Canto

 1     1|      loves, as ill requited.~ ~ LXXVIII~And this effect two different
 2     5|         the stranger's name.~ ~ LXXVIII~Not far they ride before
 3     6|   prowess of your arm assay.~ ~ LXXVIII~"We soon shall reach a bottom
 4     7|      conducted to that port.~ ~ LXXVIII~The hippogryph he might
 5     8|       now plucked and waste?~ ~ LXXVIII~"If this fair flower be
 6     9|        force and vigour new.~ ~ LXXVIII~He who has seen the thunder,
 7    10|         wise in counselling.~ ~ LXXVIII~"That next the royal gonfalon,
 8    11|      warrior's passage lies.~ ~ LXXVIII~Scarcely a day in Ireland'
 9    12|           still their shout.~ ~ LXXVIII~At once spears, shafts,
10    13|    distant, would be shown."~ ~ LXXVIII~While so the damsel thinks,
11    14|       from the starry skies.~ ~ LXXVIII~Where'er the angel Michael
12    15|        and unsuspecting lay.~ ~ LXXVIII~At the abundant and most
13    16|     sent, the monarch's aid.~ ~ LXXVIII~He more than half his camp
14    17|          or more nobly fall.~ ~ LXXVIII~I to the German neighbour
15    18|         horse in showy wise.~ ~ LXXVIII~Sir Aquilant believed, at
16    19| trappings, to Marphisa gave.~ ~ LXXVIII~Through the south gate,
17    20|       sight were other way.~ ~  LXXVIII~"I wot if I were for a woman
18    22|       for I consent to die."~ ~ LXXVIII~So Aquilant, so Gryphon.
19    23|        have I stricken fear.~ ~ LXXVIII~"I have an oath in Heaven
20    24|    youth was well-nigh dead.~ ~ LXXVIII~"So be thou pleased, my
21    25|      shall avail this brand.~ ~ LXXVIII~"I ask not men, I ask not
22    26|         his lord's misdeed.~ ~  LXXVIII~When knight appeared not
23    27|     battle, tooth and nail."~ ~ LXXVIII~They from dispute proceed
24    28|       blame on these bestow.~ ~ LXXVIII~"And he a larger field for
25    30|      come, at full she told;~ ~ LXXVIII~And fully she to Bradamant
26    31|      may maintain the fight.~ ~ LXXVIII~For many days the damsel
27    32|    surpassing honour greets.~ ~ LXXVIII~So does by her the lady,
28    33|      place; far less repose.~ ~ LXXVIII~But so I will not on her
29    34|       by venal poets versed.~ ~ LXXVIII~Loves of unhappy end in
30    35|    desire to break a spear."~ ~ LXXVIII~Discoursing all this while,
31    36|       serve him for his pay?~ ~ LXXVIII~"Here heartily in face of
32    37|     corse that feels it not.~ ~ LXXVIII~"As serpent, by the pointed
33    38|  Marsilius thought no shame.~ ~ LXXVIII~The casque that he from
34    39|          broken and dismaid.~ ~ LXXVIII~But favoured not by his
35    40|         of France are known.~ ~ LXXVIII~"If I my will can compass,
36    41|         stupefied the brain.~ ~ LXXVIII~Stunned by that furious
37    42|       gorgeous pile to rear.~ ~ LXXVIII~Above the beauteous ornaments
38    43|     sovereign bliss recalls!~ ~ LXXVIII~"He saw a peasant who with
39    44|       field of crimson worn.~ ~ LXXVIII~He chose from his attendant
40    45|         that duel to an end.~ ~ LXXVIII~Of the edict she remembered
41    46|        tented on that shore.~ ~ LXXVIII~She with young Leo's leave,
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