Canto

 1     1|          had not brought about.~ ~ XLIX~With deep attention, while
 2     2|          upon his winged horse!~ ~ XLIX~"Upwards, by little and
 3     3|     streets and goodly squares;~ ~ XLIX~"Not that he keeps his lordship
 4     4|            good Frontino threw.~ ~ XLIX~And lest the courser should
 5     5|     beneath the self same roof.~ ~ XLIX~"Suspecting nought, I seek
 6     6|          to other spake a word.~ ~ XLIX~"Why touch my wounds, to
 7     7|          they could Rogero aid.~ ~ XLIX~Giving the ring, her cause
 8     8|       elder's unresisting prey.~ ~ XLIX~ (Stanza XLIX untranslated
 9     8| unresisting prey.~ ~ XLIX~ (Stanza XLIX untranslated by Rose)~ ~
10     9|          the miscreant's harm.~ ~  XLIX~"My agents, whether they
11    10|         bitter injury received.~ ~ XLIX~Such choler she had never
12    11|             and praise to gain.~ ~ XLIX~But as the usage is of surly
13    12|           metal, tempered hard.~ ~ XLIX~Alike a charmed life Orlando
14    13|         Rogero shall be freed."~ ~ XLIX~And next pursued, relating
15    14|           kindled wrath oppose.~ ~ XLIX~When afterwards he marks
16    15|       confiding than his brand.~ ~ XLIX~Between the mighty river
17    16|           from so sore a sweat.~ ~ XLIX~Rinaldo, having broke his
18    17|            amid sheep and goat.~ ~ XLIX~"His flock so housed, to
19    18|        Canaries' islesmen fled.~ ~ XLIX~But faster than the rest
20    19|           make her labour less.~ ~ XLIX~They bale and chest and
21    20|           pardoned to that end.~ ~ XLIX~" `I say this, since to
22    21|         took the castle's lord.~ ~ XLIX~"One blow divided head and
23    22|    maintain the castle's right.~ ~ XLIX~"Whence first arose the
24    23|         form, without humanity;~ ~ XLIX~Or were it but to gain the
25    24|            rock and water-fall.~ ~ XLIX~Far off, he saw that something
26    25|         she revisited her Hall.~ ~ XLIX~"Of Flordespine I knew:
27    26|   neighbour Florence and Siena.~ ~ XLIX~"More forward in this chase
28    27|            are pavilions pight.~ ~ XLIX~In that, which looks towards
29    28|         other dames were wooed.~ ~ XLIX~"By solid proof those comrades
30    29|         trouble, toiled ashore.~ ~ XLIX~Along the bridge which spanned
31    30|             so rocks the flood.~ ~ XLIX~As Turpin truly writes,
32    32|            virtue it possessed.~ ~ XLIX~Without attendants, without
33    33|        Church, and Empire lack.~ ~ XLIX~"He in his cousin of Pescara'
34    34|          mountain-summit gains.~ ~ XLIX~Here sapphire, ruby, gold,
35    35|          narrow bridge extends.~ ~ XLIX~Scarce for her horse the
36    36|     desperate fury battle wage.~ ~ XLIX~At half-sword's engage the
37    37|       would from his body part:~ ~ XLIX~"And, for he knew 'twas
38    38|           to the king of Spain:~ ~ XLIX~"My liege, when I to peace
39    39|            head and body burst.~ ~ XLIX~It only burst the shield,
40    40|             meseems, can shape.~ ~ XLIX~"I, for your love, will
41    41|       vowed in heart and faith;~ ~ XLIX~And ne'er, in succour of
42    42|          the faulchion strains.~ ~ XLIX~The monster so the fierce
43    43|        friends for sordid gold?~ ~ XLIX~"With such fierce arms thou
44    44|           to a worthless train.~ ~ XLIX~Of other goods which Nature'
45    45|           will promptly stake."~ ~ XLIX~Rogero is rescued; and the
46    46|            land a message bore.~ ~ XLIX~Since they that had for
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