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2002 12| fissure glowed~The distant flicker of a quivering flame.~Orlando 2003 33| want of wax or oil, with flickering ray.~Lo! the king leaves 2004 9| dispossess'd~And in close flights the swarming birds are flown,~ 2005 4| the lance he shook;~And flinching eyelids could not hide the 2006 18| were slain.~ ~ XXXIV~Her flint and steel, fell Discord, 2007 26| distanced be:~With Ottobon de Flisco, Sinibald~Chases the Beast, 2008 44| had the planet, whither flit~Things lost on earth, of 2009 4| beach,~Lures on the dog, and flits beyond his reach.~ ~ XLIV~ 2010 11| against the Paladin.~ ~ XL~Now floats the monstrous beast, o'ercome 2011 33| tinged with crimson dye.~Flooded with human gore seems every 2012 18| ran the country through,~Flooding the roads: while on the 2013 19| tempest start~Castle and flooring, and, if yet there be~Aught 2014 31| what flowers~Zephyr and Flora shed, mid April-showers.~ ~ 2015 8| He nought imparted to his Flordelis:~ ~ LXXXIX~To him this was 2016 26| Bibbiena~As her own neighbour Florence and Siena.~ ~ XLIX~"More 2017 46| me;~Sasso, and Molza, and Florian hight Montine;~With him, 2018 31| that infidel!~Who, often floundering in its oozy bed,~Well in 2019 22| shent.~ ~ L~"This knight, as flouted by that bonnibel,~For carrying 2020 15| render dear~Hesperia to the flower-de-luce of gold;~I see prepared 2021 10| stands,~Which pards and flower-de-luces does unfold,~That our great 2022 42| burnished helmets threw~On that flowered herbage, yellow, green, 2023 1| she surveys~Gay with the flowering thorn and vermeil rose:~ 2024 29| How quickly our intentions fluctuate!~All thoughts we lightly 2025 46| and Mercury renowned~For fluent speech, about the child 2026 11| Pricked by whose double fluke, the monster bleeds.~The 2027 7| fearful hare, and now they flush~With busy dog, sagacious 2028 20| basely flew,~As ring-doves flutter and as coneys fly,~Who hear 2029 6| than a leaf i' the wind~Fluttered within his breast the stripling' 2030 9| trembling heart, like leaf which flutters still,~Made hand and arm 2031 33| be;~So pined with watery flux and withering sun,~That, 2032 10| first will fashion for the flying-horse~A bit, to guide him and 2033 4| thought but how to tame the foal;~And, in a month, instructed 2034 30| cleaves the sky,~Furrowing the foamy wave the boat goes large.~ 2035 14| Nor through the impeding fog the shrilling sound~Of horn 2036 46| the conqueror rise,~Who foils his foe by force, and not 2037 33| Should teach them when to foin and when to fend,~Or wake 2038 12| tomb,~Buried were living folk. Of wide extent,~The grot 2039 40| whereof he shortly died,~Folvo was taken by Astolpho's 2040 19| exprest:~With this did she foment the stripling's wound,~And, 2041 23| he by self-illusions had fomented.~ ~ CV~But stirred and aye 2042 44| to her arms returns with fondling cheer:~So Leo, though Rogero 2043 41| adverse part,~At more than a foot-pace their coursers steer;~I 2044 23| be the consort of a poor foot-page.~-- His story done, to them 2045 26| How wretched is the poor foot-soldier's trade.~ ~ XXVI~The conqueror' 2046 28| certified,~In that he was a footboy in his train,~Nourished 2047 42| depart,~How for a sorry footpage she could slight,~-- Flinging 2048 1| swore,~Never in fight, or foray would he use~Helmet but 2049 18| would, but that Medoro this forbad.~ ~ CLXXXI~Rearing the insidious 2050 27| to show~Such patience and forbearance am content,~As warning thee, 2051 10| Down lights Rogero, and forbears with pain~From other leap; 2052 10| LXXXVII~"Herman, the lord of Forbes, conducts that band,~And 2053 21| dame would not concede,~Forbidding him to issue thence before~ 2054 41| the sun is sinking fast, forborne~Is their encounter till 2055 46| XXXIII~He said; and with such forceful prayer appealed;~So gently 2056 35| send down,~Nor weary me, by forcing me to meet~Champions like 2057 14| Where this deep stream was fordable, he scanned~A crowd of cavaliers 2058 33| pass has pressed.~Who Liris fords, and takes all Naples' reign,~ 2059 41| confounds the pilot; now~Struck fore, now aft, now on her beam 2060 19| yeasty billows rears:~The fore-mast by the first is borne away,~ 2061 18| when he withdrew.~ ~ LXIII~Fore-stroke and back he deals, and on 2062 10| Elsewhere it seems as if foredoomed to be~Born with one sun, 2063 27| that champion drest~In his forefather Nimrod's iron vest;~ ~ LXX~ 2064 46| ingrate men;~Since thou foregoest thine every good for me!