Canto

 1     1|     wastes my sense, concede me skill~And strength my daring promise
 2     1|  opposite in force and knightly skill:~The first to parley with
 3     2|       scorn of cautious pilot's skill~(Such his impatience to
 4     2|      When asking if she had the skill to leap,~The traitor, with
 5     4|         the plumb, by builder's skill~Nor upon any side was path
 6     4|        the threshold, graved by skill,~With characters and wondrous
 7     7|     garments, wove with cunning skill,~All over, ease and wantonness
 8    10|        marvellous the gems; the skill~Of the artificer and substance
 9    15|        Though Conquest fruit of skill or fortune be,~To conquer
10    16|            XLVI~Well-matched in skill, they aimed their cruel
11    17|  measureless is he) exceeds all skill;~Of fungus-hue, in place
12    18|         matters urges with much skill.~But well is answered: and '
13    18|         penned in pool by human skill,~Which, when the opposing
14    20|   display such courage and such skill~As with his single hand
15    20|        in any need;~For we have skill and courage to maintain~
16    25|    flown to me, -- with all his skill,~Dan Daedalus had not the
17    28|        And such that champion's skill, though undergrown,~He in
18    31|    force, much daring, and much skill appear~In that fierce king;
19    32|     hurry him the damsel had no skill,~By those so passing foul
20    33|        new or old,~Boast of his skill such wondrous works to make;~
21    33|     spear,~But more by care and skill, Pavia's lines~Against the
22    33|        LXXXII~Rinaldo with more skill his blade inclined,~And
23    34|    Thracian knight, for warlike skill~And prowess, upon earth
24    35|     resist the foe,~And of such skill that little boot shall bring~
25    37|         ne'er had, nor has, the skill,~Does voice or lettered
26    38| doctrine by their care~And holy skill may be that martial fair.~ ~
27    40|       aid, and has not heart or skill --~At length a surge the
28    43|       magic versed, was of such skill~As never was enchantress;
29    43|       go without a leech, whose skill~Might ease the wound of
30    46|   Fashioned withal with so much skill and care~By her who wrought
31    46|        CXXVIII~Through force or skill, so fell the Moorish lord,~
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