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Orlando Furioso — Lodovico Ariosto
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Orlando Furioso
by Lodovico Ariosto · August 1, 1996
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1. Of Loves and Ladies, Knights and Arms, I Sing of Courtesies
2. In the Same Strain of Roland Will I Tell
3. Good Seed of Hercules, Give Ear and Deign
4. And Me, Amid the Worthiest Shalt Thou Hear
5. Roland, Who Long the Lady of Catay
6. To Make King Agramant, for Penance, Smite
7. For Here Was Seized His Dame of Peerless Charms
8. For Bold Orlando and His Cousin, Free
9. Vowing with Her the Warrior to Content
10. There, Lodged by Charles, That Gentle Bonnibel
11. With Shield Upon His Arm, in Knightly Wise
12. This Was That Paladin, Good Aymon's Seed
13. The Affrighted Damsel Turns Her Palfrey Round
14. Here Stood the Fierce Ferrau in Grisly Plight
15. Thither at Speed She Drives, and Evermore
16. Courteous, and Haply Gifted with a Breast
17. Thus, as They Are, on Foot the Warriors Vie
18. After the Two Had Struggled Long to Throw
19. The Peer's Proposal Pleased the Paynim Well
20. And Now the Warlike Pair at Fault, for They
21. Beside the Water, Where He Stoop'd to Drink
22. A Bough He Severs From a Neighbouring Tree
23. Armed at All Points He Was, Except His Head
24. Bristled the Paynim's Every Hair at View
25. Nor Having Time His Falsehood to Excuse
26. And This New Vow Discharged More Faithfully
27. For Far the Warrior Fared Not, Ere He Spied
28. Through Dreary Woods and Dark the Damsel Fled
29. As a Young Roe or Fawn of Fallow Deer
30. One Day and Night, and Half the Following Day
31. Weening Removed the Way by Which She Wends
32. If Friend or Foe, She Nothing Comprehends
33. Pensive, Above an Hour, with Drooping Head
34. If Any Ask Who Made This Sorrowing
35. He for Her Sake From Orient's Farthest Reign
36. The Warrior in the Field Had Been, and Viewed
37. While Sacripant Laments Him in This Plight
38. With Deep Attention, While the Warrior Weeps
39. But Her From Harm Amid Those Woods to Keep
40. But Not the More for This the Maid Intends
41. An Apparition Bright and Unforeseen
42. Not with Such Wonderment a Mother Eyes
43. He, Full of Fond and Eager Passion, Pressed
44. Her Chances All to Him the Damsel Said
45. Haply the Tale Was True; Yet Will Not Seem
46. This Said, He for the Soft Assault Prepares
47. With the Bold Semblance of a Valiant Knight
48. Him He Defies to Fight, Approaching Nigh
49. Not Brindled Bulls or Tawny Lions Spring
50. Nor Swerved the Chargers From Their Destined Course
51. Upright Upon His Steed, the Knight Unknown
52. As the Bewildered and Astonished Clown
53. He Sighs and Groans, Yet Not for Mischief Sore
54. While She So Seeks the Saracen to Cheer
55. King Sacripant Made Answer, "as You See
56. After the Woeful Warrior Long Had Thought
57. Two Miles They Had Not Rode Before They Hear
58. The Bold Circassian Lighted, and Applied
59. Then to the Maid He Goes Submissively
60. With Her Left Hand She Takes Him by the Bit
61. Then, as at Hazard, She Directs Her Sight
62. Mixed with Such Secret Bane the Waters Glide
63. She Answers Not, and Knows Not in Her Fear
64. Injurious Love, Why Still to Mar Accord
65. Thou to Rinaldo Show'st the Damsel Fair
66. As Two Fierce Dogs Will Somtimes Stand at Gaze
67. He, When the King Would Urge Him, Takes the Rest
68. As Soon as Sacripant, with Well-Timed Leap
69. When the Fair Damsel Saw, with Timid Eye
70. So Turned Her Horse Into the Gloomy Chase
71. Wasted He Was as Much by Fasts as Age
72. The Lady Prayed That Kindly Friar, That He
73. This Opened, Quick and Mighty Marvel Wrought
74. You Might Have Seen Those Angry Cavaliers
75. So, Passing Where the Prompt Bayardo Stood
76. Let It Not, Sir, Sound Strangely in Your Ear
77. For When Angelica, in Random Dread
78. And, with Desire to Bring Him to the Maid
79. Now Good Bayardo Had Believed the Tiding
80. At Night Rinaldo Rests His Steed, with Pain
81. He, for He Fears the Afric King's Pursuit
82. For He Is Bent Again to Try the Fate
83. Rinaldo Never Executed Thing
84. And There, in Scorn of Cautious Pilot's Skill
85. The Watchful Mariners, in Wary Sort
86. Starboard and Larboard Bears the Fitful Gale
87. I Speak of That Famed Damsel, by Whose Spear
88. A Cavalier Was Suitor to the Dame
89. Alone Thenceforth She Sought Her Lover (He
90. Through a Delicious Mead the Fountain-Rill
91. A Cavalier, Who Underneath the Shade
92. Urged by the Passion Lodged in Every Breast
93. The Knight Relapsed Into His First Disease
94. With Aspect Changing Still, the Beauteous Dame
95. And, After, When She Deemed That All Was Clear
96. The Knight Replied, "Then Nought to Me Remains
97. So Said, the Cavalier Remounts His Horse
98. The Courier, Who So Plied His Restless Heel
99. This Goodly Town, with Many Miles of Plain
100. Whether or Not She Should the Call Obey
101. And Did with Such Excuse That Post Appay
102. For 'Twixt Maganza's and Old Clermont's Line
103. And So the Traitor's Troubled Fancy Rack
104. He, When He Saw Himself Within the Brake
105. So Said, He Pushed His Courser Up the Height
106. A Void Was at the Bottom, Where a Wide
107. When Her Approach the County's First Intent
108. Who, by Her Lovely Semblance and Rich Vest
109. The Beauteous Bradamant, Who Was More Bold
110. The Severed End She to the Count Commended
111. But Not, as Was the Will of Pinabel
112. Who Will Vouchsafe Me Voice That Shall Ascend
113. Than Whose Fair Line, 'Mid Those by Heavenly Grace
114. But Should I Seek at Full Its Worth to Blaze
115. Till When, This Chisel May Suffice to Scale
116. The Wily Traitor Thought That Damsel Sweet
117. Leave We Sometime the Wretch Who, While He Layed
118. For the First Cavern in a Second Ended
119. Touched with the Sanctifying Thoughts Which Wait
120. The Daughter of Duke Aymon Stood Aghast
121. And Full of Joy the Adventure Strange Pursues
122. Whether It Be the Native Operation
123. Scarcely Had Bradamant Above the Sill
124. Here Merlin Ceased, That for the Solemn Feat
125. This Done, Into the Church She Called the Maid
126. So with the Lady's Leave the Volume Closed
127. All Night the Maid Reposes in the Cave
128. They Gain a Hidden Glen, Which Heights Inclose
129. Of These the Greater Portion Served to Guide
130. Discoursing Thus, They Came Upon the Sea
131. The Maid Brunello Knows as Soon as Found
132. Oft Glances at His Resless Hand, in Fear
133. Though an Ill Mind Appear in Simulation
134. If After Painful Proof We Scarcely Find
135. She Feigns as Well with That Deceitful Scout
136. And Sees the Host and All His Family
137. Broad Were His Pinions, and of Various Hue
138. The Watchful Maid Attends to Every Thing
139. What Useful Was to Say, She Said, and What
140. From Wood to Wood, From Mount to Mountain Hoar
141. A Rock From That Deep Valley's Centre Springs
142. Scarped Smooth Upon Four Parts, the Mountain Bare
143. But Deems It Foul, with Blood of Man to Stain
144. Neither by Tears, Nor Groans, Nor Sound of Woe
145. Not Long Within His Gate the Enchanter Stayed
146. On His Left Arm Alone His Shield He Took
147. No Empty Fiction Wrought by Magic Lore
148. Drawn by Enchantment From His Distant Lair
149. This Truth by Him with Fictions Was Combined
150. When She Sometime Had Fought Upon Her Horse
151. The Shield Might Have Been Shown at First, Nor He
152. To Cat and Mouse, in Battles Fought Before
153. Not That the Shining Metal Could Offend
154. Already Cased Again, the Shield Was Hung
155. And Ran to Bind Her with a Chain, Which He
156. Intending to Behead the Fallen Foe
157. Round by the Conqueror with the Chain He Bore
158. Then From the Lady's Toils the Wizard Clears
159. There Is Gradasso, There Is Sacripant
160. As Her He Prized Before His Eyes, His Heart
161. Now That the Stripling Sees Her Here, and Knows
162. To Take Him by the Rein the Lady There
163. Gradasso, Sacripant, Rogero, Who
164. This Was Atlantes the Enchanter's Deed
165. Now the Bold Youth From His Frontino Flings
166. When Her Rogero the Fair Dame Discerned
167. She on Rogero Looks with Stedfast Eyes
168. And Lest the Courser Should Become the Prey
169. After the Hippogryph Has Won Such Height
170. Day After Day the Good Rinaldo Fares
171. Through This Roves Many a Famous Cavalier
172. And Other Worthies of the Table Round
173. Without a Guide or Company He Went
174. The Monks and Abbot to Mount Alban's Peer
175. They Answered, in Those Woods He Might Be Sure
176. Rinaldo Mused Awhile, and Then Replied
177. When the New Dawn, with Streaks of Red and White
178. Seeking Their Way to Shorten as They Wound
179. But Woe Begone and Weeping Was the Maid
180. The Ruffians Turn Their Backs and Take to Flight
181. And as the Lady Nearer He Surveyed
182. Among All Other Animals Who Prey
183. What Fury, What Abominable Pest
184. Not Simply a Rank Sinner, He Appears
185. Such, and No Other Were Those Ruffians Two
186. Above All Other Fortune, to the Knight
187. And for St. Andrew's Town, with Eager Speed
188. That Thither Had Repaired a Stranger Knight
189. Beyond the City, Fought Upon Accord
190. And Will That She (He Will Not Long Delay
191. Six Knights on Foot Within the Palisade
192. Rinaldo Pierces Through the Parted Swarm
193. So Moved the King the Grave Authority
194. Next That He There in Arms Would Testify
195. Him, Through His Breast, Impaled Upon the Spear
196. He Brings Not His Confession to a Close
197. And When, Through His Uplifted Casque Displaid
198. Him the Good King Entreated to Declare
199. Wretched That Evil Man Who Lives in Trust
200. The Unhappy Polinesso Hopes Had Nursed
201. And Forfeited Estate, and Life, and Love
202. Ariodantes, Whom with Tearful Eye
203. But, as It Oft Befalls Despairing Wight
204. And, Now Despising, as of Folly Bred
205. At First He Heard That, Through Excess of Woe
206. Nor for His Brother Felt Less Enmity
207. And That Who Well the Youthful Champion Knew
208. He, Having This Concluded in His Thought
209. And Yielding to His Natural Inclination
210. Rinaldo for Dalinda Mercy Won
211. Although Rogero Is of Constant Mind
212. That Hippogryph, Huge Fowl, and Strange to Sight
213. When the Huge Bird His Pinions Long Had Plied
214. A More Delightful Place, Wherever Hurled
215. Small Thickets, with the Scented Laurel Gay
216. Amid Red Roses and White Lilies There
217. When the Hyppogryph Above the Island Hung
218. And There, Close-By Where Rose a Bubbling Fount
219. And, Now, to Bathe His Burning Lips He Strains
220. Meanwhile the Courser by the Myrtle's Side
221. As in a Stick to Feed the Chimney Rent
222. And Hence a Clear, Intelligible Speech
223. At the First Sound, Rogero Turns to See
224. Next Drops Were Seen to Stand Upon the Bark
225. The Good Rogero, Who From Fame Had Learned
226. As Best He Could, He Strove to Soothe His Pain
227. The Courser From the Myrtle He Untied
228. He to Remount the Steed, and Through the Air
229. A Lofty Wall at Distance Meets His Eye
230. When He Was Nigh the City-Walls, So Bright
231. Was Never Yet Beheld a Stranger Band
232. This Gallops on a Horse Without a Bit
233. The Captain of This Crew, Which Blocked the Road
234. One, with a Human Shape and Feet, His Crest
235. That Monster Would Have Smote Him with a Spear
236. One to the Teeth, Another to the Breast
237. If He Had Thought the Magic Shield to Show
238. On Unicorn Was Seated Either Fair
239. Into the Mead Rode This and the Other Dame
240. Above, a Cornice Round the Gateway Goes
241. Upon the Sill and Through the Columns There
242. For So with Reason I This Place May Call
243. Here, Where with Jovial and Unclouded Brow
244. Above the Laurel and Pine-Tree's Height
245. To Good Rogero Here Was Brought a Steed
246. That Kindly Pair Who, by the Wicked Band
247. Their Grateful Thanks the Ladies, Worthily
248. The Traveller, He, Whom Sea or Mountain Sunder
249. But This Be Great or Small, I Know Not Why
250. Of Finest Metal Was Her Armour Bright
251. No Larger Wolf, I Ween, Apulia Roams
252. The Giantess's Crest and Shield Appear
253. As Quick and Daring, the Gigantic Pest
254. And Came Already with His Lifted Blade
255. Along the Path, Which Through a Forest Lay
256. To Meet the Child, Alcina, Fair of Hue
257. Not So Much Does the Palace, Fair to See
258. Her Shape Is of Such Perfect Symmetry
259. Two Black and Slender Arches Rise Above
260. As if Between Two Vales, Which Softly Curl
261. Like Milk the Bosom, and the Neck of Snow
262. To All Her Arms a Just Proportion Bear
263. A Springe Is Planted in Rogero's Way
264. The Beauteous Lady Whom He Loved So Well
265. At Board Lyre, Lute and Harp of Tuneful String
266. What Table, Spread by Whatsoever Heir
267. They Form a Ring, the Board and Festive Cheer
268. Soon, and Much Sooner Than Their Wont, Was Ended
269. And When of Comfits and of Cordial Wine
270. At Every Movement Heard on Distant Floor
271. At Length, When Dropping Sweets the Costly Fay
272. When the Successor of Astolpho Spies
273. Though but in a Light Sendal Clad, That She
274. The Plant No Closer Does the Ivy Clip
275. These Things Were Carried Closely by the Dame
276. No Pleasure Is Omitted There; Since They
277. Now by Glad Hill, or Through the Shady Dale
278. Rogero Revels There, in Like Delight
279. Of Her I Speak Before the Royal Pair
280. Of Hundreds Questioned, Upon Every Side
281. She Cannot, Will Not, Think That He Is Dead
282. At Length to Find the Wondrous Cave She Thought
283. She Who Preserved Her with Protecting Care
284. Him on That Courser Plainly She Had Eyed
285. And Thus Such Gentle Knight Ingloriously
286. But That Enchantress Kind, Who with More Care
287. She, Not Like Old Atlantes, Rendered Blind
288. By Him He to Alcina's Isle Had Been
289. Returning Now to Her That Well Foreknew
290. Nigh Dead the Maid Remains, in Piteous Guise
291. And Told to Her, the Tale Continuing
292. Giving the Ring, Her Cause She Recommends
293. Some Farfarello, or Alchino He
294. Herself She Changed with Wonderful Disguise
295. To Imitate His Speech, and Face, and Cheer
296. Alone She Finds Him, Fitting Well Her Will
297. About the Stripling's Neck, a Splendid String
298. Crisped Into Comely Ringlets Was His Hair
299. Him in the Figure of Atlantes Sage
300. Abashed and Mute, Rogero, Listening
301. So Speaking, to the Natural Shape She Wore
302. Dispatched by Her, Who Him in Anxious Pain
303. How Bradamant Had Loved, and Loves, She Says
304. Brings Hate on That Which He So Loved Before
305. Like Boy Who Somewhere His Ripe Fruit Bestows
306. Rogero Thus, When by Melissa's Lore
307. Pale, Lean, and Wrinkled Was the Face, and White
308. By Art She Gave Herself the Lovely Look
309. But, as Melissa Counselled Him, He Wore
310. Next Balisarda to His Flank He Tied
311. Provided Thus, He to the Stables Came
312. Nor, if He Took Him Not, Would He Suggest
313. Assaulting Suddenly the Guardian Crew
314. Who with Angelica's, or Rather Who
315. Rogero, Still Dissembling, as I Said
316. He on His Fist a Ravening Falcon Bore
317. Towards Him Came the Knave, with Semblance Haught
318. Then Flies His Bird, Who Works So Well His Wing
319. Nor Will the Falconer's Dog Appear More Slow
320. The Servant Made at Him, and Smote Him Sore
321. Constrained at Length, His Sword Rogero Drew
322. He Knew Each Little That He Longer Stayed
323. He Raised the Crimson Cloth in Which He Wore
324. In the Mean Time, Alcina, Who Had Heard
325. Divided Next, One Squadron by the Way
326. Without a Guard She Left Her Palace There
327. Thence, Through the Fields, Fast Hurrying From That Dome
328. They to Their Several Homes Dispatched, Repair
329. Thus by Rogero's Suit the Enchantress Won
330. The Sage Melissa Found This Spear of Gold
331. Meantime, Through Rugged Rocks, and Shagged with Thorn
332. The Sunbeams on the Neighbouring Mountain Beat
333. The Heat and Thirst and Labour Which He Bore
334. By King, by Daughter, and by All Degrees
335. The King Made Answer, That `Without Delay
336. So Sent Through All His Realm, with Expedition
337. The Wind Sat in the Poop; Rinaldo Good
338. The Emperor Charles, and He, King Otho Grave
339. The Prince I Speak of, Who on Otho's Throne
340. But Here, Sir, It Behoves Me Shift My Ground
341. His Heart with Love of That Rare Beauty Glowed
342. And for the Flying Maid Was Far Before
343. And as Sagacious Dog on Mountain Tried
344. What Was the Friar's Design I Well Surmise
345. After the Flying Maid Had Shaped Her Course
346. She Cannot, Howsoe'er the Rein She Ply
347. Landward in Vain Her Eyes the Damsel Bright
348. She, Fixed and Stupid in Her Wretchedness
349. From the Extremest Height the Hermit Hoar
350. When Him, Yet Unagnized, She Saw Appear
351. To Comfort Her, Some Reasons Full of Grace
352. A Pocket at the Ancient's Side Was Dight
353. It Here Behoves Me, From the Path I Pressed
354. Old Stories, Speak They Falsely or Aright
355. This Was Sore Torment to the Sire, Severe
356. Sea-Proteus to His Flocks' Wide Charge Preferred
357. And Girding Them on Every Side, the Rout
358. And This It Was the Cruel Usage Bred
359. Were the Old Tale of Proteus' False or True
360. With Frigate and with Galley Wont to Roam
361. Keeping That Region Close Aboard, to Explore
362. The Beauty, by Circassian Sacripant
363. Oppressed with Heavy Sleep Upon the Shore
364. But Such Her Matchless Beauty's Power, the Maid
365. Who Shall Relate the Anguish, the Lament
366. To Find a Verse of Less Lugubrious Strain
367. This While Round Paris-Walls the Leaguer Lay
368. All Night Long Counsel of His Weary Bed
369. To Memory Now Returned His Lady Gay
370. This in Orlando Moved Great Grief, and He
371. Already Every Where, with Due Repose
372. To Good Orlando It Appeared as He
373. He with the Fullest Pleasure Overflows
374. Meanwhile the Unhappy Lover Lost the Dame
375. Not Thinking That Like Images Are Vain
376. And to Pass Every Where, Yet Not Expose
377. At Midnight He Departed Silently
378. To Him This Was a Lady Passing Dear
379. She When She Has Expected Him in Vain
380. Who Having Old Almontes' Blazonry
381. What Cannot, When He Has a Heart Possess'd
382. But I Excuse Him Well, Rejoiced to Know
383. So Generous Is Orlando's Heart, He Base
384. And When the Day Its Shining Light Displayed
385. He Sojourns There Three Days, the Camp to See
386. Between October and November's Moon
387. As (Such His Wont) From Land to Land He Goes
388. The Paladin This Bank and the Other Eyed
389. Steered Not to Land; as Haply with Suspicion
390. To Hear the Whole Orlando Scarce Could Bear
391. Breaking His Every Scheme, This Phantasy
392. Breac and Landriglier Past on the Left Hand
393. A Distance Traversed in Four Days, in One
394. As Soon as Harboured There in Shattered Plight
395. And Prays Him, on a Damsel's Part, `That He
396. For Hitherto, by Land or Sea Conveyed
397. With Him Did Roland to the City Go
398. Here Her Discourse, Wherewith Were Interposed
399. Through the Still Deeps, on This or the Other Side
400. Armed at All Points, the County Passed Ashore
