Canto

 1     3|     observe one at this inn~Of black and curly hair, the dwarfish
 2     4| sleight passed red for yellow, black for white:~But all his vain
 3     6|       arms, steed, and shield;~Black was the vest and buckler
 4     7|      fitting bound.~ ~ XII~Two black and slender arches rise
 5     7|    arches rise above~Two clear black eyes, say suns of radiant
 6     7|        art,~With one foot red, black every other part.~ ~ L~Some
 7     7|      saddle dight~A horse more black than pitch; for so the dame~
 8     9|       a horse 'twixt brown and black, the breed~Of Denmark, but
 9     9|       Yellow, green, white and black, to crimson stain.~Cymosco
10    10|      And that striped blue and black. The foot repair~Each to
11    10|      stripes his gonfalon with black and white;~With Errol's
12    12|    steeds, to chase the bright black eyes,~The fair vermillion
13    14|     have preyed;~Who brethren, black and white, in shameful wise,~
14    14|      find the champion clad in black.~ ~ XXXV~The king encounters
15    14|     priest and friar of orders black and gray,~And white, bade
16    14|      silver and like gold, and black and brown;~Part in a tress,
17    15|       array,~One damsel was in black and one in white,~And who
18    18|     rule accrued:~A stain more black than pitch he cast upon~
19    19|       hostile train,~But he in black no sign of jousting made,~
20    19|      warlike two.~Marphisa the black champion from his sell,~
21    19|      Levels her lance; and the black champion, bent~To slay Marphisa,
22    20|     the white and Aquilant the black~Take road more beaten with
23    20|       And there approaching in black gown arrayed,~Beside a torrent,
24    27|    Unless he would persuade us black is white.~ ~ CXXXVI~"Because,
25    29|        the wretch discerns not black from white,~And harms where
26    31|        pair)~One by a vest all black, and one all white,~He knows,
27    33|        Whom, led by that false black into the snare,~You late
28    33|   overthrow,~Who with a deeper black than pitch had dyed~Their
29    33|    rest.~Equipt with feathers, black as ink in hue,~And piercing
30    38|       light the peer,~With the black host, sets out upon his
31    43|        while white friars, and black, and gray,~With other clerks,
32    43|   drest~Those beadsmen all, in black and trailing gown.~A hundred
33    43|      was mourned;~The mantles, black or purple, given away;~The
34    45|      mind, so clouded o'er and black."~As Philomel, or Progne,