Canto

 1     1|       river's bank he came.~ ~ XIV~Here stood the fierce Ferrau
 2     2|   stirred for very charity.~ ~ XIV~The lady prayed that kindly
 3     3|       of prophetic spirit?"~ ~ XIV~And full of joy the adventure
 4     4|     and take the ring away.~ ~ XIV~But deems it foul, with
 5     5|        none of equal worth.~ ~ XIV~"Me he persuades, if through
 6     7|        a paradise on earth.~ ~ XIV~Like milk the bosom, and
 7     8|        her city unpurveyed.~ ~ XIV~Without a guard she left
 8     9|       such profitable end."~ ~ XIV~To hear the whole Orlando
 9    10|        pleasure to explore.~ ~ XIV~And if the other he too
10    11|      in air a freer course.~ ~ XIV~To his first ill addition
11    12|        girt the dome about.~ ~ XIV~While Roland wanders round
12    13| silence to my garden wends.~ ~ XIV~"To the pitched bark with
13    14|      who Mericold supplied.~ ~ XIV~They of Toledo and of Calatrave,~
14    15|     love to wear it prayed.~ ~ XIV~How man should guard himself
15    16|      credits Luke and John.~ ~ XIV~Nor he the fraud of her,
16    17|      king, his peers among.~ ~ XIV~Charles turned him round
17    18|   courage, each takes arms.~ ~ XIV~As when within the closely-fastened
18    19|      as he was wholly dead.~ ~ XIV~So grieved Zerbino, with
19    20|      of their leader's age.~ ~ XIV~"The Cretans, who had banished
20    21|    empire's sceptre swayed.~ ~ XIV~"Brother in arms and bosom-friend
21    22|     than if in prison pent!~ ~ XIV~On Rabican, who with the
22    23|  journey, long and strange.~ ~ XIV~Astolpho says on her he
23    24|      all its skin and hair.~ ~ XIV~Now right, now left, he
24    25|       deep, or little less.~ ~ XIV~Such good Rogero's force
25    26|        doers, soon or late!~ ~ XIV~Marphisa with Rogero moved
26    27|        the Christian power.~ ~ XIV~King Sacripant and King
27    28|        his kingdom bribed.'~ ~ XIV~"This brought his troubled
28    29|     thou wouldst take away.~ ~ XIV~"For pleasure, which endures
29    30| drenched brimfull of brine.~ ~ XIV~He sinks, and would with
30    31|    champions backward bent.~ ~ XIV~The chargers such a rough
31    32|     stars the heaven adorn.~ ~ XIV~When, saving some four days,
32    33|       and routs and quells.~ ~ XIV~"Where they with Clovis
33    34|  everlasting fires torment.~ ~ XIV~"Since to belief soft woman
34    35|    they their prize convey.~ ~ XIV~When they would raise themselves
35    36|     mien that martial peer.~ ~ XIV~"The damsel equals well,
36    37|     all posterity to tell.~ ~  XIV~And beside these and others
37    38|     changed me to a friend.~ ~ XIV~"When to worst harm and
38    39|     horrid sword, or cleft?~ ~ XIV~As when benigner winds more
39    40|   their bitter woes, aloud!~ ~ XIV~And, when the cadi hath
40    41|      from the foaming tide.~ ~ XIV~Fallen on her starboard
41    42|       wet with many a tear;~ ~ XIV~And -- "Roland, in thy helping
42    43|        him a daughter bare;~ ~ XIV~"And to prevent the child
43    44|     till thither he repair.~ ~ XIV~Now good Rinaldo, of his
44    45|        the warrior voiced.~ ~  XIV~No less occasion has the
45    46|       and the monk Severo.~ ~  XIV~Lo! two more Alexanders!