401. Orlando Fares to Dordrecht, Where He Views
402. One, Good Orlando to the Monarch's Ear
403. He Hopes as Well, if He the Warrior Slay
404. He All This While Had Made His Guard Delay
405. As Wary Fowler, Bent on Greater Prey
406. Where He Perceives the Assailants Thickest Stand
407. No Otherwise, Upon the Further Shore
408. The Lance Now Broke, His Sword the Warrior Drew
409. And with Loud Voice and Menacing Command
410. The Monarch Turns His Back, and Leaves the Knight
411. From Street to Street, Before the Count He Made
412. Who Rends the Branch and Overthrows the Stone
413. Behind, the Weapon Flames in Lightning's Guise
414. Whether It Was His Great Desire to Kill
415. Let Him Imagine, When From Earth He Sprung
416. And, What Before He Could Not, When Possest
417. In Rout the People Fly, Who Cannot Guess
418. They Would Not Wait to Seek the Dungeon-Key
419. She Who Had Thither Good Orlando Brought
420. The People, Throned in Her Paternal Reign
421. Not with Intent, in His Defence to Bear
422. And Thus, When of the Tidesway He Was Clear
423. Such Was the Paladin's Desire to Explore
424. Nor He in England Nor in Ireland Port
425. Sumptuous and Fair the Bridal There Is Made
426. Of All the Loves, of All Fidelity
427. And This She by So Many Proofs and Clear
428. Not Only Should He Nevermore Deceive
429. If Her Bireno Loved, as She Had Loved
430. And When You Shall Have Heard the Impiety
431. The Promises and Empty Vows Dispersed
432. Of Those in the First Flower of Youth Beware
433. Such Is the Practise of These Striplings Who
434. I Not for This (for That Were Wrong) Opine
435. A Daughter They Have Found (Above Was Said
436. The Gentle Damsel Had Not Past Fourteen
437. Than That Which on Bireno's Bosom Fed
438. Nor Feels Bireno Mere Satiety
439. And if the Other He Too Much Caress
440. Already Holland and Its Headlands All
441. As Soon as They Were Harboured in a Hight
442. The Fear and Late Sea Sorrow, Which Had Weighed
443. The Lover False, Who, Hatching Treason Lies
444. Behind the Land Was Left; and There to Pine
445. And Seaward Ran, Her Visage Tearing Sore
446. On the Far Shore There Rose a Rock; Below
447. Where Unavailing Was the Feeble Note
448. But the Loud Wind Which, Sweeping Ocean, Bears
449. Stretched on the Bed, Upon Her Face She Lay
450. She to the Shore's Extremest Verge Anew
451. But Let Her Grieve Till My Return. to Show
452. While to the Warrior Thirst and Labour Sore
453. Reclined on Alexandrian Carpets Rare
454. To Hold the Stirrup One Approaching Near
455. Now So Saltpetre Fine and Sulphur Pure
456. As Loud as She Could Raise Her Voice, She Said
457. Beside All These and More Injurious Cries
458. On Him with Threat and Curse She Ever Cried
459. The Ferryman Put Forth the Child to Meet
460. He Praised Rogero Much, That He Had Fled
461. When He Beholds Forth-Issuing From the Strand
462. Such Choler She Had Never Felt Before
463. Thus Logistilla's Pilot; and Beside
464. One Who Stood Sentry on the Citadel
465. Four Ladies Are Arrived Upon the Strand
466. Beneath the Castle, Safe From Wind and Swell
467. Alcina Flies; and Her Sad Troop Around
468. No Fairy Dies, or Can, While Overhead
469. Return We, Where Eternal Fame Is Due
470. Than This a Stronger or More Bright in Show
471. What Gives to Them Superiority
472. Their Rays, Which Imitate the Sunshine, Fill
473. On Arches Raised, Whereon the Firmament
474. Never in Any Place Such Goodly Tree
475. But Here the Verdure Still Is Permanent
476. That Such a Gentle Lord Had Sought Her Rest
477. When They a Day or More Their Weariness
478. She Shows Him What to Do, if He on High
479. When at All Points Rogero Was Prepared
480. Rogero Thence Departs; but as Before
481. Borne Hither, Good Rogero, Leaving Spain
482. Here the Catay, and There He Mangiane
483. Although the Child by Every Wish Was Pressed
484. Yet Think Not, Sir, That in So Long a Flight
485. Where He in Meadows to the City Nigh
486. Rogero Came Exactly as the Show
487. And Added, Having Ended This Display
488. What Time Rogero Sees the Fair Array
489. So That to Raise More Wonder in the Train
490. And Saw Fabulous Hibernia, Where
491. Bound to the Naked Rock Upon the Strand
492. There but That Morning Bound in Cruel Wise
493. The Cruel and Inhospitable Crew
494. Her Would Rogero Have Some Statue Deemed
495. And as He Fastened His on Her Fair Eyes
496. And Gladly with Her Hands Her Face Would Hood
497. Rogero Overhand, Not in the Rest
498. When He Perceives the First of No Avail
499. As Eagle, That Amid Her Downward Flight
500. So the Fell Orc Rogero Does Not Smite
501. With Suchlike Warfare Is the Mastiff Vext
502. With His Huge Tail the Troubled Waves So Sore
503. He Then New Counsel Took, and 'Twas the Best
504. I Say the Ring, Which Bradamant, to Free
505. He Gave It Now Angelica; for He
506. He in the Monster's Eyes the Radiance Throws
507. This While the Lady Begs Him Not to Bray
508. Upon the Beach the Courser Plants His Feet
509. He Kept No More the Way, as He Before
510. Now Here, Now There, Confused by Different Throng
511. Although a Feeble Rein, in Mid Career
512. What Reason Then Rogero Shall Withhold
513. Warmed by Whose Youthful Beauties, the Severe
514. This Is the Ring She Carried Into France
515. With This Passed Viewless From the Turret-Cell
516. Now That She This Upon Her Hand Surveys
517. Yet Still Rogero Gazed Like Wight Distraught
518. So Saying, Like One Blind, with Bootless Care
519. And About Evening, When Refreshed with Rest
520. Then Phillis' and Neaera's Praise Forbear
521. This While Rogero, After He Had Passed
522. To His First Ill Addition Grave and Sore
523. Afflicted Beyond Measure, He, with Shield
524. He Heard a Din, and Fearful Clashing Sound
525. Covered with Shield and Sword, One, Leaping, Sped
526. Yet Not for This Would Lend the Champion Aid
527. Of His Sweet Lady, of His Passing Fair
528. And on His Shoulder Flings and Bears Away
529. This Flying and That Following, the Two
530. More Than a Hundred Fathom Buried So
531. To Italy and France, on Every Hand
532. This Saker, Culverine, or Falcon Hight
533. How, Foul and Pestilent Discovery
534. And I Shall Think, in Order to Pursue
535. It Was the Will of Heaven That He, Before
536. Home to His Breast the Count Pulls Either Oar
537. Approaching to the Naked Rock as Near
538. Because She Distant Is, and Evermore
539. As Cloud From Humid Vale Is Seen to Rise
540. He, as One Well Resolved in His Intent
541. As Soon as Him the Monster Has Descried
542. The Prop So Placed, Orlando Now Secure
543. Now Floats the Monstrous Beast, O'Ercome with Pain
544. So Swimming Till the Island Is Attained
545. As a Wild Bull, About Whose Horn Is Wound
546. This the Red Sea with Reason Would Be Hight
547. Forth From His Grotto Aged Proteus Hies
548. With Melicerta on Her Shoulders, Weeping
549. Of the Islanders Had Trooped No Petty Throng
550. And That It Better Were to Sue for Peace
551. These, Armed with Sling or Bow, Upon the Shore
552. But as the Usage Is of Surly Bear
553. And Speedily He Made Them Yield Him Place
554. What by Orlando Others Cannot Do
555. While So the Paladin Had Kept in Play
556. Little or No Defender the Island-Crew
557. As if the Mighty Tumult Which He Hears
558. Wretched Olympia; Whom, Beside the Scorn
559. Orlando Asks What Evil Destiny
560. Next She Related, with Loud Sobs and Sighs
561. For, as She Can, Her Waist She Hides, and Breast
562. And, Swimming, How, Amid the Watery Roar
563. Oberto, Though the Paladin to Sight
564. Knew Him, Because a Page of Honour He
565. Orlando Is No Less Rejoined to See
566. To Him He Told the Many Proofs and Clear
567. Her Face Was Such as Sometimes in the Spring
568. The Stripling Heats His Golden Arrow's Head
569. Olympia's Beauties Are of Those Most Rare
570. In Whiteness They Surpassed Unsullied Snow
571. The Swelling Hips and Haunches' Symmetry
572. And Had She in the Idaean Glen Unveiled
573. Or in Crotona Dwelt, Where the Divine
574. I Do Not Think Bireno Ever Viewed
575. And Her to Holland Promises to Bear
576. Now Will It Need to Send in Search of Vest
577. But Never Silk So Choice or Gold So Fine
578. To See That Love So Kindled by the Dame
579. To Him, That There She Was Not, Soon Was Clear
580. So Levied in Few Days His Warlike Band
581. Oberto Takes to Wife Olympia Fair
582. The Remnant of the Winter, He with Shield
583. That Winter's Remnant He So Passed That Feat
584. Ceres, When From the Idaean Dame in Haste
585. And Lit at Vulcan's Fire the Double Brand
586. Had Roland of Eleusis' Deity
587. Through France He Sought Her, and Will Seek Her Through
588. Who in His Arms a Captive Damsel Bears
589. I Say Not Is, but That She to the Sight
590. That Felon Stops Not, Nor to Him Replies
591. Of Various Marbles, Wrought with Subtle Care
592. He Suddenly Dismounts, and Thundering Fares
593. Here Beds Are Seen Adorned with Silk and Gold
594. This While, as Here and There in Fruitless Pain
595. All in Pursuit of the Offender Speed
596. Roland, When He Round That Strange Dome Had Paced
597. While Roland Wanders Round the Sylvan Hall
598. He Thinks He Hears Angelica, and She
599. These Words Repeated Once, and Yet Again
600. Returning to Rogero, Left, I Said
601. As Soon as He His Foot Has Lifted O'Er
602. After Four Times or Five He So Had Wound
603. One Voice, One Shape, Which to Anglantes' Peer
604. This Was a New and Unwonted Spell
605. Not Only He, but Others Who Stood High
606. But to Angelica Return We, Who
607. King Sacripant, or Roland, Willingly
608. Now This, Now That She Sought with Fruitless Care
609. She Enters, Hidden From the Enchanter's Eyes
610. She Knows Not Which with Her Will Best Accord
611. But Sacripant at Pleasure Could Depose
612. Ferrau and Roland Came Upon the Maid
613. Helm on the Head and Corselet on the Breast
614. Till He Had That Erst Wrested by the Peer
615. Upon the Enchanted Dome Lay Such a Spell
616. Nor Might Nor Mean in Old Atlantes Lies
617. And When These From the Magic Palace She
618. Although She First the Scheme Had Entertained
619. In Haste, They Through the Forest, Here and There
620. In the Mid Wood, Where They the Maid Did Lose
621. Then Turning to Ferrau,, "but That Thine Head
622. The Good Orlando Could No More Forbear
623. By You, Fair Sir, Already, I Presume
624. Alike a Charmed Life Orlando Bore
625. Waxing More Fierce and Fell the Combat Rages
626. For, During This, the King of Circassy
627. After the Damsel Had Sometime Descried
628. To Give It to Orlando Was She Bent
629. But Ferrau, Who First Chanced the Loss to See
630. And in Opinion with Ferrau Agreed
631. Towards a Vale Upon the Left the Count
632. Angelica, the Sylvan Spring Beside
633. The Spanish Cavalier the Stream Beside
634. She Disappeared, I Say, as Forms Avaunt
635. This He Soon Recognised, for Here He Read
636. When in This Goodly Casque He Was Arrayed
637. Tempering the Grief Which Glowed Within His Breast
638. Angelica Thus, Viewless and Alone
639. By What Appeared to Her the Meetest Way
640. But of Angelica I Now No More
641. At the First City, Whither He Was Brought
642. It Was the Hour That Our of Ocean's Bed
643. Two Squadrons He Encountered; One an Old
644. These, with the Other Saracen Array
645. The Quivering Brook, as Warmer Breezes Blew
646. Hence Did the King of Tremisen' Repair
647. Alzirdo, as the Approaching Count He Eyes
648. Arrogant, Young, and of Redoubted Force
649. Rises a Sudden and a Horrid Cry
650. With Sound Like That, with Which From Hill Repair
651. He Held Unsheathed That Thundering Sword in Hand
652. Nor Safety Cotton Vest, Nor Cloths Supply
653. His Mirror Valour Bore About, and Here
654. Astounded From His Saddle Reels the King
655. He Ceased Not His Ensanguined Blade to Sway
656. Through Wood and Field His Courser Did He Goad
657. By Day It Had Been Hidden Evermore
658. By a Long Flight of Steps Was the Descent
659. In the Mid Cave, Beside a Fire Was Seen
660. An Aged Dame Was with Her, and the Pair
661. With Pain the Virgin to the Count Replies
662. Those Ancient Cavaliers Right Happy Were
663. Above I Told You How a Gentle Maid
664. The Gentle Damsel So Her Tale Pursues
665. With Squinting Look and Dark, and but One Eye
666. With Bitter Smile, Upstarting on His Feet
667. The Brand Discharged by Him, Hit Either Brow
668. A Spacious Table in Mid Cavern Stood
669. I Could Not Say What Mischiefs These Offend
670. Those Whom the Board Had Little Maimed or Nought
671. He After Drags Them Bound Without the Cave
672. The Ancient Woman, the Assassin's Friend
673. And Turn to Her, Who to the Count Applied
674. Without Encountering Aught That Might Appear
675. The Beauteous Lady Who Desires in Vain
676. The Time Long Past, She, Lying in That Place
677. When Her She Saw, Without Her Love Returned
678. And Next Pursued, Relating to Her All
679. Seeing the Sage, All Think They See a Squire
680. The Valorous Maid with the Intent to Slay
681. And as the Fairest Topic of All Those
682. When of the Larger Portion of Her Seed
683. And Yet Again Advised the Martial Maid
684. When She Beheld Him in Such Perilous Strait
685. She Cried, "and Is Not This Rogero, Who
686. Of Which No Sooner Has She Past the Door
687. But Leave We Bradamant, Nor Grieve, O Ye
688. Meseems That I Have Many Threads to Clear
689. For Besides Horse and Foot, in the Campaign
690. In Many a Fierce Assault and Conflict Dread
691. So Bloody Was the Price of Victory
692. When the Calesians and the Picards Yielding
693. You, with Such Glorious Hearts, Who Were Not Slow
694. Rome's Mighty Column, by Your Valiant Hand
695. This Dear-Bought Victory Brought More Relief
696. Our Present Safety, and Life Held in Fear
697. Hadst Thou Not Made Resistance to Thy Foe
698. As the Illustrious King of France Has Need
699. Marsilius First, and After Agramant
700. With Balugantes Leon's Race Comes on
701. Stordilane, Tessira, and Baricond
702. They of Toledo and of Calatrave
703. The Household-Troops Which Guard Marsilius' State
704. Follicon, Kind Marsilius' Bastard, Hies
705. When So Had Filed the Warlike Host of Spain
706. Marmonda's Men Next Past the Royal Moor
707. He Give Arganio Charge of Libicane
708. And but That Ferrau's Brother Isolier
709. Thus, Not Without a Cause, Brunello Pined
710. Hesperia's People Come with Soridan
711. Next Mulga and Arzilla's Legions Two
712. Ruled by Clarindo, Bolga's People Go
713. Gualciotto Dead, Bellamarina's Crew
714. There Was No Saracen of Bolder Strain
715. Noritia's Men and Tremisene's Alone
716. Where the Bold Africans Their Standards Plant
717. Renowned He Was for Many a Glorious Quest
718. When the Squire Told His News Amid That Show
719. He of the Squire Demanded What the Vest
720. Marsilius Had to Mandricardo Sped
721. The King Encounters Many of the Crew
722. Nor He Long Was Had Rode, Ere He Descried
723. As Wolf or Mastiff-Dog, Who Comes the Last
724. Where This Deep Stream Was Fordable, He Scanned
725. He Who for Scorn Had Daffed the World Aside
726. Now Sword Nor Club the Warlike Tartar Bore
727. Great Is the Tartar Monarch's Daring, Those
728. When This He Saw Was Broke, the Truncheon Sound
729. In Running to Their Death the Wretches Vie
730. But After They at Their Expense Had Read
731. As in the Well-Dried Fen or Stubble-Land
732. When Afterwards He Marks the Entrance Free
733. And in the Middle of the Mead Surveyed
734. Her Fear Increased When She Approaching Spied
735. When That Fair Face by Him of Tartary
736. Yet Not So Far His Courtesy He Strained
737. He Dames, Maids, Ancient Men, and Others, Who
738. Saying, "How Woe-Begone Will Be Her Sire
739. The Tartar, Joying in the Prize Possest
740. Doralice He Consoled This While, Whose Eyes
741. These Words, and Many Others on His Part
742. Next Much More Affable, with Courteous Lore
743. Riding in Her Glad Company A-Field
744. Pastoral Lodgings Were the Dwellings Near
745. What Afterwards Was Done at Close of Day
746. Thence From One Place to the Other Wandering, They
747. Now Lofty Fancy, Which One Course to Run
748. Tidings Had Reached the Moorish Sovereign's Ear
749. Innumerable Ladders for the Scale
750. The Emperor, on the Vigil of the Day
751. At the High Church, He, Girt with Paladine
752. So Spake the Holy Emperor Aloud
753. Infinite Other Prayers as Well Preferred
754. And the Ineffable Goodness, Who in Vain
755. Upon the Thought the Posting Angel Brooded
756. Weening That He Shall Find Him Here, He Plies
757. Nor Here He Love, Nor Here He Peace Surveys
758. Even Her, to Whom the Eternal Sire as Well
759. Examinations, Summons, and a Store
760. Her Michael Calls to Him, and Give Command
761. Though Fraud Was Alway Wont to Deal in Lies
762. In Blest Arabia Lies a Pleasant Vale
763. Beneath the Shadow of This Forest Deep
764. Mindless Oblivion at the Gate Is Found
765. The Angel Him Approaches Quietly
766. Silence to Him No Otherwise Replied
767. Silence the Advancing Troop Kept Skirting Round
768. While with Such Haste His Band Rinaldo Led
769. He Who the Moorish Monarch's Force Would Tell
770. The Larum-Bells, Loud-Sounding Through the Air
771. Lamenting May Be Heard the Aged Just
772. Here Might You Paladin and Baron Ken
773. And Them He Ordered in Convenient Post
774. Paris Is Seated on a Spacious Plain
775. The Town, Whose Walls for Miles in Circuit Run
776. Where'er the Walls of Paris Wound About
777. With Eyes of Argus, Pepin's Valiant Son
778. With Old Sobrino, on the Left of Seine
779. As Swarming to Assail the Pastoral Bowl
780. Upon Their Walls the Christians in Array
781. Nor in This Was Is Iron Plied Alone
782. Meanwhile, Up to the Walls the Second Crew
783. With Crimson Rodomont His Banner Stains
784. Whom Mandricardo Took, as I Before
785. At Once the Foes a Thousand Ladders Rear
786. He in a Cuirass, Hard and Strong, Was Drest
787. Nor Rodomont to Nimrod Yields in Might
788. Dripping and Foul with Water and with Weeds
789. Rodomont Has No Sooner Gained the Shore
790. He Drops the Shield; and with Two-Handed Sway
791. At One Back-Stroke Sir Spineloccio True
792. Down From the Wall Andropono and Moschine
793. Lewis the Provencal Is Cleft in Two
794. The Crowd, by Rodomont of Sarza Led
795. Besides, That Ours, with Those Upon the Height
796. While So the Foes Descend, or Rather Fling
797. The Moat of Thirty Feet, Not Less, He Cleared
798. This While, Not Idle, Those of Ours Had Laid
799. Charged with Salt-Petre, Oil, or Sulphur Pale
800. A Horrid Concert, a Rude Harmony
801. Though Conquest Fruit of Skill or Fortune Be
802. You, Sir, Earned Worthy Praise, When You O'Erbore
803. This Was the Paynim Little Skilled to Do
804. Of Twenty Thousand Warriors Thither Sent
805. For He to the Inner Bank, by Foes Possest
806. This While a Band King Agramant Had Brought
807. And Corineus of Mulga, Prusion
808. But All Things Counter to the Hopes Ensue
809. And of Inferior Count Withal, a Horde
810. And Thus by Her a Barque Is Fitted Out
811. By Scyth and Indian She Prefers the Peer
812. Next, When She All in Readiness Espied
