Canto

 1     1|          Deaf to his prayer, but flew with better speed.~Furious,
 2     2| topmast-high the flashing waters flew.~ ~ XXIX~The watchful mariners,
 3     2|         on the melancholy damsel flew,~And her within that inner
 4     4|        assured it was that lady, flew~With joyful cheer to greet
 5     4|          led those others, as he flew,~Often to rocky height,
 6     6|   Obedient to the Moorish wizard flew,~The friendly damsels to
 7     9|         speedy wings the moments flew.~This while, we oftentimes
 8    10|     voice towards the bark which flew,~Calling with all her might,
 9    10|          golden hair dishevelled flew.~ ~ XCVII~And as he fastened
10    11|     clear sun, so high the water flew.~The noise re-echoing round,
11    14|    Tartar monarch at the speaker flew,~And with the levelled spear
12    14|          He past, ran, -- rather flew across the moat,~Plunging
13    15|          the engine sprung: fast flew~The giant, -- as if heart
14    15|          seems) was taken as she flew,~Where the great Aethiop
15    15|         hours the joyful tidings flew.~ ~ XCI~As he had brought
16    16|      with half a leg dissevered, flew~A foot, there head divided
17    16|       hope to make him prisoner, flew,~And pierced him in the
18    19|     shade with lighter shoulders flew.~ ~ IV~So far was Cloridan
19    19|          than gentle falcon ever flew;~And sore the patron feared,
20    19|         next made after one that flew,~And overtook the wretch,
21    20|      deprived of courage, basely flew,~As ring-doves flutter and
22    23|           to embrace the warrior flew;~And named herself, and
23    23|          through yielding aether flew;~And next the rider stirred
24    23|          out the grieving county flew,~And, prefacing her tale
25    23|          shoulders lopt, another flew)~Of many pierced the throat;
26    24|         roof of house and temple flew,~(For ill secure was elm
27    24|        the steel which round him flew,~Saved, with sore mischief
28    26|        Heaven-high the truncheon flew, in fragments broke,~But
29    27|       Again he to that monastery flew,~Where whilom he had Discord
30    29|       the damsel that before him flew.~ ~ LXIV~At speed Angelica
31    30|         and from that, the eagle flew,~Which Jove in air was wonted
32    31|          Guichardo to the combat flew.~He kept his seat no better
33    33|         land of Gaul the warrior flew~From Pyrenees to Rhine,
34    33|        the castle court Astolpho flew,~And there, with spacious
35    35|      Agramant and King Marsilius flew~The news, that one craved
36    35|         courser fled.~The damsel flew his charger to arrest,~And
37    38|          to her ears the tidings flew.~She beat her breast, her
38    39|       her sword four helms which flew like glass;~No less did
39    40|          squadrons a deep rumour flew,~A murmur and a whisper,
40    40|   Olivier,~Where Otho's son, she flew on pinions light,~Nor ever
41    41|        pell-mell,~And to the sky flew every shivered lance,~At
42    42|    Rinaldo to the liquid crystal flew,~By heat and thirst unto
43    43|         if the bark with pinions flew,~Scowering the king of rivers,
44    43|          on that eve the tidings flew:~But these concealed Astolpho
45    46|        hammering, and in shivers flew;~And the bold Saracen, bereft
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