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1501 33| languid fall.~This while nor dish nor goblet they forego;~ 1502 43| Nor to such pardon was he disinclined.~Thus peace and concord 1503 20| would not, I, such amity disjoin.~Well are ye paired, and 1504 13| and mind unite,~Although disjoined from one another's sight.~ ~ 1505 13| displeased to hear~How, all dislodged, the squadrons of the Moor,~ 1506 24| revenge prevent.~Thence, he disloyal to his prince and friend,~ 1507 3| the pageant cease,~And I dismiss the shades and hold my peace."~ ~ 1508 14| the damsel fared,~Kindly dismissed, their journey to pursue;~ 1509 4| gates to give thy guests dismission~Before thine hand the knot 1510 22| ending his self-colloquy,~Dismounting, takes a large and heavy 1511 16| with brandished blade,~Dispatching into hell the mixt array,~ 1512 25| Tis better that I now dispel (she said)~The foolish thought 1513 35| old sire, and why he would dispense~Idly, all those fair names, 1514 33| With many wrongs, and who dispersedly~-- Some here, some there -- 1515 25| surprise and rend,~The rest dispersing, leave their mate to die,~ 1516 39| left, and they~A feeble and dispirited array.~ ~ XXI~So proved 1517 6| Dun deer or nimble goat, disporting, leap.~ ~ XXIII~When the 1518 46| purposes, and God above~Disposes, thy great courtesy, well 1519 18| CLXXII~And thus resolved, disposing in their place~Their guard' 1520 5| Persuaded of the calumny's disproof,~He with more courage warred 1521 14| bastion,~And with much toil disrupted, solid wall;~While streams 1522 8| explore!~ ~ III~Rogero, still dissembling, as I said,~Armed, to the 1523 27| To him the seed of their dissensions show,~And what the bitter 1524 19| sex they seat,~To ply the distaff, broider, card and sow,~ 1525 3| In him behold who shall distain the mead,~And his good sword 1526 16| the impious he -- his hand distains,~But even on walls so sorely 1527 28| the bane,~Accompanied by a distemper sore:~So that he seemed 1528 31| Some means of cure for his distempered mind.~ ~ XLIV~But since 1529 18| odoriferous leaf such sweets distill,~That they who sail the 1530 25| more~One from the other to distinguish; hight~I Richardetto am, 1531 24| a guide,~And not to die, distresses me alone.~For did it me 1532 13| files they fed;~And next distributed the paynim horde~Under their 1533 34| by sick men willed~For distribution, after they were dead.~He 1534 15| That eighteen thousand districts ill supply~Lodging to those 1535 9| was won.~ ~ XLIII~"Ere new disturbance interrupt the deed,~Taking 1536 2| recruit~And cleanse their ditches, and repair their walls.~ 1537 19| pleasant plain,~What (whether dittany or pancy hight)~I know not; 1538 11| And having seen Orlando dive, and rise~From the orc, 1539 31| who sate them well;~And dived into the river's darksome 1540 25| upon him wrought;~Which diversely his doubtful heart incline:~ 1541 3| ran.~And (what may some diversion interpose)~Sweet subjects 1542 7| And other sounds, in mixed diversity,~Made, round about, the 1543 30| in a double drain:~Hence diversly the people guessed, which 1544 18| Four others he neat that Diviner, slew,~Nor gave the wretches 1545 6| And haply he more wittily divines:~For me, I deem it gold 1546 31| replied);~"But I, since thou divinest not my speech,~To thee my 1547 7| And lots for her each day, divining, tries; --~She all Rogero' 1548 16| plate and mail.~The fourth division I believe was best,~Which, 1549 36| Christian foes~Advance, and both divisions come to blows.~ ~ XXIX~On 1550 16| divide;~And he, of these divorcing body and soul,~Restores 1551 2| loathed by her as much, as he~Doats on the scornful damsel miserably.~ ~ 1552 33| Nile.~Between Coallee and Dobada sped,~Bound for the Nubian 1553 38| That taught in all its doctrine by their care~And holy skill 1554 2| forest stood;~The daughter of Dodona's duke behind,~Dogging his 1555 2| of Dodona's duke behind,~Dogging his footsteps through the 1556 28| groom,~Nor, lest he lose a doit, his paltry stake,~Will 1557 45| sound;~All into deepest dolour in one day~Hurled headlong 1558 40| care~Agramant's African dominions were.~ ~ XXXVI~Agramant, 1559 17| and a Caius cursed;~ ~ II~Domitian and the latter Antonine;~ 1560 43| now to take?~With thee to Dommogire, thy fair domain,~Thus went 1561 17| their breast.