Canto

 1     1|         search of lusty grass.~ ~ XXXVII~Behold! at hand a thicket
 2     2|         her for nimble knight.~ ~ XXXVII~"Fair sir, a band of horse
 3     3|    banners of the Papal power?~ ~ XXXVII~"He, dying, leaves his brother
 4     4|        still towards the rock.~ ~ XXXVII~Round by the conqueror with
 5     5|     fortune, I alone am blest.~ ~ XXXVII~" `With you Geneura feigns,
 6     6| sea-serpent, shark, and whale.~ ~ XXXVII~"There we behold a mighty
 7     7|         and every bitter pain.~ ~ XXXVII~At length to find the wondrous
 8     8|         such sovereign beauty.~ ~ XXXVII~Landward in vain her eyes
 9     9|          have him for my sire.~ ~ XXXVII~" Mid many in my father'
10    10|          their dress and port.~ ~ XXXVII~Reclined on Alexandrian
11    11|       constant heart and bold.~ ~ XXXVII~As soon as him the monster
12    12|          wonder laughs unseen.~ ~ XXXVII~In the mid wood, where they
13    13|      plunged in boiling deeps.~ ~ XXXVII~A spacious table in mid
14    14|          the slaughtered band.~ ~ XXXVII~As wolf or mastiff-dog,
15    15|          sink as she commands.~ ~ XXXVII~This while they saw, as
16    16|         Almayn's realm secure;~ ~ XXXVII~"Or any other part, where
17    17|          canvas to the breeze.~ ~ XXXVII~"As soon as Norandino was
18    18|           which came in sight.~ ~ XXXVII~Discord at this, who read
19    19|           quaintly interlaced.~ ~ XXXVII~When she believed they had
20    20|      cruel use the rest among.~ ~ XXXVII~"Adorned with every fair
21    21|    Jerusalem was bound by vow.~ ~ XXXVII~"Said he would go; and went.
22    22|          a passing woful face.~ ~ XXXVII~Rogero, as still courteous,
23    23|          in motion or at rest.~ ~ XXXVII~"I leave such vestige wheresoe'
24    24|         had deserved his hate.~ ~ XXXVII~The wicked hag is kept,
25    25|       than their worst desire.~ ~ XXXVII~" `Here female upon male
26    26|      Beast those hunters slew.~ ~ XXXVII~In wonder stood long time
27    27|         achieved his holy end.~ ~ XXXVII~Again he to that monastery
28    28|         with a monster paired.~ ~ XXXVII~"To the same place Jocundo
29    29|        dangerous stream below.~ ~ XXXVII~The pagan had imagined,
30    30|           you before me went."~ ~ XXXVII~Accompanying words with
31    32|     parforce her piteous pain:~ ~ XXXVII~"Who ever can be trusted?
32    33|         to the king of France.~ ~ XXXVII~That warder then shows Caesar
33    34|          to the distant brine.~ ~ XXXVII~"Him not to greet with triumphs,
34    35|       river to the pagan king.~ ~ XXXVII~"Besides that so you shall
35    36|           nor haply upon sand.~ ~ XXXVII~Rogero, when he saw her
36    37|           wonder at this show.~ ~ XXXVII~The martial damsels bid
37    38|        was conquering Charles.~ ~ XXXVII~Agramant, hearing in what
38    39|        troubled all that band.~ ~ XXXVII~The naked savage whirled
39    40|        words his arm restrain.~ ~ XXXVII~"What victory, my lord," (
40    41|       till the following morn.~ ~ XXXVII~Until the skies the dawning
41    42|    draught was forced to love.~ ~ XXXVII~Him his ill star and cruel
42    43|      heart from honour swerve;~ ~ XXXVII~"And I declare to her the
43    44|       wealth; how virtue less.~ ~ XXXVII~But Beatrice, his wife,
44    45|      should wholly be opprest.~ ~ XXXVII~"As every spark is in the
45    46|           prize thy happiness.~ ~ XXXVII~"Content thee, that deprived