Canto

 1     2|        And plans an embassy to England, thence~To gather fresher
 2     2|       Britain, which was after England named.~Ill liked the Paladin
 3     6|       I by right~Looked to all England's crown; my lawful claim~
 4     6|   mountain and the river bound~England, and part it from the Scottish
 5     8|        That he from thence and England, subsidies~Of men was seeking,
 6     8| Leaving the courteous king, to England speeds;~He brought him on
 7     9|      the chalky strand,~Whence England's isle the name of Albion
 8     9|       way?"~ ~ XCIII~Nor he in England nor in Ireland port~Will
 9    10|      land;~And came at last to England's farthest strand.~ ~ LXXIII~
10    10|       a crimson bend.~Nor only England, Scotland, Ireland, aid~
11    11| warlike band,~And (league with England's kind and Scotland's made)~
12    15|      land.~ ~ XIX~Andronica to England's duke replies:~"Know that
13    16|   warrior stout,~Who came from England with the advancing host,~
14    16|        wider wheel to go.~Thus England's horse and foot, the two
15    18|     wended,~With Sansonnet and England's duke arrayed,~Seeing the
16    18|       slight.~Of his champions England's cavalier,~Sir Gryphon
17    18|    another slew, --~The men of England and the paynim band.~These
18    20|        the redoubted duke from England's shore.~Marphisa, Dudo,
19    22|       way,~And had from Ind to England rounded all~The right-hand
20    26|       and Italy,~And Spain and England's desolated strands,~Europe
21    26| signified:~Henry the eighth of England is he hight,~Who in the
22    28|         They Flanders next and England scower, and where~A woman
23    34|      those fowls released,~And England's peer restored the Nubian'
24    38|    when banded with Almayn~Are England, Scotland, France, and Italy?~
25    39|  friends with joyful cheer,~By England's duke and Danish Ogier'
26    39|     Orlando shook himself, and England's knight,~Ten paces off,
27    39|     far and near,~But let good England's knight the honour wear~
28    39|        Twas so those ships, by England's peer supplied~To Dudon,
29    40|      Nubian king is charged by England's peer,~With sling and arrow
30    40|      Renowned Orlando and fair England's peer.~ ~ XXXV~By Olivier,
31    41|    Bold Sansonet is left, with England's peer,~Intrusted with the
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