813. How Man Should Guard Himself From Magic Cheats
814. I Say, the Horn Is of Such Horrid Sound
815. Quitting the Port and Smoother Waves, They Stand
816. Astolpho, Furrowing That Ocean Hoar
817. Scouring at Large Broad Ocean, with a Guide
818. Thus of the Victories, by Land and Main
819. This While They Saw, as for Their Port They Made
820. Through Araby the Blest He Fares, Where Grow
821. Astolpho Along Trajan's Channel Goes
822. Erst Argalia's Courser, Which Was Born
823. A Hermit in the Poop the Bark Did Guide
824. Between the Mighty River and the Fen
825. As in Hill-Farm or Castle, Fenced with Moat
826. Caligorant Was Standing at the Gate
827. Towards the Marish, Where Green Rushes Grow
828. When Him the Wary Paladin Espied
829. Astolpho Blew, Still Watchful of Surprise
830. Astolpho, Who Beholds His Bulky Prey
831. With Subtle Thread of Steel Had Vulcan Wrought
832. Mercury From the Smith Conveyed the Prize
833. The Nymph (It Seems) Was Taken as She Flew
834. He Fixed It Here, Beneath the Sandy Plain
835. After, His Other Knots Unfastening
836. Him Helm and Shield He Gives Alike to Bear
837. Ran All the People in Tumultuous Tide
838. Then Cairo Was Not Such, as Common Cry
839. And Therein (Christian Renegadoes All
840. For at Nile's Outlet There, Beside His Bed
841. To See if He Could Break the Thread Which Tied
842. He Here Orrilo and Two Knights in Mail
843. The Necromancer Had This While (to Say
844. The Monster, Slaughtered by the Brethren Two
845. Gryphon and Aquilant by Turns Divide
846. If the Thief's Head Be Severed by the Pair
847. Two Ladies, Meetly Clad in Fair Array
848. Since, From Gismonda They Had These Conveyed
849. Though It Was Noon in the Happy Islands, Day
850. The Duke, Who by Their Ensigns, and Yet More
851. The Ladies to Repose the Warriors Led
852. Here They Bid Bind the Giant on the Green
853. Astolpho in His Book Had Found Exprest
854. The Duke No Less with Hope of Conquest Glows
855. But Willingly to Him These Yield the Emprize
856. Together with the Mace He Lops the Fist
857. That Fool, Who Had Not Marked the Warrior's Feat
858. Yet Pleased Astolpho Had Not in Like Guise
859. Amid Innumerable Locks, No Hair
860. Nor Do I Think That Either Gentle Fay
861. When to the Castellan Was Certified
862. As He Had Brought the Adventure to an End
863. Gryphon and Aquilant Thus Bid Adieu
864. The Warriors to the Left-Hand Might Incline
865. So That, Before They Enter on Their Road
866. They, at the Entrance of the City, View
867. Designing There a Fortilage, in Front
868. As Deputy, the Sainted Land He Swayed
869. In Quittance, Sansonet, His Sword to Bear
870. Cleansed of Their Errors in a Monastery
871. While Grace the Warlike Three Devoutly Sought
872. For His Misfortune, One of Lovely Feature
873. In Constantine's Imperial City, Burned
874. Sir Gryphon, From the Time He Heard the News
875. It Therefore Is His Purpose, Without Say
876. I Say, I Said, and, While I Live, Will Say
877. Let Him Lament, Who Plays a Slavish Part
878. The Youthful Gryphon Finds Him in This Case
879. Resuming the Fair History, I Say
880. He Nigh Damascus Met the Lover, Who
881. As I Relate to You, the Cavalier
882. Damascus' King a Splendid Festival
883. But Like Most Cunning and Audacious Quean
884. She, After Suiting with Much Suavity
885. The Wicked Woman, Full of Subtlety
886. Nor He the Fraud of Her, More False Than Fair
887. And to Damascus, with the Cavalier
888. Yet I Of Origilla's Treachery
889. I Left You Where King Agramant Prepared
890. One and the Other Host Its Worth, Before
891. The Frequent Darts a Storm of Hail Appear
892. I Know Not, Sir, if You the Adventure Dread
893. When He Was Known the Thickening Crowd Among
894. But This the Cruel Sword Concedes to Few
895. What by Weak Herd, in Fields of Hircany
896. Of All He Cuts, and Thrusts, and Maims, and Bleeds
897. Religion Cannot for the Priest Bespeak
898. Nor the Impious King Alone with Human Blood
899. Though Flames Demolish All Things Far and Wide
900. While the Accursed Man, Amid the Rout
901. It Was God's Will, That While Through Town and Tower
902. Rinaldo Had, with Edward, Sent a Force
903. Rinaldo Sent with These the Baggage Train
904. But Having First the Peers and Captains Wheeled
905. Such Reasons, and Yet Better for, That Need
906. He, Without Clamour, Without Any Noise
907. The Paladin Rode on, Along the Shore
908. With Such a Faithful Escort Fortified
909. Rinaldo Spurs Before the Troops Combined
910. As the Aspect of the Paladin of France
911. He Stoops Upon the Weapon Which He Strains
912. Well-Matched in Skill, They Aimed Their Cruel Blows
913. With the Good Spear New Levelled in His Fist
914. Nor Did the Buckler So the Weapon Stay
915. Rinaldo, Having Broke His Rested Spear
916. Yet Few the Tempered Plates or Iron Pins
917. The Foremost Squadron Had Been Put to Flight
918. Both Spurred Their Coursers on, with Rested Lance
919. It Seemed as if Each Coward Paynim Grew
920. Less Worthless Men of Africa Were They
921. Thraso, This While, the Valiant Duke of Mar
922. The Deep Sonorous Trumpet's Bellowing
923. The Arrows' Double Shower the Ample Sky
924. When, Harassed with Fatigue, a Wearied Crew
925. Zerbino Was More Wonders Seen to Do
926. Chelindo and Mosco (Bastards Were the Twain
927. Pierced by Three Lances Lay the Courser Strong
928. When Him So Killed, as 'Twere by Stealthy Blow
929. When That Fell Blow Calamidor Espied
930. He Quits the Horse, and Thence for Safety Crawls
931. Then Artalico and Margano Knew
932. Sir, Think Not That More Inland on the Plain
933. Forward Sir Oldrad Pricks and Fieramont
934. Well Matched Awhile the Christian and the Moor
935. The Duke of Glocester Matalista Bold
936. Hence 'Tis Among the Moors Amazement All
937. But Ferrau, Who Till This Time Ever Nigh
938. A Stripling He, Who Such Sweet Musick Vented
939. When Bold French Beheld His Cruel Plight
940. Nor Stops He Here, Nor Leaves a Corslet Whole
941. Into the Medley Pricks King Agramant
942. Agramant From the Wall a Numerous Band
943. The King of Fez Upon This Service Prest
944. Elsewhere the Paladin Was Making Fly
945. He Plants His Courser, Where Their Squadrons Yield
946. He From a Squire Receives a Lance, and Spies
947. That Weapon Broken, He Fusberta Rears
948. The Good Rinaldo, Who to Overthrow
949. What Time, Without, in Such Destructive Frays
950. To Him a Squire Approached, Who Pale with Dread
951. With Many Peers and Chiefs, Who Worthiest Are
952. God, Outraged by Our Rank Iniquity
953. Domitian and the Latter Antonine
954. What Shall I Of Fierce Attila, What Say
955. Who, as if Having More Than Served to Fill
956. Now God Permits That We Should Feel the Spite
957. The Christian People Then God's Placid Front
958. Charles, by the Way, His People's Butchery
959. Thither Large Portion of the Populace
960. And Smote and Thundered, 'Mid a Fearful Shower
961. Rodomont Stands Before the Portal, Bright
962. Nor Bulwark, Stone, Nor Arbalest, Nor Bow
963. Through Those Fair Chambers Echoed Shouts of Dread
964. Charles Turned Him Round to These, of Vigorous Hand
965. This Said, He Spurred His Courser, Couched His Spear
966. But Let Us, Sir, for Love of Heaven, Forego
967. Of All the Cities Under Eastern Skies
968. Two Crystal Streams the Wealthy City Scower
969. Then the High-Street Gay Signs of Triumph Wore
970. Within the City Gates in Frolic Sport
971. Forward Sir Gryphon Pricked, with His Array
972. And Told How He, Who, Norandino Hight
973. Gryphon, Though He Came Not That Joust to See
974. Large Portion of the Night, in Like Discourse
975. The Circling Drums' and Trumpets' Echoing Strain
976. The Man of Antioch in His Company
977. They in the Square Arrived and Stood Aside
978. It Was the Syrians' Practise in That Age
979. God's Worshippers, Where They Should Couch the Lance
980. If Verily Most Christian You Would Be
981. If Fear of Famishing Within Thy Cave
982. Thou Mighty Lion, That Art Charged to Keep
983. The Lovely Ladies From Their Scaffolds Throw
984. A Suit of Arms Was Prize of the Assay
985. Of This You More in Other Place Shall Hear
986. At Open Barriers, One by One, the Place
987. That Witless Antiochite, Who, Worthily
988. Who Will Pursue the Brindled Beast for Ten
989. Yet He Who Would Excuse the Sudden Wheel
990. Clapping of Hands, and Cries, at Every Turn
991. With Burning Heart, and Visage Red with Shame
992. Already He the Lance Upon His Thigh
993. Gryphon Returned, and Did the Weapon Wield
994. Gryphon, Who in His Saddle Sees the Peer
995. Here Two Good Brothers of Apamia Were
996. Bold Salinterno, Mid the Warlike Train
997. But He Makes Answer with a Massy Spear
998. Two of Damascus Next Sir Gryphon Sped
999. Yet in the Field Remained Seleucia's Knight
1000. They Cast the Truncheons Down, Their Coursers Wheel
1001. He of Seleucia at Sir Gryphon's Casque
1002. Each One Might See How Much Seleucia's Lord
1003. The Eight, Who Had to Keep the Field Pretended
1004. And, for Such Little Time Endured the Play
1005. Sir Gryphon, During This, Had Made Return
1006. Whether the Youth Believed the Tale or No
1007. Sir Gryphon, Was He or His Horse Foredone
1008. No Sooner He His Head Had Rested There
1009. Martano Schemed to Take Away the Steed
1010. He, Who Was Clad in Trappings Not His Own
1011. And Bids Them the Sonorous Metal Blow
1012. Him Lodgings Fair He Gave, Wherein to Dwell
1013. When He How Late It Was, Awaking, Knew
1014. The Host, Arriving, Him at Full Possest
1015. Now He Lamenting for His Folly Stood
1016. He Better Would Have Gone Like Naked Man
1017. On the Left Hand a Castle Richly Dight
1018. With the High Tower the Beauteous Gallery, Clear
1019. And, Taken for the Man Whose Crest He Wears
1020. Who, After Feat So Base and Foul, Anew
1021. That Vessel of All Filthy Vices, He
1022. A Voucher He in Origilla Had
1023. With Many Armed Men That Baron Fares
1024. His Ready Wit a Fit Excuse Supplies
1025. Gryphon Is Brought with Shame Into the Square
1026. Thronging About the Ignoble Car, Appear
1027. That Which of His Disgrace Had Been the Ground
1028. The Warrior's Gyves No Sooner They Undo
1029. Often, to Shield the Absent One From Blame
1030. Had Norandine Been with Your Care Endued
1031. Whither Fear Drives, in Rout, the Others All
1032. Of Those Who to the Portal Foremost Fleed
1033. Two Nimble Gryphon Seizes, Mid the Train
1034. Many There Were Who Feared in Their Alarms
1035. But I Will to Another Time Delay
1036. Eight Lances' Shock, That Eight Such Warriors Guide
1037. Rainier and Guido, Richard, Salomon
1038. Not So, Well-Keyed Into the Solid Stone
1039. He at His Head Took Aim Who Stood Most Nigh
1040. All the Defences, Round, Abandoned Are
1041. As When Within the Closely-Fastened Cage
1042. But if the Mother Spring at Him, and Hang
1043. Of Cavaliers and Footmen Such the Squeeze
1044. Unknowing How Himself From Thence to Free
1045. The Monarch Rolls About His Horrid Eyes
1046. He Who Has Seen the Fence, in Well-Thonged Square
1047. At One Cross-Blow Fifteen or Twenty Foes
1048. He From the Square Retires in Such a Mode
1049. As the High-Couraged Beast, Whom Hunters Start
1050. He Turned Upon the Rabble-Rout Who Bayed
1051. Athwart the Current Swam, with Arms and All
1052. And Him So Sorely Anger Stung and Pride
1053. I Have of Haughty Discord Now to Say
1054. And She Believed, That She with Greater Power
1055. The Implacable Discord Went, and with the Dame
1056. When She Fell Into Mandricardo's Hand
1057. Jealousy Had That Little Dwarf Espied
1058. Of Means to Embroil the Sarzan and the Son
1059. As Soon as the Redoubted Rodomont
1060. Her Flint and Steel, Fell Discord, as He Said
1061. As Tiger Rages, Who in Vain Descends
1062. So Raging, to the Pigmy Dwarf Who Bore
1063. Discord at This, Who Read His Secret Thought
1064. He These at Saint Marcellus' Gate, Where Lay
1065. Agramant Has Remounted in His Sell
1066. While So the Battle Stands, King Charlemagne
1067. The Saracenic Squadrons Had Begun
1068. He in This Time a Mighty Lance Had Spanned
1069. In Other Part, Rinaldo, in His Mood
1070. The First Was of the Alzerban Army Head
1071. Zumara's King Is Not Forgotten Here
1072. Yet Will His Squadron Not So Firmly Stand
1073. But Faster Than the Rest Alzerba Flies
1074. Almontes' Memory, Through the Moorish Bands
1075. Down Fell This Aramon, and to Afford
1076. Lurcanio Next Met Dardinello's Eye
1077. Dardinel, to Avenge Him, Took a Spear
1078. From Me It Sure Were Needless to Demand
1079. He Charges, Chases, Breaks, and Overthrows
1080. Fortune Still Blocked Their Path Throughout the Day
1081. But Here Enough for This One While Is Shown
1082. King Norandine, Girt with Peer and Knight
1083. And Nigh a Temple Strongly Walled, and Round
1084. But When, Approaching Near, He Saw the Band
1085. Fore-Stroke and Back He Deals, and on the Ground
1086. But Valour, Who So Oft Befriends Her Own
1087. Next Seeing Him More Near, Whose Falchion's Sweep
1088. And, Lifting His Bare Hand, in Sign Affied
1089. When He Beheld the Monarch's Altered Cheer
1090. Here, Wounded, He Remained Some Days Before
1091. One and the Other Are Alike to Seek
1092. Aquilant Asked Him, if He Had Possest
1093. Aquilant Brooked Not Gryphon Such a Feat
1094. From the South-East Up-Sprung So Strong a Breeze
1095. From Thence, Towards the East the Pilot Veered
1096. To Inform Himself of That Martano Bent
1097. He Towards Lidia and Larissa Goes
1098. And Through That Evil Woman's Treachery
1099. When Origille Hears Him, in Affright
1100. Aquilant Thundered Still, and, to His Dread
1101. His Cunning Might Have Proved of Good Avail
1102. Aquilant Had in Antioch Chanced to Know
1103. And, Though She for Excuse Tried Many Wiles
1104. Others Exclaimed, "How Fittingly Combined
1105. Attended with Few Squires the Syrian King
1106. Thither They Go, Where Gryphon From His Bed
1107. Bound Is the Wretch, but Not 'Mid Grass and Flower
1108. The Valiant Norandino Could Not Choose
1109. And He Determined, in the Public Sight
1110. For Which He Made What Stately Preparation
1111. For a Renowned and Valiant Cavalier
1112. Thither the Twain Their Way Those Countries Through
1113. Marphisa Was the Warlike Virgin's Name
1114. When Sansonnetto and the English Knight
1115. His Pleasing Ways She Did in Mind Retrace
1116. They Questioned One Another of Their Way
1117. To Have Such a Comrade Either Cavalier
1118. And When the Clear and Lucid Sun Again
1119. Straight to the City Ride the Martial Band
1120. Norandine, Sure That, in the Martial Game
1121. The Arms Which in the Former Joust the Due
1122. But From Effecting What He Had Intended
1123. Though, as a Hindrance, She Upon the Road
1124. You Shall Take with You, When by Manifest
1125. And Throwing Some on Earth, It Chanced That More
1126. No Wishful Child More Joyfully, 'Mid All
1127. She Spurred Her Courser, and with Lance in Rest
1128. Bold Sansonnetto and Astolpho Near
1129. The Errant Cavaliers Who to That Stage
1130. Of These, Some Will the Crowded Rabble's Band
1131. The Pair of Warlike Brethren Witnessing
1132. On Rabican, Pricked Forth Before His Hand
1133. From Lofty Saddle Sansonnet O'Erthrew
1134. Sansonnet and Astolpho Are Not Slow
1135. Seizing Their Steeds and Mounting, Either Son
1136. He, at the First Approach, Astolpho Knew
1137. And Why They Had Those Arms, Without the Fear
1138. While He and Gryphon Stood in Colloquy
1139. Some One Who Hears Marphisa Hold Is There
1140. As Norandine Is Told That Name of Dread
1141. The Sons of Oliver, on the Other Hand
1142. Gryphon, Who Little Had Those Arms at Heart
1143. And Make Experiment, if They Indeed
1144. And There a Carack Find, About to Steer
1145. The Island of the Amorous Deity
1146. A Fruitful Rill, by Limpid Fountain Fed
1147. The Clouds Their Gloomy Veil Above Them Strain
1148. The Sailors, in This War of Wind and Flood
1149. The Cruel Wind Increased Throughout the Night
1150. It Lulls Not, Nor Its Fury Slakes, but Grown
1151. While Fortune on the Sea Annoys This Crew
1152. The Shield, of Which Almontes' Son Was Vain
1153. Chapter 1153
1154. Chapter 1154
1155. Upon All Parts, a Freezing Fear Goes Through
1156. Chapter 1156
1157. As Languishes the Flower of Purple Hue
1158. As Waters Will Sometime Their Course Delay
1159. Letting the Flyers Fly, of Those Who Stand
1160. In Peril Were the Moors, That None Again
1161. He Bids Forthwith the Moorish Ensigns Be
1162. That King, Who Deemed Himself in Desperate Case
1163. But the Best Portion Neither Signal Knew
1164. But Nought by Sovereign or Sobrino Done
1165. And Even Within Their Lines, in Panic Sore
1166. By the Creator Haply Hastened, Who
1167. King Charles Returns No More Within the Town
1168. That Livelong Night the Foes, Throughout Their Tents
1169. Two Moors Amid the Paynim Army Were
1170. Of Nimble Frame and Strong Was Cloridane
1171. These Two Were Posted on a Rampart's Height
1172. Chapter 1172
1173. Amazed Was Cloridan a Child Should Show
1174. Seeing That Nought Would Bend Him, Nought Would Move
1175. And Thus Resolved, Disposing in Their Place
1176. So Said He, and His Talk Cut Quickly Short
1177. And Now the Saracen with Wary View
1178. Next Came the Warrior Where, with Limbs Outspread
1179. He to Labretto's Duke, Leaving Those Dead
1180. Malindo, with Andalico, He Slew
1181. Rearing the Insidious Blade, the Pair Are Near
1182. At the Youth's Prayer From Parted Cloud Outshone
1183. And Dropt the Burden, Weening His Medore
1184. Those Horsemen, with Intent to Make the Two
1185. Of Old an Ancient Forest Clothed That Lair
1186. By Whom He Is Beloved Can No One Know
1187. Were the Heart Seen as Is the Outward Cheer
1188. The Closest Path, Amid the Forest Gray
1189. So Far Was Cloridan Advanced Before
1190. So Saying, in the Wood He Disappears
1191. A Hundred Horsemen Who the Youth Surround
1192. As in Her Rocky Cavern the She-Bear
1193. Cloridan Who to Aid Him Knows Not How
1194. Together, All the Others of the Band
1195. Zerbino, Captain of Those Horse, No More
1196. To Him the Stripling Turns, with Suppliant Cry
1197. This While, a Churlish Horseman of the Band
1198. So Grieved Zerbino, with Such Wrath Was Stung
1199. And Casts Away His Bow, and, 'Mid the Band
1200. The Scots Pursue Their Chief, Who Pricks Before
1201. By Chance Arrived a Damsel at the Place
1202. Angelica, When She Had Won Again
1203. And Above Every Other Deed Repented
1204. When Fair Angelica the Stripling Spies
1205. And Calling Back to Memory Her Art
1206. And Recollects a Herb Had Caught Her Sight
1207. Returning, She Upon a Swain Did Light
1208. Angelica Alights Upon the Ground
1209. And Into Him Infused Such Force Again
1210. Nor Would the Damsel Quit the Lowly Pile
1211. The Shepherd Dwelt, Between Two Mountains Hoar
1212. A Wound Far Wider and Which Deeper Lies
1213. Her Ill but Festered and Increased the More
1214. She, if of Vain Desire Will Not Die
1215. O Count Orlando, O King of Circassy
1216. To Pluck, as Yet Untouched, the Virgin Rose
1217. In the Low Shed, with All Solemnities
