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4004 8| sandy shore~Already the recumbent damsel lay,~The greedy elder' 4005 21| swayed;~Nor know I whither to recur for aid.~ ~ XLI~" `Of my 4006 8| steed,~To the dark cave recurred the hermit hoar,~And conjured 4007 36| praise he dwells,~As the sky reddens with the morning ray,~Rogero' 4008 34| goodly coursers next, and redder far~Than flame, to that 4009 5| saw his daughter's woes,~Redeemed from death and scorn, her 4010 34| design~Of wending hither the Redeemer bless,~But that through 4011 14| In aid, the gift of they redeeming grace,~The account is quit 4012 26| blame,~Save he from Rodomont redeems the prey,~And with a due 4013 30| champions evermore their strokes redouble~Faster than pattering hail, 4014 40| that dark night, when the redouted Dane~Assaulted in mid sea 4015 35| she that champion -- to redress~Her wrongs -- might match 4016 15| saves, but may the world~Reduce, with ensigns by this chief 4017 14| hurry ride;~Until he heard reed-pipe and whistle sound,~And next 4018 23| till he is through~The reefs; then, having left the shore 4019 38| observed my rite.~Hence reek they ravaged fields with 4020 6| she counselled, and to me referred;~Nor, night nor day, to 4021 35| train;~And artist uses to refine the gold~Designed by him 4022 21| felt at heart such load,~Reflecting she beneath his charge must 4023 9| life to scape from him, reflection made,~That, save I first 4024 3| thy noble breed,~Who well reflects thy fair and joyous face;~ 4025 39| from impressing women they refrained,~Resolved his thirst of 4026 34| the peer,~As well of due refreshment as repose,~(For all and 4027 46| these verses to recite;~Refuting evermore such argument~As 4028 10| furious heat, deserts his sure regale~On shore, to follow that 4029 45| or aye with troubled brow~Regarded for the deed that I have 4030 34| prompt to smite,~Without regarding who or what the wight.~ ~ 4031 32| and hold~As wisest among reigning kings, by me~Shall be dispatched 4032 16| fresh files their fellows reinforce:~Men, here and there, the 4033 15| are heard or read.~Astraea reinthroned by him will be, --~Rather 4034 38| martial maid;~Who had not with reiterated prayer~(As so she might 4035 29| ample world does so o'errun,~Reject not lightly a perpetual 4036 7| ignorance, esteems untrue:~Rejecting whatsoever is a wonder,~ 4037 34| next complains, that he rejects his prayer.~At length the 4038 18| CXXXII~To the city, their rejoicings to renew,~In love and peace 4039 28| ere they reach their inn rejoins his train.~ ~ XXIV~"His 4040 23| CV~But stirred and aye rekindled it, the more~That he to 4041 2| mine."~ ~ LVIII~The knight relapsed into his first disease,~ 4042 28| could no longer hold:~To the relater of that history~He turned; 4043 16| That at the dulcet melody relented~The hearer's heart, though 4044 15| Caligorant drew~The sacred relict from the palace divine:~ 4045 15| believed) the warrior's relicts were,~Who freed the damsel 4046 28| a gemmed cross and holy reliques bore;~Which one, a pilgrim 4047 38| And had fair Bradamant reluctance shown,~And obstinately interposed 4048 21| emboldened so, drinks up~All the remainder of the poisoned cup.~ ~ 4049 27| and their light;~And thou remainest blind and wrapt in night.~ ~ 4050 22| What pages show the proper remedies.~ ~ XVII~I' the book, of 4051 17| Whenever crimes have past remission's bound,~That mercy may 4052 24| hither led."~She the poor remnants of his vital sprite~Went 4053 36| the sun bestows his light.~Remorseless aera, which hast filled 4054 22| And him had he from the remotest reign~Of India ridden even 4055 2| LXII~So said, the cavalier remounts his horse,~And serves the 4056 43| was done;~Yea after the removal of the board.~The servants 4057 31| shews;~Form the true history removes the veil,~And cites all 4058 19| honour boots, what goodly fee~Remunerates ye both, for service true!~ 4059 Int| families of Medieval and Renaissance Italy (it is worth noting 4060 43| Alas! what hope to-day thou renderest vain!~Ah! what designs, 4061 37| rain or melted snow;~And, rending form the mountain's rugged 4062 17| not Jerusalem to free~From renegades? By Turkish Moslemite~Impure, 4063 15| LXIV~And therein (Christian renegadoes all)~Keeps fifteen thousand 4064 4| youth pursues.~And still renewing tears, and groans, and sighs,~ 4065 42| voice, and far and near~Reno and Felsina shall hear his 4066 19| prayed.