~And hugged the door-post and the genial bed,~Too 1562 18| Dardinello's eye;~He upon earth Dorchino had laid low,~Pierced through 1563 9| LXI~Orlando fares to Dordrecht, where he views~A numerous 1564 14| bastard, hies~With valiant Doricont; amid this horde,~Bavartes, 1565 14| come with Soridan,~With Dorilon the men of Setta ride;~The 1566 14| who their captain vaunt~In Doriphoebus, muster in the van;~And 1567 17| badgers in their lair,~Or dormice, overcome with slumber, 1568 10| latter knight.~The next of Dorset and Southampton's town,~ 1569 33| Leonardo, Gian Belline,~The Dossi, and, skilled to carve or 1570 46| the consistory;~And (if I dote not) mark how one and all~ 1571 6| in outlandish skin.~These doting sires, those striplings 1572 23| hues and rich, he sees,~And dotted o'er with fair and many 1573 41| the ship with speed,~In doublet, as he is, sans mail and 1574 39| gold lance she overthrew;~Doubling Marphisa's score; yet none 1575 43| the doctor; for the hound~Doubloons, by dozens and by dozens, 1576 34| about it flow.~ ~ LXXI~Here doubly waxed the paladin's surprize,~ 1577 38| Which should so much more doubtfully be viewed,~As it seems less 1578 20| so~The starlings and the doves in flock unite,~And every 1579 42| was severed by the sword.~Down-fell, and shook its last upon 1580 18| in time of need by sleep down-weighed,~From chasing Moors all 1581 4| by the virtuous ring)~The downfall of the enchanter and his 1582 18| without a bead,~At cross or downright-stroke; as if he rows~Trashes in 1583 43| water,~He gives me for a dowry, with his daughter.~ ~ XVIII~" 1584 26| Which, hiding him, from dragon-feet to head,~The wicked Typheus 1585 46| Rodomont had not that hard dragon-hide~Which heretofore had cased 1586 14| and strong, was drest;~A dragon-skin it was with scaly quilt,~ 1587 12| either hand,~Drawn by two dragons, in her chariot went,~Searching 1588 11| many knights and good,~From Dragontina's cruel servitude:~ ~ V~ 1589 32| thirsty plant of moisture drains,~The weak and wasting flower, 1590 34| descried,~Who, he believed, no dram of theirs had spent;~But 1591 29| where he must drain~Huge draughts of water in his fall, parforce,~ 1592 34| shortly to such desperation drave,~That gladly would the king 1593 18| friends' peril, raise the draw-bridge high:~Part, weeping and 1594 23| dear;~And not a word could draw-forth from her breast,~But bathed 1595 39| such mode conveys,~That, drawing-in his breath, the county drained~ 1596 1| flies.~ ~ XXXIII~Through dreary woods and dark the damsel 1597 28| LVIII~" `I to the bitter dregs the cup must drain~Of promised 1598 27| without repose, again~To drench with Christian blood the 1599 23| the warm sun succeeds to drenching shower.~ ~ LXVIII~And without 1600 1| wistful youth his bosom dresses.~With such the enamored 1601 21| most its natural moisture dries,~And strips the fluttering 1602 17| even scared our pilot hoar.~Drifting three days and nights at 1603 43| or meed?'~ ~ XXVIII~" `A drinking-cup will I for that assay~Give 1604 17| he shows,~A breast with drivel foul, and pointed nose.~ ~ 1605 18| overcharged with dew,~In garden droops its head in piteous wise:~ 1606 8| bare, and parched with drouth.~ ~ XX~The sunbeams on the 1607 27| different homesteads lodged, the drovers lay.~ ~ CXXX~The king of 1608 35| their wreck combine.~One drowns them, as thou seest, mid 1609 45| As he, that at his daily drudgery slow,~Sees night on his 1610 46| given the juice from deadly drugs distilled;~Whom he, if he 1611 2| let good deeds decide our dubious claim,~With whom the steed 1612 3| subdues,~And shall Spoleto's ducal crown enjoy.~Behold the 1613 43| she possest~Ten, twenty ducats' value deemed the crone.~ 1614 20| England's shore.~Marphisa, Dudo, Sansonet, and all~The knights 1615 14| Libicane,~Who wept the sable Dudrinasso dead.~Brunello guides the 1616 12| art.~The rest than diamond dug from mountain hoar~More 1617 35| These base and sluggish dullards, whom I cite --~Born but 1618 18| here,~Dardinel, who Sir Dulphin of the mount,~Claude of 1619 20| day he was released from dungeon-den,~And singly with ten warriors 1620 9| would not wait to seek the dungeon-key,~But breaking-down the gate, 1621 22| prisoners new,~To separate dungeons in that fortress led;~Nor 1622 20| shall proclaim.~Beyond the Durence, Rhone, and Saone she strayed,~ 1623 44| do; I know~That which a duteous daughter doth behove;~I 1624 31| worth~I prize above all dwellers' upon earth?