~ 2065 41| pursued,~To whom the night foregoing God did send~A vision, as 2066 37| succeeding day,~Till the forenoon, proceed those banded friends;~ 2067 41| also to his servant had foresaid~The vengeance taken for 2068 41| in terror shook.~ ~ LXXIV~Foreseeing the assault with wary eye,~ 2069 41| vision, as he slumbered, and foreshewed~How, thither by his aid 2070 43| thither guided, where but forest-trees~He thinks to find, a sumptuous 2071 2| safety, without more delay forestalls;~And plans an embassy to 2072 42| random blows and wide;~With forestroke, backstroke, he assails 2073 46| fortunes while away,~Not to foreswear himself, he armed no more~ 2074 36| stars had heard of thee foretell,~That thou shouldst perish 2075 43| spirit to appear,~To me foretelling that in future tide,~-- 2076 40| and so the following day;~Forever sifting in his doubtful 2077 22| bridge and gate, the place of forfeitry,~Of horse and arms and feminine 2078 1| hand to crop the prize,~Forfeits her worth in every other' 2079 20| credit grown.~Nor for ten forges, often closed, in store~ 2080 43| nor cold can take, my woe~Forgive, if thou beholdest me complain:~ 2081 43| entreat, before she died,~Forgiveness of her every sin from Heaven.~ 2082 28| holy works -- this world forgone --~Seek favour in her Heavenly 2083 18| Zumara's lord~Cleft to the fork, with his descending blade;~ 2084 41| wind its fury breaks;~The forked lightning flashes evermore,~ 2085 44| that foeman, as her lord forswear?~What shall I do, endure 2086 44| court,~And thence to Rocca Forte's tower transport.~ ~ LXXIII~ 2087 10| XLVIII~When he beholds forth-issuing from the strand,~A fleet 2088 12| wood the light was shed,~Forth-streaming from a crevice in the mount,~ 2089 19| restrain~The crimson blood forth-welling, and of might~To sheathe 2090 13| Mirror of chastity and fortitude,~Who, young, remains a widow, 2091 9| guardian care this while~His fortresses, and all the subject isle.~ ~ 2092 35| reached so suddenly,~Is not fortuitous nor wrought in vain;~But 2093 10| Sir Ariman.~ ~ LXXXII~"Forty-two thousand muster in array,~ 2094 43| Decii; Curtius, in Rome's forum swallowed;~Cordus, so vaunted 2095 14| suburbs, and beside~The foss, and underneath the walls; 2096 23| Benignant be to you the fostering sun~And moon, and may the 2097 26| monster nigh,~In all its foulness and deformity.~ ~ XLII~" 2098 43| show:~A Trojan remnant its foundations placed,~Which scaped from 2099 26| Because to seek anew that fountain-glade,~Would be to wander in too 2100 2| Through a delicious mead the fountain-rill,~By ancient trees o'ershaded, 2101 31| at the same time at the fountain-side,~So in all points the pair 2102 24| Accustomed oft to seek the fountain-wave,~His flagon at the cooling 2103 38| for the course.~ ~ XXXV~He fourscore thousand of his Nubian power,~ 2104 10| gentle damsel had not past fourteen,~Was beautiful and fresh, 2105 46| which he so well bestows.~I Fracastoro, Bevezzano note,~And Tryphon 2106 7| whose sweets outlive the fragile rest~Which quickens man 2107 18| they who sail the sea the fragrance bland,~Scent in each genial 2108 15| guarded either shore~From Francolino to the mouth of Po,~That 2109 22| Bohemian line;~Threaded Franconia next, and crost the Rhine.~ ~ 2110 23| thrice the cousins stand,~Fraternally, each other's neck, and 2111 5| other side approached the fraudful foe,~So pleased to work 2112 5| was held, and false and fraudulent.~So that none there, of 2113 37| Persian, Indian, and Assyrian frayed;~Not only these and some 2114 16| without, in such destructive frays~Hate, Rage, and Fury, all 2115 11| towered and soared in air a freer course.~ ~ XIV~To his first 2116 15| By the securest and the freest track.~ ~ XI~And thus by 2117 43| LXXVI~"The house erewhile, frequented by a horde~-- Morning and 2118 10| tear which streamed~Amid fresh-opening rose and lily fair,~Stand 2119 12| its waves to free,~And the fresh-springing grass and foliage new,~To 2120 11| new-pressed milk in show,~Fresh-taken from its crate of rushes 2121 6| Which the soft breezes freshen as they fly,~Secure the 2122 13| Women, to wit, who in their freshest days~Of beauty worthily 2123 43| And all this while white friars, and black, and gray,~With 2124 27| taking huge delight those friers to view,~That at each other 2125 9| By whom, so joined, no Frieslander was left~But was of life 2126 9| his command;~Against the Frieslanders to lend him aid,~Who have 2127 33| blue and yellow ground,~A frieze extends below those galleries 2128 9| cavalier;~Who moved in mode to frighten Mars among~The Gods, so 2129 41| sore,~Has not the power the frightened horse to steer.