Canto

 1     1|        Bavarian Namus' care.~ ~ IX~Vowing with her the warrior
 2     2| thunders on his anvil beats.~ ~ IX~Sometimes they lunge, then
 3     3|         dishevelled tresses.~ ~ IX~"O generous Bradamant,"
 4     4|       with this wizard foe."~ ~ IX~"It shall not need," exclaimed
 5     5|    Geneura's priviest bower.~ ~ IX~"Where, hoarded, she with
 6     6|   encounter with the knight,~ ~ IX~And that who well the youthful
 7     7| brighter than was ever seen.~ ~ IX~To meet the Child, Alcina,
 8     8|         hand or spur obeyed.~ ~ IX~Constrained at length, his
 9     9|   bridge, and passage stopt.~ ~ IX~The paladin this bank and
10    10|         elsewhere bestowed.~ ~  IX~I not for this (for that
11    11|      not, I know you hear."~ ~  IX~So saying, like one blind,
12    12|   cavalier nor damsel spies.~ ~ IX~He suddenly dismounts, and
13    13|         one another's sight.~ ~ IX~"Hence, when concluded was
14    14|    thieve his silver shrine.~ ~ IX~Hadst thou not made resistance
15    15|       Otho, and Berlinghier.~ ~ IX~And of inferior count withal,
16    16|  Gryphon, threatening death;~ ~ IX~But like most cunning and
17    17|         foe his people slay.~ ~ IX~Thither large portion of
18    18|        Otho and Berlinghier.~ ~ IX~Eight lances' shock, that
19    19|         dead upon the plain.~ ~ IX~Together, all the others
20    20|       to death would smite."~ ~ IX~Sir Guido is besought of
21    21|       hand in woman's blood.~ ~ IX~This and yet more he vainly
22    22|   directs the galley's head.~ ~ IX~A breeze which, from the
23    23|       forth to meet the day.~ ~ IX~Nor far had rode, ere from
24    24|      war upon the madman go,~ ~ IX~As beats the wave upon the
25    25|     with face of pallid hue.~ ~ IX~As on the stripling's face
26    26|          prone to every ill.~ ~ IX~The two of Clermont and
27    27|       his Angelica is bound.~ ~ IX~A cunning, old enchanter
28    28|      and the cause declared:~ ~ IX~"Because the youth had ne'
29    29|      have that common scope.~ ~ IX~And now, so temperate showed
30    30|       presses for his needs.~ ~ IX~He came at last to Malaga,
31    31|      took sufficient ground.~ ~ IX~Between those knights no
32    32|         menaced but in show.~ ~ IX~The hangman hung his corpse
33    33|         with Britain's lord.~ ~ IX~"The royal Arthur, by whom
34    34|        amid the misty gloom.~ ~ IX~When him a melancholy voice
35    35|     gift of God shall light.~ ~ IX~"All those fair graces,
36    36|   Tantalus', Thyestes' rage!~ ~ IX~Barbarian! thou madest shorter
37    37|      moats with marshy pool.~ ~ IX~One of this pair (besides
38    38|       maid with joyful face.~ ~ IX~When next 'tis known, the
39    39|         or aged Charlemagne.~ ~ IX~They sweat anew, the king
40    40| slaughter's cause, is flown.~ ~ IX~Agramant flies, and with
41    41|         and perfidious kind.~ ~ IX~It shifts from poop to beam,
42    42|      head confined the bust.~ ~ IX~Loosed was the helm, the
43    43|      uplift his head again."~ ~ IX~Meanwhile the good Rinaldo
44    44|        done he now would do.~ ~ IX~Welcome, with endless proffers,
45    45|      and one was overthrown;~ ~ IX~And that undriven he should
46    46|         Anna, Vasto's light!~ ~ IX~Anne gentle, courteous,
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