~ ~ XXXI~"Me 1625 17| repair~In front of temple, dwelling-house, and store;~Nor any cruel 1626 14| Pastoral lodgings were the dwellings near,~Less formed for show, 1627 15| New cities under Caesar's dynasty,~And kingdoms in the Orient 1628 24| They make towards Zerbino eagerly,~And, kneeling, with bare 1629 34| bands he saw exprest;~Then eagles' talons, the authority~With 1630 9| Since on the issue of the earliest fray,~When in the rout one 1631 24| puissant goad.~-- If ever earnestness of prayer could boot~To 1632 17| Hence this good cavalier earns fame and praise,~While others 1633 20| who should have fed the earth-bred worm~Preserved beyond her 1634 40| to Samos' isle~To carry earthen vessels, as 'tis said,~To 1635 42| at length displayed;~With easements, which (beside what is in 1636 26| mention in my song,~That easier track across the level hold;~ 1637 27| knight, to fury stirred;~Now easing in low tone his troubled 1638 11| worthless art:~And at such ebb are worth and chivalry,~ 1639 46| first sorrow thither sent,~Ebbed at this notice in so full 1640 27| female mind! how lightly ebbs and flows~Your fickle mood," ( 1641 34| Africa, by Tyber's shore,~By Ebro's sunny bank, or other place,~ 1642 11| very day to the island of Ebude.~She Roland recollects on 1643 4| As if to witness comet or eclipse.~And there the lady views, 1644 34| Astolpho they with fruits of Eden feed,~So rich, that in his 1645 31| was arraid,~The vesture edged about with list of gold:~ 1646 41| bound about with steel the edges are:~It splits the shield, 1647 36| should obtain;~In that all edicts and all equity~The death 1648 18| meed.~ ~ CVIII~But from effecting what he had intended~He 1649 46| martial many, dry.~ ~ LXIV~So efficaciously he after prayed~To the obstinate 1650 38| Charles had made~His mightiest effort, with the Christian crew;~ 1651 26| like the shell~Of brittle egg: and who would not have 1652 33| The soldan, king of the Egyptian land,~Pays tribute to this 1653 41| holy man had reached his eightieth year.~ ~ LIX~That hermit 1654 38| by a month or two,~I eithteen years had not o'erpast, 1655 20| slaughtered in the fane.~If he, Elbanio-like, ten foes assay,~(And such 1656 13| Isabel.~ ~ LXIX~"The prudent Eleanour is this: a spray~Which will 1657 46| instruction square.~Some chant sad elegies, some verses gay~Lays lyric 1658 43| bemoaned the dead,~And Kyrie Eleison, by the priestly train,~ 1659 12| hell.~ ~ III~Had Roland of Eleusis' deity~The sovereign power 1660 6| any water seen:~More than eleven paces, to our eyes,~His 1661 18| spear,~(Of Mirford he) and Elio did dismount,~And, with 1662 35| courtezan.~ ~ XXVIII~"What fame Eliza, she so chaste of sprite,~ 1663 17| of that inch will make an ell.~ ~ XCIII~Already he the 1664 2| bottom of the cell,~The stout elm-bough so long her weight upstayed,~ 1665 19| wished appearance of St. Elmo's light,~Which (every spar 1666 13| By stealth he purposed to elope with me.~Amid green fields, 1667 33| number are the horrid band;~Emaciated with hunger, lean, and dry;~ 1668 25| Anxious to scape from that embarrassment.~The princess a prime jennet, 1669 41| Then ye have plaid the embassador to-day,~In arms will second 1670 24| nor the saw,~Which says embassadors are safe by law:~ ~ CX~But 1671 44| Exchanged, crest, surcoat and emblazoned shield.~On that emprize 1672 6| instructed of your might,~Embolden us, in our behalf, to pray~ 1673 36| valley turned aside,~Wherein embosomed was a little plain.~In the 1674 31| sumptuous housings gorgeously embossed,~Rinaldo takes, with tempered 1675 44| The interchange of fond embracements ends,~Than Roland and his 1676 44| spied~A pod, like millet, in embroidery done:~Constantine's nephew, 1677 18| assist.~ ~ XXXI~Of means to embroil the Sarzan and the son~Of 1678 2| civil blood their hands embrued.~And hence some treason 1679 11| gore, that from the orc, emerged to light,~Whom he had entered 1680 46| sacred cavern, I with thee~Emilia Pia, and thee, Margherite,~ 1681 26| other cavalier~Like him such eminence of glory scales;~-- The 1682 43| CXVII~"Arrived, his first employment is to run~To that astrologer' 1683 43| whatsoever I of him demand,~I empty-handed never go away;~Now pearl, 1684 4| the damsel dies.~A like emrpize were worthier of your spear~ 1685 26| arms arrayed;~And haply emulation had between~The pair ensued, 1686 42| gilded roof, which with enamelled dyes~Was stained below, 1687 41| fronts the eastern ray,~Encamp them, and not haply without 1688 30| where on the sea-beat strand~Encamped a host of blacks, a countless 1689 12| the lonely valley, where~Enceladus the Aetnaean mountain placed~ 1690 24| mouth, those eyes,~By what enchained me first, that lovely hair;~ 1691 8| his will.