~Gradasso 2130 29| hair in woeful wise,~With frightful beard his cheek is overgrown:~ 2131 1| Angelica, whom pressing danger frights,~Flies in disorder through 2132 5| Geneura this produced no friut,~Nor her to grace my duke 2133 14| Strangely to die the death of frog or snake.~ ~ XLVII~But after 2134 9| Of fosse or of canal, the frogs we spy,~By cautious archer, 2135 10| valiant Anrondica stand~Fronesia sage, Dicilla good, and 2136 18| And broke his helmet's frontal with the spear,~Cast him 2137 35| vain,~Had thither, seeking Frontalatte, gone:~I say his arms, that 2138 21| walled,~On Servia's distant frontier had a fort.~Argaeus he of 2139 27| doubt, is clear~He sees his Frontilatte in that steed,~Him he of 2140 10| from her gilded wheels the frosty rhine~Aurora upon earth 2141 9| for so many friends, with froward will,~Deserted cares; and 2142 18| Fortune pleased to smile or frown,~Served Dardinello with 2143 41| gray,~Where fertile and fruit-bearing palm-trees blow,~Myrtle, 2144 33| defends that cavalier,~And frustrates the sea-lion's bold designs.~ 2145 27| that who fled,~And many fugitives, upon their way,~Some with 2146 41| were,~And were in nought fulfilled upon his side.~To God, in 2147 40| neared the shore, with sails full-blown,~Furrowing the waves, until 2148 34| their lungs had burst,~Saw fulsome lays by venal poets versed.~ ~ 2149 14| next, without their monarch Fulvirant,~Erst killed by good Rinaldo, 2150 34| Bellows filled every nook, the fume and fee~Wherein the favourites 2151 3| whether force of spell or fumigation,~(A guess that seems to 2152 19| attacked,~Or for the second function have not breath,~To slavery 2153 17| he) exceeds all skill;~Of fungus-hue, in place of orbs of sight,~ 2154 43| Long hair, than ermine's fur more snowy white;~And skilled 2155 46| End of the "Orlando Furioso"]~ ~ 2156 10| the meadow, made his steed~Furl, yet not shut so close, 2157 41| his tempestuous sea,~Now furls his sails in port. Ah! ruthless 2158 11| mould expand,~First in the furnace melted by the blast:~Others 2159 26| thou knowest, upon pact~Of furnishing our baffled forces aid;~ 2160 27| and shoes,~And sell and furniture throughout reviews;~ ~ LXXI~ 2161 14| midnight with how many eyes~The furtive works of lovers Heaven espies.~ ~ 2162 46| of the ancient page~There Fuscus well instructs him to divine:~" 2163 27| forest vex;~Wasp, fly, and gad-fly buzz in liquid air,~And 2164 23| its mantling spray,~And gadding vine, the cavern's entry 2165 43| swift boat~The turrets OF GAIBANA and OF THE MOAT.~ ~ LXIV~ 2166 17| fitly pairs;~Whom Norandino gaily questioning.~Demands of 2167 1| With his good hand most gainful succour lent,~And slew most 2168 29| along the sands he hied,~Aye gaining on the mare in this career.~ 2169 32| Behold my prompt, at such gainsayer's will,~To prove my judgment 2170 27| have done right, and who gainsays me, lies.~ ~ XCII~"But because 2171 17| erst with me did stand~'Gainst Agolant in Aspramont? In 2172 36| the light of day.~ ~ LX~"Galaciella's children are ye, whom~ 2173 36| And brought to cruel pass Galacielle,~Marphisa could not hear 2174 4| be his gain.~Here Arthur, Galahalt, and Gauvaine fought,~And 2175 19| brooked she to remember a galant~In Count Orlando or king 2176 11| Amaryllis cease,~Or flying Galataea, not so fair,~Tityrus and 2177 43| goodly rent~Would gift, and Galerana's inmate make;~As far as 2178 31| on woolly herd~Does where Galesus' limpid waters well,~Or 2179 11| Through thee no more shall gallantry, no more~Shall valour prove 2180 17| Better to see the martial gallants ride~By twos and threes, 2181 3| homeward barks, and fifteen gallies steers.~ ~ LVIII~"Two Sigismonds, 2182 39| miracle to see them grown~To galliot, galley, frigate ship, and 2183 14| Leapt on the steed and galloped o'er the plain,~And swore 2184 20| cavalier,~Who came in fury galloping alone.~If you the stranger' 2185 2| to bring him to the maid,~Gallopped before him still with rampant 2186 46| furthest horn.~Veronica de Gambara is here,~To Phoebus and 2187 36| line.~ ~ LXXII~"Rogero, Gambaron, Buovo hence succeed;~And 2188 6| Thither swift dolphins gambol, inly stirred,~And open-mouthed 2189 27| pleasure at the view.