1218. The Beauteous Boy Is with Her Night and Day
1219. Amid Such Pleasures, Where, with Tree O'Ergrown
1220. When She Believed They Had Prolonged Their Stay
1221. No Love Which to the Paladin She Bears
1222. She, Not Possessing Wherewithal to Pay
1223. Within Valencia or Barcelona's Town
1224. But, Ere They There Arrive, a Crazed Wight
1225. Marphisa, Astolpho, Gryphon, Aquilant
1226. Waves Lifted by the Waxing Tempest Start
1227. This One Beneath the Poop, Beneath the Prow
1228. More Spitefully the Wind on the Third Day
1229. A Pilgrimage Is Vowed to Sinai
1230. They Bale and Chest and All Their Heavy Lumber
1231. They in This Trouble, in This Woe, Remained
1232. When, Flaming, They the Beauteous Light Surveyed
1233. This on the Sea Remained So Passing Strong
1234. For This the Master Finds a Remedy
1235. They, Driven on Syria, in Laiazzo's Bay
1236. They Cannot Fly, Nor Yet Can Keep the Sea
1237. Sore Dangerous 'Twas to Doubt; Lest Hostile Band
1238. To Him Relates the Patron How a Crew
1239. And if He Brings to End the Former Feat
1240. So Strange a Custom of the Neighbouring Strand
1241. The Sailors by the Patron's Rede Abide
1242. Already When Their Bark Was First Espied
1243. They Thitherward Were Worked with Warp and Oar
1244. Like a Half-Moon, Projected From the Beach
1245. No Sooner There the Harboured Ship Was Seen
1246. A Dame, as the Cumean Sybil Gray
1247. At What She Deemed the Cavaliers Would Start
1248. The Patron Is Commanded Their Reply
1249. These Through the Middle of the City Go
1250. All Others of the Manly Sex They Seat
1251. The Knights Determining by Lot to Try
1252. But with the Others She, the Martial Maid
1253. High Up the Spacious City Is Place
1254. On Pieballed Horse Marphisa Entered, -- Spread
1255. On a Large Courser Came the Leading Foe
1256. At Once Their Spears in Rest Nine Warriors Laid
1257. Of Smooth and Balanced Pace, the Damsel's Horse
1258. The Bosom of the First She Opens So
1259. Many Good Spears Were Broken on the Dame
1260. At the End of the Career, She Checked Her Steed
1261. With Such Just Measure Him She Cleaves, I Say
1262. He, Signing with His Right Hand, Made Appear
1263. So Said He, and Obedient to His Hest
1264. No Mouth Was Opened and No Eyelid Fell
1265. Both Lances, Made of Willow Thin and Dry
1266. Marphisa in Her Life, with Certain Wound
1267. They Scarcely Touch the Ground Before They Gain
1268. If Heavy Falls the Savage Damsel's Blade
1269. The Women Who Have Sate Long Time, to View
1270. Communing with Herself, Marphisa Said
1271. Till Eve They Strove, Nor Did It Yet Appear
1272. So by Consent the Combatants Divided
1273. They Unsuspecting with the Prayer Complied
1274. Much Marvels with Herself the Gentle Dame
1275. Great Fears the Women of Antiquity
1276. Women Have Reached the Pinnacle of Glory
1277. To Me It Plainly Seems, in This Our Age
1278. To Her Returning Yet Again; the Dame
1279. The Other, Since 'Twas His to Speak, Begun
1280. Sir Guido Is Besought of Them to Say
1281. Here Guido Ceased to Address the Martial Peers
1282. Guido, Who Gladly Would in Other Place
1283. He Grieves, as Well, the Other Cavaliers
1284. On the Other Hand, the Stripling's Age, in May
1285. These Speeches by Marphisa Made, and More
1286. Sir Guido Speaks That Night with Alery
1287. She Into Guido's Palace Had Before
1288. Not Yet From Earth's Hard Visage Has the Sun
1289. Hence to Descend Towards the Sea or Port
1290. Toward the Other Gate Sir Guido Went
1291. Sir Guido and the Cavaliers Who Go
1292. As Family, Awaked in Sudden Wise
1293. Above, Below, and Here and There, the Rout
1294. Amid the Mighty Ruin Which Ensued
1295. But of Marphisa What Will Be Your Thought
1296. For So to Friend as Stranger, Noxious Are
1297. One Sought the Sea, and One the Mountain-Top
1298. Marphisa, Guido, and the Brethren Two
1299. The Duke Within and Out the Town Had Bear
1300. The Duke Arrives, Seeking the Friendly Band
1301. They From That Cruel and Ensanguined Ground
1302. Fixed on His Course, the Pilot Passes by
1303. Last Rises Luna, Where His Family
1304. There Was Not Bradamant, Who Used to Sway
1305. Saying She Deems Unfitting for a Knight
1306. But None with Her Opine, and, in the Lack
1307. Courteously I, in Outward Show, Would Say
1308. But I Will First Pursue the Martial Maid
1309. This Was the Beldam Who Had Wont to Ply
1310. The Semblance Now of Foreign Cavalier
1311. And Next Implored the Maid, She of Her Grace
1312. In Shining Armour and in Fair Array
1313. He of Maganza Was a Count, Who Bore
1314. But When the Magic Tower Upon the Hill
1315. As Wanton and Ill-Customed, When She Spies
1316. And That She This Would Prove Upon Her Knight
1317. Marphisa Grasped a Mighty Lance, and Thrust
1318. And Willed That She Should Don the Youthful Weed
1319. On the Fourth Day They Met a Cavalier
1320. Vainly the Young Zerbino, Through the Glade
1321. Zerbino Laughed Parforce, When He Descried
1322. Older Than Sibyl Seemed the Beldam Hoar
1323. To Have Sport of Him -- as She Had -- an Air
1324. To Him Marphisa, "Thou in Thy Despite
1325. Much Grieved the Prince, to Whom in Other Fray
1326. Without Awaiting Answer, to Career
1327. He Mounts, and Blames Himself in Angry Wise
1328. And, Sighing Deeply, Cries, in His Despair
1329. So Spake Zerbino, and Like Grief Displaid
1330. If You Remember What Was Said Before
1331. And She to Her Zerbino's Goodly Cheer
1332. As the Dog's Rage Is Quickly Overblown
1333. And with More Winning Mien to Her Applied
1334. Questioning of the Maid, He When and Where
1335. At Length Zerbino to His Tongue Gave Rest
1336. They Hence, by Strange and Solitary Way
1337. No Cord I Well Believe Is Wound So Tight
1338. Faith Should Be Kept Unbroken Evermore
1339. And This Maintains as It Maintained Should Be
1340. Of Him I Told Who Felt at Heart Such Load
1341. The Hag, Who the Approaching Warrior Knew
1342. Because as Foe to Her and Hers She Knew
1343. As Nearer Now, the Stranger Knight Espied
1344. Him Young Zerbino Answered Courteously
1345. This and Yet More He Vainly Says; Nor Stand
1346. Hermonides of Holland Levelled Low
1347. Thinking Him Slain Who Only Lay Amazed
1348. So Said Hermonides, and Had Pursued
1349. Zerbino, in Excuse, Assured the Peer
1350. He, if He Might, Is Any Thing Beside
1351. Zerbino Thence, Upon the Promised Way
1352. Well Read in Young Zerbino's Hate, the Dame
1353. Ye Courteous Dames, and to Your Lovers Dear
1354. Such Was She; and I Hide Not What Is True
1355. For One I Dare to Censure in My Lays
1356. He Entered, 'Twixt Two Hills, a Narrow Way
1357. I In the Cruel City Left the Peer
1358. He, After Some Few Days, in Natoly
1359. To Aix-La-Chapelle Thence, Through Arden's Wood
1360. Here, Learning Afterwards That Otho Old
1361. A Breeze Which, From the Starboard Blowing Light
1362. Now to the Right, Now to the Other Hand
1363. And Traversing a Forest, at the Feet
1364. His Lips He Had Not Wetted in Its Bed
1365. That Robber Did Not Let the Courser Strain
1366. On Rabican, Who with the Wind Might Race
1367. He Plies His Feet, and Searches Still in Vain
1368. He, Wearied and Confused with Wandering Wide
1369. I' the Book, of That Enchanted House at Large
1370. Astolpho with Desire to Bring to End
1371. He, with His Spells and Shapes of Devilish Kind
1372. The Child, Gradasso, Iroldo, Bradamant
1373. But He No Sooner Has the Bugle Wound
1374. The Warder Fled; with Him His Prisoned Train
1375. He, Having Chased the Enchanter Moor Away
1376. There He Found Fastened by a Golden Chain
1377. I Know Not if You Recollect How Tied
1378. At Nought Astolpho Could More Joyous Be
1379. Him He That Day in India Proved, When Sped
1380. Minded to Take the Hippogryph, He Flung
1381. Good Cause He Had to Love That Rabicane
1382. He Stood Upon the Watch if He Could View
1383. But It Behoves That, Ere the Rest I Say
1384. Rogero Looks on Bradamant, and She
1385. A Thousand Times They Their Embrace Renew
1386. The Gentle Bradamant, Who Was I' the Vein
1387. Rogero Good, Who Not Alone to Be
1388. Then on His Way to Be Baptized He Hied
1389. Rogero, as Still Courteous, Still Humane
1390. Touched Deeply, Bradamant His Danger Hears
1391. And to the Maid, Whose Troubled Face Apears
1392. The Haughty Semblance and the Lofty Say
1393. Rogero Ceased; and in the Nearest Way
1394. And Lo, in Eager Hurry From the Gate
1395. He Next Proceeds, as He Had Wont Before
1396. Bradamant for Long Time with Earnest Prayer
1397. The Child Demanded of That Elder, Who
1398. This While Had Issued From the Fortress Near
1399. Sansonet, of Such Staves, Above Five Pair
1400. With These Which Might the Solid Anvil Bore
1401. I Have Already Said, the Enchanted Light
1402. The Other by Less Skilful Artist Wrought
1403. And This Was the First Comrade of the Train
1404. This While Sir Pinnabello Had Drawn Near
1405. The Courser, and, Through Him, the Cavalier
1406. To Threaten Him with Vengeance, and to Lay
1407. Pale and Dismayed His Spurs the Caitiff Plied
1408. The Other Three, Who From the Fortress Came
1409. The Cruel Courtezan by Whom Was Made
1410. She of the Castle Presses on This Side
1411. With the Same Lance with Which He Overbore
1412. Although Three Times Alone the Child Was Fain
1413. Rogero Shocked the Valiant Gryphon, Where
1414. It Rent and Tore the Veil Which Served to Hide
1415. These Here, or There, to Earth Astonished Reel
1416. He Saw the Damsel, Stretched Among the Rest
1417. Away Rogero Posted with the Dame
1418. As, Thinking Thus, He Journeyed on His Way
1419. Filled to the Brim with Water Was the Well
1420. When That So Strange Adventure to the Rest
1421. Upon Rogero's Parting Thence, Where Fell
1422. Nor Any Thing Throughout That Livelong Day
1423. Bradamant in Close Pass, This While, Had Staid
1424. She Would Return Where She Had Left the Knight
1425. Let Each Assist the Other in His Need
1426. Now Mark What Chanced to Pinnabel, the Event
1427. Pinnabel Deemed He to an End Had Brought
1428. Anselm in Altaripa Held Command
1429. When She Has Put to Death the Treacherous Peer
1430. Nor Knowing Where for Shelter She Should Rove
1431. With Sorrow and Repentance Oft Assailed
1432. These Words and Others She in Mournful Strain
1433. Nor Far Had Rode, Ere From the Greenwood-Trees
1434. By Chance She Found Him, as the Cavalier
1435. None Could Astolpho Have Found Any Where
1436. Embracing Twice or Thrice the Cousins Stand
1437. But She Scarce Marvelled When Above the Plain
1438. Astolpho Says on Her He Will Bestow
1439. Bent, Since a Course in Air Was to Be Flown
1440. Backed by Astolpho, and Ascending Slow
1441. Bradamant, When Departed Was the Peer
1442. Here Standing in Suspense, by Chance She Spied
1443. To Vallombrosa to Direct Her Way
1444. She Here and There, as She Her Way Pursued
1445. She, When She Recognized the Place, Became
1446. He Came From Billeting the Bands Which Lay
1447. Bradamant Enters Montalbano's Seat
1448. Because She Could Not Go, One in Her Stead
1449. She Purposed the Same Messenger Should Bear
1450. Valiant Rogero, When Too Bold of Sprite
1451. Each Damsel and Each Dame Who Her Obeyed
1452. How Graven in Her Heart Rogero Lies
1453. Hippalca Was the Attendant Damsel Hight
1454. She Made the Damsel Mount Upon a Pad
1455. Of Many and Many Things, Whereof to Treat
1456. At Noon of Day, Descending From a Mount
1457. On the First Courser He Should Find, the Knight
1458. Duke Aymon's Daughter Scarce Had Turned Away
1459. Dead Lay Sir Pinnabel, and Bathed in Gore
1460. The Hag to Wait Was Ordered by the Peer
1461. If She in Any Manner Could Have Thought
1462. Zerbino After Some Short Space Came Back
1463. A Spacious Town, Which Altaripa Hight
1464. Zerbino Asked the Occasion, and 'Twas Said
1465. After Some Little Time, the Funeral Bier
1466. While Solemn Preparation So Was Made
1467. From Voice to Voice, From One to Other Ear
1468. Or Were It but to Gain the Promised Prize; --
1469. And, Weeping, with Raised Hands, Was Heard to Say
1470. That Night in Prison, Fettered with a Pair
1471. When, the Next Morn, Aurora Stains with Dye
1472. But He Who with the Innocent Oft Sides
1473. With Him Was Wended She, That in the Cell
1474. She Had Beneath Orlando's Convoy Strayed
1475. And Asked Him Why and Wherefore Him They Led
1476. And, After He Had Heard 'Twas at the Hest
1477. Orlando to the Rabble Cried, "Untie
1478. The Shining Armour Which the Chief Had Rent
1479. All at One Course, of Other of the Band
1480. Above a Third He Killed, and Chased the Rest
1481. Of a Hundred Men and Twenty, in That Crew
1482. While Roland, After He Had Loosed the Knight
1483. When Young Zerbino at His Side Surveyed
1484. From Quickly Clipping Her in His Embrace
1485. And Worse He Grieved, That She Was with a Knight
1486. The Three in Silence Journey to a Font
1487. And Without More Delay or Scruple, Prest
1488. When Speech Returned, Ere Yet the Maiden Well
1489. Proffers and Thanks Had Followed, with a Round
1490. This Was the Tartar Mandricardo, Who
1491. Yet Knew Not That It Was Anglantes' Peer
1492. Orlando, All This While, From Head to Feet
1493. Already Distant Half the Range of Bow
1494. The Truncheons Which the Valiant Champions Bear
1495. How Can the Saracen Conclude the Fray
1496. Him Griped Athwart, He, in Impetuous Mood
1497. The Beauteous Doralice, Who Sees Her Guide
1498. Not Looking to His Feet, by High or Low
1499. Here Stopt the Horse; but Him He Could Not Guide
1500. The Paynim Deems It Were Discourtesy
1501. She Had Upon Her Back the Gallant Gear
1502. Stordilane's Daughter and the Tartar King
1503. He Flies and Hurries Through the Forest Gray
1504. He Mounts His Horse, and Watches Long, Before
1505. At His Departure Waxed Zerbino Woe
1506. Next, if They Met the Saracen, Before
1507. The Lovers Promised Willingly to Do
1508. The Course in Pathless Woods, Which, Without Rein
1509. The Mid-Day Fervour Made the Shelter Sweet
1510. Turning Him Round, He There, on Many a Tree
1511. In a Hundred Knots, Amid Those Green Abodes
1512. But Stirred and Aye Rekindled It, the More
1513. Splay-Footed Ivy, with Its Mantling Spray
1514. Here From His Horse the Sorrowing County Lit
1515. In Arabic Was Writ the Blessing Said
1516. Three Times, and Four, and Six, the Lines Imprest
1517. Then Well-Nigh Lost All Feeling; So a Prey
1518. Stiffed Within, the Impetuous Sorrow Stays
1519. He Somewhat to Himself Returned, and Thought
1520. With Such Vain Hope He Sought Himself to Cheat
1521. Languid, He Lit, and Left His Brigliador
1522. The More the Wretched Sufferer Seeks for Ease
1523. Little Availed the Count His Self-Deceit
1524. How at Angelica's Persuasive Prayer
1525. Nor Thinking She of Mightiest King Was Born
1526. A Deadly Axe Was This Unhappy Close
1527. When He Can Give the Rein to Raging Woe
1528. Amid the Pressure of Such Cruel Pain
1529. In Him, Forthwith, Such Deadly Hatred Breed
1530. Never From Tears, Never From Sorrowing
1531. All Night About the Forest Roved the Count
1532. Cleft Through the Writing; and the Solid Block
1533. For He Turf, Stone, and Trunk, and Shoot, and Lop
1534. Wearied and Woe-Begone, He Fell to Ground
1535. So Fierce His Rage, So Fierce His Fury Grew
1536. He Many Others, with as Little Let
1537. The Shepherd Swains, Who Hear the Tumult Nigh
1538. Let Him Make Haste His Feet to Disengage
1539. Various Are Love's Effects; but From One Source
1540. I In the Other Canto Said Before
1541. Viewing the Madman's Wonderous Feats More Near
1542. He by One Leg the Heavy Trunk in Air
1543. By Such Examples Warned, the Rustic Crew
1544. Already Might'st Thou Hear How Loudly Ring
1545. As Beats the Wave Upon the Salt-Sea Shore
1546. Twice He Ten Peasants Slaughtered in His Mood
1547. He Would Have Been in Peril on That Day
1548. Since Every One Had Left the Place for Dread
1549. Thence, Repossest with the Desire to Rove
1550. Now Right, Now Left, He Wandered, Far and Wide
1551. When Roland Had Departed on His Quest
1552. Zerbino Speedily the Prisoner Knew
1553. Even Then How All Had Chanced, with Punctual Lore
1554. The Two That Had Sir Odoric in Their Ward
1555. Lighting, with Open Arms and Hurried Pace
1556. Almonio Cried, "Since God Is Pleased in the End
1557. After Almonio Had His Tale Suspended
1558. The Faithless Man Alighted, and Down Fell
1559. So Said Sir Odoric; and After Showed
1560. Whether or No to Venge Such Infamy
1561. While Scotland's Prince Is Doubting in Such Wise
1562. The Horse, That Had the Others of That Band
1563. The Wicked Hag Is Kept, So Bids the Peer
1564. So Many Women, Many Men Betrayed
1565. To Keep the Pact Zerbino Makes Him Swear
1566. Corebo Frees the Traitor in the End
1567. This Author Vouches (I Declare Not Who
1568. Zerbino, Who the Paladin Pursues
1569. So Mighty Is the Love Zerbino Bore
1570. This Was the Term for Which Orlando Said
1571. Far Off, He Saw That Something Shining Lay
1572. For Durindane, He Sought the Greenwood, Round
1573. Had but the Lovers Seen a Drop of Blood
1574. Questioned by Good Zerbino, Him the Swain
1575. Isabel Lights as Well; and, Where They Lie
1576. Her Brandimart Had Left Disconsolate
1577. If She Had Been in That Enchanted Hold
1578. To Flordelice Were Known the Arms and Sword
1579. Here Prince Zerbino All the Arms Unites
1580. Orlando's Arms, King Charles's Paladine
1581. Zerbino Having Done the Pious Deed
1582. In Scaping Durindane, a Flame in Show
1583. As the Swift-Footed Dog, Who Does Espy
1584. On the Other Side, Where'er the Foe Is Seen
1585. In the End He Cannot Scape One Downright Blow
1586. And, but That Somewhat Short the Blow Descends
1587. The Fearful Stroke Was Mightier in Show
1588. Almost on His Steed's Neck the Tartar Fell
1589. Zerbino, on the Watch, Whose Eager Eye
1590. Zerbino, Here and There, Seeks Every Way
1591. He Ever Wastes His Blood; His Energies
1592. Doralice, Who as Courteous Was as Fair
1593. Fair Flordelice, Who Ill Maintained Descries
1594. Seeking Him Morn and Evening, but in Vain
1595. For to Leave Durindana Such Misdeed
1596. For Weakness Can the Prince No Further Hie
1597. She, Blaming Fortune, and the Cruel Sky
1598. At This the Sorrowing Isabel, Declining
1599. I Think Not These Last Words of Scotland's Knight
1600. On the Ensanguined Corse, in Sorrow Drowned
1601. The Holy Man Next Made the Damsel See
1602. Not That She Would Her Mighty Love Forbear
1603. The Cautious Elder Would Not Bear Away
1604. He Thought to Bear Her to Provence, Where, Near
1605. So, Compassing a Mighty Round, They Fare
1606. After the Fight Between the Two Was Done
1607. Him Doralice, as Soon as He His Front
1608. As a Good Hawk, Who Duck or Woodcock Shy
1609. When the Two Hostile Warriors Were So Near
1610. They Pass to Outrage, Shout, and Ire, Unsheath
1611. Of Those Two Infidels, Unmatched in Worth
1612. Without Once Gathering Breath, Without Repose
1613. Mid Thousand Blows, So, with Two-Handed Swing
1614. But as Steel Arbalest That's Loaded Sore
1615. Rodomont Smites, and in the Very Place
1616. King Mandricardo's Courser, Who Abhorred