~And next of shame renouncing every tye,~With tongue as 4067 46| fortune which their hope repayed,~Seeing that valiant warrior, 4068 25| champaigne reach,~The youth repays, with praises infinite,~ 4069 43| assaults, these charges, to repel,~Not good alike is every 4070 18| of treaty and of truce,~Repenting him, he to Sir Gryphon cried,~" 4071 45| And evermore she rages and repines;~As balked of every purpose 4072 15| dismembered, -- ever dies;~For he replaces leg or hand like wax,~Which 4073 28| this, the landlord's tale, replete with lies,~In shame and 4074 12| of that ring so wondrous repossessed,~(Which, in her mouth, concealed 4075 14| king bade loose him; but reprieving, swore,~For his first fault 4076 18| had said,~And him somedeal reproached, the three conferred~As 4077 20| heart was stirred;~Then, reprobating all advised before,~Spake; 4078 45| of truth;~ ~ XXX~And her reproves for having lent an ear~To 4079 21| which all mere perfidy repute.~With what triumphant joy 4080 9| county, after greetings due,~Reputing him the leader of that crew.~ ~ 4081 24| delay,~A grave would have required, and, more than bed~And 4082 18| and mine, and all things requisite;~Visits his outposts and 4083 4| whole world refused the requisition,~A soul resolved would find 4084 43| Thou from a rustic's fury rescuedst me,~By whose ill handling 4085 33| XXXIX~"Nay he Bologna rescues from his sway;~Whither the 4086 16| citizen by worthy deed,~For rescuing such a countless multitude,~ 4087 3| provoked some outrage to resent,~And hence its wealth and 4088 46| brother sent --~Nothing reserves save that unfading bay;~ 4089 46| return~To Charles's royal residence; where lay~An embassy, arrived 4090 14| half Flemings were, the residue~Are Normans, who the list 4091 33| wretched man~Prepared, by that resistless need pursued,~Forthwith -- 4092 3| LXXVII~Oft glances at his resless hand, in fear~That he might 4093 5| the design in show;~But resolute to die, in his intent~Was 4094 21| prevailing more,~His fear his resolution overbore.~ ~ LV~"The fear 4095 20| Who hear some mighty noise resounding nigh.~ ~ XCIII~For so to 4096 28| experience, than untrue~Conceit respecting women prepossest.~The malice 4097 45| within her veins, nor found~Resting-place, waiting for the trumpet' 4098 21| the juice digest,~And its restoring power be manifest.~ ~ LXV~" 4099 41| ensues,~Yet little loss results not, if you lose.~ ~ XLI~" 4100 18| Then on the narrow bridge resumed his stand,~Nor there his 4101 16| must Gryphon seek.~ ~ V~Resuming the fair history, I say,~ 4102 35| ground;~His courser Bradamant retained, and cried,~"Return, and 4103 24| even a feeble dint the coat retains.~On the other hand, the 4104 15| So that the thief cannot retake the prize.~ ~ LXXXIV~That 4105 29| anywise his headlong course retards.~ ~ LXXII~To drag that palfrey 4106 5| Arrests some ladies of her retinue,~That, as he weens, the 4107 17| the king the truth attest,~Retorting upon him the slander cast,~ 4108 2| liest," the haughty Saracen retorts,~As proud, and burning with 4109 15| cherished France his way retraces.~ ~ XCIII~The warriors to 4110 34| hurried sore,~His restless way retracing evermore.~ ~ XCII~That elder 4111 12| bright.~Angelica, this while, retrains her steed,~And follows the 4112 4| first since that encounter reunited.~ ~ XLII~Now that the stripling 4113 29| good wine they fill,~Each reveller's head is whirling like 4114 8| Shouldst not now satiate thy revengeful thirst?~What more (she said) 4115 27| Stordilane and all the chiefs, revered~Throughout the squadrons 4116 18| faithful, clear~The way, so reverenced is Fusberta's blade.~Save 4117 42| More vaunts not him, nor reverences more,~Than these fair dames 4118 20| Might finally from them revert to man.~And so, while these 4119 41| his past and future life, reviewed,~Were seen, as well as his 4120 27| and furniture throughout reviews;~ ~ LXXI~And as his points 4121 25| all~Which past, till she revisited her Hall.~ ~ XLIX~"Of Flordespine 4122 9| Auvergne, and even Gascony~Revisits, to its farthest little 4123 3| While the celestial spheres revolve above.~ ~ XLV~"Lo! Lionel! 4124 24| diverse punishments awhile revolved,~And thus the warrior finally 4125 5| king, who (no ignoble pay),~Rewarding him like his nobility,~Bestowed 4126 37| your honour's noble theme;~Reynet Trivulzio and Guidetti mine,~ 4127 32| In those dark realms that Rhadamanthus sways.