Canto

 1     1|      Nor in her panic seeks to choose her ground,~Nor open grove
 2     2|       sort abhorred,~She would choose death before that hated
 3     2|      that, the wizard seems to choose,~The monster makes such
 4     2|         Nor could the warriors choose but fall, amazed~And blinded
 5     4|     burns my heart. (nor can I choose but go)~To strive in battle
 6     5|       prove the lie,~He cannot choose, but doom the maid to die.~ ~
 7     6|       right or wrong, I cannot choose but shield,~And for her
 8     6|     the field.~ ~ XI~"I know I choose the wrong, and be it so!~
 9     8|        If he behold the quarry choose one side,~The other takes,
10     8|      see the grisly sight, and choose but moan~The damsel bound
11    10|     bound?"~At this she cannot choose but show like grain,~Of
12    11|        That King Oberto cannot choose but he~Recalls them at each
13    12|  believed the damsel could not choose~But follow, when she vanished
14    13|       I some two or three~Will choose, because my tale may have
15    15|        all before her where to choose;~And to the avenging sea
16    15|        slay the thief, so many choose between?~"To cut them all (
17    17|    Woeful every where~I cannot choose but be,' (the king replied)~`
18    18|        me sorely, and I cannot choose~But own my sin: let counsels
19    18|    valiant Norandino could not choose~(Made by such error temperate
20    18|       woful wight,~Here cannot choose, but of his lord devise,~
21    19|     One of two evils they must choose, -- be slain,~Or captives,
22    20|       strangled would I rather choose,~And be into a thousand
23    22|        blame~Their life, would choose to perish in the fray),~
24    24|  Biscayneer.~And, if thou must choose death, in place of worse,~
25    24|      place of worse,~Then only choose it, as a lesser curse."~ ~
26    30|     the matter let us see,~And choose him that of her shall chosen
27    31|      former battle's eve,~They choose their ground on Barcellona'
28    36|     gentle strain~Still cannot choose but courtesy pursue;~For
29    36|    fiercely close,~They cannot choose but grapple, hand to hand.~
30    37|    resolve? to pass all by?~Or choose but one from such a company?~ ~
31    37|     company?~ ~ XVI~One will I choose, and such will choose, that
32    37|        I choose, and such will choose, that she~All envy shall
33    44|    peer's belief,~He could not choose but pleasure Clermont's
34    44| destroys that host;~And cannot choose, though so his prowess harms,~
35    45|    idle I give way;~And cannot choose but yield myself thy prey.~ ~
36    46|     That good Rogero could not choose but yield,~Whose heart was