Orlando Furioso Canto 16 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Orlando Furioso Canto 16 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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ARGUMENT	A
Gryphon finds traitorous Origilla nigh	B
Damascus city with Martano vile	C
Slaughtered the Saracens and Christians lie	B
By thousands and by thousands heaped this while	C
And if the Moor outside of Paris die	B
Within the Sarzan so destroys each pile	C
Such slaughter deals that greater ill than this	D
Never before has been exprest I wiss	D
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I	B
Love's penalties are manifold and dread	E
Of which I have endured the greater part	F
And to my cost in these so well am read	E
That I can speak of them as 'twere my art	F
Hence if I say or if I ever said	E
Did speech or living page my thoughts impart	F
'One ill is grievous and another light '	-
Yield me belief and deem my judgment right	G
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II	B
I say I said and while I live will say	H
'He who is fettered by a worthy chain	I
Though his desire his lady should gainsay	H
And every way averse his suit disdain	I
Though Love deprive him of all praised pay	H
After long time and trouble spent in vain	I
He if his heart be placed well worthily	C
Needs not lament though he should waste and die '	-
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III	B
Let him lament who plays a slavish part	F
Whom two bright eyes and lovely tresses please	J
Beneath which beauties lurks a wanton heart	F
With little that is pure and much of lees	J
The wretch would fly but bears in him a dart	F
Like wounded stag whichever way he flees	J
Dares not confess yet cannot quench his flame	K
And of himself and worthless love has shame	K
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IV	B
The youthful Gryphon finds him in this case	L
Who sees the error which he cannot right	G
He sees how vilely he his heart does place	L
On faithless Origille his vain delight	G
Yet evil use doth sovereign reason chase	L
And free will is subdued by appetite	G
Though a foul mind the lady's actions speak	M
Her wheresoe'er she is must Gryphon seek	M
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V	B
Resuming the fair history I say	H
Out of the city he in secret rode	N
Nor to his brother would his plan bewray	O
Who oft on him had vain reproof bestowed	N
But to the left t'wards Ramah shaped his way	H
By the most level and most easy road	N
Him six days' journey to Damascus brought	P
Whence setting out anew he Antioch sought	P
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VI	B
He nigh Damascus met the lover who	Q
Perfidious Origilla's heart possest	P
And matched in evil customs were the two	Q
Like stalk and flower for that in either's breast	P
Was lodged a fickle heart the dame untrue	Q
And he a traitor whom she loved the best	P
While both the lovers hid their nature base	L
To others' cost beneath a courteous face	L
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VII	B
As I relate to you the cavalier	O
Came on huge courser trapped with mickle pride	P
With faithless Origille in gorgeous gear	O
With gold embroidered and with azure dyed	P
Two ready knaves who serve the warrior rear	O
The knightly helm and buckler at his side	P
As one who with fair pomp and semblance went	P
Towards Damascus to a tournament	P
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VIII	B
Damascus' king a splendid festival	C
Had in these days bid solemnly proclaim	K
And with what pomp they could upon his call	C
Thither in shining arms the champions came	K
At Gryphon's sight the harlot's spirits fall	C
Who fears that he will work her scathe and shame	K
And knows her lover has not force and breath	R
To save her from Sir Gryphon threatening death	R
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IX	L
But like most cunning and audacious quean	I
Although she quakes from head to foot with fear	O
Her voice so strengthens and so shapes her mien	I
That in her face no signs of dread appear	O
Having already made her leman ween	I
The trick devised she feigns a joyous cheer	O
Towards Sir Gryphon goes and for long space	L
Hangs on his neck fast locked in her embrace	L
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X	L
She after suiting with much suavity	P
The action to the word sore weeping cried	P
'Dear lord is this the guerdon due to me	B
For love and worship that I should abide	P
Alone one live long year deprived of thee	B
A second near and yet upon thy side	P
No grief and had I borne for thee to stay	P
I know not if I should have seen that day	P