1617. He Falls, and Mandricardo on the Plain
1618. The African, Who Feels His Horse Give Way
1619. A Messenger Arrives, That From the Moor
1620. The Moorish Messenger Not Only Knows
1621. But to Fair Doralice Approached, and Said
1622. The Lady, with Bold Heart, 'Twixt Either Foe
1623. The Messenger Rehearsed, When She Had Done
1624. Intending, When From Siege Their Chivalry
1625. Discord, at Hearing This, Impatient Grew
1626. To Keep the Truce the Rival Warriors Swore
1627. Yet Love Sways More; for, Save That the Command
1628. They at a Mead Arrived, Where, in Disport
1629. He From That Well a Mile Is Hardly Gone
1630. Rogero Stood Awhile in Pensive Case
1631. Pursuing Thence Their Ancient Road Again
1632. Because the Troop About That Fortress See
1633. As on the Stripling's Face He Turns His Eyes
1634. He Drew His Falchion Without More Delay
1635. As While at Feed, in Full Security
1636. Rogero Smites the Head From Six or Four
1637. Such Good Rogero's Force and Valour Are
1638. At Every Stroke He Never Less O'Erthrew
1639. But to Have Forged That Falchion Sorely Rued
1640. As Hare From Hound Unslipt, That Helpless Train
1641. He, Who Was Angered Sore, as Best He Cou'd
1642. When Now Rogero and the Stranger Knight
1643. In Wary Wise, Intent the Truth to Find
1644. So Richardetto Spake, and by His Say
1645. Bastard of Buovo, Brother to the Pair
1646. His Cousin Richardetto, as Behoved
1647. To Richardetto He Exclaims, Instead
1648. Sir Richardetto the Ill News Displease
1649. The Other Heard Him Not, or Heard at Most
1650. And at the Feast, Where Plenty for the Three
1651. The Siege of Agramant, to Him That Day
1652. That True Religion Had the Stripling Swayed
1653. He Next Bethinks Him of the Promise Plight
1654. He, Having Thought on Many Things, in the End
1655. That Which Is Needed, in Obedience Meet
1656. And, as He Erst by Word, He Now Explained
1657. Rogero Is Such Words His Thoughts Exposed
1658. When He Had Closed the Sheet, That Amorous Knight
1659. And When the Greenwood Birds 'Gan, Far and Wide
1660. When Clad and Thoroughly in Arms Arrayed --
1661. True to the Time and Place of Change, They Hie
1662. Those Three Adventurous Warriors Halted Where
1663. In Former Ages Courteous Ladies Were
1664. Bradamant Well Would Deathless Praise Inherit
1665. He, with Those Two of Clermont, as Whilere
1666. When Those Three of That Warrior Were Espied
1667. Some One, Meseems, May Crave the Stranger's Name
1668. The Two of Clermont and Their Bold Compeer
1669. And When, Now Nearer, the Advancing Crew
1670. They of Maganza From One Quarter Steer
1671. Nor Buovo's Nor Duke Aymon's Valiant Son
1672. Marphisa with Rogero Moved Her Horse
1673. Rogero, Charging This, or the Other Band
1674. If Ever You Remember to Have Viewed
1675. Not So Sir Richardet and Aldigier
1676. This Cause Made Him Who in His Fury Shared
1677. Marphisa, Waging All the While the Fight
1678. She Marvels at the Champion's Horrid Blows
1679. With the Same Downright Stroke, He Overbore
1680. Good Turpin, He Who Knows That He Tells True
1681. As She Had Mars in Bold Rogero Seen
1682. To Rout Each Hostile Squadron, Filled with Dread
1683. The Conqueror's Prize Remained Both Field and Prey
1684. Besides Good Quantity of Silver Fine
1685. When Now the Conquering Troop Their Temples Bare
1686. With Viewing Her They Cannot Sate Their Eyes
1687. This Spring Was One of Those Four Fountains Rare
1688. Here, to Appearance, From the Forest Prest
1689. The Beast the Low and Those of Proudest Port
1690. Whate'er She Touches, Wall or Rampire Steep
1691. Approaching Next, Is Seen a Cavalier
1692. Of Those Who So Against Beast Advance
1693. The Tenth, in Writing, on His Back Displayed
1694. In Wonder Stood Long Time That Warlike Train
1695. So Malagigi to His Comrades Said
1696. To Converse Gay the Friends Themselves Addrest
1697. Hippalca She; From Whom Was Torn Away
1698. And, for to Her Well Known Was That Repair
1699. She Turned Her Wholly to Sir Richardet
1700. At This Rogero, Leaping on His Feet
1701. Richardet (Though It Seems Discourtesy
1702. To Him Hippalca Said, When She Apart
1703. She Added How the Author of That Deed
1704. Listening, the Visage of the Youthful Knight
1705. With Him, Without Repose, the Damsel Rides
1706. Hippalca's Ardour to Retrieve the Prey
1707. Until King Agramant Shall Succoured Be
1708. Marphisa Had, at Her Companions' Prayer
1709. As Soon as Mandricardo Saw Her Face
1710. Hence with a Damsel to Provide the Peer
1711. Vivian and Malagigi (Who Were Dight
1712. Sir Vivian Is the First Who Moves His Horse
1713. That Tartar's Harder Weapon Makes the Shield
1714. The Other of Those Brethren Armed Before
1715. Him on the Left Side Smote That Paynim Peer
1716. Next Richardetto Comes, and for the Blow
1717. Marphisa Raised Her Face with Haughty Cheer
1718. The Damsel Donned Her Sword, When Armed All O'Er
1719. Like Brittle Crystal, in That Proud Career
1720. So Perfect Are the Champions' Plate and Chain
1721. Next Prays Not Only with That Tartar Knight
1722. Hippalca He to Mont Albano Prayed
1723. And Gave the Letter to That Maid to Bear
1724. Rogero Followed Fast the Paynim Knight
1725. Arrived, Rogero Knew Frontino Gay
1726. The First Day This and Last, That E'Er in Fight
1727. Add, That He Knows Rogero Is the Peer
1728. Three Hundred Miles, a Thousand, Would He Ride
1729. Adding That He, in Doing So, Would Do
1730. While of That African He So Demands
1731. He Bore on Azure Field That Eagle White
1732. King Mandricardo Is Like Blazon Wore
1733. The Tartar and Rogero Had Before
1734. And at the Same Time, Strained His Goodly Sword
1735. First, in Belief He Should Marphisa Gain
1736. Their Fury Waxed, and Angrier Words Ensued
1737. As Peasant, When a River Saps Its Mounds
1738. So, While the Tartar and Rogero Rage
1739. Marphisa, to Appease the Warriors Bent
1740. On Argier's King He Sprang, Like Savage Boar
1741. Even to His Courser's Neck Rogero Bends
1742. Him O'Er the Field His Courser Bears Away
1743. Rodomont O'Er the Plain Pursues His Man
1744. As Soon as to Himself the Child Returns
1745. Rogero Storms Upon the Paynim's Crest
1746. Discord, Believing Nothing Could Ensue
1747. Rogero's Blow Was Levelled with Such Spite
1748. Marphisa Has King Mandricardo Prest
1749. Marphisa's Martial Steed, in Turning Short
1750. Rogero, When Marphisa on the Ground
1751. Rodomont, of His Senses Repossest
1752. Into That Gentle Palfrey's Form, Who Bore
1753. It Was a Mighty Leap, Yet Not So Wide
1754. At the First Hearing of That Voice, the Son
1755. Marphisa Rose Meanwhile, to Fury Stirred
1756. They in the Paynim Camp Will Find Each Foe
1757. Thither Returns Rogero, Where Apart
1758. Of Malagigi He and Viviane
1759. A Woman for the Most Part Reasons Best
1760. That Seemed Good Counsel, but Was Ill Indeed
1761. Had He Some Little Prize for Counsel Stayed
1762. So the Two Lovers, Following Her Who Flies
1763. The Wayward Fiend Who Makes That Palfrey Ramp
1764. The Sarzan and the Tartar the First Day
1765. A Cunning, Old Enchanter Him Deceived
1766. Now, the Field Won, Wherein with Mickle Fame
1767. Her to Anglantes or to Brava Brought
1768. Within He Takes a Day or Two's Repose
1769. But the Ancient Foe, Deluded by Whose Say
1770. King Sacripant and King Gradasso (Who
1771. Thither Another Fiend That Ruthless Foe
1772. Later by Half an Hour, Against Their Foes
1773. The First Four Ride Until Themselves They Find
1774. Where Thickest Camped Lay Charles's Host, They Spurred
1775. The Christian Host Throughout Is Overthrown
1776. All Armed Is Charlemagne, Except His Head
1777. Advancing, He on Earth Saw Many More
1778. Where the Small Band Advances in Such Wise
1779. Not to the Ramparts of the Paynim Crew
1780. As When We Spark to Loaded Mine Apply
1781. Front and Askance, the Assailants Smote, and Low
1782. Many Who Had Escaped by Quick Retreat
1783. Who 'Scape One Peril, Into Other Fly
1784. Marphisa and the Child, of Danger Clear
1785. At Once a Formidable Larum Rose
1786. The Force of the Redoubted Rodomont
1787. Of Fierce Marphisa and Her Bold Allies
1788. Many Through Reckless Haste Were Drowned in Seine
1789. And. Like Orlando and Duke Aymon's Son
1790. From Earth Beneath the Widow's Outcry Swells
1791. Red Blushed the Blessed Angel, Who Believed
1792. As Servant Faithful to His Lord, and More
1793. Again He to That Monastery Flew
1794. Albeit in Back and Arms All Over Shent
1795. And Good Rogero (She Inflames Them So
1796. As Well Marphisa to Troyano's Son
1797. To Have the First Possession of the Field
1798. The Tartar King, for More Perplexity
1799. King Agramant, with Prayer and Kingly Word
1800. Four Lots the Monarch Bade Prepare, Which Done
1801. Rogero and Mandricardo for That Play
1802. There Lies a Place, of Paris Little Wide
1803. In This Place Is Prepared the Listed Mead
1804. In That, Which Looks Towards the Western Sun
1805. High on a Throne of Ample State Appeared
1806. Were Seated with the Queen of Fair Castille
1807. In Dress Succinct Marphisa Sate; in Plight
1808. The Frequent Crowd Expects the Double Foe
1809. Sericane's Monarch, Having with His Hand
1810. He, Seeing This, Agnised It for the Blade
1811. And Asks Had He by Force or Treaty Won
1812. Saying the Count, in Yielding to His Foe
1813. And Over Mastered by His Choler, Flies
1814. Fury and Scorn Gradasso's Visage Heats
1815. If Many Had Not Interposed, and Sought
1816. Agramant Those Contending Warriors Made
1817. While Royal Agramant Would Peace Restore
1818. And There Had They Arrived, Where with His Spume
1819. And as His Points and Nimble Parts, More Near
1820. This From Beneath Him Had Brunello Borne
1821. Assured 'Twas No Mistake, Circassia's Chief
1822. The Furious King of Argier, That in Pride
1823. Fierce and Enraged, Replied Circassia's Peer
1824. No Greater Were the Daring and the Might
1825. This While Some Voice to Agramant the News
1826. Rodomont Reined His Anger, and Retired
1827. The King Bade Sacripant Explain His Right
1828. Marphisa, Whom These Cries, Mid Others, Bring
1829. The Others Who Stood Round Her, Wont to Hear
1830. Him by Mid Breast Marphisa Griped Amain
1831. Above the Universal Noise and Shout
1832. Held on the Pommel Grappled by His Hair
1833. Not That He Loved the Losel or Esteemed
1834. But the Wise King, Sobrino, Who Was by
1835. Small Profit and Much Peril Would Succeed
1836. Right Willingly King Agramant Gave Way
1837. At This Mad Discord Laughed, No More in Fear
1838. Paris-Town Rocked, and Turbid Ran the Flood
1839. Five Have Set Up Their Rest, Resolved to Be
1840. King Agramant Oft Moved, Between the Pair
1841. As His Best Lore, at Length the Monarch Said
1842. The Mighty King of Sarza, Who Long Space
1843. All Know What Exploits Wrought by Him Had Been
1844. They, After, Ratify the King's Award
1845. But Wonted Anger Chasing Shame Which Dyed
1846. Kind Mandricardo on His Feet Once More
1847. Branded with Double Scorn, Before Those Peers
1848. As the Afflicted Bull Who Has Foregone
1849. Rogero Moved, His Courser to Regain
1850. To Have Frontino Ravished in His Sight
1851. And Would Have Quickly Joined Him That Was Gone
1852. When Afterwards He Would Remount the Sell
1853. How He by Sacripant Was Overtaken
1854. Wherever That Afflicted Paynim Goes
1855. These Plaints and Countless Others to the Wind
1856. Though None for Whom I Hitherto Have Sighed
1857. Yet Will I Make Such Search Before I Die
1858. The Saracen, Whom Rage No Less Profound
1859. And Would That From His Realm, in Want and Woe
1860. And Thus the Saracen Pours Forth His Moan
1861. The Victual, Disembarked From Loaded Barge
1862. The King of Argier (for the Dusky Air
1863. To Warlike Rodomont, with Goodly Cheer
1864. Mine Host, Most Diligent in His Vocation
1865. Then Silence Broke, and with a Milder Air
1866. Except Mine Host, Those Others Were Agreed
1867. Ladies, and All of You That Ladies Prize
1868. Omit This Canto, and -- the Tale Untold --
1869. Let Him Who Will, Three Leaves or Four Pass-By
1870. As Yet, Upon the Bloom of Spring, the Maid
1871. Here Paused Mine Host; to Whom on Every Side
1872. Of Sounder Judgement, 'Mid That Company
1873. So Reasoning, That Just Elder and Sincere
1874. Having Stopt Further Question in This Wise
1875. For with Such Care for His Good Horse's Plight
1876. Rodomont Navigates the Day and Night
1877. As the Sick Man Who with a Fever Grows
1878. Rodomont Brooked No More Aboard to Stay
1879. To Pass to Afric Straight, the Cavalier
1880. Here, Newly Built Upon a Hillock's Crest
1881. He Changed His Scheme of Seeking Afric's Land
1882. Here Standing, Full of Thought, Upon a Day
1883. Who That Attendant Monk and Damsel Were
1884. Although in Her Pale Face and Troubled Guise
1885. As Soon as He of Sarza Saw Appear
1886. Her with the Kindest Mien and Mildest Tone
1887. And Said That She From Reason Wandered Wide
1888. The Monk, That to This Talk Has Lent an Ear
1889. And Having Interrupted Him in Vain
1890. That Which He Rashly Uttered to Your Blame
1891. But That in This the Witless Infidel
1892. And, as New Love the King Did Heat and Goad
1893. The King, Who Long Had Taxed Himself to Bear
1894. And (So His Fury Waxed) That, as It Were
1895. He Fell Into the Sea, by One Is Said
1896. Cruel King Rodomont, When From His Side
1897. And Now, So Temperate Showed That Infidel
1898. And by Degrees So Thought to Mould the Dame
1899. Sad Isabella in Her Mind Is Bent
1900. She Sees That Paynim Monarch's Passion Blind
1901. She Cried Unto That Paynim, Foul to See
1902. And Will Maintain His Promise, Till the Fact
1903. Argier's Perfidious King to Isabel
1904. When Herbs Enow by Them in Many a Beat
1905. Who, Wearing Out the Weary Night in Sport
1906. To Argier's Warlike King, Unused to Wine
1907. Meanwhile That Lady From the Fire Does Lift
1908. She Washed, as Said, and Gladly Did Decline
1909. This Made Three Bounds, and Thence in Accents Clear
1910. His Eyes From Heaven Did the Creator Bend
1911. So Spake the Sire; and Cleared the Ambient Air
1912. That Placated, or in Some Content
1913. In All Parts Round About This Chosen Site
1914. This Nearly Imitates That Pile Beside
1915. Two Coursers, That Abreast Have Thither Made
1916. Within Ten Days, or Shorter Time, Was Placed
1917. Whereat He Armed, and Issued for the Stower
1918. The Pagan Had Imagined, as a Pain
1919. If Those He Conquers Are of Pagan Strain
1920. It Chanced Orlando, in His Furious Mood
1921. Orlando Running Thus His Wild Career
1922. This While, a Gentle Damsel Sought the Place
1923. When Flordelice That Bridge and Tower Was Near
1924. She Stopt, the Issue of That Strife to Know
1925. This Hand and Now That Other He Puts Out
1926. Roland, Whose Better Wit Was Lost Withal
1927. Quickly the Stream Asunder Bore the Pair
1928. Along the Bridge Which Spanned That Foaming Tide
1929. Much Country Had Been Traversed by the Knight
1930. Here He by Chance Encountered in Mid Road
1931. To This Address Orlando Answered Nought
1932. Upon Those Youths Next Sprang the Furious Knight
1933. That Other to a Jutting Fragment Clung
1934. Even in Such Mode as Often We Descry
1935. These and More Marvels Does the Count, Who Bends
1936. Where He Somedeal May Shun the Noontide Ray
1937. So Different From Himself Was He to Sight
1938. Nigh Buried in Their Sockets Are His Eyes
1939. When Crazed Orlando Was of Her Aware
1940. The Youth, That Sees Him Chase His Love Who Fled
1941. When on His Back Orlando Felt Him Beat
1942. At Speed Angelica Impelled Her Mare
1943. Was It Through Fear, or Was She, While She Stript
1944. If but Two Inches Short Had Fallen His Prey
1945. Doubt Not That She Another Will Provide
1946. Orlando Seizes Her with That Delight
1947. As in This Course to O'Erleap a Ditch He Sought
1948. Next, for He Felt That Weight Too Irksome Grow
1949. To Drag That Palfrey Ceased He Not, Though Dead
1950. As Much, or Little Less, Would Do the Knight
1951. Would That of Her Orlando Were Possest
1952. When Reason, Giving Way to Heat of Blood
1953. But Like Sick Man Am I, Who, Sore Bested
1954. Well Hope I, From Your Sovereign Courtesy
1955. No Less Beside Myself Than Brava's Peer
1956. And He, Who Could Like Any Otter Swim
1957. Then Leaping on His Horse, by Different Way
1958. He Came at Last to Malaga, and Here
1959. Departing Thence, Insane Orlando Flees
1960. He Plunged Into the Waves, at Last, Parforce
1961. Nor Poops Nor Prows Does Roland More Descry
1962. He Sinks, and Would with Him Draw Down His Load
1963. But Fortune, That of Madmen Is the Guide
1964. To Say So Many Things I Am Intent
1965. King Mandricardo, Proud That in His Right
1966. Agramant and Marsilius Strive in Vain
1967. Rogero Brooks Not That in Other Fight
1968. Rogero and Gradasso, at This Say
1969. A Seely Boy Then Dipt His Hand and Drew
1970. Gradasso Every Thought and Every Deed
1971. After the Drawing Lots and King's Award
1972. The Foolish Rabble Anxiously Attends
1973. Nor What a Heavy Loss He Would Sustain
1974. Agramant Recognized This Truth; but Thought
1975. Five or Six Months Would They the Strife Delay
1976. But More Than King, Than All, Who Sought in Vain
1977. Accompanying Words with Tears and Sighs
1978. So Said He; and with Reasons Passing Good
1979. And Had; but That Aurora -- on His Way
1980. When That Loud Sound Is by the Tartar Heard
1981. The Tartar Arms Himself in Haste; with Pain
1982. Put on and Laced the Shining Helmets Were
1983. From This Side and From That, the Eagle Flew
1984. As Turpin Truly Writes, Into the Sky
1985. They, Pointing at the Vizors' Sight, Attacked
1986. They Level at the Vizor, Which Is Double
1987. But Yet No Stroke Well Worthy of Their Might
1988. The Assistants' Hearts Were Frozen at the Blow
1989. I Think That Blow Was by Some Angel Stayed
1990. Had Balisarda Smote Him Full, Though Crowned
1991. Never Raged Trampled Serpent, Never So
1992. Poised in His Stirrups Stood the Tartar Lord
1993. Rogero Drawing Balisarda Back
1994. For This He Pauses Not, but Spurs Amain
1995. Whate'er That Sword Takes-In It Shears Outright
1996. If Cleft His Vizor Through the Midst; 'Twas Well
1997. The Spouting Blood of Either Cavalier
1998. He the Left Side of His Good Cuirass Gored
1999. Not Unavenged the Unhappy Monarch Dies
2000. Smit Was the Child by Mandricardo's Hand
2001. Rogero Was the First Who Went to Ground
2002. But When by Tokens Manifest Appear
2003. Each with Rogero Is Rejoiced, and Feels
2004. Nor to Rogero Lean the Men Alone
2005. I Say Perchance, Nor Warrant It I Dare
2006. Though He Did Well Alive, What Could Be Done
2007. Agramant Bids Them Diligently Lay
2008. With Mandricardo's Arms, His Other Weed
2009. Bradamant's Torment Have I To Recount
2010. And How the Child, in Rescue of the Steed
2011. To Find Herself with Written Scroll Appaid
2012. Four Times, Nay Six, She That Epistle Read
2013. Rogero's Word Was Pledged for His Return
2014. To Her Rogero, in His Absence, Said
2015. The Comfort That Hippalca's Words Convey
2016. But in That He His Promise Ill Maintained