~Pride gamboled and rejoiced with her compeer,~ 2190 18| Angiolin, Angelier -- false Ganellon,~And Mark and Matthew from 2191 15| Angelin;~Bavaria's duke, and Ganelon are here,~Avino, Avolio, 2192 13| the mast,~Lowered on the gang-board, nor our castles fell;~The 2193 34| are blest:~Given to those Ganymedes that have their hour,~And 2194 14| passed the sea;~And he bade Garbo's aged king appear,~Marsilius, 2195 18| the throat, and hapless Gardo nigh~Cleft to the teeth; 2196 33| shall be~Bridges athwart the Garigliano thrown.~Yet after shall 2197 31| needed sore.~When the sun, garlanded with radiance sheen,~Upraised 2198 17| and vassals, who advance,~Garnished with what could be procured, 2199 38| host in peril lies?~Your garrisons were sure of coward vein,~ 2200 25| grew~Clustering about the gash, to maker her sound~Of that 2201 40| four,~Who at the walls, the gateways, or elsewhere,~All give 2202 2| And on the bank, which gaudy flowers displayed,~Reposing, 2203 13| reign,~('Tis said), from Gauls delivered Italy,~'Twill 2204 6| Uplifts, and, either hand from gauntlet free,~Now turning to the 2205 43| er the height,~Rifted by Gaurus and Metaurus, wends~Past 2206 4| Here Arthur, Galahalt, and Gauvaine fought,~And well Sir Launcelot 2207 10| amain,~And left behind each gazer stupefied.~Having from end 2208 26| striving equally:~Lewis de Gazolo its neck has galled~With 2209 14| By birth, -- who boasts a genealogy~Like me, the puissant Agricano' 2210 14| Greatly commended by the general cry:~But Fraud, who makes 2211 33| acorns in Bologna place:~Then Genoa's burghers, by this monarch 2212 17| thus, before those valiant gentlemen~And princes, present there 2213 26| spirit,~In his unbounded gentlesse; and aright~For this did 2214 46| usage winnowed clear,~Its genuine form in his example shows.~ 2215 43| hid are roof and wall:~St. George recedes; recede from that 2216 25| Malagigi hight:~Who him Gerardo's lawful son declare,~Are 2217 1| Pyrenees, with many a band~Of Germany and France, King Charlemagne~ 2218 19| the twain~Journey, beneath Gerona, -- coming down~Those mountains -- 2219 12| too Rogero comes; where getting sight~Of his lost love, 2220 33| how with dead~Covered is Ghiaradada's green champaign.~It seems 2221 3| Rome (when Otho, with the Ghibelline,~Into the troubled capital 2222 33| day,~Mantegna, Leonardo, Gian Belline,~The Dossi, and, 2223 30| or (if you please)~Say Gibletar's; for either way 'tis hight;~ 2224 7| stripling bore,~Set not on gifting him with life her mind,~ 2225 39| dead,~And, on his brother, Gigliantes' part,~To call him to his 2226 46| rich gem and rare~Which gilds the house of Malatesta so,~ 2227 46| With all these virtues gilt, the stripling glows.~ ~ 2228 46| excessive force, wherewith the gin,~Erected in two barges upon 2229 46| overflows,~Gan, Falcon, Gini and Ginami's crew:~Yet they meanwhile 2230 46| overflows,~Gan, Falcon, Gini and Ginami's crew:~Yet they 2231 46| and Capilupi mine,~Latino Giovenal, it seems to me;~Sasso, 2232 40| formed and worse to ford~Than girdles the infernal city round.~ 2233 22| The modest roll of eye and girlish strain,~With her each night 2234 46| divine Pietro Aretino.~I two Girolamos amid them see,~Of Veritade 2235 23| of the paynim knight,~The girts which hold his saddle broken 2236 15| torn.~ ~ LXXIII~Since, from Gismonda they had these conveyed,~ 2237 1| told,~And left him little gladdened by the tale.~He recks not 2238 9| champion should bewail;~The glancing stroke his courser's belly 2239 14| hound and vulture night,~Glares vainly on the scull, unsmacked; 2240 11| with dishevelled hair,~The Glauci, Tritons, and their fellows, 2241 3| Tagus, Nile, or Danube gleams;~And in thy progeny and 2242 2| ancient trees o'ershaded, glides away;~And him whose ear 2243 14| extending wide,~Dimmed every glimpse of light, and hid the sun:~ 2244 18| CLXXXVI~The silvery splendor glistened yet more clear,~There where 2245 34| hoop in size,~When from the globe surveyed whereon we stand,~ 2246 34| as our earth, the last of globes below,~Including seas, which 2247 42| would be dead.~ ~ LII~By gloomiest track and blindest path 2248 13| before foretold~Men who shall glorify my race and name,~So now 2249 10| Warwick's count.~The Duke of Gloucester's blazon is the third,~Two 2250 43| excuse himself with many a gloze:~But when he sees, he would 2251 13| prey;~And many a prayer and glozing flattery taught,~Wherewith 2252 45| eyes were yet by slumber glued?