Canto

 1     1|    pleasure.~ ~ ~ I~OF LOVES and LADIES, KNIGHTS and ARMS, I sing,~
 2     4| prisoners!" Sir Brunello cries,~"Ladies and cavaliers, the enchanter
 3     4|       sweetest flower of all the ladies fair~That betwixt Ind and
 4     5|        not, to die,~Arrests some ladies of her retinue,~That, as
 5     6|          rabble scattered as the ladies came,~Who with extended
 6     6|        Their grateful thanks the ladies, worthily~Bestowed on such
 7    10|         more slow.~Cheaply, dear ladies mine, is wisdom bought~By
 8    10|          the sea,~He found three ladies of Alcina's court,~As such
 9    10|     Alexandrian carpets rare~The ladies joyed the cool in great
10    10|    liberty and life.~ ~ LII~Four ladies are arrived upon the strand,~
11    15|   regains the brim.~ ~ LXXII~Two ladies, meetly clad in fair array,~
12    15|       warriors waged at both the ladies' prayer.~ ~ LXXIV~Though
13    15|        love resort.~ ~ LXXVI~The ladies to repose the warriors led~
14    17|    finest drapery;~But more with ladies fair, and richly drest,~
15    17|      knight.~ ~ LXXXI~The lovely ladies from their scaffolds throw~
16    20|       other field confessed,~Ten ladies are the partners of my bed:~
17    20|          So that with those fair ladies at first view,~Stealing
18    20|        swearing at the sovereign ladies' hest,~That they, if others
19    24|     sumptuous monastery; here~Of ladies was a holy sisterhood;~And,
20    25|        her conceit.~ ~ XLII~"The ladies share one common bed that
21    26|         In former ages courteous ladies were,~Who worshipt virtue,
22    28|          the felon ends.~ ~ ~  I~Ladies, and all of you that ladies
23    28|      Ladies, and all of you that ladies prize,~Afford not, for the
24    30|        pardon, since I crave it, ladies bright;~You will excuse,
25    32|       came where those beauteous ladies stayed,~And them, with torches
26    33|           he leads the listening ladies where~Those pictured histories
27    33|       talked long while -- these ladies and the rest --~They to
28    37|     honour and commend.~ ~ XXIII~Ladies, in fine I say, that every
29    37|      shown,~As well that, gentle ladies, I am bent~Ye whom I love
30    37|       the most honoured of those ladies three,~Demanding, who so
31    37|     fitting gear~Those miserable ladies' shame to veil.~Bradamant
32    37|       hatred bear.~If then these ladies and yourself to spill~Seem
33    38|      decide.~ ~ ~ I~Ye courteous ladies, who unto my strain~Kind
34    42|          Marked, one by one, the ladies and their knights.~ ~ LXXXIII~
35    42|          quits that octagon,~Two ladies are there, equal in their
36    45|         unsay;~But of those many ladies that have past~For light,
37    46|        glory in the sky.~ ~ X~My ladies of Ferrara, those of gay~