~ ~ ~ I~How many enchantresses among us! oh,~How many enchanters 1692 44| royal father be,~And I, encircled with their forfeit crown,~ 1693 46| and stooping low,~His neck encircles with a fast embrace.~By 1694 20| see, now near, the fire's encircling light,~Which had, while 1695 35| forward rode, within the enclosure sped,~And o'er the bridge 1696 38| remain:~The curious crowd, encompassing them round,~Press, harm, 1697 27| theatre, on every side,~Encompast by a tall and solid mound;~ 1698 5| ground,~Nor I intruder fear, encroaching nigh;~Nor seek I more; ' 1699 26| chance;~But prostrate rolled, encumbered by his steed;~Nor fell the 1700 31| bravely had gainsaid,~But oft endangered in that deadly bout;~And 1701 19| This to Angelica so much endears,~That never more esteemed 1702 27| was by,~Him from the quest endeavoured to dissuade,~And that with 1703 3| removed from sight.~His fair endeavours bent to bless and stay~The 1704 43| her beginnings, what her endings are;~And soar till Heaven 1705 14| and march; of whom I shall endite,~When it is time, their 1706 34| lasts, life in such wise~Endureth, nor outlasts it by a thought.~ 1707 18| The moon, as fair, as when Endymion~She circled in her naked 1708 16| brand:~While Casimir and Enearco rue~More deeply yet the 1709 24| ever wastes his blood; his energies~Fail, though he feels it 1710 42| killed with venomed tooth, enflamed with spleen,~Grasps his 1711 42| the beast, whose snakes enfold~Rinaldo, linked in many 1712 31| and by him detained,~To enforce the wicked law he had ordained.~ ~ 1713 31| mien and act her speech enforced,~It seemed of some high 1714 33| stood:~But (what well-nigh engendered more despite~-- Say not 1715 9| loathed, O cursed piece of enginery,~Cast in Tartarean bottom, 1716 46| him with all his strength engirdled round.~At once he past his 1717 27| pippin, pear, and service can~Engraft by art on one another's 1718 24| This is the penance I enjoin to thee;~That thou a year 1719 16| as a guide,~A common debt enjoins you mutual aid,~Militant 1720 44| fortunes makes lament~Which his enjoying such a good oppose;~As unendowed 1721 31| else which interpose~Before enjoyment of this choicest sweet,~ 1722 3| grow.~Nor that he shall enlarge her bounds, nor yet~That 1723 44| Another's beauty in its core enlay."~ ~ LXVII~Other and many 1724 32| follow strife and boundless enmities,~Amid king Charles's peerage 1725 30| train --~Had by his deeds ennobled Aymon's blood,~One day at 1726 34| found company,~The patriarch Enoch, and the mighty seer~Elias; 1727 18| sight~Of the huge beast's enormous horns unused,~Cower at a 1728 8| of him with earnest care,~Enquired, how she towards the shore 1729 36| made;~And he that makes enquiry, here is taught~In few brief 1730 18| possest.~A certain mode to enrage these two is won;~And other 1731 38| harness of Rogero bold,~Enriched with precious pearls and 1732 24| happily combined,~And, with ensamples fraught and eloquence,~Was 1733 19| supplicants from far and near enshrine,~In thanks for mercy shown, 1734 14| thought to see her there enshrined,~Whom he believed he must 1735 19| Which, by their ancient law, enslave or slew~All those whom Fortune 1736 20| in vain;~For they will be enslaved, and she be slain.~ ~ LXIX~ 1737 30| fell strife,~Already has ensured Rogero's life.~ ~ LXXIV~ 1738 42| capitals of gold,~Which gemmed entablatures support in air;~Exotic marbles 1739 45| thickest trees and most entangled spied:~But first Frontino 1740 25| Them mournful Aldigier next entertains,~And with them the ensuing 1741 4| doubt, fair sir, the thief enthralls~Or slays whoever in the 1742 20| election made be wrong,~And we enthrone the weak and slay the strong.~ ~ 1743 6| many proffers and fair mien entice,~And welcome to this opening 1744 13| through the door~Of gold, enticed into the enchanted hall,~ 1745 5| I, who to please him was entirely bent,~Who never could or 1746 5| who what drug the burning entrail sears,~Or who for her would 1747 29| heron or by puller do;~Whose entrails he plucks out, to satisfy~ 1748 32| Besides that me my destiny entrained,~Words, worthy credence, 1749 34| An elder, in the shining entrance-hall~Of that glad house, towards 1750 33| train.