Canto

 1     1|        frowned, and said:~"Thou traitor to thy word, thou perjured
 2     1|       thou~Art found a perjured traitor to thy vow.~ ~ XXVIII~"But
 3     2|       way.~ ~ LXVIII~And so the traitor's troubled fancy rack~Fear,
 4     2|      intent~Made vain, the wily traitor sought to mend~His toils,
 5     2|      had the skill to leap,~The traitor, with a laugh, his hands
 6     3|     fall he sees.~ ~ V~The wily traitor thought that damsel sweet~
 7     3|     mighty wrong chastised, and traitor's guilt,~By whom his princely
 8     5|         corded stair.~Nor I the traitor's foul deceit perceived,~
 9     5|     place no reliance;~But as a traitor hurl you my defiance.'~ ~
10     9|  possess'd~This false and cruel traitor Love? since he~Can banish
11    11|     Achieved upon her perjured, traitor lord,~He never will unceasing
12    13|      Biscayneer,~And termed him traitor; and by deed and word~Withstood
13    16|       the dame untrue,~And he a traitor whom she loved the best.~
14    16|        and cried withal, "Stay, traitor, stay."~Nor from its aim
15    18|   exclaimed, "thou, who must be~Traitor and thief -- both written
16    21|      true;~And was advised, the traitor would be fain~By her, the
17    21|        Branded by all men for a traitor's deed!~ ~ XXXI~" `How well
18    21|       will display,~And he like traitor and assassin die,~Upon her
19    22|        and affront.~Lo! him the traitor's sin doth hither speed,~
20    23|         Nor profits it the wily traitor ought~To be among the forts
21    23|    Bradamant made the worthless traitor bleed;~Who found no better
22    24|    Biscay; where I~Find out the traitor, and to fight defy.~ ~ XXVI~"
23    24|         whom, by reason of that traitor fell,~I deemed thou never
24    24|           XLIV~Corebo frees the traitor in the end,~Almonio yielding,
25    24|        not name)~Almonio by the traitor did the same.~ ~ XLVI~Zerbino,
26    25|        my desire is strong.~The traitor will the knights, if rendered,
27    31|          delaid;~Seized by that traitor, and by him detained,~To
28    36|       Rogero's bride;~And how a traitor loved (him Bertram name)~
29    36|        knightly blade,~He, as a traitor, well might be abhorred,~
30    37|     broken voice and dread,~-- `Traitor, stand off,' -- the furious
31    41|        shall relate how him the traitor slew,~And where his body
32    45|     some snare have spread:~The traitor will have barred thy way,
33    46| infidelity;~And that thou, as a traitor to thy lord,~Deserv'st not
34    46|         thus impeached him as a traitor, lied;~That so he by his
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