Canto

 1     1| apparition of an angry knight.~ ~ XXVI~Armed at all points he was,
 2     2|    fresher forces for defence.~ ~ XXVI~For he is bent again to
 3     3|        assure her safe repose.~ ~ XXVI~"Alberto next, unconquered
 4     4|     fought, on earth had laid:~ ~ XXVI~And ran to bind her with
 5     5|       quench my amorous heat.'~ ~ XXVI~"So said the knight; and
 6     6|         ponderous armour pent.~ ~ XXVI~Meanwhile the courser by
 7     7|    between the fruit and hand.~ ~ XXVI~At length, when dropping
 8     8|         weep when he was gone.~ ~ XXVI~The wind sat in the poop;
 9     9|          my father, to demand.~ ~ XXVI~"I without power to falsify
10    10|     frigate to return to land.~ ~ XXVI~But the loud wind which,
11    11|            shalt touch no pay.~ ~ XXVI~How, foul and pestilent
12    12|   witcheries by Atlantes hoar.~ ~ XXVI~She enters, hidden from
13    13|        the gloomy wood to fly.~ ~ XXVI~"Sir Odoric in war well
14    14|    returned three days before.~ ~ XXVI~There was no Saracen of
15    15|      recalled from banishment.~ ~ XXVI~"For such desert, Heaven'
16    16|           order, sex, and age.~ ~ XXVI~Nor the impious king alone
17    17|         death before his eyes.~ ~ XXVI~"Our monarch, who is named
18    18|         to say of other thing.~ ~ XXVI~I have of haughty Discord
19    19|        shepherd's humble shed.~ ~ XXVI~Nor would the damsel quit
20    20|          saw her better lore.~ ~  XXVI~"She would not leave the
21    21|         host insists on fight.~ ~ XXVI~"This one was sound and
22    22|          broken was the spell.~ ~ XXVI~At nought Astolpho could
23    23|     bridal bring to happy end.~ ~ XXVI~She purposed the same messenger
24    24|    traitor, and to fight defy.~ ~ XXVI~"The monarch's justice,
25    25|   stripling so, that he began.~ ~ XXVI~"It so fell out, that as
26    26|          foot-soldier's trade.~ ~ XXVI~The conqueror's prize remained
27    27|       amid that host conceive.~ ~ XXVI~Many who had escaped by
28    28|          had caused his grief.~ ~ XXVI~"He for his sore an evil
29    29|        snowy neck and breast.~ ~  XXVI~This made three bounds,
30    30|           one, in long review.~ ~ XXVI~After the drawing lots and
31    31|          discern their swords.~ ~ XXVI~He of Mount Alban is the
32    32|        safe and sweet repose."~ ~ XXVI~Sorrow the maid so wholly
33    33|           father whilome read;~ ~ XXVI~"And his from sire or grandsire
34    34|         that knight was found.~ ~ XXVI~"To curse the warrior's
35    35|         Glory's highest stand.~ ~ XXVI~"Augustus not so holy and
36    36|           by Marphisa's haste.~ ~ XXVI~The enamoured youth, with
37    37|     needed, to bestow his aid.~ ~ XXVI~They rode an-end; and louder
38    38|        sainted sire explained;~ ~ XXVI~Then made him that plumed
39    39|      inapt for sea he thought;~ ~ XXVI~And filling next as full
40    40|        was thirty cubits deep.~ ~ XXVI~He, without any harm on
41    41|          of his youthful lord;~ ~ XXVI~Who was so hurried in his
42    42|        called unjust and weak.~ ~ XXVI~The sage Melissa she accused,
43    43|           her untried modesty?~ ~ XXVI~" `Go forth awhile; go forth
44    44|         place Astolpho gained.~ ~ XXVI~Thence to Marseilles he
45    45|         to her so fair before.~ ~ XXVI~As he that hath beheld a
46    46|       death the stripling lay.~ ~ XXVI~They found Rogero fasting