~In him who twice entraps the routed foe,~Gonslavo 1751 19| its crown Medoro's head entwine.~She had upon her wrist 1752 31| V~This is that cruel and envenomed wound~Where neither salve 1753 21| so fastly hold,~As Faith enwraps an honourable sprite~In 1754 19| his locks of golden ore~Enwreaths, and drags him to himself 1755 Int| digressions and incidental episodes associated with these events:~ 1756 30| times, nay six, she that epistle read,~And willed moreover 1757 6| in his mighty swiftness equalling.~I scarce believe that bolt, 1758 42| rock should vye,~In that equestrian fight, with levelled spears.~ 1759 27| Sacripant (as said before)~To equip Sir Rodomont himself bestirred,~ 1760 36| that all edicts and all equity~The death of him that causes 1761 22| warrior said) the stain eraze?~For 'twill be bruited, 1762 23| not of its former boot,~O'erbalanced by the present bitter fruit.~ ~ 1763 28| hear him, if his wrath o'erblow,~Yet greater praise than 1764 15| worthy praise, when you o'erbore~The lion of such might by 1765 32| repeated cess,~All Africa's o'erburdened towns oppress.~ ~ V~He offers 1766 40| gored:~But all at once, o'erburthened with that weight,~The ladder 1767 17| be spied --~In visages o'ercast in death-like sort,~That 1768 32| rode before.~These she o'ercomes, and had o'ercome that maid,~ 1769 46| force, wherewith the gin,~Erected in two barges upon Po,~And 1770 23| thither, where a mountain~O'erhangs in guise of arch the crystal 1771 28| place was yielded him, o'eright~The cavalier, he 'gan his 1772 32| reach the tower, ere Night o'erlays~The world, whose every nook 1773 29| LXIX~As in this course to o'erleap a ditch he sought,~Head 1774 27| distant nigh~Three leagues, o'erlooks a little copse, repair,~ 1775 33| now the Huns, replace.~O'ermatched, he then for peace is fain 1776 43| emprize.~ ~ XLV~"My wish, o'erpassing every fitting bound,~To 1777 29| thee bestow what shall o'erpay,~By much, that honour thou 1778 15| greater good the risque o'erpays.~ ~ XLVIII~"I peril but 1779 41| reeling vessel's side o'erpeer;~And every billow threatens 1780 19| He, as the mournful hue o'erpowered the clear,~Was less inclined 1781 38| balance hope and fear,~O'errated still; and which we should 1782 31| shalt be supplied."~-- "Thou errest if thou deem'st his loss 1783 34| harpies, that on blind~And erring Italy so full have fed!~ 1784 10| with black and white;~With Errol's earl upon his better hand,~ 1785 17| they, to censure prone,~-- Errs he a finger's breadth -- 1786 2| fountain-rill,~By ancient trees o'ershaded, glides away;~And him whose 1787 14| reach.~By two fair hills o'ershadowed is the dale,~And full of 1788 26| Screened from the sun by an o'ershadowing mountain.~ ~ XXX~This spring 1789 41| weathered, others rise.~O'erstrained, the vessel splits; and 1790 40| elephants uprear,~Which so o'ertop the turrets of the foe,~ 1791 44| chivalry~They, more than head o'ertops the foot, surmount;~Why 1792 14| When lo! he saw a mead, o'ertopt with shade,~Where a deep 1793 19| myself with pain,~Who is o'erwearied with the former fight:~What 1794 26| may like disastrous fate~O'erwhelm all evil doers, soon or 1795 34| Alcides vext so sore,~In Erymanth, Nemaea, Lerna, Thrace,~ 1796 17| And pearl, from Ind and Erythraean shore.~ ~ XXII~Forward Sir 1797 43| warlike knights between,~Eschewing in their passage mire and 1798 45| door undone.~ ~ XLIV~Leo, escorted by none else beside,~Was 1799 20| race~Absolve Elbanio by especial grace.~ ~ LVI~"To pardon 1800 42| the married dame~Be from espial by her lord released;~Thus 1801 5| accord;~And, in legitimate espousal, how~I am about to claim 1802 22| hied,~That he might next espouse the martial may,~With Bradamant; 1803 10| griffin; underneath a yoke;~In Essex's, conjoined, two snakes 1804 9| Of better there his power establishing,~To me, and also to my people 1805 31| seen whilere,)~And more esteemest life than fame, a course~ 1806 Int| is worth noting that the Estes where the patrons of both 1807 31| meat.~Feebly that wight can estimate the charms~Of peace, who 1808 6| perched on eagle, crane, or estridge, go.~Some male, some female, 1809 4| springs.~And through mid ether soars a fairer flight~Than 1810 19| and Gallicia, and to Rome,~Ettino, and other place of sanctity,~ 1811 18| by rude Boreas' rage or Eurus' strown,~Uptorn are ash 1812 34| XXXIX~Nor Juno, nor Eurystheus, in such chase~Ever renowned 1813 33| where Ambra and Ticino flow!