~She smote her eyes 4128 34| My cheek, and with salt rheum mine eyes o'erflow.~Thus 4129 14| Goetulia is bestowed on Rhimedont,~And Cosca comes in charge 4130 8| loose~Or cancel hag-knot, rhomb, or magic noose.~ ~ XV~Thence, 4131 33| bestride the brine,~And on Rialto's shore his battle post.~ 4132 27| from dispute proceed to ribaldry,~From words to blows; and 4133 14| brown;~Part in a tress, in riband part comprest,~Some on her 4134 24| part~The silver cloth, with ribbon red of hue;~A hand I often 4135 19| the two haunches and the ribs confine:~And leaves him 4136 18| in public view~With the rich-flourished tuck, the king ordained,~ 4137 43| demand.~Even now, thrice richer art thou by my deed,~Than 4138 10| Marquis; near~Are March and Richmond's Earls: the first on white~ 4139 24| all faith, untrue,~For riddance of the pest to him commended,~ 4140 22| remotest reign~Of India ridden even into France:~After 4141 33| C~'Twixt Atlas' shaggy ridges and the shore,~He viewed 4142 8| foe,~Whom he sees wield a riding-wand, place~Of other arms, to 4143 43| Cagli; o'er the height,~Rifted by Gaurus and Metaurus, 4144 20| shall await your sailors, rigged and yare~For sailing, when 4145 21| sought of thee!~Now of so rigorous mood the worthy gain~Have 4146 20| XXX~"So that some deal its rigour they allay,~And in four 4147 40| Balastro, Manilardo, and Rimedont;~Who stood with weeping 4148 20| courage, basely flew,~As ring-doves flutter and as coneys fly,~ 4149 7| LV~Crisped into comely ringlets was his hair,~Wet with the 4150 10| To make your choice the riper fruits among,~Nor yet to 4151 4| in all the rest.~Such on Riphaean hills, though rarely found,~ 4152 10| by, and sporting with the ripple there,~Lay, waiting on their 4153 16| May:~Or as the sea which ripples on the shore,~Still comes 4154 8| shore,~Still keeping to the rippling waves her horse,~Where best 4155 29| imagined, as a pain,~That, risking oft to tumble in the course,~ 4156 38| wisdom of that wight,~Who risks his own to gain another' 4157 33| save I err in what their rites require,~The swarthy people 4158 32| summer sun the soil has rived,~And most the thirsty plant 4159 15| thunder, and the shock which rives the ground,~Come not, in 4160 34| and white.~The quavering rivulet and quiet lake~In limpid 4161 40| For Agramant had swept the roadstead wide,~And burnt what vessels 4162 38| they are,~Some bay, some roan, and some of dapple stain.~ 4163 44| tower,~In fear lest any rob thee of that power.~ ~ LXIV~" 4164 13| returning day;~(What time they robbing aye, by hill and plain,~ 4165 13| tied~About her brows, and robed in purple gown,~On wonted 4166 11| How different from those robes of red, or blue,~Green, 4167 6| s name;~Who cheats, and robs, and scathes, whoever rides~ 4168 44| Charles's court,~And thence to Rocca Forte's tower transport.~ ~ 4169 37| damsels twain~Towards his rock-built castle turn the rein.~ ~ 4170 10| view.~Landward towards the rock-chained maid he pressed,~And on 4171 27| that cry.~ ~ CI~Paris-town rocked, and turbid ran the flood~ 4172 21| Discharged, so fast the whistling rockets speed,~As the two coursers 4173 Int| sword, Durindana) and King Rodomonte of Sarzia, a Holy War between 4174 37| some descend,)~His men with rods shall on the shoulders whale,~ 4175 Int| play major or semi-major roles in the events of Ariosto' 4176 44| Was lodged that evening a Romanian knight;~Present what time 4177 3| design,~Shall thrash the Romans' pride who overbear;~Shall 4178 17| their way~Adda and Mella, Ronco and Tarro stray.~ ~ V~Now 4179 28| soon,~And withered like a rose-bud plucked at noon.~ ~ XXVIII~" 4180 10| valour shines. The Duke of Rothsay he!~ ~ LXXXV~"Behold the 4181 4| miserable sprite~From its now rotted bark, long decayed."~"Prate 4182 31| of forest hoar,~Saplings rough-hewn, those masters of the just,~ 4183 7| which through a forest lay,~Roughish and somedeal ill to beat, 4184 22| had from Ind to England rounded all~The right-hand side 4185 46| overthrown,~Rogero, by thy wond'rous valour, though~I had thee 4186 36| rattling notes the riders call,~Rousing the foot, beat drum and 4187 7| My next shall tell his route, and how he gained~At last 4188 15| Pompey, though he chased rovers everywhere,~Was not his 4189 30| arms and either palm he rowed,~And puffed and blew the 4190 43| bested, he made~The weary rowers, in his courtesy,~A parting 4191 17| Were heard from all that rubble widely spread.