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XLI	A
Guelpho next them the land and place possest	B
Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree	C
By his Italian sire fro the house of Est	B
Well could he bring his noble pedigree	C
A German born with rich possessions blest	B
A worthy branch sprung from the Guelphian tree	C
'Twixt Rhene and Danubie the land contained	B
He ruled where Swaves and Rhetians whilom reigned	B
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XLII	A
His mother's heritage was this and right	B
To which he added more by conquest got	B
From thence approved men of passing might	B
He brought that death or danger feared not	B
It was their wont in feasts to spend the night	B
And pass cold days in baths and houses hot	B
Five thousand late of which now scantly are	D
The third part left such is the chance of war	E
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XLIII	A
The nation then with crisped locks and fair	F
That dwell between the seas and Arden Wood	B
Where Mosel streams and Rhene the meadows wear	F
A battel soil for grain for pasture good	B
Their islanders with them who oft repair	F
Their earthen bulwarks 'gainst the ocean flood	B
The flood elsewhere that ships and barks devours	G
But there drowns cities countries towns and towers	G
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XLIV	H
Both in one troop and but a thousand all	A
Under another Robert fierce they run	I
Then the English squadron soldiers stout and tall	A
By William led their sovereign's younger son	I
These archers be and with them come withal	A
A people near the Northern Pole that wone	I
Whom Ireland sent from loughs and forests hoar	E
Divided far by sea from Europe's shore	E
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XLV	H
Tancredi next nor 'mongst them all was one	I
Rinald except a prince of greater might	B
With majesty his noble countenance shone	I
High were his thoughts his heart was bold in fight	B
No shameful vice his worth had overgone	I
His fault was love by unadvised sight	B
Bred in the dangers of adventurous arms	J
And nursed with griefs with sorrows woes and harms	J
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XLVI	H
Fame tells that on that ever blessed day	B
When Christian swords with Persian blood were dyed	B
The furious Prince Tancredi from that fray	B
His coward foes chased through forests wide	B
Till tired with the fight the heat the way	B
He sought some place to rest his wearied side	B
And drew him near a silver stream that played	B
Among wild herbs under the greenwood shade	B
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XLVII	H
A Pagan damsel there unwares he met	B
In shining steel all save her visage fair	F
Her hair unbound she made a wanton net	B
To catch sweet breathing from the cooling air	F
On her at gaze his longing looks he set	B
Sight wonder wonder love love bred his care	F
O love o wonder love new born new bred	B
Now groan now armed this champion captive led	B
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XLVIII	H
Her helm the virgin donned and but some wight	B
She feared might come to aid him as they fought	B
Her courage earned to have assailed the knight	B
Yet thence she fled uncompanied unsought	B
And left her image in his heart ypight	B
Her sweet idea wandered through his thought	B
Her shape her gesture and her place in mind	B
He kept and blew love's fire with that wind	B
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XLIX	J
Well might you read his sickness in his eyes	J
Their banks were full their tide was at the flow	A
His help far off his hurt within him lies	J
His hopes unstrung his cares were fit to mow	A
Eight hundred horse from Champain came he guies	J
Champain a land where wealth ease pleasure grow	A
Rich Nature's pomp and pride the Tirrhene main	I
There woos the hills hills woo the valleys plain	I
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L	A
Two hundred Greeks came next in fight well tried	B
Not surely armed in steel or iron strong	K
But each a glaive had pendant by his side	B
Their bows and quivers at their shoulders hung	L
Their horses well inured to chase and ride	B
In diet spare untired with labor long	K
Ready to charge and to retire at will	A
Though broken scattered fled they skirmish still	A
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LI	A
Tatine their guide and except Tatine none	I
Of all the Greeks went with the Christian host	B
O sin O shame O Greece accurst alone	I
Did not this fatal war affront thy coast	B
Yet safest thou an idle looker on	I
And glad attendest which side won or lost	B
Now if thou be a bondslave vile become	M
No wrong is that but God's most righteous doom	N
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LII	A
In order last but first in worth and fame	O
Unfeared in fight untired with hurt or wound	B
The noble squadron of adventurers came	O
Terrors to all that tread on Asian ground	B
Cease Orpheus of thy Minois Arthur shame	O
To boast of Lancelot or thy table round	B
For these whom antique times with laurel drest	B
These far exceed them thee and all the rest	B
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LIII	A
Dudon of Consa was their guide and lord	B
And for of worth and birth alike they been	I
They chose him captain by their free accord	B
For he most acts had done most battles seen	I
Grave was the man in years in looks in word	B
His locks were gray yet was his courage green	I
Of worth and might the noble badge he bore	E
Old scars of grievous wounds received of yore	E
LIV	H
After came Eustace well esteemed man	I
For Godfrey's sake his brother and his own	I
The King of Norway's heir Gernando than	I
Proud of his father's title sceptre crown	I
Roger of Balnavill and Engerlan	I
For hardy knights approved were and known	I
Besides were numbered in that warlike train	I
Rambald Gentonio and the Gerrards twain	I
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LV	H
Ubaldo then and puissant Rosimond	B
Of Lancaster the heir in rank succeed	B
Let none forget Obizo of Tuscain land	B
Well worthy praise for many a worthy deed	B
Nor those three brethren Lombards fierce and yond	B
Achilles Sforza and stern Palamede	B
Nor Otton's shield he conquered in those stowres	J
In which a snake a naked child devours	J

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