2017. This While Mount Alban's Prince and Castellain
2018. Hither Had Good Rinaldo Now Repaired
2019. There, Hearing of the Safety of That Pair
2020. His Course to Mont Albano Had He Ta'En
2021. Guichard, Duke Aymon's Eldest Born, and They
2022. And, Saying That She Ailed, Most Truly Said
2023. What Sweeter, Gladder, State Could Be Possest
2024. For by All Bitters Else Which Interpose
2025. That Which the Heart Aye Sees, Though Undiscerned
2026. Scorn, and Repulse, and Finally Each Pain
2027. This Is That Cruel and Envenomed Wound
2028. I Speak Not of What Fatal Mischief Wrought
2029. The Following Day They Met a Cavalier
2030. Him Underneath the Vizor's Sight Offends
2031. His Lance Guichardo Levelled, When He Spied
2032. All to Be Foremost in the Joust Contend
2033. So Spake the Knight, Yet Spake Not in a Tone
2034. The Chargers Such a Rough Encounter Made
2035. And to His Foe, That Having Wheeled Anew
2036. To Him Rinaldo, "if We for Thy Horse
2037. To That King Paladin with Praise Replied
2038. Their Cruel and Despiteous Blows Resound
2039. One Hour and More Than Half Another, Stood
2040. Rinaldo in Himself Revolving Weighed
2041. The Stranger Knight, Upon the Other Side
2042. He Gladly Would Be Quit of the Emprize
2043. He of Mount Alban Is the First to Say
2044. For Montalbano's Lord the Stranger Guest
2045. Guido the Savage Was That Cavalier
2046. Sir Guido, When He Knew His Host to Be
2047. While Neither They Through Talk Their Journey Stay
2048. I Will Not Tell What Welcome to the Peer
2049. Ever, I Deem, Good Guido Would Have Been
2050. So One Day and Another Prick the Train
2051. As Guido Them, They Gallant Guido Knew
2052. Nor Them He Less Had Recognized at Sight
2053. They -- Erst at Feud and with Sore Hate Possest
2054. When She, That Gentle Damsel, Now More Near
2055. Fair Flordelice Was She, the Stranger Dame
2056. By Accident, So Strange and Sad, Distrust
2057. But Since His Band Already Had He Dight
2058. His Squadron in the Wood He Placed, and There
2059. A Mile An-End with Aquilant He Prest
2060. At the First Charge on That Unchristened Band
2061. To Strike More Dread Into the Moorish Foe
2062. Is None So Bold of All That Paynimry
2063. Guido Succeeds; No Less Their Foe Pursue
2064. Seven Hundred Men with Good Rinaldo Speed
2065. If Good Rinaldo Gathers Small Supplies
2066. Them Now in Succour of King Charles He Stirred
2067. Tidings to Charles Rinaldo Had Conveyed
2068. Whom by Such Long and by Such Tedious Way
2069. To Dame and Damsel in That Ancient Age
2070. Had He Such Strange and Evil Tidings Heard
2071. She Tells Him How the Perilous Bridge's Floor
2072. Brandimart, Who the Country Loves as Dear
2073. Thitherward Were Orlando She Had Spied
2074. With Lofty Voice the Sovereign of Argier
2075. Brandimart, at the Paynim's Proud Discourse
2076. The Paynim's Courser, Ever Used to Go
2077. With Heavy Spears, the Growth of Forest Hoar
2078. When Either Steed Would Nimbly Spring From Ground
2079. With All Their Weight, Down Hurtled From the Steep
2080. He Where 'Tis Hand and Where 'Tis Softer Knows
2081. Whelming Them Upside-Down, the Waters Flow
2082. Moved by Her Words, He Lent Her Lover Aid
2083. All Happiness Was in That Damsel Spent
2084. She Parts, and Has Anew Already Planned
2085. Who Was That Champion, Shall Be Said Elsewhere
2086. King Agramant in His Pavilion Lies
2087. Uncounselled and Confused, the King Arrayed
2088. Marsilius So, Sobrino So, Their Fear
2089. Agramant to Those Lords' Opinion Bent
2090. Those Whom Rinaldo, Whom His Brethren Slew
2091. Here One Conjectures Malagigi Bore
2092. Chased by Rinaldo and King Charlemagne
2093. Nay; When He Hears It Is Mount Alban's Knight
2094. Gradasso Had Desired Long Time Before
2095. Hence Had That King Repaired to the Sea-Shore
2096. Now That Gradasso Learns Mount Alban's Peer
2097. He Seeks the Paladin, Now Here Now There
2098. When King Gradasso Recognized the Foe
2099. Guido the Savage, as He Spake, Was Nigh
2100. Courteous Was Sericana's Cavalier
2101. Next Calls Upon the Son of Buovo, Who
2102. The King of Sericane, as Loath to Leave
2103. Thither Rinaldo Will the Steed Convey
2104. With Mighty Marvel and with Greater Pain
2105. When They So Agreed, Gradasso Made
2106. It Seemed Rinaldo's Friends Were All in Fear
2107. And Malagigi, More Than All the Rest
2108. When Now From Either Side Those Warriors Meet
2109. I Recollect That I Was Bound to Sing
2110. So Was I Bound to Sing, but I Begun
2111. But It Behoves, Ere More of These Be Said
2112. With Horse and Foot, of Good or Evil Sort
2113. He Offers Rodomont, if to His Side
2114. As a Free Gift to Him the Martial Fair
2115. She Pardoned Every Ancient Injury
2116. The Hangman Hung His Corpse in Desert Field
2117. This While Does Good Duke Aymon's Daughter Mourn
2118. Aye Sick with Hope Deferred, the Expecting Maid
2119. How Oft of Dormouse, Badger, or of Bear
2120. She Here and There, Throughout the Livelong Night
2121. When, Saving Some Four Days, the Term Was Ended
2122. When Shining Arms at Distance She Perceives
2123. And Then She Arms, and Will the Warrior Meet
2124. Sorrow the Maid So Wholly Occupies
2125. For a Month's Space Beyond Those Twenty Days
2126. Bound Homeward From the Hostile Camp, Where Lay
2127. Of Him a Full Account Did He Afford
2128. But Then Subjoins the Gascon Cavalier
2129. And Hope, When Healed Shall Be the Youthful Knight
2130. What He Rehearsed, the Gascon Knight Believed
2131. That She with Him Had Brought the Paynim Aid
2132. She Solely to the Camp Had Ta'En Her Way
2133. When Bradamant the Gascon's Story Heard
2134. Turned on Her Face, Her Body on the Bed
2135. Resolved to Die, 'Twas So the Damsel Cried
2136. The Vest Is of That Colour Which Is Spied
2137. She Took the Courser That Was Wont to Bear
2138. Without Attendants, Without Squire, Alone
2139. Before the Lady and Behind Her Ride
2140. After Him Gallops Not, Nor Hurries Ought
2141. This Grieved the Damsel's Heart, but Far Above
2142. As When From Squall, or Other Chance, a Barge
2143. She Raised Her Eyes at Last, and Saw the Sun
2144. To Better Speed Fair Bradamant Aroused
2145. To Her the Shepherd Said, "I Know of None
2146. Though Rabican's Good Paces Merit Praise
2147. He Answers That the Place Is Occupied
2148. The Guard His Message Bore, Where at Their Ease
2149. Three Cavaliers They Were, of Might So Tried
2150. In Feats of Arms Few Warriors Were More Stout
2151. Such Transport as the Longing Gallant Cheers
2152. When She Beheld, How, of the Drawbridge Clear
2153. The King of Sweden, Foremost of Those Knights
2154. When at Three Strokes She Had Unhorsed Them All
2155. As Bradamant Unarms, and First Her Shield
2156. As When the Stage's Curtain Is Uprolled
2157. Already So Well-Grown and Widely Spread
2158. With Modest and with Mirthful Talk This While
2159. In the Great Hall That Plenteous Board Was Laid
2160. So Beauteous Are the Figures, That Instead
2161. The Guests Were Placed, and Now About to Eat
2162. The Lord Some Matrons of His Household Crew
2163. The Warder Cries to That Islandic Dame
2164. As in a Moment's Time a Cloud Obscure
2165. The Maid Turns Pale, and All Her Colour Flies
2166. Bradamant -- Grieved That Maid of Gentle Kind
2167. As When Hot Summer Sun the Soil Has Rived
2168. At Length the Supper, Which Had Long Been Dight
2169. The Supper Done -- Brought Sooner to a Close
2170. Timagoras, Parrhasius, Polygnote
2171. And Those, Yet Living or of Earlier Day
2172. The Painters We Have Seen, and Others, Who
2173. Yet Let Not Artist Whether New or Old
2174. That Art, Whereby Those Ancient Erst Pourtrayed
2175. So Said, He Leads the Listening Ladies Where
2176. He Shows King Pepin, Shows King Charlemagne
2177. A Youthful Pepin of the Royal Line
2178. He Shows Them Next (but After Interval
2179. And the French Host, Decoyed in Cunning Wise
2180. Successively That Castellain Displayed
2181. The Warder of the Castle, Who Makes Clear
2182. So Saying, to His Guests the Cavalier
2183. Under Italian Escort Next They See
2184. The Host Reproved Himself, While So He Said
2185. That Warder Then Shows Caesar Borgia, Grown
2186. These Histories and More the Pictures Shew
2187. When with These Pictures They Their Sight Had Fed
2188. Yet Slumber Toward Dawn, and in a Dream
2189. The Clouds Were Gone, the Horizon Overspread
2190. And Found, the Lady Messenger, with Maid
2191. Add to Such Ill, That, Hungering Sore for Food
2192. And -- Each Resolved to Die or Else His Name
2193. Not Thinking, Howsoe'er, She Was a Maid
2194. For Bradamant No More Her Courser Wheeled
2195. For They, as Thither They Their Course Addrest
2196. When They by Ulany Were Certified
2197. What Arms They Had Upon Them, They Unbound
2198. And That They Evermore Afoot Would Fare
2199. Lodged in a Township at the Fall of Night
2200. No Signal They, No Trumpet They Attend
2201. None E'Er by Proof Two Other Faulchions Chose
2202. With Mickle Industry, with Mighty Pain
2203. Rinaldo with More Skill His Blade Inclined
2204. They Good Baiardo by a Monster View
2205. Perhaps It Was a Bird; but When or Where
2206. Rinaldo and Gradasso, Who Descried
2207. Quitting the Fount, They Follow, Where They View
2208. Rinaldo Ceased in Little Time to Spy
2209. In Case, as Erst Concerted by the Twain
2210. And Found Him Shrowded in His Caverned Lair
2211. Astolpho in His Flight Will I Pursue
2212. To Arragon He Past Out of Navarre
2213. Beneath Him Cadiz and the Strait He Spied
2214. Morocco, Fez, and Oran, Looking Down
2215. To Other Tremizen He Posts, Where Bred
2216. In Aethiopia's Realm Senapus Reigns
2217. Astolpho Lighted in the Spacious Court
2218. High Prized Withal, Albeit It So Abound
2219. In Wall and Roof and Pavement Scattered Are
2220. The Soldan, King of the Egyptian Land
2221. Of All Those Aethiop Monarchs, Beyond Measure
2222. Whene'er to Eat or Drink the Wretched Man
2223. And This, Because Upborn by Such a Tide
2224. Upon This Hill Which Well-Nigh Kissed the Skies
2225. God Marred the Rash Emprise, and From on High
2226. And Him Had Plunged in Uttermost Despair
2227. Now That with Wonderment His Followers Spy
2228. Within the Castle Court Astolpho Flew
2229. Forthwith a Solemn Banquet They Prepare
2230. All Bear a Female Face of Pallid Dye
2231. The Fowls Are Heard in Air; Then Swoops Amain
2232. At Croup or Collar Now He Aims His Blow
2233. That King Had Firmly Hoped the Cavalier
2234. And First to Fill Their Ears, to King and Train
2235. The Meats He to an Open Galley Bears
2236. Almost at That Aerial Mountain's Feet
2237. O Fierce and Hungry Harpies, That on Blind
2238. Too Foul a Fault Was His, Who Did Unclose
2239. Till She Her Sons Has Shaken by the Hair
2240. Hunting Those Hideous Birds, That Cavalier
2241. Astolpho Doubts if He Within Shall Wend
2242. He Speedily His Winged Horse Forsook
2243. But as He More Descends Into That Lair
2244. In That Dim Cavern Was So Little Light
2245. When Him a Melancholy Voice Addressed
2246. Nor Juno, Nor Eurystheus, in Such Chase
2247. Since Wretched Lydia Spake No More, the Peer
2248. The Motion of His Quickly Shifting Feet
2249. And Next to Bar the Way Against That Band
2250. While in That Cave Astolpho Did Remain
2251. Then Backed the Griffin-Horse, and Soared a Flight
2252. Here Sapphire, Ruby, Gold, and Topaz Glow
2253. Warble the Wanton Birds in Verdant Brake
2254. And This, Mid Fruit and Flower and Verdure There
2255. Thither Where Those Transparent Walls Appear
2256. Astound with Wonder, Paused the Adventurous Knight
2257. An Elder, in the Shining Entrance-Hall
2258. He, with Glad Visage, to the Paladin
2259. He of Our Lord So Loved, the Blessed John
2260. Translated Thither, He Found Company
2261. The Holy Ancients to a Chamber Lead
2262. When with That Daily Payment Which Man Owes
2263. Much That Not Lawfully Could Here Be Shown
2264. In Talk the Blest Apostle Is Diffuse
2265. Four Goodly Coursers Next, and Redder Far
2266. The Chariot, Towering, Threads the Fiery Sphere
2267. Here Doubly Waxed the Paladin's Surprize
2268. Here Other River, Lake, and Rich Champaign
2269. He, That with Other Scope Had Thither Soared
2270. Nor Here Alone of Realm and Wealthy Dower
2271. The Lover's Tears and Sighs; What Time in Pleasure
2272. He, Passing by Those Heaps, on Either Hand
2273. Golden and Silver Hooks to Sight Succeed
2274. O'Erturned, Here Ruined Town and Castle Lies
2275. He Marks Mighty Pool of Porridge Spilled
2276. A Large Provision, Next, of Twigs and Lime
2277. He Turns Him Back, Upon Some Days and Deeds
2278. The Names of Those Whose Wits Therein Were Pent
2279. Some Waste on Love, Some Seeking Honour, Lose
2280. Since His Consent the Apostle Signified
2281. A Second Dame Replaced the Work When Done
2282. On All the Fleeces That Erewhile Were Laid
2283. That Elder Is So Nimble and So Prest
2284. Madonna, Who Will Scale the High Ascent
2285. To Have Anew That Judgment, Through the Skies
2286. Astolpho Wandered Through That Palace Wide
2287. The Beauteous Fleece He Saw with Wondrous Glee
2288. I Know Not if You Recollect; of Him
2289. I Say, That When Upon the River Side
2290. Along That River and Around It Fly
2291. When They Would Raise Themselves in Upward Flight
2292. Thus, Counter to That Ancient's Will Malign
2293. To Immortality 'Tis Sacred; There
2294. Of That Old Sire, and Why He Would Dispense
2295. Henceforth with That Apostle Let the Peer
2296. And Afterwards Arriving in a Town
2297. She Towards Provence, by the Nearest Road
2298. She Sought One of an Otter's Nimbleness
2299. Flordelice Marked the Maid, That, in Her Sight
2300. With These Last Words a Sigh That Damsel Drew
2301. And as the Maid Appears in Martial Scale
2302. King Rodomont Prepares His Course to Run
2303. Scarce for Her Horse the Martial Damsel Can
2304. The Damsel Wheeled, Towards the Cavalier
2305. Silent and Sad, He Raised Himself From Ground
2306. He Parts; and Save That in a Caverned Cell
2307. Besides the Arms of Monodantes' Heir
2308. All Others, Taken From the Paynim Train
2309. Stript of His Armour and Afoot, Did Part
2310. Yet Still with New Desire the Warrior Burned
2311. When She in Other Writing Had Displaid
2312. Through Long Days' Journey, by That River-Shore
2313. She Forward Rode, Within the Enclosure Sped
2314. Rogero Stands Confused; He Finds No End
2315. To Think 'Twas Rodomont the Youthful Peer
2316. To Agramant and King Marsilius Flew
2317. In Beauteous Arms and Costly Surcoat Drest
2318. The Moorish King, That on the Rampart's Height
2319. Grandonio De Volterna, Fierce of Mood
2320. She Cries, "I Would Not Thy Discourtesy
2321. Bradamant's Sharp and Stinging Answer Stirred
2322. To Him the High-Minded Damsel Gave His Horse
2323. They on the Walls, That Know Not Who the Peer
2324. The Third Encounter Craved Lanfusa's Son
2325. He Bowned Him for the Tournay, on His Side
2326. She Spoke the Word in All Simplicity
2327. They Take Their Ground, and to the Encounter Ride
2328. Rogero (for Not Yet That Warrior Knows
2329. Where'er They Be, All Hearts of Gentle Strain
2330. Among the Warriors of Antiquity
2331. All the Inhuman Deeds Which Wrought by Hand
2332. Though a Foul Vengeance in That Blow Was Meant
2333. This Will I Pass, Nor Their So Many More
2334. As Hector and Aeneas, Mid the Flood
2335. Feruffine 'Scaped, the Good Cantelmo Left
2336. I Ween, Mid Warriors in the Days of Yore
2337. I Of That Lady Fair, of Mickle Might
2338. Rogero Heard the Call in Joyous Vein
2339. Stung, at These Tidings, by the Amorous Dart --
2340. Now Fierce Marphisa, Who Was There, and Prest
2341. She Leapt Upon Her Horse, and Thither Hied
2342. Whether the Maid Would Publish, in Her Pride
2343. Or Rather She, That Gentle Lady Thought
2344. Parforce to Ground Must Go the Royal Maid
2345. She Whirls This While Her Faulchion, and Would Fain
2346. Scarce Down, Marphisa Started From the Plain
2347. This While Some Knights (Some Knights Upon Our Side
2348. Troyano's Generous Son, Who Had Espied
2349. The Enamoured Youth, with Beating Heart, Intent
2350. And When He Saw Unfinished Was the Fight
2351. If So Rogero Could with Honour Do
2352. On This Side and That Other, Rings the Alarm
2353. As Fierce as Thought Could Think, 'Twixt Either Host
2354. By the Eagle Argent on the Shield of Blue
2355. So Said, She Spurred at Him Amid the Throng
2356. Her Further Meaning Well Did He Divine
2357. Rogero, When He Saw Her So Offended
2358. Above Three Hundred Men in That Affray
2359. As When Soft Southern Breezes Are Unpent
2360. Would She Not, Could She Not, She Nought Replied
2361. Within That Thicket, of White Marble Wrought
2362. But Turn We to Marphisa, That Anew
2363. She Pricks Her Horse Behind the Two, and Gains
2364. And Him Perfidious She Anew Did Name
2365. Angrier Than Venomed Viper, with a Bound
2366. Bradamant Who Will Die, or in That Just
2367. But Is Too Slow Withal; for on Her Feet
2368. At Half-Sword's Engage the Struggling Foes
2369. When He Entreaties Unavailing Found
2370. Rogero Ceased Not From His Task; He Caught
2371. At Last His Faulchion Young Rogero Drew
2372. Bradamant Took Her Sword, and to Descry
2373. He Knew the Virtues of That Weapon Well
2374. In That, a Mighty Stroke Marphisa Sped
2375. And Had Upon His Head Descended Shear
2376. I Cannot Tell You Truly in What Wise
2377. The Horrid Voice Exclaims, "Your Quarrel Leave
2378. Gladly a Sister in the Martial Queen
2379. Rogero From Marphisa Does Not Hide
2380. Marphisa to Rogero Makes Request
2381. And How a Lovely Daughter, Who Excelled
2382. And Country, Sire, and Brethren Two Betrayed
2383. Valiant Marphisa, with a Tranquil Face
2384. When Afterwards She From Her Brother Knew
2385. In the Beginning So He Should Have Done
2386. But, as to Bradamant Whilere, He Cries
2387. And She, That Every Day Had Sought His Bed
2388. If, as in Seeking Other Gift to Gain
2389. And, if They of Themselves Sufficient Were
2390. To Furnish Mutual Aid Is Not Enow
2391. But Hands or Tongue Ne'Er Had, Nor Has, the Skill
2392. Not Only Thomyris and Harpalice
2393. Faithful, Chaste, and Bold, the World Hath Seen
2394. But Ye That Prosper in the Exercise
2395. Erewhile Marullo and Pontante for You
2396. One of This Pair (Besides That, of His Will
2397. So That He Never More Will Wearied Be
2398. And Well He Merits, That a Dame So Blest
2399. New Trophies He on Oglio's Bank Has Shown
2400. There's Hercules of the Carnuti, Son
2401. And Beside These and Others of Our Day
2402. If I Of These Would Separately Tell
2403. One Will I Choose, and Such Will Choose, That She
2404. As Phoebus to His Silvery Sister Shows
2405. Mid Victories Born, Victoria Is Her Name
2406. If Chaste Laodamia, Portia True
2407. If That Loud-Voiced Maeonian Trump Whilere
2408. If All That Is to Tell, and All I Fain
2409. Now, Being Here to Listen to My Say
2410. Ladies, in Fine I Say, That Every Age
2411. Bradamant and Marphisa Would I Say
2412. As Said, in Act to Go Rogero Stood
2413. They Rode An-End; and Louder Waxed the Sound
2414. As Vulcan's Son, That Sprang (as It Is Versed