~A courier, who the news 2253 14| hence by Avarice, Anger, Gluttony,~Pride, Envy, Sloth, and 2254 43| should sport,~Nor more in Gnide and Cyprus keep her court;~ ~ 2255 17| being gone, the king his goatish vest~Casts off, and folds 2256 2| he were man or shade,~Or goblin damned to everlasting woe,~ 2257 10| where these are spread;~By Godfrey, Henry, Hermant, Edward, 2258 28| sight.~Loud laughed that godless paynim at the thought,~Who 2259 14| monarch in Caichus bend.~Goetulia is bestowed on Rhimedont,~ 2260 33| entraps the routed foe,~Gonslavo you behold, the pride of 2261 26| Hercules and Hippolyte~Of the Gonzagas' and the Medici,~Hunt and 2262 28| slumbered not: to her a last goodbye~He bade, while yet it lacked 2263 46| Rogero know~Not only that goodwill he bore whilere~Abates not, 2264 19| loose,~As Alexander did the Gordian noose.~ ~ LXXV~"I will not 2265 26| at his side:~In one, who gores his gullet with the lance,~ 2266 31| With sumptuous housings gorgeously embossed,~Rinaldo takes, 2267 24| the brutes o'erthrew;~And gorging oftentimes the savage fare,~ 2268 17| would show,~And with the goring spur his courser bled.~Hence 2269 45| realm, or field of battle, gory~With hostile blood, nor 2270 28| you,~Though in all else he gospel-truths exprest;~As less by his 2271 17| in later day,~To Lombard, Goth, and Hun a bleeding prey.~ ~ 2272 10| That he shall vainly covet gourd or skiff.~ ~ CVII~He then 2273 21| relate,~Without farewell the graceless churl is gone.'~She by this 2274 29| measure full or short,~Of Graecian wine two barrels had they 2275 35| men look for fruit they graff the tree,~And study still 2276 13| this: a spray~Which will be grafted on thy happy tree.~What 2277 22| the various pile I raise,~(Gramercy! dear to many) of the knight~ 2278 23| monkey, rather say, like grandam ape.~From her the Saracen 2279 8| mother kill,~Ere born, his grandchild, who had done no ill.~ ~ 2280 11| Some deal before, or in our grandsires' day,~Guided a necromancer 2281 3| make him lord.~Hubert, thy grandson, comes behind; the best~ 2282 41| unhappy end;~And sons, and grandsons, and his every heir,~Fully 2283 29| wandering damsel hight)~Grappling with Roland stood the Sarzan 2284 39| Among those barks their grappling-irons threw,~And linked by chains, 2285 28| thence ensue,~Besides what gratitude would be her due.~ ~ XII~" 2286 30| pain.~Him to embrace and gratulate they wend,~And do him grace 2287 25| spreading beech:~But naked gravel with low shrubs discerned,~ 2288 25| net confined my hair.~I gravely moved my eye-balls, nor 2289 10| other time.~As trout or grayling to the bottom goes~In stream, 2290 46| Margherite,~Angela Borgia, Graziosa, see,~And fair Richarda 2291 33| to see,~I'll tell what my great-grandfather whilere~-- I then a child -- 2292 33| Which in like manner (that great-grandsire said),~As well to him his 2293 3| heritage, more rich and rare,~Greatness of mind, and faith without 2294 17| the mountain, wolves of greedier will,~With them to be partakers 2295 43| Who haply lurked by day in greenwood-shade,~And to some friendly roof 2296 23| far had rode, ere from the greenwood-trees~She issued, where the dome 2297 17| crime the fetid sewer!~Nor grievest, as a hand-maid, to obey,~ 2298 23| had carried young Medore,~Grievously wounded with an arrow; where,~ 2299 11| hear.~Then to remount his griffin-courser cast,~In earth and air accustomed 2300 10| gained dominion~Over the griffin-steed of soaring pinion.~ ~ LXVIII~ 2301 29| And like a mouse, beneath Grimalkin's feet,~Had liefer found 2302 2| springs of strife inspire,~And grind their teeth, while each 2303 18| such a blow,~He drove two grinders down his throat; then tied~( 2304 6| whirling stone the weapon grinds.~ ~ LXXVI~To good Rogero 2305 42| poisonous Care;~Beneath whose gripe he foully might have fared,~ 2306 6| crimson, he~In answer to the groaning myrtle, cries;~"Pardon! 2307 34| countless others swarm these grots below,~For the same sin, 2308 42| husbands live in jealousy,~And groundlessly, of women chaste and clear.~ 2309 11| kindled by the dame,~On many grounds Orlando was content;~Who 2310 19| about her shaggy care,~And growls in mingled sound of love 2311 12| Who with loud squeal and grunt is heard to pine)~Came driving 2312 14| Their limbs in chrystal Guadiana's bed,~Came thither, under 2313 14| more wise and ware.