~As a wolf 4192 27| wise advice, to calm such ruder strife~And quarrel, as throughout 4193 27| the skies;~And the wind ruffles, as it comes and goes,~Banner 4194 16| no other be)~Destroys and ruins the unhappy town.~Turn, 4195 27| reproved the Sarzan sore,~Ruling that to appeal upon that 4196 46| like thunder to my ear,~Rumbles along the sea and rends 4197 29| Near Arragon, beside the rumbling main,~And, ever prompted 4198 27| with sober thought,~He ruminates thereon, content to spend~ 4199 43| The universal world loud Rumor blew,~ ~ CXCIX~All, for 4200 29| befel him there:~Many the rumours are, and disagree.~One says 4201 14| Drained, at a draught, whole runlets in his thirst;~Aye wonted 4202 40| XXXII~Even with that rage rushed in the impetuous band,~Where 4203 23| pain.~The vital moisture rushing to my eyes,~Driven by the 4204 46| rugged kind;~And there in rushy bottom bays the boar:~Now 4205 2| it defies the mouldering rust and rain:~The robber scours 4206 40| could be had of armour, rusted o'er~And brown with age, 4207 1| every leaf or spray that rustled, bred~(Of oak, or elm, or 4208 37| they from thence, a stone's-throw distant, see~A troop, which 4209 7| Bears in sweet Indian or Sabacan waste;~While so to speak 4210 43| muffled, goes~Roland in sables next, and evermore~His eyes 4211 3| And the invader all Italia sacks,~His happy state alone is 4212 14| And cast on earth Christ's sacrament divine,~With the intent 4213 20| been sent,~To perish by the sacrificial blade.~But Orontea, willing 4214 43| If there, she would have saddened Paradise.~Greasy and foul 4215 30| that dame replied, with saddest face;~Nor only would have 4216 24| rein yet hanging at his saddle-bows.~ ~ L~For Durindane, he 4217 41| have done;~-- Would to the saddle-tree have cleft him clean:~But 4218 4| By the magician, at his sadle bow.~He lights and seeks 4219 9| Seated the paladin, and sadly said:~ ~ XXII~"The daughter 4220 42| On Peter Bembo and James Sadolet.~ ~ LXXXVII~Arelio and Castiglion, 4221 14| princes, who, arrayed~For safeguard of their own, or neighbouring 4222 14| Argalise,~And Archidantes, the Saguntine lord.~Here, Malagur, in 4223 43| mariner subjoined: "Thou saidest well;~With gifts so rich 4224 11| double, name.~ ~ XXV~This saker, culverine, or falcon hight,~ 4225 14| their common head,~Astorga, Salamanca, Placenza,~With Avila, Zamorra, 4226 17| which distant lies~From Salem seven days' journey; its 4227 33| three.~How "Marsi, Daunians, Salentines," (he said)~"And Bruci, 4228 10| next, is Henry, Earl of Salisbury;~Old Hermant Aberga'nny 4229 8| nought of him discerns,~Sallies without a guide or faithful 4230 3| nose close flattened, and a sallow skin;~To this, that I may 4231 16| horrid storm infests,~So sallying swiftly from the following 4232 6| lazy sleep;~Raven-fish, salmon, salpouth, at her word,~ 4233 6| sleep;~Raven-fish, salmon, salpouth, at her word,~And mullet 4234 14| CXXXII~Charged with salt-petre, oil, or sulphur pale,~One 4235 24| beats the wave upon the salt-sea shore,~Sportive at first, 4236 10| now was nigh.~ ~ XL~Now so saltpetre fine and sulphur pure,~Touched 4237 42| name (where sweet~Isaurus salts his wave in larger vase)~ 4238 43| beginning it could ill~Be salved, is hard to heal. Meanwhile 4239 26| one of Arragon,~And one a Salviati: with them go~Francis Gonzaga 4240 45| The Lydian, Syracusan, Samian show~This truth, and more 4241 40| son of Hercules, were to Samos' isle~To carry earthen vessels, 4242 27| the paynim knight)~"Than sample, chosen from thine histories,~ 4243 37| For many, laying silk and sampler down,~With the melodious 4244 34| Church's right.~As he elected Sampson, called whilere~The Jew 4245 14| hazard found,~The Hebrew Samson slew the Philistine,~Crushed 4246 31| behold;~That in a snowy samyte was arraid,~The vesture 4247 3| VIII~Touched with the sanctifying thoughts which wait~On worthy 4248 21| recited:~Nor needs the solemn sanction of an oath:~It is sufficient 4249 19| Ettino, and other place of sanctity,~If such is named, and to 4250 25| To meet at Vallombrosa's sanctuary,~Deems her gone thither, 4251 32| The thief Brunello (as I sang whilere)~As if alone to 4252 46| meseems that I~Berna, and Sanga, and Flaminio spy.