2415. At That Dishonest Sight and Shameful, Glows
2416. And Recognised the Other Two No Less
2417. Ulany, That in Bradamant Descried
2418. What of the Shield Became, She Cannot Say
2419. To Hear, Yet More to See, So Foul a Wrong
2420. With One Constant, the Maids and Cavalier
2421. To Gentle Bradamant Ulania Showed
2422. They to a Hamlet on the Summit Wound
2423. Not More Bold Jason Wondered, and the Train
2424. The Martial Damsels Bid for Ulany
2425. How in That Impious Man Such Fury Grew
2426. Chapter 2426
2427. Chapter 2427
2428. So Saying, in Those Maids of Martial Might
2429. The Chamber Wench, Made Prisoner with His Prize
2430. News Being After to Her Foeman Brought
2431. He on a Sumpter Horse the Prisoner Sent
2432. As the Flood, Swoln with Vesulo's Thick Snows
2433. Them with Such Hatred, Them with Such Disdain
2434. But First 'Tis Right That Woman to Unchain
2435. Even as the Wolf, Who, Laden with His Prey
2436. Not Only They the Dame and Martial Gear
2437. Thence, Lightened Thus, Their Way They Thither Bend
2438. They Reached a Summit, and From Thence Espied
2439. As Soon as in the Town That Cavalcade
2440. Marphisa, Who Had Planned the Thing Whilere
2441. The Maid of France Is with Marphisa Gone
2442. As Many as Are Touched, So Many Lie
2443. Meanwhile the Hands of Marganor, Behind
2444. Such End to Compass Is No Hard Assay
2445. Since None Dares Trust Another, Nor His Will
2446. The Rabble, Full of Rage and Enmity
2447. Many, of Whom the Sister Had Been Slain
2448. Nor She the Courier Maid, Nor They That Ride
2449. As Torrent One While Foams in Haughty Tide
2450. So Marganor Whilere Each Bound and Bourn
2451. This Without Contest Its Possessors Yield
2452. For From the Day That They Were Overthrown
2453. For She Would Have Been Dragged, -- Like Others, Whom
2454. Before They Hence Depart, the Martial Twain
2455. Then Make Them Promise Never to Bestow
2456. And, if He Then Were Wived, or Ever Were
2457. Nor Hence They Part Ill From the Filthy Place
2458. Beside a Church, the Martial Damsels Twain
2459. Within the Town the Troop Set Up Their Rest
2460. Here Ulany Remained, and in Her Power
2461. Throughout All That and the Succeeding Day
2462. Ye Courteous Ladies, Who Unto My Strain
2463. If From Her Side for Other Cause Had Gone
2464. Yet to Preserve Our Honour Not Alone
2465. For if His Life, Whom Gentle Woman Loves
2466. His Duty Good Rogero Satisfied
2467. He Will Perform His Duty to Repair
2468. To Arles-Town Whither Had His King Conveyed
2469. Bradamant, When She in the Camp Appeared
2470. When Next 'Tis Known, the Second of the Twain
2471. By Them Was Charles Saluted Reverently
2472. Her Kindly Charlemagne Received, and Wide
2473. She Adds, the Christian Faith She Will Receive
2474. Charles, No Less Eloquent Upon His Side
2475. Then Rose and Locked Her in a New Embrace
2476. They Deck the Ground for the Ensuing Day
2477. In Sacred Stole, Pontifical, Arraid
2478. The Duke Descended From the Lucid Round
2479. That He, for This and for His First Desert
2480. Then Made Him That Plumed Beast Again Bestride
2481. Great Was the Joy, and Great Was the Delight
2482. So That Not Only Those Whom He Demands
2483. The Night Before the Day, When on Its Road
2484. He, as His Master Erst Instruction Gave
2485. To Nubia He, Rejoicing in His Prey
2486. And Having Gained the Mountain's Hither Side
2487. After He, Lowly Kneeling in the Dust
2488. They, Neighing Shrill, Down Narrow Paths Repair
2489. He Fourscore Thousand of His Nubian Power
2490. Erewhile a Nimble Bark, with Sail and Oar
2491. Agramant, Hearing in What Peril Lies
2492. He Said; and on Marsilius Seated Nigh
2493. Thus Warily the Spanish King Replied
2494. Chapter 2494
2495. Chapter 2495
2496. With These and Other Sayings Yet More Sound
2497. In This Accord Like Cause for Pleasure Find
2498. Rinaldo Felt Himself Much Magnified
2499. Rogero, Though Much Honoured, on His Part
2500. But Because Sister of the Christian Knight
2501. If Silently Rogero Made Lament
2502. Nought Can Result to Bradamant but Pain
2503. For, Without Shame and Scorn, She Never May
2504. But She, That Ever, When Things Adverse Were
2505. Meanwhile Their Weapons for the Future Fray
2506. Whether Chance Moved Mountalban's Martial Lord
2507. Watchful Aurora Hardly From the Bower
2508. After Short Pause, Was Seen Upon the Plain
2509. On the Other Part, Without His Camp Appears
2510. And, of Two Axes, Hath Duke Namus One
2511. After the Second Choice of Arms Was Made
2512. Charlemagne, at His Altar, to the Sky
2513. This Done, They Seek That Altar, Sumptuously
2514. And Like Him, Nor in Under Tone, He Swears
2515. Now with the Axe's Blade, Now with Its Heel
2516. Rather to Parry Then to Smite Intent
2517. Than That Fell Woe Which on Rogero Weighs
2518. Rinaldo, Unimpeded by Such Thought
2519. To Most of Them That Led the Paynim Bands
2520. Meanwhile the Weird Melissa, She -- the Font
2521. She Towards Troyano's Mournful Son Did Guide
2522. He, Thinking That the Monarch of Algiers
2523. The Champions Two, That, Against All Accord
2524. They Sweat Anew, the King Who Had O'Erthrown
2525. As Greyhound in the Slip, That the Fleet Hare
2526. They Till That Hour Upon the Spacious Plain
2527. Marphisa Piercing Her First Victim's Breast
2528. They Witness to Each Others' Exploits Are
2529. As When Benigner Winds More Swiftly Blow
2530. So Those High-Minded Virgin Warriors Two
2531. He at His Exhortation (So He Trowed
2532. And, with Those Peers, Is More Than One Confest
2533. But, Putting This Affray Some While Aside
2534. Such as the Monarchs Could in Haste Engage
2535. So Proved They; for the Foe Was Scarce in View
2536. More Grieved as Bucifaro's Loss Alone
2537. Him Under Monaco, Upon the Shore
2538. A Paladin Himself, Astolpho Knows
2539. Astolpho Leading Such a Countless Band
2540. And Filling Next as Full as They Could Be
2541. They Wax in Number Beyond All Esteem
2542. It Was a Miracle to See Them Grown
2543. Twenty-Six Thousand Were the Troop That Manned
2544. She Carried Those, Whom at the Bridge of Dread
2545. The Patron, Yet Unweeting He Should Find
2546. But When, Arrived, the Imperial Eagle Spread
2547. But No Retreat From Peril Is There Here
2548. King Otho's Son Kind Welcome Did Afford
2549. Of Charles, and in What State, What Order Are
2550. The Duke Astolpho and the Goodly Throng
2551. The Naked Savage Whirled a Sapling Round
2552. This Was Fair Flordelice, Whose Bosom So
2553. When Now She for That Harbour Would Have Weighed
2554. She Knowing Old Bardino in That Wight
2555. As Soon as Landed, That Biserta Lies
2556. The Gentle Baron No Less Gladly Eyed
2557. He Stretched His Arms, and Would Embrace the Knight
2558. At the Same Time, Withal, Astolpho Bold
2559. With Breast and Heart Transfixed with Pity, Cried
2560. So Grieve and So Lament the Greater Part
2561. Seeing the Circle Round About Him Grow
2562. It Only Burst the Shield, and in Such Thunder
2563. Orlando Shook Himself, and England's Knight
2564. And Save His Morion Had Been More Than Good
2565. Dudon Orlando From Behind Embraced
2566. Let Him Imagine, So Orlando Drew
2567. He Many a Hawser Made Them Thither Bring
2568. As Soon as Down, They All Upon Him Are
2569. Seven Times Astolpho Makes Them Wash the Knight
2570. Valiant Astolpho Had Prepared the Vase
2571. As One, That Seems in Troubled Sleep to See
2572. Aldabelle's Brother, Monodantes' Son
2573. Then Said, as Erst Silenus Said -- When Seen
2574. When to His Former Self He Was Recovered
2575. Meanwhile Bardino Told to Brandimart
2576. He Said, Mid Many Reasons Which He Prest
2577. Upon the Following Day, for Provence Steer
2578. The Order Taken to Attack the Town
2579. Well Nigh Abandoned Was Their Royal Lord
2580. Yet Royal Agramant the Fight Maintains
2581. Marphisa by the Same Desire Was Stirred
2582. As Two Fair Generous Pards, That From Some Crag
2583. Yet Therefore Halt Not, but in Fury Go
2584. And Bade on Rhone Break All the Bridges Down
2585. Of the Great Multitude of Either Train
2586. Meanwhile His Heavy Ships of Deepest Draught
2587. Royal Marsilius, in That Fatal Hour
2588. Yet Sometimes Two or Three Their Lips Unclose
2589. Not in Biserta's Port His Host to Land
2590. Not Yet to Him Have Tidings Been Conveyed
2591. In Bearing Down, Impelled by Winds That Blow
2592. Bold Dudon's Men, to Whom Unwonted Might
2593. One Headlong Plunged, Pursued by Fire and Sword
2594. Him, That to Save His Life I' the Waters Thought
2595. This Vainly to the Sea Resorts, Whom Spear
2596. The Diverse Chances of That Sea-Fight Dread
2597. Your Faithful People Gazed on a Long Show
2598. I Saw Not, I, Who Was Compelled to Course
2599. But Trotto, Present at This Victory
2600. He That Those Wrecks and Blazing Fires Discerned
2601. Hence Agramant, That by the Dark Deceived
2602. Into a Boat He with Some Few Descends
2603. Agramant Flies, and with Him Old Sobrine
2604. And Hence in Public Order Was It Said
2605. Orlando and the Duke, Like Christians True
2606. And So, When Now Devoutly Have Been Done
2607. The Holy Priests Within Biserta's Wall
2608. And, When the Cadi Hath His Blessing Said
2609. Washed by the Sea, Upon Two Quarters, Were
2610. The Nubian King Is Charged by England's Peer
2611. This and That Other Thing the Nubians Bore
2612. The Nubian Upon Hope of Gain Intent
2613. For Steel, and Fire, and Roof, and Turret There
2614. The Assault Is Reinforced on Every Side
2615. Orlando, Oliviero, Brandimart
2616. So Better Could Be Seen Each Warrior's Claim
2617. Brandimart to the Walls a Ladder Brought
2618. Here Clang with Hand and Foot the Daring Knight
2619. Not Therefore Blenched the Valiant Cavalier
2620. He, Without Any Harm on the Hard Ground
2621. Throughout the Squadrons a Deep Rumour Flew
2622. Those Warriors, and Orlando Most of All
2623. As on Loud Ocean, Lashed by Boisterous Gale
2624. Thus When Those Win the Wall, They Leave a Space
2625. Even with That Rage Wherewith the Stream That Reigns
2626. Even with That Rage Rushed in the Impetuous Band
2627. Filled with Dead Bodies of the Paynim Horde
2628. The Victors, Laden with Their Mighty Prey
2629. By Olivier, Amid That Slaughter Wide
2630. Agramant, Who Had Left Without a Guide
2631. In Such and Such Like Words, with Wary Art
2632. Jugurtha, Martial Hannibal, and More
2633. And Therefore Aye, Throughout That Warfare Drear
2634. Eastward King Agramant Had Turned His Prow
2635. With Juniper and Myrtle Overgrown
2636. Here Other Vessel, Sheltered From the Main
2637. With Much Displeasure Sericana's Knight
2638. Chapter 2638
2639. Gradasso's Second Offer Seemed to Be
2640. Stricken in Years, Yet Vigorous Was the Sage
2641. With Equal Number of Armed Knights to Be
2642. From Those Three Monarchs to the Cavalier
2643. Deeming He Should Not Find That King Elsewhere
2644. He Chose for His Companions in the Fight
2645. Orlando (as I Oft Have Certified
2646. What Could Be Had of Armour, Rusted O'Er
2647. She, Without Pilot, Without Crew, Alone
2648. I Spake of That Good Pair of Warriors, Who
2649. Meanwhile a Servant of the Child's, at Hand
2650. Thence He Departed; but He First Renewed
2651. From All He Hears Repeated, Far and Near
2652. Rogero Ponders if He Should Remain
2653. A Wakeful, Stinging Care, on the Other Side
2654. He All That Day and the Ensuing Night
2655. He Made for Arles, Where Yet He Hoped Would Ride
2656. Upon Some Boat He Hoped to Lay His Hand
2657. The Vessels of the Moor That Were Not Made
2658. Dudon Had Issued Forth Upon Dry Land
2659. Rogero, When From Far the Ships He Spied
2660. In Their Unhappy State to Leave That Crew
2661. The Noise Sir Dudon Hears, the Slaughter Spies
2662. He Called on Every One to Stand Aside
2663. Already, on His Part, Had Moved the Dane
2664. Bold Dudon Had with Him That Iron Mace
2665. But for the Gentle Youth Was Ever Willed
2666. He Therefore Never Thrust in That Affray
2667. The Flat as Featly as the Edge He Plies
2668. The Odour Which Well-Fashioned Bear or Hair
2669. The Drink That to His Cost Good Icarus Drew
2670. The Famous Lineage, for So Many Years
2671. As in His Every Other Feat Exprest
2672. The Danish Warrior Was Well Certified
2673. Chapter 2673
2674. With That He Showed Those Seven Whereof I Spake
2675. He Looses Bark and Sail; and in Bold Wise
2676. It Shifts From Poop to Beam, From Beam to Prow
2677. Now Blows the Wind in Front, and Now in Rear
2678. But Sound or Signal Little Boots; the Eye
2679. In the Strained Tackle Sounds a Hollow Roar
2680. Fallen on Her Starboard Side, on Her Beam Ends
2681. A Fierce Assault and Cruel Coil Doth Keep
2682. On a Despiteous Sea, That Livelong Night
2683. Three Times and Four the Pale-Faced Pilot Wrought
2684. Perceiving Now That Nothing Can Defend
2685. Rogero, on Beholding Master, Mate
2686. Goes Down, and, Foundering, Drags with Her Whoe'er
2687. One Sinks Outright, No More to Reappear
2688. Himself with Hands and Feet the Warrior Rows
2689. She, Having Drifted Wildly with Her Guide
2690. And Willing to Discover if Alone
2691. Who Was So Hurried in His Hasty Flight
2692. And How Beneath Carena, on the Plain
2693. Such Pressing Need, in That He Had to Fight
2694. And, for of Harness He Had Little Need
2695. Against the Day of Fight, in Goodly Gear
2696. Bold Brandimart Designed Upon the Day
2697. With Her Own Hand the Lady Wrought That Vest
2698. The Heartfelt Fear, the Torment Evermore
2699. The Warriors to the Wind Their Canvas Rear
2700. Scarce, with Much Labour, the Two Captains Led
2701. Orlando Disembarks, with His Array
2702. Until the Skies the Dawning Light Receive
2703. Thus Brandimart to Afick's Cavalier
2704. When the First Whitening of the Dawn Was Seen
2705. Cleaving the Flood with Nimble Hands and Feet
2706. Those Many Promises Remembered Are
2707. And Ne'Er, in Succour of the Moorish Train
2708. His Vigour Grows; Unwearied Is His Mind
2709. All the Others That Had Plunged Into the Flood
2710. Yet He with an Unconquered Heart, Intent
2711. Who Cries, on His Approaching Him, "Saul, Saul
2712. And He, That Holiest Anchoret, Pursued
2713. That Anchoret Pursues, and Does Upbraid
2714. Then Comforts Him -- That Christ Aye Heaven Allows
2715. Above That Hallowed Cell, on the Hill's Brow
2716. That Hermit Lit a Fire, and Heaped the Board
2717. There Dwells the Young Rogero, Well Content
2718. The Lord, That Every Thing Doth See and Hear
2719. And, How That Treason Should Be Smothered So
2720. And How the Child, in Might and Beauty Grown
2721. And Because Charles Shall Say in Latin `Este'
2722. Who Shall, in Vision, to His Consort True
2723. On Azos, Alberts, Obysons, Did Dwell
2724. Meanwhile Orlando and Bold Brandimart
2725. When They Encounter in Mid Field, Pell-Mell
2726. Baiardo Shocked the Steed of Lesser Might
2727. With Agramant Encounters Olivier
2728. Now Brandimart, That Upon Earth Descried
2729. Roland Who Saw Gradasso in Such Guise
2730. Foreseeing the Assault with Wary Eye
2731. Of Such Fine Steel Was Balisarda's Blade
2732. Upon the Shoulder; Nor, Though Twisted Chain
2733. The Valorous Count, Redoubling Still His Blows
2734. Bold Brandimart, Who Guides Frontino's Rein
2735. Better Than Good Frontino Horse Is None
2736. Orlando Had Left Sobrino (as I Said
2737. He Seized the Horse (for None the Deed Gainsaid
2738. And in Face, Bosom, and in Thigh It Seamed
2739. No More in Arms Can Trust the Cavalier
2740. While So the Fight Is Balanced 'Mid Those Foes
2741. And Turned Anew to Olivier, to Speed
2742. He Hopes, if Him but Little He Withstood
2743. Brandimart Has Found Out the Royal Moor
2744. Him in the Flank Gradasso Too Had Gored
2745. Gradasso Has Orlando Half Disarmed
2746. Gradasso, Desperate When He Descried
2747. And Would by Any Other So Have Done
2748. So by the Noise Was Scared the Horse That Bore
2749. But Turning Round, Beholds the Royal Moor
2750. Gradasso Turned, Nor More Orlando Sought
2751. An Iron Ring That Girt His Helmet Round
2752. Come to Himself, the County Turns His Eye
2753. What Bit, What Iron Curb Is to Be Found
2754. And Is the Mind Sometimes, if So Possest
2755. Unconquered Duke Alphonso, Anger So
2756. Seeing Thy Fall Caused Thine Such Mighty Pain
2757. Haply Heaven's Vengeance Ordered What Befel
2758. To End; I Say That Other Rage Is None
2759. As Nomade Swain, Who Darting on Its Way
2760. Scaped, Bleeding, with Helm Loosened Form His Head
2761. Chapter 2761
2762. As the Headless Trunk of Africk's Cavalier
2763. Orlando Levels at His Better Side
2764. Orlando Lifts the Helmet, and Descries
2765. And -- "Roland, in Thy Helping Orisons, I
2766. Orlando, Albeit He Should Joy in Heart
2767. Warlike Sobrino, of Much Blood Bereaved
2768. And but Orlando Helped (So Woe Begone
2769. The Victory Brought Orlando Small Delight
2770. The County Has Him Taken, Bleeding Sore
2771. Here as My Story Stood Not on Good Ground
2772. Nor Deems He Likely, That Six Cavaliers
2773. So, of Fulgoso's Race Thou Shining Ray
2774. Meanwhile His Eyes the Good Orlando Reared
2775. See What She Does Withal, the Lady True
2776. And Now Her Too Accustomed Plaint and Wail
2777. The Sage Melissa She Accused, and Cursed
2778. Marphisa Shrugs Her Shoulders; What Alone
2779. She Makes Her Somewhat Thus Her Grief Restrain
2780. I Say Rinaldo That (as Known to You
2781. To Seek Her He a Hundred Couriers Sent
2782. A Case, So Strange and Wondrous, Marvel Sore
2783. And So Much More, That Out of Prison Ward
2784. But How Much More Rinaldo's Strange Demand
2785. For His Reply He Craved Some Small Delay
2786. Then One He Chooses, in Love-Cases Read
2787. And Says, Rinaldo, Having Drunk Whilere
2788. Him His Ill Star and Cruel Fate Conveyed
2789. Rinaldo Seeking Out the Sage Anew
2790. In That Bold Lover No Displeasure Deep
2791. No Power Hath He to Make One Sole Reply
2792. Licence He Asks of Pepin's Royal Son
2793. Charles Gives Him Leave to Go; Though, Far and Nigh
2794. Ever in Memory Dwells the Restless Thought
2795. The Thought Will Never From His Mind Depart
2796. When Within That Adventurous Wood Has Hied
2797. What in a Thousand, Thousand Quests Had Ne'Er
2798. The Monster So the Fierce Assault Did Make
2799. The Monster Threw a Serpent at His Breast
2800. Wend Where the Warrior Will, An-End or Wide
2801. By Gloomiest Track and Blindest Path He Still
2802. But Aid, and in Good Time, a Horseman Bore
2803. That Warrior's Mace a Fire Eternal Fills
2804. The Stranger Horseman, Like a Warrior Bold
2805. But Scarcely Was on Earth Extended, Ere
2806. And, While He Chases Her or Holds at Bay
2807. The Stranger, When He to Her Dark Retreat
2808. When Him Returned Beheld Montalban's Knight
2809. Chapter 2809
2810. My Lord, That Fountain's Chilling Stream and Clear
2811. Arriving at That Limpid River's Side
2812. Upon the Green Sward Lit the Martial Two
2813. Whenas Rinaldo, Sated with the Draught
2814. So Saying, Suddenly He Passed From Sight
2815. Of if an Angel From the Heavenly Sphere
2816. Old Hate Revived Upon Rinaldo's Side
2817. He Pricked to Basle Upon the Following Day
