Canto

 1     4|    foul, with blood of man to stain~Unarmed and of so base a
 2     5|       that damsel bright,~The stain should cleave to her, alive
 3     5|     such death, and free from stain.~ ~ LXVIII~"The king has
 4     8|      squalid snake of mottled stain,~Nor wild and whelpless
 5     8| expose~By this his dignity to stain or slight,~The old and honoured
 6     9|   white and black, to crimson stain.~Cymosco grieves, when most
 7    10|  those snowy hands with livid stain,~Thus painfully with griding
 8    14|       a courser of a chestnut stain,~Whose legs and mane were
 9    14|       her farther hence, from stain?"~ ~ LVI~The Tartar, joying
10    17|       endure such ignominious stain,~As I am wont to make his
11    17|   former fellowship appears a stain;~And ever 'twill sit heavy
12    18|     from your rule accrued:~A stain more black than pitch he
13    18|     and anxious to remove the stain,~Recalled his men, and that
14    18|      spear, in pool of purple stain,~Wealthy and poor, the king
15    19|    his courtesy should suffer stain.~The knight retires apart,
16    21|       have given, and without stain~Of thine own honour, what
17    21|       with death than lasting stain,~If in the castle were that
18    22|    blushing warrior said) the stain eraze?~For 'twill be bruited,
19    24|     to mischief of far deeper stain,~Than has so outraged us.
20    25|       he should keep him with stain;~For ill he deems a union
21    29|     and cleanse him from that stain,~Whereof excess in wine
22    30|    the tepid blood of crimson stain;~Hence Mandricardo's arm
23    30| defend, and keep from harm or stain~Such vengeance upon him
24    31|       knightly honour took no stain.~ ~ XXIV~The stranger knight,
25    31|    and Aquilant, the two that stain~Their virtuous armour with
26    31|   passage blocked, and widely stain~With crimson what before
27    32|     She thought foul scorn to stain her generous hands~With
28    34|   fits my sin, dark fumes now stain~My cheek, and with salt
29    34|    what appeared to sight did stain;~But even so searched the
30    34|      steel, when undefiled by stain;~And such it seems, or little
31    36|     and hurried to avenge the stain.~Cried Aymon's daughter,
32    36|       you efface the shameful stain,~That ye, so often wronged,
33    37|     not so long, would be the stain,~But that large portion
34    37|      Olindro cannot venge the stain.~Straight spent in him,
35    38|      roan, and some of dapple stain.~The crowds that waiting
36    43|    Rinaldo's tears his visage stain~When he so cleft beholds