Canto

 1     1|    Saracen regains his feet.~ ~  LXV~As the bewildered and astonished
 2     2|        to ask the lady's aid.~ ~ LXV~Whether or not she should
 3     3|     still her faithful guide.~ ~ LXV~They gain a hidden glen,
 4     4|        loose Geneura's bands.~ ~ LXV~"I will not vouch her guiltless
 5     5|        the wished-for fruit.'~ ~ LXV~"Then added, how into the
 6     6|        full the naked blade.~ ~  LXV~That monster would have
 7     7|          and mark how fair."~ ~  LXV~Abashed and mute, Rogero,
 8     8|          castle they enclose.~ ~ LXV~But such her matchless beauty'
 9     9|      upon the paladin behind.~ ~ LXV~He all this while had made
10    10|         to their shapes anew.~ ~ LXV~When they a day or more
11    11|        with tears o'erflowed.~ ~ LXV~Her face was such as sometimes
12    12|        Orlando of his casque.~ ~ LXV~By what appeared to her
13    13|     votive images her shrine.~ ~ LXV~"The others I shall pass
14    14|   warriors and a damsel laid.~ ~ LXV~Now lofty Fancy, which one
15    15|       made or slain outright.~ ~ LXV~For at Nile's outlet there,
16    16|      best Zerbino to remount.~ ~ LXV~Then Artalico and Margano
17    17|        arms, gold, or prayer.~ ~ LXV~"Together with the flat-nosed
18    18|      cavalier of mighty name.~ ~ LXV~Next seeing him more near,
19    19|         hill behind ascended.~ ~ LXV~No sooner there the harboured
20    20|    service, I desire to die."~ ~ LXV~Here Guido ceased to address
21    21| restoring power be manifest.~ ~  LXV~"No prayer will move, nor
22    22|      sore their coursers, go.~ ~ LXV~This while had issued from
23    23|      fire, from foot to head.~ ~ LXV~From quickly clipping her
24    24|        through cuirass, went.~ ~ LXV~And, but that somewhat short
25    25|          from woman into man.~ ~ LXV - LXIX~ (Stazas LXV - LXIX
26    25|              LXV - LXIX~ (Stazas LXV - LXIX untranslated by Rose)~ ~
27    26|    through this ample earth."~ ~ LXV~Listening, the visage of
28    27|        fight, as well defies.~ ~ LXV~"Come on in arms against
29    29|         she past from sight.~ ~  LXV~Was it through fear, or
30    30|           his precious life.~ ~  LXV~Not unavenged the unhappy
31    31|      beneath the lady's lead.~ ~ LXV~Thitherward were Orlando
32    32|        worse to lodge afield.~ ~ LXV~To her the shepherd said, "
33    33|          my fleeting breath!"~ ~ LXV~The clouds were gone, the
34    34|       faithful cousin's life.~ ~ LXV~"Hence God hath made him
35    35|     knight's suspicions fall.~ ~ LXV~To think 'twas Rodomont
36    36|        and of my sorrow died.~ ~ LXV~"But here, before my death,
37    37|        cordial beverage sup.'~ ~ LXV~"The unsuspecting youth,
38    38|      should be his opposite."~ ~ LXV~With these and other sayings
39    39|     guided by Orlando's will.~ ~ LXV~The order taken to attack
40    40|          Agramant or Charles?~ ~ LXV~From all he hears repeated,
41    41|      title of a marquis gain;~ ~ LXV~And because Charles shall
42    42|         thy worthless chain."~ ~ LXV~So saying, suddenly he passed
43    43|     guilt to him that drinks;~ ~ LXV~And him bethinks therewith
44    44|        thee for other slight.~ ~ LXV~"Thou hast no cause, amid
45    45|      than his faulchion took.~ ~ LXV~No lance he took: yet was
46    46|         Bradamant was plight.~ ~ LXV~To her, where, of her feeble
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