~ ~ XIII~ 4253 46| so desire to view,~That Sannazaro, who persuades the nine~ 4254 13| long to tell of Alda de Sansogna,~Or of Celano's countess 4255 13| s delight;~And how, near Santa Martha, for our need,~A 4256 45| son;~Who, when his host at Santalbino fled,~Left in his clutch 4257 3| campaign with their blood,~By Santern, Po, and Zaniolus' flood.~ ~ 4258 43| And stream into whose bed Santerno falls.~ ~ CXLVI~Then was 4259 18| valiant squadrons led~Of Saphi, and Morocco, and Zamor.~" 4260 6| juice is sweated by the sapling-spray,~New-severed, when it yields 4261 20| battle run.~Corinna and Sappho, famous for their lore,~ 4262 26| As peasant, when a river saps its mounds,~And seeking 4263 18| din rebounds.~ ~ XLII~The Saracenic squadrons had begun~To bend, 4264 10| Hyrcanian main:~So reached Sarmatia's distant land; and, where~ 4265 Int| Durindana) and King Rodomonte of Sarzia, a Holy War between Pagans 4266 46| Giovenal, it seems to me;~Sasso, and Molza, and Florian 4267 17| afraid,~He climbed a bark on Satalia's strand,~And, three days 4268 14| reeking gore.~Odo, Ambaldo, Satallon ensue,~And Walter next; 4269 19| Another: "We are lost on Sataly,~Whose coast makes many 4270 42| LXIV~Whenas Rinaldo, sated with the draught,~Raising 4271 12| not for that his longing satisfies;~Nor can imagine where the 4272 26| noble sort,~Sovereign and satrap, prince and peer, to fall;~ 4273 23| dawn of day,~Now watching Saturn, Venus, Mars, and Jove,~ 4274 44| between,~To THE EMPIRE'S SAVIOURS, everywhere is seen.~ ~ 4275 35| but smiled in bitter vein;~Savouring of anger more than aught 4276 27| So saying, in his fury, sawed the wind~About him, with 4277 3| land.~There he the house of Saxony shall stay,~And prop the 4278 4| exchange were wise;~Thou sayest to save him from what stars 4279 38| LXV~With these and other sayings yet more sound,~So wrought 4280 20| the test,~Many a one on scaffold lost his head.~Now these 4281 37| hamlet on the summit wound,~Scaling the mountain's steep and 4282 40| And sent the assailants scaling-ladder, spear,~And naval stores, 4283 40| renowned a comrade part,~Their scaling-ladders plant, and mount the wall~ 4284 34| clear was satisfied,~That scantily therewith were they purveyed;~ 4285 18| flight are two for one~Who 'scapes, -- nor he unharmed: among 4286 16| none that shows an honest scar before.~ ~ XXIII~What by 4287 5| his way.~Two nights were scarecly passed, ere his repair~To 4288 24| scarce beyond the skin is scarified.~More than a span in length 4289 22| pigeons at the musquet's scaring sound,~The troop of cavaliers 4290 4| enchanter sties."~ ~ XIII~Scarped smooth upon four parts, 4291 6| Who cheats, and robs, and scathes, whoever rides~To the other 4292 18| how dear~They paid for scathing errant cavalier.~ ~ CXII~ 4293 18| CXXXVII~The noxious scents that from the marish spring,~ 4294 18| Was possible to make by sceptered king.~Hence Fame divulged 4295 40| those kings, that Moorish sceptres swayed,~Who, having seen 4296 14| were new;~And whilom in the schools long time did pass,~With 4297 43| Beyond belief, in every science great;~Who, when he closed 4298 30| remember how alone~(Nor had I scimetar or sword in hand)~Of knights, 4299 17| the shock:~All lords, or scions of illustrious stock.~ ~ 4300 7| conceive~A Julius, Alexander, Scipio.~Who thee Alcina's bondsman 4301 15| better were."~And since he scissors lacked and razor keen,~He 4302 10| there rose a rock; below~Scooped by the breaker's beating 4303 14| approaching ills bestow,~Scorning their elders' counsel, here 4304 16| mighty sound~Alone, the Scotsmen trembled, and in dread~Abandoned 4305 24| dealing kick, and bite, and scratch, and blow,~Horses and oxen 4306 15| people's moan and dying screams,~With imprecations dread 4307 26| a neighbouring fountain,~Screened from the sun by an o'ershadowing 4308 17| And loaded a capacious scrip beside,~Which, like a shepherd' 4309 23| And without more delay or scruple, prest~To cast her arms 4310 11| ill can her discern:~Both sculls he pulls amain, and nears 4311 10| seemed~By the industrious sculptor's cunning care,~But that 4312 39| that they cleanse away the scurf and blight,~Which to his 4313 15| he safe repair.~ ~ XII~By Scyth and Indian she prefers the 4314 19| careered,~It seemed, as with a scythe-blade equally~The hams of either 4315 12| says, "For hundreds of my scythes may stand~His Durindana 4316 10| ever bear~From the north Scythians to the Hyrcanian main:~So 4317 8| stirred~His monsters, orc and sea-calf, with the rest;~Who waste 4318 19| does his ministry,~Upon a sea-chest propt; another wight~Is 4319 40| diverse chances of that sea-fight dread,~Here to rehearse 4320 22| this astounded, 'mid the sea-foam lay;~Which would have fed 4321 16| bear off plunder from your sea-girt strands,~What will they 4322 33| cavalier,~And frustrates the sea-lion's bold designs.