2818. Rinaldo Had Gladly Been at Roland's Side
2819. Much Towards Eve Already Sloped the Sun
2820. He, After Greeting Him, if He Were Tied
2821. A Bowshot From the Way Diverged the Two
2822. Of Serpentine and of Hard Porphyry Are
2823. A Gateway Is There to Each Galleried Row
2824. Above, Project the Arches in Such Sort
2825. Tall Columns, with Their Capitals of Gold
2826. By Cunning Master, Diligent and Wise
2827. Fair Amalthaea's Horn in the Right Hand
2828. Upon Two Beauteous Images Below
2829. The Images Below Them in Their Hand
2830. A Statue No Less Jocund, No Less Bright
2831. The Pair That Such Desirous Ardour Shew
2832. One Was Elizabeth, One Eleanor
2833. And One, Through Whom That City's Name (Where Sweet
2834. Dian Is Next in Order of That Train
2835. And a Cavallo Shall Make Such a Font
2836. Between This and That Lofty Column's Place
2837. None Knows, Observing Her with Steadfast View
2838. Albeit Such Grace and Passing Sweetness Shewed
2839. The Statues in the Middle Form a Round
2840. Conversing with His Courteous Host, the Peer
2841. Oft with Desire Was Good Rinaldo Stung
2842. The Host Then Somedeal Smiling, From the Board
2843. Rinaldo Was Nigh Moved the Cup to Raise
2844. Chapter 2844
2845. Some Earth and Sea and Heaven Above Us Square
2846. Armies by Him Are Broken in His Pride
2847. Chapter 2847
2848. Fain Would He Think Awhile, of Whom I Speak
2849. Chapter 2849
2850. Chapter 2850
2851. Meanwhile the Good Rinaldo Saying So
2852. Chapter 2852
2853. Chapter 2853
2854. Chapter 2854
2855. Chapter 2855
2856. Chapter 2856
2857. Chapter 2857
2858. Chapter 2858
2859. Chapter 2859
2860. Chapter 2860
2861. Chapter 2861
2862. Chapter 2862
2863. His Tale the Mournful Cavalier So Taught
2864. Chapter 2864
2865. Chapter 2865
2866. Here Ends Rinaldo, and -- the Parley Done --
2867. For Bed and Bower, Within, Were Ready Dight
2868. Good Seemed That Proffer in Rinaldo's Eyes
2869. As Soon as He Reclines His Weary Head
2870. Of Those Two Horns That Which T'Ward Venice Goes
2871. So Saying, in His Barge He All This While
2872. Before When He with Him That Way Had Gone
2873. He Heard, It in Fair Mansions Would Outdo
2874. And So Would Flourish Through His Study and Care
2875. So Wends the Warrior Summing in His Mind
2876. While Thus Rinaldo Speaks, So Swiftly Borne
2877. Montalban's Martial Lord (as It Befell
2878. And Him Bethinks Therewith of What the Knight
2879. The Knight of Clermont Buried in This Mood
2880. The Substance of the Talk Between the Two
2881. Chapter 2881
2882. Chapter 2882
2883. Chapter 2883
2884. Chapter 2884
2885. Chapter 2885
2886. Chapter 2886
2887. Chapter 2887
2888. Chapter 2888
2889. Chapter 2889
2890. Chapter 2890
2891. Chapter 2891
2892. Chapter 2892
2893. Chapter 2893
2894. Chapter 2894
2895. Chapter 2895
2896. Chapter 2896
2897. Chapter 2897
2898. Chapter 2898
2899. Chapter 2899
2900. Chapter 2900
2901. Chapter 2901
2902. Chapter 2902
2903. Chapter 2903
2904. Chapter 2904
2905. Chapter 2905
2906. The Fruits of Love Long Culled That Cavalier
2907. Chapter 2907
2908. Chapter 2908
2909. Chapter 2909
2910. Chapter 2910
2911. Chapter 2911
2912. Chapter 2912
2913. Chapter 2913
2914. Chapter 2914
2915. Chapter 2915
2916. Chapter 2916
2917. Chapter 2917
2918. Chapter 2918
2919. Chapter 2919
2920. Chapter 2920
2921. Chapter 2921
2922. Chapter 2922
2923. Chapter 2923
2924. Chapter 2924
2925. Chapter 2925
2926. Chapter 2926
2927. Chapter 2927
2928. Chapter 2928
2929. So Said the Mariner, and Some Brief Fit
2930. When the Sun Climbed a Steeper Road, the Knight
2931. Then Was Not Fair Bastia Built, Deem I
2932. Though Oft of Money He Had Small Supply
2933. Since Here None Takes His Rein, Rinaldo Bends
2934. There Changes Back; and Thence in Haste He Goes
2935. Thither He Came What Time Anglante's Peer
2936. From Tears Could Not the Mournful Count Refrain
2937. All Comfort That He Could He Gave; Though None
2938. At the Fair Conquest Won by Roland's Blade
2939. The Night Preceding That Ill-Omened Day
2940. And Seemed to Say, "Yet From My Lord Have I
2941. When They Are Entered, and She Sees No Show
2942. She in Her Hair, When Life Returns Again
2943. Now to the One, to the Other Now Her Prayer
2944. Chapter 2944
2945. Chapter 2945
2946. Chapter 2946
2947. Chapter 2947
2948. Repeating This and Other Plaint, So Spite
2949. Roland with Olivier, Who Much Requires
2950. With a Fresh Wind, That in Their Favour Blows
2951. He, When He Saw His Order Duly Done
2952. Upon the Paladin's Return the Cry
2953. Chapter 2953
2954. Chapter 2954
2955. Chapter 2955
2956. Chapter 2956
2957. These Sad Laments and More Orlando Made
2958. They Raise the Warrior's Bier, and Ranged to Bear
2959. By Hundreds and by Hundreds Followed More
2960. The Ceremonies Would Be Long to Say
2961. He in the Church Was Placed; and, When with Vain
2962. Still in That Sepulchre She Dwelt, and Worn
2963. The Servant of the Lord of Paradise
2964. Who, Warring for the Christian Faith, in Fight
2965. And in the Name of Those Eternal Three
2966. Sobrino, So Diseased That He Described
2967. So Him Baptized the Hermit; and as Well
2968. Rogero From the Day He Swam Ashore
2969. Roland on Shipboard Sends One From His Throng
2970. And as in Talk It Often Doth Befall
2971. All, for They Know He Is a Christian, Stand
2972. In Poor Abode, Mid Paltry Walls and Bare
2973. Hence It Ensues That Peace and Pact Between
2974. Though Little Prone to Friendship Is That Sort
2975. In His Retreat That Ancient Eremite
2976. All Kind He Found Them, and of Courteous Lore
2977. Rinaldo More Than All That Lordly Train
2978. The Fearful Risk by Richardetto Run
2979. To Honour and to Hold Rogero Dear
2980. Welcome, with Endless Proffers, on His Side
2981. Chapter 2981
2982. And His Discourse Pursuing Still, the Seer
2983. Chapter 2983
2984. Now Good Rinaldo, of His Father Wide
2985. That Day and Night, and of the Following Day
2986. The Child Who, So Long Banished, Had Not Stayed
2987. And, Though the Enchanted Sword with Better Right
2988. When of That Bloody, Dear-Brought Victory
2989. Erewhile Restored, in Afric Waters Ride
2990. Home, Horse and Foot, the Nubian Host Arraid
2991. I Say, Enclosed in Skins That Wind He Gave
2992. When They Have Lofty Atlas Passes Won
2993. He Reached Sardinia at One Flight and Shear
2994. To Him the Charge Did Sainted John Commit
2995. Thence to Marseilles He Came; and Came the Day
2996. Of the Kings Slain Upon the Paynim Part
2997. To Honour Those Fair Pillars That Sustain
2998. The Emperor Charles with Bright and Cheerful Brow
2999. And Him Rogero of Risa's Son Declare
3000. The Emperor Bids Rogero Mount Again
3001. With Pomp Triumphal and with Festive Cheer
3002. At Every Turn, in Various Places Are
3003. With Sound of Shrilling Pipe and Trumpet Proud
3004. His Son to Aymon on a Day Made Known
3005. Duke Aymon Heard His Heir with Some Disdain
3006. But Beatrice, His Wife, with More Despite
3007. Silent Stands Mournful Bradamant, Nor Dares
3008. Deny She Dared Not, Nor Yet Seem Content
3009. Chapter 3009
3010. If Cruel Thoughts the Afflicted Maid Torment
3011. Of Other Goods Which Nature's Hand Supplies
3012. But They at Whose Disposal Honours Lie
3013. This Vulgar (to Say Out What I Would Say
3014. Chapter 3014
3015. Chapter 3015
3016. Chapter 3016
3017. Chapter 3017
3018. These Things Rogero Said, and More Beside
3019. But Most, of All the Sorrows That Were Said
3020. Chapter 3020
3021. Chapter 3021
3022. Chapter 3022
3023. Chapter 3023
3024. Chapter 3024
3025. Other and Many Words with Comfort Rife
3026. In That the Gentle Bradamant, Who Fain
3027. Chapter 3027
3028. Chapter 3028
3029. With Cheerful Face the Emperor Made Reply
3030. Who Against Bradamant with Fury Flame
3031. A Castle This, Which Royal Charlemagne
3032. The Martial Maid of No Less Modest Vein
3033. Rinaldo, Who Thus Ravished From His Hand
3034. Rogero, Bearing This and Sore Afraid
3035. His Limbs in Arms, Which Trojan Hector's Were
3036. Where Save Into Dark Danube Makes Descent
3037. Within Belgrade, and Through the Neighbouring Peak
3038. The Greeks in That Affray Were Four to One
3039. With Many Horse and Foot in Battle Dight
3040. The Bulgar Host Hath Hitherto Made Head
3041. He Spurs Frontino, That in His Career
3042. Advanced Before the Others, He Descried
3043. Leo Augustus on a Swelling Height
3044. He Knew Full Well by Ensignry Displaid
3045. And, as a Man of Great and Noble Heart
3046. As Baby, Albeit Its Fond Mother Beat
3047. But if Young Leo Loved Him and Admired
3048. Leo, for Fear His Bands Be Wholly Spent
3049. Into the Power O' the Bulgars Many Fall
3050. When Done Was That Day's Fight, Wherein (Since Borne
3051. Some Bow and Some Salute Him; of the Rest
3052. As King or Captain Them Will He Command
3053. A Thousand Miles and More for This Alone
3054. Such Vantage Leo Has in Flight (to Flee
3055. Because He Wots Not Where to Lodge, He Goes
3056. Ungiardo Had That City in His Guard
3057. In the Same Hostelry with Him a Guest
3058. He by the Buckler Knew as Soon as Spied
3059. By How Much Higher We See Poor Mortal Go
3060. By How Much More Deprest on the Other Side
3061. King Lewis, Stepfather of My Duke's Son
3062. Chapter 3062
3063. Through That Fair Victory, When Overthrown
3064. But She, That Wills No Trust Shall E'Er Be Placed
3065. He to Ungiardo Hastens to Declare
3066. Ungiardo From the Crowd, Which Had Pursued
3067. And That Undriven He Should Have Made His Way
3068. By His Own Shield Accused, That Witness True
3069. Constantine on That Night with All His Host
3070. Here From Attack the Emperor Makes Assure
3071. The Emperor, Swimming in a Summer Sea
3072. No Less Occasion Has the Emperor's Son
3073. Theodora Was by Other Thoughts Possest
3074. Chapter 3074
3075. Chapter 3075
3076. So Well She Mourns; and in Such Moving Wise
3077. And, Not Therein His Orders to Delay
3078. At the Commandment of That Woman Dread
3079. Chapter 3079
3080. Meanwhile King Charlemagne Upon His Side
3081. The Choice of Arms Must Be by Her Foregone
3082. Though for the Daughter Choler and Disdain
3083. As He That Hath Beheld a Garden, Bright
3084. What Is Become of Him She Doth Not Dare
3085. Chapter 3085
3086. And That with Further End the Youthful Lord
3087. And Her Reproves for Having Lent an Ear
3088. And Thinking, Ever and Anon, Anew
3089. Chapter 3089
3090. Chapter 3090
3091. The Unhappy Bradamant Laments Her So
3092. The Cruelty Which by That Beldam Ill
3093. The Courteous Leo That Rogero Loved
3094. In Secret, Leo with the Man That Bore
3095. Leo, Escorted by None Else Beside
3096. Chapter 3096
3097. Lovingly Leo Clipt the Child, and, "Me
3098. Chapter 3098
3099. He His Discourse with More Beside Pursues
3100. Rogero Is Rescued; and the Gaoler Slain
3101. Open the Gaol Is Found at Dawn of Light
3102. So Wildered by Such Kindness, So Immersed
3103. Much Muses He by Night and Much by Day
3104. Thither Meanwhile Had Tidings Been Conveyed
3105. Communing with Himself, He Can Supply
3106. But Two Things Must He Do; Must, First, Dispose
3107. Much Weighs the Grecian's Eloquence; but More
3108. Albeit No Sooner He the Intent Exprest
3109. Right Sure He Is to Die; if He Forego
3110. To Die Is He Disposed; but How to Die
3111. For He with Bradamant, as with a Foe
3112. With the Emperor's Licence, Armour to Prepare
3113. Leo Will Enter Not the Town; but Nigh
3114. To Send Afield the Damsel, Who Denied
3115. Rogero Past the Night Before the Day
3116. Chapter 3116
3117. Nay, Bold Astolpho, and the Lady Who
3118. For Easily That Steed of Generous Kind
3119. With a New Sword Will He the Maid Await
3120. To Look Like Leo, O'Er His Breast Is Spread
3121. Dordona's Martial Maid Is of a Vein
3122. As on the Start the Generous Barb in Spied
3123. As Sometimes After Thunder Sudden Wind
3124. But Well-Built Wall, Strong Tower, or Aged Oak
3125. Now Aims That Martial Maid a Trenchant Blow
3126. As He That Layeth Siege to Well-Walled Town
3127. Sparks Now His Shield, Now Helm, Now Cuirass Scatter
3128. Now Stopt, Now Circled, Now Retired the Knight
3129. By How Much More Hope Fails the Damsel, So
3130. Didst Thou, O Miserable Damsel, Trow
3131. King Charles and Peers Him Sheathed in Plate and Shell
3132. When Phoebus Wholly Under Water Goes
3133. Chapter 3133
3134. And Showing Himself Spiritless and Spent
3135. Now by Straight Way and Now by Crooked Wound
3136. Chapter 3136
3137. Chapter 3137
3138. These Words He Said and Many More, with Sigh
3139. He Entered Into That Dark Woodland, Where
3140. Chapter 3140
3141. Chapter 3141
3142. If Him These Thoughts So Harass and Torment
3143. Ere She Herself to Any Consort Tie
3144. Chapter 3144
3145. Chapter 3145
3146. Chapter 3146
3147. Chapter 3147
3148. Chapter 3148
3149. These Things and More Beside the Damsel Bright
3150. This Moves the Haught Marphisa, When 'Tis Morn
3151. And This, Before All Others, Will Prove True
3152. Whether Marphisa True or Falsely Spake
3153. Sorely by This Disturbed, King Charlemagne
3154. Joy Good Orlando and Joy Rinaldo Show
3155. For if Such Words Have Pass'd Between the Twain
3156. Chapter 3156
3157. Chapter 3157
3158. Chapter 3158
3159. As in the Southern or the Northern Breeze
3160. These with Rogero, Those with Leo Side
3161. And Said, "in That Anther Cannot Have
3162. Leo Who if He Had the Cavalier
3163. Chapter 3163
3164. Through City, and Through Hamlet, and Through Town
3165. I, if My Chart Deceives Me Not, Shall Now
3166. A Burst of Joy, Like Thunder to My Ear
3167. Chapter 3167
3168. With Julia, a New Ginevra Is in Sight
3169. Beauteous, but Wiser and More Chaste Than Fair
3170. If She Had Dwelt in Rimini of Yore
3171. The Consort of My Lord of Bozzolo
3172. Julia Gonzaga, She That Wheresoe'er
3173. Anne Gentle, Courteous, and as Sage as Fair
3174. My Ladies of Ferrara, Those of Gay
3175. Adorned with Scarlet Hat, and Scarlet Pall
3176. With Them Lactantius Is, Claude Ptolemy
3177. Chapter 3177
3178. Chapter 3178
3179. Bernardo Capel, Peter Bembo Here
3180. Upon Me Nicholas Tiepoli
3181. Of High and Superhuman Genius, Tied
3182. Chapter 3182
3183. Joys Victor Fausto; Tancred Joys to View
3184. Much Bent Was This Melissa (as I Know
3185. A Prey to Deep and Stubborn Grief, Reclined
3186. Leo That, One by One, Dispatched His Train
3187. Chapter 3187
3188. Chapter 3188
3189. It Suddenly Came Into Leo's Mind
3190. They Found Rogero Fasting From All Food
3191. There Thinking What an Injury He Had Done
3192. Nor Therefore Interrupts He His Lament
3193. Approaching Nearer and Yet Nearer, Now
3194. Him with the Sweetest Words Young Leo Plied
3195. Chapter 3195
3196. Chapter 3196
3197. He Said; and with Such Forceful Prayer Appealed
3198. Chapter 3198
3199. Chapter 3199
3200. Chapter 3200
3201. Chapter 3201
3202. And That He Him Doth for Rogero Know
3203. And Says, "That Day My Host Was Overthrown
3204. Chapter 3204
3205. Chapter 3205
3206. Chapter 3206
3207. Chapter 3207
3208. These Words He Spake, and More to That Intent
3209. Melissa Generous Wine and Goodly Cheer
3210. Who, Though by Leo Helped, with Much Ado
3211. Wherein What of That Day Was Yet Unworn
3212. Since They That Had for King Proclaimed the Knight
3213. He of the Fight Has Told Which at Belgrade
3214. He Speaks with That of Certain News, Which Say
3215. To Charles' Court He Wends; the Bird He Bore
3216. In Royal Ornaments and Costly Gown
3217. Chapter 3217
3218. Chapter 3218
3219. King Charlemagne and All His Peerage Stand
3220. Chapter 3220
3221. She Spake This with Such Anger and Disdain
3222. As Looked Old Aegeus at the Accursed Board
3223. And Ran Forthwith to Clip the Cavalier
3224. Leo, Who Well Can Play the Spokesman, Now
3225. So That to Her Rogero Being Brought
3226. And He From Point to Point Continuing, Said
3227. So Efficaciously He After Prayed
3228. To Her, Where, of Her Feeble Life in Doubt
3229. Of All Her Vigour Is She So Foregone
3230. Joys Clermont's, Joys Mongrana's Noble House
3231. Besides That Oftentimes Before the Rage
3232. Those Envoys of the Bulgars That Had Made
3233. Where Kept for Him in Adrianople Are
3234. He Accepts the Realm, by Their Entreaties Won
3235. Nor Needeth He Depart in Haste, to Guide
3236. The Rich and Royal Nuptials They Prepare
3237. He a Free Court Bids Cry; Whither His Way
3238. Guested Within Fair Paris Cannot Be
3239. The Weird Melissa Against the Coming Night
3240. She Had Prepared the Genial, Fruitful Bed
3241. From Constantine That Lay Therein, Who Swayed
3242. Two Thousand Tedious Years Were Nigh Complete
3243. The Curtiest Cavalier, the Kindliest Shoot
3244. But When by Treachery Perished Priam's Heir
3245. That Constantine, Whom Thou Shall Ever Rue
3246. Here the Three Graces in Gay Vesture Gowned
3247. Hippolytus a Little Label Said
3248. There Is It Seen, How He His Blooming Age
3249. A Cardinal He Next Is Seen, Though Young
3250. That Brave Youth's Liberal Pastimes Are Designed
3251. He Is Descried, Amid a Fair Array
3252. The First Part of the Storied Walls Pourtraied
3253. In This Part Is the Princely Youth Espied
3254. Him in Another Quarter You Descry
3255. Elsewhere in Martial Panoply He Shone
3256. Elsewhere He Stands Upon His Native Strand
3257. Upon Those Figures Gazed the Courtly Crew
3258. Though Not Instructed in That History
3259. Who Is a Valiant Knight, Is Here Descried
3260. On the Last Day, When at Their Festive Cheer
3261. The King of Argier He; That for the Scorn
3262. Albeit of Charles and Agramant the Moor
3263. He Neither Lighted From His Horse, Nor Bowed
3264. To Charles and to Rogero Opposite
3265. Chapter 3265
3266. Rogero, with the Leave of Pepin's Son
3267. He Can Defend Himself; Nor Need He Crave
3268. They Tell Rogero That, as Newly Wed
3269. Marphisa and Bradamant in Corslet Case
3270. The Pale-Faced Dames and Damsels Troop, in Guise
3271. So Him Deemed All the Rabble; and So Most
3272. Chapter 3272
3273. Chapter 3273
3274. But Prayer Availed Not on the Damsel's Part
3275. Rodomont's Lance Which Smote in the Career
3276. And -- but His Lance Resists Not That Fierce Shock
3277. With Bridle and with Spur the Martial Pair
3278. Rodomont Had Not That Hard Dragon-Hide
3279. Clad Was the King in Other Goodly Mail
3280. When Rodomont Beholds in That Fierce Close
3281. With That Excessive Force, Wherewith the Gin
3282. As if About to Fall, the Youthful Lord
3283. Chapter 3283
3284. Yet Leaps From Earth as Nimbly, Moved by Spleen
3285. He at Rogero Rode, Who That Rude Shock
3286. Rodomont, Grasping Still in That Close Fight
3287. Rogero Flank and Thigh Dyed Red Beheld
3288. In the Helmet-Cheek and Shoulder-Bone Below
3289. Rogero Lost No Time, and with Fierce Blows
3290. His Wounded Thigh and Gaping Flank Had Sore
3291. So Shifting Oft His Hold, About the Moor
3292. Such Was the Shock Wherewith King Rodomont
3293. As Sometimes Where They Work the Golden Vein
3294. Yet Rodomont So Twists and Strives, He Gains
3295. And Smiting Twice or Thrice His Horrid Front
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