~Eutar behold, who not alone repels,~ 1814 22| with lying tongue your oath evade."~" -- Behold! the arms; 1815 37| chaste Laodamia, Portia true,~Evadne, Argia, Arria, and many 1816 12| sooner him espied,~Than she evanished clean, and spurred her mare:~ 1817 11| ring she wears,~Angelica evanishes from view.~Next in a damsel, 1818 17| And to continue it till even-fall,~Descending from his place, 1819 27| monarch would do ill to force~Even-handed Justice from her destined 1820 13| deeply-crimsoning rose,~Willow by laurel evergreen, as shorn~Of light, stained 1821 11| islanders are slain, and everwhere~The walls are upon earth 1822 | everything 1823 17| the ground,~Though no true evidence of guilt, his mail~And plate, 1824 23| with such witcheries~The evil-minded wizard had delayed.~Here 1825 20| they good and true~Lovers evinced themselves and bold in bed.~ 1826 32| road at ease:~Much evermore evolving in her thought~Things that 1827 35| studies fair.~ ~ VII~"Such exaltation, reached so suddenly,~Is 1828 32| their eyes;~And all, upon examination due,~Cry, Aymon's daughter 1829 14| on her breast.~ ~ LXXXIV~Examinations, summons, and a store~Of 1830 8| the palace fair,~And so examine all her witcheries;~To raze 1831 12| And by the ring concealed, examines all;~And Roland there, and 1832 32| as she deems, all else excell.~-- `Lightly I hold your 1833 20| kind, in me alone~Should an exception to the rest be known.~ ~ 1834 17| have disturbed with their excesses sore;~Since them with slaughter, 1835 45| that avowal make:~For to exclude the hated Leo bent,~And 1836 14| social speech is in such mode excluded,~That SILENCE, where the 1837 2| left side a cultivated hill~Excludes the fervors of the middle 1838 46| had made;~Their royal line excluding from the throne:~Then how 1839 43| heals Olivier.~ ~ ~ I~O Execrable avarice! O vile thirst~Of 1840 26| vain,~Aye cursing him and execrating sore,~Have left at little 1841 2| XXVII~Rinaldo never executed thing~Less willingly, prevented 1842 37| st too honoured be~By the executioner who deals the blow;~Should' 1843 36| signified,~That she would live, exempt from bridal rite.~Her closely 1844 15| occasion of their woes,~Exempted from the mighty mischief 1845 23| angry sore.~But while she exercised this pious care,~Love in 1846 7| aside,~As from the body if exhaled the sprite:~In its close 1847 46| flow~Of lofty eloquence of exhaustless vein;~Mussuro, Lascari, 1848 39| learned.~ ~ XVI~He at his exhortation (so he trowed)~Had broke 1849 38| My liege, when I to peace exhorted you,~Would that my prophecy 1850 38| king so puissant shou'd~Exist on earth, save he observed 1851 42| entablatures support in air;~Exotic marbles engraved with figures 1852 19| which, in warlike weed,~The expectant cavaliers their coursers 1853 10| in two days the pair will expedite."~Then thought how good 1854 15| the felon's spirit would expell.~So says the volume; but 1855 21| vainly were my tears on you expended,~And no wise for Argaeus' 1856 23| This is a pang, believe the experienced say~Of him who speaks, which 1857 24| hand."~Nor in such bold experiments the sage~Wisely would trust 1858 43| the wearied corse her soul expires;~And builds in that fair 1859 21| contrary, is left me to expound~Her evil actions, I shall 1860 41| And mysteries of our faith expounded were;~And the day following, 1861 25| what in season was most exquisite --~Has been some time removed, 1862 43| that rare force, which now extinct remained.~Bucklers by other 1863 37| force ascribe the blame,~Extinguish this and every other shame.~ ~ 1864 23| she had confessed;~And had extolled above the deities~The manners, 1865 31| quarters are,~He in his heart exults, with such delight,~That 1866 10| you with lips comprest and eye-brows bent,~Shall listen to the 1867 17| comfort, that he is without~Eye-sight, who winds his plunder in 1868 38| the knight~The Nubian's eyeballs touch, when him anew~He 1869 15| poll to front, above the eyebrows twain,~Searching, in haste, 1870 18| has moved her steed.~When, eyeing the two warriors, now more 1871 17| Attila, what say~Of wicked Ezzeline, and hundreds more?~Whom, 1872 28| And of such matters is thy fable one.~ ~ LXXVII~"Him I believe 1873 3| scented~Amber was wept, as fabling poet dreams.~To him such 1874 14| your temples bloom,~In that Fabricius you preserved to Rome.~ ~ 1875 10| course;~ ~ XCII~And saw fabulous Hibernia, where~The goodly, 1876 40| mansion breaks,~Fortune the faction of the Moor forsakes.