~You see 4323 44| the griffin's soar.~In the sea-marshes last his light career~He 4324 10| The orc, that measureless sea-monster, hies,~Which on abominable 4325 8| had done no ill.~ ~ LIV~Sea-Proteus to his flocks' wide charge 4326 36| groan,~As roars in some sea-rock the prisoned wind.~She screamed 4327 29| ray,~With dry and powdery sea-sand covered o'er;~And here, 4328 6| water, sail~Ork, physeter, sea-serpent, shark, and whale.~ ~ XXXVII~" 4329 13| sink outright;~Our goods sea-swallowed all. Upon the strand~To 4330 36| Who, after long and wide sea-wandering, gained~Sicily's shore, 4331 18| And horses, make accord; a seaman hoar~Of Luna he: the heavens, 4332 41| bosom, and in thigh it seamed,~Beneath his mail, the king 4333 5| drug the burning entrail sears,~Or who for her would knife 4334 14| affable, with courteous lore~Seasoning her answers to his suit, 4335 24| when his anger and his heat secede,~After short interval, his 4336 1| France that Charlemagne~Secluded from that champion and the 4337 46| XVIII~Diligent, faithful secretary, lo!~The learned Pistophilus, 4338 14| er he speeds,~Parting the sedge with breast and tusk and 4339 37| call;~By which they were seduced from the right way~Into 4340 8| allayed.~Wise whosoever seeketh, not in vain,~His help, 4341 30| topsy turvy turn.~ ~ XXIV~A seely boy then dipt his hand and 4342 34| skins was seen to bear,~Who, seemingly unwearied, hurried sore,~ 4343 26| themselves addrest,~And seemly pastimes, when their meal 4344 43| knowledge, as the first of seers;~Who of all witchery and 4345 6| hiss and bubble, sing and seethe:~So the offended myrtle 4346 6| pleasures fed,~Have from Alcina seigniory and throne;~But shalt be 4347 43| me astound~So easily thou seizest soul, immersed~In baseness, 4348 9| in my father's service, I~Select two brothers fitted for 4349 23| rein.~Firm in his stirrups self-collected stood~Roland, and watched 4350 22| The Child, so ending his self-colloquy,~Dismounting, takes a large 4351 15| love, excuses,~For mostly self-conceit our sense abuses.~ ~ CV~ 4352 25| pale, now red; nor longer self-controlled,~Ravished a kiss, she waxed 4353 23| Little availed the count his self-deceit;~For there was one who spake 4354 23| ill contented,~Which he by self-illusions had fomented.~ ~ CV~But 4355 39| madman view;~That from long self-neglect, while wild he ran,~Had 4356 32| of pride,~Who has so many sells, such plate and chain~Collected 4357 7| should bear~Of men, or rather semi-deities,~Spies daily what her thoughts 4358 Int| Rose). All play major or semi-major roles in the events of Ariosto' 4359 20| so wrought,~The yielding senate granted what she ought.~ ~ 4360 9| he conveyed.~The Roman senator thence parting wends~Upon 4361 31| running naked in his mood,~Sending forth piteous shrieks and 4362 5| you~Is yet unknown, which sentences to fire~The miserable dame, 4363 31| unchristened band,~Their guard and sentries, taken by surprise,~So broken 4364 39| Rhone,~The plain with rising sepulchres is strown.~ ~ LXXIII~Meanwhile 4365 24| story to have told;~The sequel of it then will I unfold.~ ~ 4366 21| Assailed him straight in a sequestered place.~My brother would 4367 6| Albany's duchy, now in sequestration,~Late Polinesso's, who in 4368 14| s petition,~Best of the seraphs he; who spreads his wings,~ 4369 28| espied~In the embraces of a serjeant poor;~And vowed he should 4370 43| left of that river's bed,~Sermide to the right; they in their 4371 29| to bear~The monk's bold sermon to his sore displeasure,~ 4372 46| side,~Together armed, the serpent-banner spread.~The youth by one 4373 27| Argier;~And him assist his serpent-hide to don~Bold Ferrau and Circassia' 4374 14| Isolier, Grandonio, Falsiron,~Serpentin, Balugantes, and Ferrau,~ 4375 16| griesly wound,~Olympio de la Serra fall to ground:~ ~ LXXII~ 4376 19| the warriors through!~So serried was the battle of the foe! --~ 4377 21| and strongly walled,~On Servia's distant frontier had a 4378 13| without the cave,~Where an old service-tree its shadow throws.