Canto

 1     1|         host upon the plain.~ ~ VI~To make King Agramant, for
 2     2|       Clermont's angry lord.~ ~ VI~Thus kindling into wrath
 3     3|      warlike virgin's steed.~ ~ VI~Leave we sometime the wretch
 4     4|     near, his frequent raid.~ ~ VI~"He, sometimes towering,
 5     5|        that shocks his view.~ ~ VI~"All times have shown that
 6     6|        and returned to land.~ ~ VI~And, now despising, as of
 7     7|      threats her and defies.~ ~ VI~As quick and daring, the
 8     8|  defence against this hawk?"~ ~ VI~Then flies his bird, who
 9     9|   Tripoly one born and bred:~ ~ VI~He sojourns there three
10    10|       winds disperse in air.~ ~ VI~The promises and empty vows
11    11|       native realm was lost.~ ~ VI~Now that she this upon her
12    12|        had searched in vain.~ ~ VI~I say not is, but that she
13    13|     compassionate my sorrow.~ ~ VI~"My father in his city of
14    14|     cannon's thundering car.~ ~ VI~This dear-bought victory
15    15|        he Heaven blasphemes.~ ~ VI~This while a band King Agramant
16    16|     anew, he Antioch sought.~ ~ VI~He nigh Damascus met the
17    17|  endurance of AETERNAL LOVE.~ ~ VI~The Christian people then
18    18|        rises from the crowd.~ ~ VI~Two nimble Gryphon seizes,
19    19|       mid many horse, alone.~ ~ VI~A hundred horsemen who the
20    20|      Almontes bold in fight,~ ~ VI~"And Chiareillo and Mambrino
21    21|        to his care conveyed.~ ~ VI~Because as foe to her and
22    22|        so that land forsook.~ ~ VI~He, after some few days,
23    23|        world above to night.~ ~ VI~Nor knowing where for shelter
24    24|      blossom from the brake.~ ~ VI~He by one leg the heavy
25    25|    forfeit liberty and life.~ ~ VI~Rogero stood awhile in pensive
26    26|      to-day in arms contend.~ ~ VI~"Two of our own to rescue
27    27|     king the fair conveyed.~ ~  VI~The Sarzan and the Tartar
28    28|       most delighted, heard.~ ~ VI~"Faustus Latinus, one of
29    29|   grasped, as rudely flayed.~ ~ VI~And (so his fury waxed)
30    30|         madman to the swain:~ ~ VI~"Her will I show thee, if
31    31|   despair, and lays him low!~ ~ VI~O' cruel wound! incapable
32    32|        the monumental stone.~ ~ VI~Marphisa would not such
33    33|       had shown more bright.~ ~ VI~When thus the castle's lord
34    34|         three-headed hound."~ ~ VI~He speedily his winged horse
35    35|   certain and eternal dower.~ ~ VI~"Between the king of rivers'
36    36|     barks, had made retreat.~ ~ VI~As Hector and Aeneas, mid
37    37|        eternal fame inherit:~ ~ VI~Faithful, chaste, and bold,
38    38|   Rogero mighty recompense.~ ~  VI~He will perform his duty
39    39|         honour are at stake.~ ~ VI~"Let not this battle be
40    40|       sea the Moorish train.~ ~ VI~'Twas night, nor gleam was
41    41| courtesy he would not yield.~ ~ VI~"Pardi, sir, make we peace;" (
42    42|          unarmed, was slain.~ ~ VI~To end; I say that other
43    43|    taste the enchanted wine.~ ~ VI~Fain would he think awhile,
44    44|       warlike band had come.~ ~ VI~Rinaldo more than all that
45    45|        sire and son to slay.~ ~ VI~But she, that wills no trust
46    46|        of Keysar or of king.~ ~ VI~If she had dwelt in Rimini