assay:~But judge, alas! with what
 6     5|          knightly arms made such assay,~Was none in Britain more
 7     5|          bower was fixed for the assay.~And, ready now to spring
 8     6|          the prowess of your arm assay.~ ~ LXXVIII~"We soon shall
 9     8|         for a remedy, their last assay,~To the oracle, demanding
10     9|        cunning art Cymosco would assay:~But Roland would not be
11    12|          right or left-hand road assay,~His thoughts still rove
12    12|        every bramble, every bush assay;~Even so, where hope the
13    14|        At such a disadvantage to assay,~He pricks, with levelled
14    14|         upon the place his worst assay.~ ~ XCIX~He who the Moorish
15    14|           mid fire and ruin, all assay~To mount the wall; but others
16    17|      ourselves have made a clear assay,~As well as those who lived
17    17|        course,~The monarch would assay his warriors' force. --~ ~
18    17|         of arms was prize of the assay,~Presented to the king some
19    18|           and alone, should thus assay,~And took his armour and
20    18|         Damascus seeks, where to assay~Their virtuous deeds, all
21    19|     steel that man will bide the assay,~-- Of marble breast --
22    20|           Elbanio-like, ten foes assay,~(And such sometimes is
23    20|          steads not, I will make assay~If with my bugle I can clear
24    21|         deceitful leech she made assay,~Well fitted for the work
25    23|         had of the country small assay,~And, sure to be bewildered,
26    23|        forty to waste time in an assay~Where to himself more harm
27    24|        springs on earth: for the assay~Hence matched anew, stands
28    25|    revealed the cheat,~She would assay to drive from her conceit.~ ~
29    26|        that maid the mountain to assay;~By which (as said) the
30    26|      easily may, even to heaven, assay,~Than in a quarrel of such
31    26|          outgo his fears in that assay,~Marphisa seeks their fury
32    27|          by him provoked to that assay;~Nor will she yield her
33    27|     should win the arms he would assay,~Thou hast no title to my
34    29|       power! as evermore~I would assay, with all that happy care,~
35    30|      whose lot first issued, the assay~Should undertake for both
36    30|      plain,~Fixt for that fierce assay, the courser carries.~Even
37    31|        parforce must meet in new assay."~ ~ XVI~To him Rinaldo, "
38    31|         the siege of Paris, will assay.~But (for it promised vantage)
39    31|         appointed for the fierce assay.~ ~  XCVI~"Belike thou hoped," (
40    33|      Avalo's fair lineage, would assay~To make to heaven or hell
41    33|          watching, life in sleep assay.~But oh! if death such sleep
42    33|     Desires, again his valour to assay,~Would add but scathe to
43    35|         he marvels who would him assay,~Grandonio and Ferrau she
44    35|         who is undermost in this assay."~Silent remained the monarch
45    36|       all measures and all means assay,~Whereby some fair occasion
46    37|        end to compass is no hard assay;~For, besides fearing lest
47    39|        unequal seemed the fierce assay.~Too slowly young Rogero
48    43|      Alas! I of the fortune made assay,~Whereby my cherished wife
49    43|     drinking-cup will I for that assay~Give you (she said) of virtue
50    43|         possest,~Who, wishing to assay if she was true,~Had tried
51    44|   tourney, who~Would have me, or assay me with the sword.~Me as
52    46|     would have replied, but made assay~Yet twice or thrice, ere