~Orlando 4379 26| wounded Aldigier;~Their services no less that kindly twain~ 4380 7| Upon thy neck and arms the servile chains,~Wherewith she at 4381 28| time to wend his way,~And servingmen meanwhile purveys and steeds;~ 4382 45| ruled the world.~Ventidius, Servius, Marius this have shown~ 4383 28| And there at the first inn set-up your rest;~For I must back 4384 20| of that shore~The other settlers all were dead and gone;~ 4385 38| Princes and lords, that severally bore~The other harness of 4386 13| hit either brow,~But most severely on the left did smite;~For 4387 7| heart,~And haply meriting severer pain.~And, as for all he 4388 4| statutes framed of such severity;~Which, as iniquitous, should 4389 46| Andrew Maro, and the monk Severo.~ ~ XIV~Lo! two more Alexanders! 4390 15| Augustus', Trajan's, Mark's, Severus', crown;~But that of every 4391 43| dry eyes discerned:~All sexes, ages, ranks, in pitying 4392 17| summer, sojourn of delight.~Shading the city from the dawning 4393 8| shore, where rock and cavern shag the brink,~As night upon 4394 8| through rugged rocks, and shagged with thorn,~Rogero wends, 4395 27| view;~And see the banners shaking in the wind,~And the cantonments 4396 30| all have launched their shallops, which are wide~Of that 4397 9| As falls the bullock upon shamble-sill,~Thus fell the ill-starred 4398 17| left,~If this from you so shamefully be reft?~ ~ VIII~"Then shall 4399 20| Curst hag, how well thou shapest thy history,~Yet knowest 4400 25| wing, when he should woo,~Shaping her speech to this in wary 4401 31| words and courtesies,~And sharing what he had with his array,~ 4402 6| physeter, sea-serpent, shark, and whale.~ ~ XXXVII~"There 4403 46| deafening din~Descends upon the sharpened piles below,~With all his 4404 19| lifeless lie,~Ambushed, his sharpest arrow to his bow~Fits, and 4405 12| And loosens, breaks, or shatters, plate and chain.~Angelica 4406 15| well, it might be said to shave.~ ~ LXXXVII~And, holding, 4407 19| in her rocky cavern the she-bear,~With whom close warfare 4408 2| s aerial crest?~Like the she-fox, who hears her offspring 4409 23| had betrayed:~Who like a she-wolf fled, which, as she hies,~ 4410 24| from top to bottom equally;~Shearing the sleeve beneath it, and 4411 16| himself in helmet gay,~And sheathing all his limbs in plate and 4412 20| where~The wandering sun sheds light and colouring hue,~ 4413 40| harvests, round,~And, with the sheepcotes, flock, and dogs and swains~ 4414 7| courtly crew.~He upon perfumed sheets, whose texture fine~Seemed 4415 2| when~Hovering above the shelterd yard, she spies~A helpless 4416 1| Blooms unapproached by sheperd or by flock.~For this earth 4417 23| spake of it unsought;~The sheperd-swain, who to allay the heat,~ 4418 42| traveller from his way,~And shepherd-swain, by whiles, to their green 4419 24| Towards the noise some shepherds, on that side,~Their heavy 4420 14| valiant arms their squadrons shielding,~Stormed the almost victorious 4421 45| And lifted shield, and shifted sword in fight,~Where shifting 4422 33| a cruel look,~And, like ship-sails, two spreading pinions shook.~ ~ 4423 39| for Provence steer~The shipping under Danish Dudon's care;~ 4424 19| and bark must be,~Where shipwrecked, for the most part, vessels 4425 41| Thrust at the collar of his shirt of mail,~All else beside 4426 31| their lances stout;~Which shivering in their hands, had flown 4427 5| foul ferocious race that shocks his view.~ ~ VI~"All times 4428 10| water, on the cauldron shed,~Shops short the bubbling wave, 4429 14| the wall by the assailants shored,~Two mannered each round; 4430 41| fades, the sea appears a shoreless flood.~Upon the darkening 4431 44| Princes and peers are of such short-lived wear.~To-day king, pope, 4432 45| repossest,~This she believes her shortest way and best.~ ~ CVI~Sorely 4433 38| grudged that king so puissant shou'd~Exist on earth, save he 4434 31| stranger's broke his spine and shoulder-blade;~That other shocked him 4435 46| In the helmet-cheek and shoulder-bone below~The Child was smit, 4436 39| said) the warrior's brain.~Shouldered by sturdy Dudon is the load,~ 4437 40| did light;~And, like cloth shred and shorn, the paynims round~ 4438 10| That Edward is the Earl of Shrewsbury.~In those who yonder lodge, 4439 38| XXXIV~They, neighing shrill, down narrow paths repair,~ 4440 17| compass our design, you do not shrink~To imbue your bodies with 4441 17| and not with steel,~So shrinks he at the wind of every 4442 33| XCIII~And found him shrowded in his caverned lair,~So 4443 11| Rogero's sight her beauty shrowds,~As disappears the sun, 4444 14| life defends.