~ ~ XXV~Gualciotto dead, Bellamarina's crew,~( 2314 18| warlike paladin and peer,~Guarding the side that each is camped 2315 46| the Orologi one, and one Guarino:~Mario d' Olvito, and of 2316 3| father and his boy.~Two Guelphs: the first fair Umbria's 2317 4| with wealth and state shall guerdoned be,~So that you evermore 2318 18| knights of gentle race.~The guerdons destined to the conqueror' 2319 35| deem the cavalier;~More guesses in renowned Rinaldo meet;~ 2320 30| thence conveyed.~ ~ XCIV~Guichard, Duke Aymon's eldest born, 2321 14| clan~Of bold Navarre; whose guideless band to steer~The King of 2322 37| theme;~Reynet Trivulzio and Guidetti mine,~And Molza, called 2323 26| one of these the son, Sir Guidobald,~Will not by sire, or other, 2324 3| an Indian queen by subtle guiles,~Has to a baron of his following~ 2325 28| promise he had plight;~And gulped his anger down and bitter 2326 15| grow~Thickets of myrrh, and gums odorous ooze,~Where the 2327 19| him whose lights upon the gunwale play.~This saves the vessel, 2328 41| who invade the boat,~That, gunwale-deep, she scarce remains afloat.~ ~ 2329 19| was nigh wasted with the gushing tide.~ ~ XXIV~Angelica alights 2330 42| whereof perpetual record says~Guy Posthumus -- about whose 2331 15| took a chain,~And with the gyve his hands behind him laced:~ 2332 45| As if of wax had been his habergeon)~Had pierced and carved 2333 16| Parisians hold you dear;~But habitants of all the countries round:~ 2334 5| street, which none their habitation made.~ ~ XLIII~"And to the 2335 40| and myrtle overgrown,~Of habitations is that islet bare;~A pleasing 2336 28| make the beds, and wearied hackneys sort:~While others in the 2337 15| faulchion from his body hacks.~ ~ LXX~Gryphon and Aquilant 2338 8| images, and loose~Or cancel hag-knot, rhomb, or magic noose.~ ~ 2339 41| reversed upon the ground,~With haggard face beside his horse lies 2340 45| sounding farm-roof patter~Hailstones descending from a troubled 2341 9| upon the shore,~As his gray hairs may warrant him, a wight~ 2342 10| tumbling brine,~Lamenting, halcyons mournful descant sung;~When 2343 16| and king Sobrino lay;~Who, half-a-mile removed from those of Spain,~ 2344 1| through the forest hies~Than half-clothed churl to win the cloth of 2345 1| hue,~While on his lips the half-formed accents died.~Next hearing 2346 19| the ebbing sand;~And (each half-glass run out) returns to know~ 2347 11| His orb as yet half-seen, half-hid from sight)~Not without 2348 19| with dread.~ ~ LXIV~Like a half-moon, projected from the beach,~ 2349 4| And at short distance lit, half-mountain high:~And, as she follows 2350 20| But, after slaying his half-score, and when~He in the next 2351 11| extends~(His orb as yet half-seen, half-hid from sight)~Not 2352 36| battle wage.~ ~ XLIX~At half-sword's engage the struggling 2353 19| usage which those women hallow.~ ~ LXXII~All others of 2354 3| With foot half burnt, and halting gait and slow,~That at Budrio, 2355 28| More than with other, to go halves with thee?'~(Exclaimed Astolpho) ` 2356 2| changeful measure keep,~The hammer-strokes of Vulcan with less speed~ 2357 46| fine sword~Bore not such hammering, and in shivers flew;~And 2358 23| bird, by fowler's lore,~Hampered in net or line; which, in 2359 15| net, which closing round,~Hampers the wretch, and drags him 2360 17| sewer!~Nor grievest, as a hand-maid, to obey,~In turn, the nations 2361 23| every where the loathed hand-writing sees,~On wall, and door, 2362 22| perceived the pall~Of silk was handing down on the left side;~I 2363 41| him he many an argument~Handles and often; of God's kingdom 2364 43| rescuedst me,~By whose ill handling was I sore bested.~But for 2365 14| I of guard,~Of guide, of handmaid will the office do,~To serve 2366 43| rich, a youthful, and a handsome knight~Bridles this city 2367 20| dame, in angry tone,~That handsomer than her she deems the crone.~ ~ 2368 46| upon the gorgeous suit~Of hangings had she wrought in goodly 2369 37| to unchain,~She whom the hangman-crew to death escort;~And the 2370 18| Relating, as of her he haps to speak,~That towards Antioch 2371 13| whence the paynim train~She harasses, nigh each returning day;~( 2372 2| night and day,~And after harbours in this sure domain.