Canto

 1     1|    damsel braids her tresses.~ ~ XLIII~"But wanton hands no sooner
 2     2|      stream and fire of Styx.~ ~ XLIII~"Each polished turret shines
 3     3|     flower of martial fields.~ ~ XLIII~"By him rebellious plans
 4     4|       crimson silk concealed.~ ~ XLIII~To take him by the rein
 5     5|        their habitation made.~ ~ XLIII~"And to the youth a station
 6     6|      that monster in mid-sea,~ ~ XLIII~"Till to this isle we drifted
 7     7|      preserves us in the end.~ ~ XLIII~She, not like old Atlantes,
 8     8|     enchanted arms supplied:~ ~  XLIII~"For this the Tartar king,
 9     9|         when his end was won.~ ~ XLIII~"Ere new disturbance interrupt
10    10|          still kept in sight.~ ~ XLIII~On him with threat and curse
11    11|       where the cable guides.~ ~ XLIII~This the red sea with reason
12    12|           Charles's paladin."~ ~ XLIII~-- "Then" (smiling, to the
13    13|    stranger champion I delay;~ ~ XLIII~And turn to her, who to
14    14|   without the spear remained.~ ~ XLIII~Now sword nor club the warlike
15    15|        straight to slaughter.~ ~ XLIII~"Within six miles, no further,
16    16|         bones a deadly chill.~ ~ XLIII~Rinaldo spurs before the
17    17|          will make his prey.~ ~  XLIII~" `I have no counsel for
18    18|      Ferrau, who cried aloud:~ ~ XLIII~"O valiant men," he -- "
19    19|         Marphisa I return --~ ~  XLIII~Marphisa, Astolpho, Gryphon,
20    20|         to the rest be known.~ ~ XLIII~" `And though I, like so
21    21|         win by milder course.~ ~ XLIII~" `I promise, not designing
22    22|        should turn our arms."~ ~ XLIII~And to that melancholy damsel
23    23|        between a double vest.~ ~ XLIII~Zerbino after some short
24    24|       before he finds an end.~ ~ XLIII~To keep the pact Zerbino
25    25|        to Bradamant is given.~ ~ XLIII~"As the sick man with burning
26    26|          utmost need combine.~ ~ XLIII~"No one shall more that
27    27|      first in martial course.~ ~ XLIII~The Tartar king, for more
28    28|       time had lacked relief.~ ~ XLIII~"But that within his highness'
29    29|        foe to find his match.~ ~ XLIII~This while, a gentle damsel
30    30|         and blazoned shield."~ ~ XLIII~So said he; and with reasons
31    31|    possest with frantic rage.~ ~ XLIII~"Whence woe, so direful
32    32|      what is another's right.~ ~ XLIII~"Thou hast left me, Rogero;
33    33|       Novara's late disgrace;~ ~ XLIII~"And see with better auspices
34    34|      receive or message hear.~ ~ XLIII~"This my ingratitude in
35    35|          victim, slain by me;~ ~ XLIII~"And dearer shall the gift
36    36|      that damsel in the wood.~ ~ XLIII~But turn we to Marphisa,
37    37|     cavalier, who thither go.~ ~ XLIII~"This castellain or tyrant,
38    38|          many tongues repeat;~ ~ XLIII~"Which should so much more
39    39| mightiest she had ever known.~ ~ XLIII~The gentle baron no less
40    40|      would his dukedom yield.~ ~ XLIII~Eastward King Agramant had
41    41|  counsellor's duty to fulfil;~ ~ XLIII~"And how to think, from
42    42|          a Paladin of France.~ ~ XLIII~Charles gives him leave
43    43|          me or be mine again.~ ~ XLIII~"Alas! with him she swells
44    44|       happiness, my pleasure?~ ~ XLIII~"I know, alas! what I should
45    45|         he did her a despite.~ ~ XLIII~In secret, Leo with the
46    46|    received it, this restore.~ ~ XLIII~"The damsel more to thee