Canto

 1     1|   summer's heat.~She from her saddle 'mid spring flowers descends~
 2     2|       damsel as she fled,~His saddle lightened of Mount Alban'
 3     4|  Seated between, a knight the saddle pressed,~Clad in steel arms,
 4     4|        instructed him to bear~Saddle and bit, and gallop to the
 5     6|   That, if his rider from the saddle sprung,~He might the leap
 6     6|   astonished foe,~Left at his saddle by the wizard Moor)~That
 7     7|     bade with bridle and with saddle dight~A horse more black
 8     8|   Save that she closer to her saddle grew.~ ~ XXXVI~She cannot,
 9    12|       sword,~Stunned from his saddle reels the paynim lord.~ ~
10    12|     LXXXIV~Astounded from his saddle reels the king,~Nor him
11    17|       XCV~Gryphon, who in his saddle sees the peer~Advancing
12    17|     at the encounter left his saddle bare,~On the other Gryphon
13    18| ordained,~And fastened at the saddle of the steed~The mace, that
14    18|     field.~ ~ CXIX~From lofty saddle Sansonnet o'erthrew,~Famous
15    19|   ground;~Yet quitted now the saddle, as was said.~Not only at
16    20|    array,~The warrior rode on saddle richly wrought~Towards the
17    20|     blow~Which from thy lofty saddle laid thee low.~ ~ CXXX~"
18    22|      with brand,~Bade put the saddle upon Rabicane;~Departed
19    22|      hippogryph, he flung~The saddle on him, which lay near,
20    23|     The cavaliers, who in the saddle sit,~Returning with the
21    23|      The girts which hold his saddle broken are.~Scarce conscious
22    23|      foe released,~The broken saddle at his ease re-pieced.~ ~
23    24|    sun,~His horse's reins and saddle to undo;~Letting the courser
24    26|  murderous brand~Are from the saddle seen to disappear:~Before
25    26|        And, tumbling from his saddle on the field,~Extends the
26    27|     four spears his courser's saddle stayed,~And from beneath
27    30| trenchant blade,~Which on the saddle's plated pommel fell;~Nor
28    31|    would ensue.~"Him from his saddle will I quickly cast,~If
29    32|     buckler from the damsel's saddle swung.~ ~ LI~Before the
30    33|   rest,~Against the worst his saddle could maintain.~To make
31    35|       renowned,~This from the saddle lifts, in air suspends,~
32    40|      eyes,~That hardly he his saddle can maintain.~But to win
33    42|   Himself he quickly from his saddle throws;~And, with a face
34    42|      in its place,~And at his saddle hung a burning mace.~ ~
35    44|     borne,~Him nevermore with saddle or with bit~To gall, but