~Nothing 2373 22| Scotland I was telling, who hard-by~Had heard, as was rehearsed, 2374 44| LXVI~"Ivory, gem, and every hard-grained stone~That best resists 2375 32| known as one so haughty and hard-hearted,~Who all the world despised -- 2376 25| Fire can I freeze, and harden liquid air;~And I at times 2377 46| famous Hector's iron gear,~Hardened by Vulcan's hand, and safe 2378 19| thy corporal strength and hardiness.~ ~ CV~"But if, as having 2379 20| than diamonds, if in me~All hardness did not vanish and give 2380 23| made the shelter sweet~To hardy herd as well as naked swain;~ 2381 20| lighter ill, if they as harlots went~About the world, -- 2382 34| addressed;~"Ah! without harming other, downward wend.~Me 2383 33| ground.~Behold, as wont, the harpy-squad appears;~Astolpho quickly 2384 28| As often by the soldier harried sore.~The beach upon one 2385 34| XII~"Yet lower down, harsh Anaxarete~Suffers worse 2386 5| said?~And blows and outrage hase their peace molest,~And 2387 10| kind, or rare:~All thither hasten, wondering and astound,~ 2388 38| troth.~Then to his side each hastily repairs;~And mid their several 2389 46| martial panoply he shone,~Hasting to help the church with 2390 41| bark repair:~Beneath the hatchways they descend, but none~Of 2391 35| stoop to love me, as thou hatest now.~ ~ XLVII~"To fall by 2392 44| their battle to restore,~As hating Constantine and Leo more.~ ~ 2393 38| charmed sword~Cleft helm and hauberk in its greedy rage,~One 2394 34| I was fair,~But so much haughtier was than fair of hue,~I 2395 23| fray~With honour, which he haughtily had sought?~'Twere forty 2396 3| him, to whom the mail~Of hawberk, shield, and helm, were 2397 10| may tower more high than hawks in air;~And how some of 2398 18| the ready Patron cleared,~Hawled up his anchor, westward 2399 11| rock Orlando speeds:~He hawls the anchor home (a footing 2400 10| through the air, yet dim and hazy, view.~She falls, all-trembling, 2401 17| Norandino from a hoar~And huge he-goat's fat bowels take the grease,~ 2402 29| to tumble in the course,~Head-first into that stream, where 2403 26| As if about to fall -- head-foremost, swayed;~And would have 2404 33| boundary hills has crost,~Heading what bands of France and 2405 10| Already Holland and its headlands all~Are left astern, and 2406 20| Vengeance; and to ply~As headsman, and dispatched the unhappy 2407 11| pleasure is in reach: like headstrong bear,~Whom from the honeyed 2408 43| Christens Sobrino, and heals Olivier.~ ~ ~ I~O Execrable 2409 19| Till she in him should healthier life produce;~ ~ XXII~And 2410 14| license still has bred,~Heaping our ample Italy with dead.~ ~ 2411 23| Love has in his bleeding hear-core pight.~He would discredit 2412 14| letters of attorney, she,~And hearings, in her hands and bosom 2413 7| s loom, his body threw:~Hearkening this while with still attentive 2414 23| king with ill:~Rodomont hearkens not, and climbs the hill:~ ~ 2415 42| such passion bred, such heart-ache sore,~He never in his life 2416 41| to smile.~ ~ XXXIII~The heartfelt fear, the torment evermore~ 2417 36| his pay?~ ~ LXXVIII~"Here heartily in face of Heaven I vow,~ 2418 41| berries were his meat;~And hearty and robust, of ailments 2419 1| fled,~By rude unharboured heath and savage height,~While 2420 18| none again~Should visit Heatheness, that day opprest:~But that 2421 34| Then most abandoned to the heathens' scorn.~Incestuous love 2422 38| round,~Press, harm, and heave each other here and there,~ 2423 32| so high,~'Twere need some heaven-born goddess should descend~From 2424 34| Collects the reins; and heavenward they aspire.~In airy circles 2425 24| me,~Of all its woes the heaviest pain will be."~ ~ LXXX~At 2426 34| wave;~And what might seem a hedge, with busy hand,~As best 2427 24| where it on the shadowy hedgerow grows,~Exclaims, "Without 2428 32| strove,~Was Bradamant, she heeded nor her road,~Nor took she 2429 19| are held to be,~And, as an heir-loom, sires to sons impart,~With 2430 43| my deed,~Than when thou heirdst erewhile thy father's land:~ 2431 46| prey.~Augustus and Tiberius heired the loom,~Kept till the 2432 42| Or was it on the hill of Helicon?~'Tis Beatrice, who next 2433 46| before.~ ~ CXXX~In the helmet-cheek and shoulder-bone below~ 2434 9| wind the frigate bore;~The helmsman kept the sea, lest she should 2435 34| dwell;~For saving mercy helpeth not in hell."~ ~ XLIV~Since 2436 40| stood,~As in a theatre, and hemmed on Po~Twixt fire and sword, 2437 5| what he was to mount) a hempen stair,~When him I to my 2438 37| shore,~Which nine times hems the ghosts, to upper light~ 2439 2| chicken near unwatchful hen,~Who vainly dins the thief 2440 3| more Azos, Hughs!