~He his last shudder gives, and tumbles dead;~ 4445 15| body seated in the sell,~Shuddered its last, and from the courser 4446 46| rode, who that rude shock~Shunned warily, retiring from his 4447 32| perverse and evil will to wave;~Shunning me like malignant asp, that 4448 24| hawk, who duck or woodcock shy,~Partridge or pigeon, or 4449 20| escort."~ ~ CXX~Older than Sibyl seemed the beldam hoar,~( 4450 42| one, who crost from the Sicilian shore,~And thither had, 4451 32| To visit him that on a sick-bed smarted;~Nor once alone; 4452 41| drew~Of yore his sun-burned sicklemen to cheer,~And which ('tis 4453 39| descries,~With countenance as sicklied o'er by dread,~He stands, 4454 28| shore;~Him did her sire in sickness entertain,~Returning from 4455 19| brothers and the rest who sided~Upon that part, the liberal 4456 2| each his foe surveys~With sidelong glance and eyes more red 4457 2| Castile,~All Acquamorta siding with the Moor;~And how Marseilles' 4458 17| puts to the last agony~Sidonia's youthful lord, by him 4459 37| crost the sea,~By Tyrian and Sidonian band obeyed;~Not only famed 4460 26| own neighbour Florence and Siena.~ ~ XLIX~"More forward in 4461 40| the following day;~Forever sifting in his doubtful sprite,~ 4462 33| histories begin; to show~How Sigisbert his arms will southward 4463 26| chase shall no one show~Than Sigismond, than Lewis, and than John;~ 4464 31| weed;~Good Olivier's and Sigismonda's seed.~ ~ XXXVIII~In parley 4465 3| gallies steers.~ ~ LVIII~"Two Sigismonds, the first, the second, 4466 42| shadows be,~This will I signify; a short delay."~Wending 4467 32| what she said~On ending silences the knight; and he~Allows 4468 39| LX~Then said, as erst Silenus said -- when seen,~And taken 4469 2| Well covered in a goodly silken case,~He, the celestial 4470 35| She spoke the word in all simplicity,~Which some already may 4471 19| A pilgrimage is vowed to Sinai,~To Cyprus and Gallicia, 4472 42| flesh, bones, nerves, and sinews are a prey~To burning love; 4473 41| puissance swayed,~By Roland, singe in the world or rare,~It 4474 46| gay~Lays lyric or heroic; singers there~He with rich music 4475 26| magnanimous and stout, for foe~Singled King Mandricardo out, and 4476 26| With Ottobon de Flisco, Sinibald~Chases the Beast, both striving 4477 14| Calatrave,~Who erst with Sinnagon's broad banner spread,~Marched, 4478 28| Thou wilt not let me on the sinners wreak.'~(Jocundo answered) ` 4479 46| her gates opened by false Sinon were,~And direr ill was 4480 35| them back, these fain would sip.~ ~ III~Astolpho wandered 4481 24| breath of life devoutly sips.~ ~ LXXXIII~'Twas here his 4482 8| Ireland past, an isle is situate.~Ebuda is its name, whose 4483 4| plain that this in many a situation~Is found to further beneficial 4484 20| feared at last to encounter skaith and scorn.~ ~ LXXXVII~Of 4485 3| this, that I may make my sketch complete,~Succinctly clad, 4486 38| foot address;~And these so skilfully and nimbly deal,~As needs 4487 4| seems, descending, but to skim the ground:~And of all beauteous 4488 33| back upon Carena hoar,~And skimmed above the Cyrenaean ground;~ 4489 9| left hand,~Orlando's vessel skims the Breton shore;~Then shapes 4490 26| marble read,~Some on their skirt, some written overhead.~ ~ 4491 30| the shell~Oped, and the skirts wherewith 'twas overlaid)~ 4492 29| fearful blow;~And, with skull smashed like glass, that 4493 17| fate,~And marbled column, slab, and gilded beam,~By sire 4494 43| parts,~Raises the quarried slabs and rich pilasters;~Who, 4495 11| At her bright eyes, then slacks the weapon's glow~In streams, 4496 19| hell,~And in Avernus' water slaked by spell.~ ~ LXXXV~At the 4497 30| less my blame deserves,~If slanting from the mark his faulchion 4498 44| though Rogero in his heat~Slaughters his routed van and threats 4499 34| feed on grass and hay, like slavering bull.~ ~ LXVI~"But yet, 4500 16| him lament, who plays a slavish part,~Whom two bright eyes 4501 20| dames agreed:~But, after slaying his half-score, and when~ 4502 23| pace,~Hence was he ne'er so sleek or well in case.~ ~ XXVIII~ 4503 17| thou give o'er.~Alas! thou sleepest, drunken Italy,~Of every 4504 18| Medoro gazed on heaven with sleepy eyes.~In all his talk, the


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