Canto

 1     1|       of France Spain's martial flower.~'Twas thus Orlando came
 2     1|    place~Than light or life the flower which is her own,~Suffering
 3     1|         so preserved her virgin flower~Pure as it blossomed in
 4     3|      Shall be the ornament, and flower, and joy~Of every lineage
 5     3|         shall deserve so fair a flower,~(And in his age, I wot,
 6     3|      cut off in manhood's early flower,~Beneath the banners of
 7     3|   yields,~Shall flourish as the flower of martial fields.~ ~ XLIII~"
 8     4|    glorious prize,~The sweetest flower of all the ladies fair~That
 9     5|       Rinaldo's lofty form,~The flower of those who mix in martial
10     6|       orange, full of fruit and flower,~Myrtle and palm, with interwoven
11     7|       by us in perpetuity.~That flower, whose sweets outlive the
12     8|        And there that matchless flower of earthly charms~Discovers
13     8|       succour found?~And is the flower, which, with the deities,~
14     8|           LXXVIII~"If this fair flower be plucked, oh, misery!
15    10|       VII~Of those in the first flower of youth beware,~Whose visage
16    10|        were led~Before Rinaldo, flower of chivalry;~He that (if
17    10|       these lands,~Is Leonetto, flower of all the bold;~Lancaster'
18    11|        the new grass and dainty flower.~ ~ LXXXIII~From plain to
19    12|     weapons gleam.~Against that flower of knights, their feathered
20    15|      Mecca, who~Was, in youth's flower, for sovereign chivalry,~
21    16|         the two,~Like stalk and flower: for that in either's breast~
22    16|     arrived Rinaldo, Clermont's flower.~Three leagues above, he
23    17| Infinite gardens, never bare of flower,~Or stript of leaf, with
24    18|        bold Marsilius halts the flower of Spain,~And forms the
25    18|          but not 'mid grass and flower,~Whose limbs beneath the
26    18|         CLIII~As languishes the flower of purple hue,~Which levelled
27    20|     fair were all the crew,~The flower of Greece, who bold Phalantus
28    20|      thou hast hope to crop her flower."~-- "Curst hag, how well
29    21|        by thee,~Who seem'st the flower of errant chivalry.~ ~ XII~"
30    23|         brightened like a humid flower,~When the warm sun succeeds
31    26|      wights the very choice and flower?~ ~ XX~Marphisa, waging
32    26|     plain~Descend, with all the flower of France, and so~Shall
33    27|         Saracens the choice and flower~Marshalled in arms against
34    28|    spring, the maid~Was a fresh flower that scarce began to blow:~
35    30|          With him his kinsman's flower the warrior bore.~How he
36    32|    drains,~The weak and wasting flower, well nigh deprived~Of that
37    33|     amid his martial train,~The flower of France, through Alpine
38    34|         And this, mid fruit and flower and verdure there,~Evermore
39    34|      when faded is their vernal flower.~ ~ LXXIX~O'erturned, here
40    38|      womb,~While aye thy virgin flower preserved its bloom,~ ~
41    42|     cavaliers,~The wide world's flower, on Alpine rock should vye,~
42    44|   beside.~ ~ XLVII~"If them the flower of Clermont's noble tree,~
43    45|       sings not; nor is leaf or flower espied.~So, whensoever thou