Canto

 1     2|    foe's death to either can avail,~And what the guerdon conquest
 2     3|   And haply future study may avail,~To bring the stubborn labour
 3     5|     not that thy story shall avail,~Unless my very eyes confirm
 4     5|    if faithful service might avail;~But while he stood aloof,
 5     6|      my person, where it may avail,~Dispose (Rogero said) to
 6    10|    perceives the first of no avail,~The knight returns to deal
 7    13|  wreathes its length without avail:~While this, whom more propitious
 8    14|   boat; and, what might more avail~Than all the rest, a first
 9    14|     the circling sun without avail~Conveys the cheerful daylight:
10    14| their first defense of small avail~Full well they know that
11    15|    much either might in arms avail,~Fame through the universal
12    16| bespeak~Mercy, nor innocence avail the child:~Nor gently beaming
13    16|     they been deemed of much avail.~Ill harnessed, and worse
14    18|    might have proved of good avail,~For Aquilant believed him
15    20|      we could in all as well avail~Without their succour, nor
16    20|      said) I know, save this avail."~ ~ LXXIV~"This only us
17    24|    fruit,~It well might here avail; since all that best~Moves
18    25|   More than a thousand shall avail this brand.~ ~ LXXVIII~"
19    27|  more with Mandricardo could avail,~And made the moody Sarzan
20    28|      neither youth nor grace avail,~The money may, with which
21    29|      some arguments of small avail,~To shake her stedfast spirit,
22    30|    she) can I find~Which may avail to minister repose,~If aye,
23    30|    against it nothing should avail,~Enchanted corselet or enchanted
24    31|      believes his foeman can avail,~Long, in that fierce debate,
25    41|  this, in your disaster, can avail;~And, of all counsels least,
26    41|    Balisarda bites no spells avail)~Shears helmet, cuirass,
27    43|      not, against gold of no avail~Is stone, or steel to hardest
28    43|   the mode he deems may best avail,~He supplicates her not
29    45|     his sword should Leo ill avail.~Then by his word will he
30    45|    toils and strives without avail~The damsel, nor can open
31    45|      toils and moils without avail,~Till wearied strength and
32    46| leave to me to try~If wealth avail to free thee from thy pain,~
33    46|    which neither workmanship avail,~Enchantment, temper, nor
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