~ ~ 1877 2| he, endued with reasoning faculty,~Had not in vice lured on 1878 26| whilom perfect seemed; so fade and yield~All lesser glories 1879 5| And pangs of death the failing accents drown:~The prince, 1880 7| heart had fastened of that fairy-queen,~Enamoured of the gentle 1881 4| beauty's bloom;~Though her fait countenance was all dismayed,~ 1882 35| your valour to befriend~The faithfullest of lovers far and near.~ 1883 43| gentle consort's worth and faithfulness.~'Leave her awhile (Melissa 1884 23| ungrateful lady's spite,~Whose faithlessness inflicted such a wound.~ 1885 12| The warriors to the wicked fallacy~Of the malign enchanter 1886 10| XV~Almighty God! how fallible and vain~Is human judgment, 1887 1| As a young roe or fawn of fallow deer,~Who, mid the shelter 1888 17| Seeking red deer, goat, fallow-buck, and doe;~And, following 1889 18| furious glow~Exclaimed; "Thou falsest robber, thou hast lied!"~ 1890 9| XXVI~"I without power to falsify that vow,~Which to my gentle 1891 18| Nature certainly~Wrongs Famagosta, poisoning, in such sort,~ 1892 42| both unknown, and now so fames a twain.~Next was a lady, 1893 39| guide,~In form of courser, a familiar sprite,~And with a troubled 1894 17| sway.~ ~ LXXVII~If fear of famishing within thy cave,~Switzer, 1895 6| with their vests his visage fan.~ ~ LXIV~One, with a human 1896 18| will blood their greedy fang,~And, bold in her defence, 1897 31| ancient nurse withdrew;~And fangless serpent now, and goat, and 1898 20| the Euxine pour,~Me to the far-renowned Duke Aymon, who~Thither 1899 26| experience to be taught~If their far-spread renown were false or true,~ 1900 7| every other part.~ ~ L~Some Farfarello, or Alchino he,~I think, 1901 17| show, and without further faring,~If they had valour equal 1902 8| herds, but human haunts,~Farm-house and town, with their inhabitants:~ ~ 1903 45| Faster than on the sounding farm-roof patter~Hailstones descending 1904 46| XIII~Lo! Alexander of Farnese, and O~Learned company that 1905 36| Part of Calabria within Faro held~The warrior's heirs, 1906 39| Orlando flung parforce,~As farrier throws the struggling ox 1907 7| she~Wore in the place of farthingale or gown;~Which o'er a shift 1908 14| and hung his head.~Next Farurantes; to whose care consigned,~ 1909 14| mine:~Where broom and thick fascines, all over paid~With swarthy 1910 10| which she cast him, after fashioning~Her work: Is none in whom 1911 16| space~Hangs on his neck, fast-locked in her embrace.~ ~ X~She, 1912 15| the giant on the green,~Fast-tethered by a strong and weighty 1913 25| A happy man was he who fastest hied~To tell my coming to 1914 21| nor nails the plank so fastly hold,~As Faith enwraps an 1915 2| Wasted he was as much by fasts as age,~And on an ass was 1916 17| day.~The other day, his father-in-law made known~He had her safe 1917 11| XXIII~More than a hundred fathom buried so,~Where hidden 1918 7| only try~The fruit of my fatigues to render dear.~I ended 1919 17| few to what are strewed~On fattened field and bank, where on 1920 17| ruled the subject Agiline,~Fattening his fields with blood. To 1921 41| hope there is or none: with faultering breath~They gaze upon inevitable 1922 25| Caught on the fish-hook of a Faun, survey,~Who would devour 1923 46| Ind.~ ~ XIX~Joys Victor Fausto; Tancred joys to view~My 1924 30| appal,~On whom the many's favor, well they know,~And wishes 1925 39| strand,~Expecting a more favourable wind,~To put to sea; when, 1926 30| the dead man slain,~The favourers of those knights, with change 1927 2| Between desires has been thy favourite feat?~Why does it please 1928 34| fume and fee~Wherein the favourites of kings are blest:~Given 1929 1| XXXIV~As a young roe or fawn of fallow deer,~Who, mid 1930 37| upon its topmost pitch.~Fearlessly thither pricked the warriors, 1931 34| of me,~If he for him need feather other dart!~He seeks the 1932 23| their course,~Not lined with featherbed or quilt below,~Tumble, 1933 6| The lofty top of beech, or feathery fir:~ ~ XXV~And, now, to 1934 40| blows.~ ~ LXXXII~The flat as featly as the edge he plies,~Of 1935 8| reverent was my love) thy feelings chaste,~I kept untouched, 1936 30| need --~-- What strokes are feints, and what with vantage made --~ 1937 31| assail:~Was never seen a feller strife in show.~Neither 1938 34| Serpents with female faces, felonies~Of coiners and of robbers, 1939 13| Next puts to death the felons with his hand~Who pent her 1940 36| Who yields his arms, nor fends himself in fight?