~Both Henrys! -- mark the father and 2441 21| our natal ground,~To serve Heraclius, 'mid his knights arrayed,~ 2442 17| to the trumpet's sound,~Heralds, in front of a tribunal' 2443 9| LVI~"Now, if as strong Herculean port and bold~Appear to 2444 | herein 2445 33| finally whatever we behold~Herewrought in iron, there is wrought 2446 10| vulture tears.~ ~ LXXXVII~"Herman, the lord of Forbes, conducts 2447 6| male, some female, some hermaphrodit,~These drain the cup and 2448 17| Damascus next Sir Gryphon sped,~Hermophilo and Carmondo. This, arraid~ 2449 17| the rest --~There golden Hermus and Pactolus are,~Mygdonia 2450 15| Providence to him supply.~I mark Hernando Cortez bring, 'mid these,~ 2451 10| pursued;~As Magi erst, who Herod's snare eschewed.~ ~ LXX~ 2452 29| often we descry~Falconer by heron or by puller do;~Whose entrails 2453 43| dear;~And trees that in Hesperian gardens grew~Would yield 2454 37| flowing locks, between~The Hesperides and Indian hemisphere;~Whose 2455 46| ascend so high;~Were his arms hewn from adamantine rock,~The 2456 18| fifteen or twenty foes~He hews, as many leaves without 2457 10| XCII~And saw fabulous Hibernia, where~The goodly, sainted 2458 9| That thou wilt join the Hibernian monarch's hand,~Who forms 2459 43| beggarly her vest;~Nor half her hideousness have I exprest.~ ~ CXXXVI~" 2460 25| cheer,~As men to queen or high-born lady show.~Here oft I laughed 2461 5| race:~Who there, as lord high-constable obeyed,~Was keeper of the 2462 18| in peace.~ ~ XXII~As the high-couraged beast, whom hunters start~ 2463 18| up and down,~And round, high-piled and frequent watch-fires 2464 44| Beatrice who believes the highminded fair~Is at her hest, exhorts 2465 22| place our journey lay~By the highroad, which is both straight 2466 8| feigning such a call~As e'er Hilarion might have had, or Paul.~ ~ 2467 15| prisoner hung.~ ~ L~As in hill-farm or castle, fenced with moat,~ 2468 44| many fall,~Stalin from the hill-top to the river-side;~And they 2469 28| Here, newly built upon a hillock's crest,~A little church 2470 25| it will safely go,~This hinders not; he thinks that, as 2471 4| fact the felon plunders) hine;~As fearing of the sun to 2472 20| know the rest;~Who, in the hints of the old woman, read~That 2473 12| have I had Roland on the hip,~And oft," (exclaimed the 2474 46| from the selfsame tree;~Hippolita Sforza, and Trivultia bright,~ 2475 3| were;~The just Alphonso, Hippolite the good.~And as each twin 2476 26| LI~"Two Hercules and two Hippolyti~Of Este, a Hercules and 2477 33| and Oran, looking down,~Hippona, Argier, he, and Bugia told,~ 2478 16| weak herd, in fields of Hircany,~The tiger does, or Indian 2479 3| Fierce Frederick Barbarossa's hireling bands,~Saving the church 2480 44| fruit~Is lost for her, is hive with honey fraught.~But 2481 30| spread their sail.~ ~ XI~"Hoah! the boat! put back!" the 2482 38| Croesus' or rich Crassus' hoard,~I too should deem the dart, 2483 2| either falls to bites, and hoarsely bays,~While their stiff 2484 6| moments fleet in mirth.~Here hoary-headed Thought ne'er comes at all,~ 2485 15| demon lay,~The fruit of a hobgoblin and a fay.~ ~ LXVII~He here 2486 41| s rear,~Wounded upon the hocks in such fierce wise~The 2487 42| Europe's every shore;~And hoisting her bold canvas to the wind,~ 2488 43| That sometime near his holiness should dwell;~And for how 2489 8| Of her to make an impious holocaust;~In that the more they slaughter 2490 35| tribe his own.~ ~ XXVII~"Homer a conqueror Agamemnon shows,~ 2491 23| iron vest.~This was the homestead where the young Medore~Lay 2492 27| close of day,~In different homesteads lodged, the drovers lay.~ ~ 2493 21| this purpose to fulfil~Was honester (though quitting one so 2494 44| lost for her, is hive with honey fraught.~But I will die 2495 11| headstrong bear,~Whom from the honeyed meal 'tis ill to force,~ 2496 32| her sight.~Her with thy honied words thou might'st have 2497 6| cat, and some of ape;~With hoof of goat that other stamped 2498 1| survey~The recent print of hoofs on either road),~Commit 2499 14| Nor idle lie the fiery hoops in store,~Which, wreathed 2500 17| praise,~While others scornful hoots and laughter raise.~ ~ LXXXII~ 2501 26| The bargain which thou hopest thou shalt not have,"~(King


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