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XI	B
'When I from Nicosia thee expected	P
When thou wast journeying to the plenar court	P
To cheer me left with fever sore infected	P
And in the dread of death I heard report	P
That thou wast gone to Syria and dejected	P
By that ill tiding suffered in such sort	P
I all unable to pursue thy quest	P
Had nigh with this right hand transfixt my breast	P
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XII	B
'But fortune by her double bounty shows	B
She guards me more than thou me to convey	P
She sent my brother here who with me goes	B
My honour safe in his protecting stay	P
And this encounter with thee now bestows	B
Which I above all other blessings weigh	P
And in good time for hadst thou longer stayed	P
My lord I should have died of hope delayed '	-
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XIII	B
The wicked woman full of subtlety	B
Worse than a fox in crafty hardihood	B
Pursues and so well shapes her history	B
She wholly throws the blame on Gryphon good	B
Makes him believe that other not to be	B
Her kin alone but of her flesh and blood	B
Got by one father and so puts upon	I
The knight that he less credits Luke and John	I
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XIV	P
Nor he the fraud of her more false than fair	O
Only forbore with just reproach to pay	P
Nor only did the threatened stranger spare	O
Who was the lover of that lady gay	P
But deemed to excuse himself sufficient were	O
Turning some portion of the blame away	P
And as the real brother she profest	B
Unceasingly the lady's knight carest	B
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XV	P
And to Damascus with the cavalier	O
Returned who to Sir Gryphon made report	B
That Syria's wealthy king with sumptuous cheer	O
Within that place would hold a splendid court	B
And who baptized or infidel appear	O
There at his tourney of whatever sort	B
Within the city and without assures	B
From wrong for all the time the feast endures	B
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XVI	P
Yet I of Origilla's treachery	B
Shall not so steadfastly pursue the lore	O
Who famed not for one single perfidy	B
Thousands and thousands had betrayed before	O
But that I will return again to see	B
Two hundred thousand wretched men or more	O
Burnt by the raging wild fire where they spread	B
About the walls of Paris scathe and dread	B
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XVII	P
I left you where king Agramant prepared	B
To storm a gate and to the assault was gone	I
This he had hoped to find without a guard	B
And work elsewhere to bar the way was none	I
For there in person Charles kept watch and ward	B
With many practised warriors every one	I
Two Angelines two Guidos Angelier	O
Avino Avolio Otho and Berlinghier	O
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XVIII	P
One and the other host its worth before	O
Charles and king Agramant desire to show	S
Where praise where riches are they think in store	O
For those that do their duty on the foe	S
But such were not the atchievements of the Moor	O
As to repair the loss for to his woe	S
Full many a Saracen the champaign prest	B
Whose folly was a beacon to the rest	B
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XIX	B
The frequent darts a storm of hail appear	O
Which from the city wall the Christians fling	T
The deafening clamours put the heavens in fear	O
Which from our part and from that other ring	T
But Charles and Agramant must wait for here	O
I of the Mars of Africa will sing	T
King Rodomont that fierce and fearful man	I
That through the middle of the city ran	I
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XX	B
I know not sir if you the adventure dread	B
Of that so daring Moor to mind recall	C
The leader who had left his people dead	B
Between the second work and outer wall	C
Upon those limbs the ravening fire so fed	B
Was never sight more sad I told withal	C
How vaulting o'er that hindrance at a bound	B
He cleared the moat which girt the city round	B
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XXI	B
When he was known the thickening crowd among	U
By the strange arms he wore and scaly hide	B
There where the aged sires and feebler throng	V
Listened to each new tale on every side	B
Heaven high groan moan and lamentation rung	U
And loud they beat their lifted palms and cried	B
While those who had the strength to fly aloof	P
Sought safety not from house or temple's roof	P
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XXII	B
But this the cruel sword concedes to few	P
So brandished by that Saracen robust	B
And here with half a leg dissevered flew	P
A fo	P