~Was it 1941 23| others, with as little let~As fennel, wall-wort-stem, or dill, 1942 21| the beverage has not been fermented~With evil drug and poisonous, 1943 5| that he would eschew~A foul ferocious race that shocks his view.~ ~ 1944 9| No knight~Passes this ferry, but upon condition~He shall 1945 38| king Branzardo's sway,~To Fersa's king, and him of the Algaziers;~ 1946 36| the opposing train.~ ~ VII~Feruffine 'scaped, the good Cantelmo 1947 2| damsel led,~Whose charms with fervid love had fired my breast.~ 1948 2| cultivated hill~Excludes the fervors of the middle day.~As first 1949 23| trees.~ ~ CI~The mid-day fervour made the shelter sweet~To 1950 19| bent.~ ~ XXIX~Her ill but festered and increased the more~The 1951 25| little interval,~With such festivity and courteous lore,~And 1952 43| one from his throng,~Who fetches hence good wine, hams, cheese, 1953 16| troops were stored;~And fetching, with the forces that remain,~ 1954 10| Appeased, with which their fevered palates glow.~In this example 1955 22| mount;~And, overcome by feverish thirst and heat,~Lifted 1956 14| Malabupherso rules o'er Fezzan's clan,~And Finaduro leads 1957 7| Signs in conjunction, sacred fibres, bred;~With what beside 1958 3| Lombard horde:~And of the fiefs of Calaon and Este;~For 1959 27| his little thought;~And fiendish malice, banished from the 1960 46| modesty,~Valour, and that fifty virtue, which hath made~ 1961 43| Next leave Stellata and Figarolo,~Where his two horns are 1962 23| Upon that ancient woman, figuring~Like monkey, rather say, 1963 14| recite.~ ~ XVII~When so had filed the warlike host of Spain~ 1964 40| Nubians bore,~And by degrees filled-up that channel wide,~Whose 1965 42| Nor him into the amorous fillets drew~So much her beauty 1966 4| wizard pressed;~For him a filly to griffin bore;~Hight hippogryph. 1967 34| new silk is reeled, its filmy twine~Wind from the worm, 1968 31| perfection grows,~And takes a finer edge; to drink and eat,~ 1969 Int| heart of) the beautiful Fiordelisa ("Flordelice" in Rose). 1970 6| the tall beech and shaggy fir-tree's spray,~Sport little loves, 1971 43| might serve;~To make the firmest heart from honour swerve;~ ~ 1972 6| To olive, palm, or cedar, firs or bays.~These, as you see 1973 3| combine.~ ~ XXIV~"See yonder first-born of thy noble breed,~Who 1974 37| in his fane,~Offer, as my first-fruits; and what can be~A greater 1975 25| naked maid~Caught on the fish-hook of a Faun, survey,~Who would 1976 11| by magic from below~Was fished and born amid the German 1977 9| sweeping nets,~The wary fisher fish and pool besets.~ ~ 1978 25| Bereft of life that evil fisherman.~She in an instant to the 1979 40| deer and hare;~And, save to fishermen, is little known,~That oftentimes 1980 39| Oliviero, who~By that fell fistycuff on earth was flung;~And, 1981 2| Starboard and larboard bears the fitful gale,~And never for a thought 1982 18| LXXXIX~Others exclaimed, "How fittingly combined,~Marked with one 1983 24| seek the fountain-wave,~His flagon at the cooling stream to 1984 5| with a blaze so bright,~Flamed, as with all his heart, 1985 46| I~Berna, and Sanga, and Flaminio spy.~ ~ XIII~Lo! Alexander 1986 40| Child without a spear,~He flang is own far from him, in 1987 45| to well-walled town,~And flanked about with solid bulwarks, 1988 33| Above the feathered monster flaps, with eyes~Intent to mark 1989 9| thundered, white with foam and flashing-spray:~And with impetuous stream 1990 17| LXV~"Together with the flat-nosed herd his way~He took, and 1991 3| cloudy sight,~A nose close flattened, and a sallow skin;~To this, 1992 43| So well she soothed and flattered) of that peer~The face and 1993 35| Even thus below, pimps, flatterers, men of straw,~Buffoons, 1994 31| the palate so dispose,~And flavour more our beverage and our 1995 15| felon quarters, some he flays,~And some he swallows quick, 1996 18| answered: and 'tis ruled, to flea~Martano's body with the 1997 46| the shivered stock~Seem fledged with feathers they ascend 1998 18| who to the portal foremost fleed,~The readiest of the crowd 1999 19| multitude is turned and fleeted!~While he who loves his 2000 21| contends. O'erthrown,~The Fleming falls upon the other part,~ 2001 14| fully tell.~The first half Flemings were, the residue~Are Normans,


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