Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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XLVI	A
Sir King quoth she my name Clorinda hight	B
My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now	C
I come to try my wonted power and might	B
And will defend this land this town and you	D
All hard assays esteem I eath and light	B
Great acts I reach to to small things I bow	C
To fight in field or to defend this wall	E
Point what you list I naught refuse at all	E
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XLVII	A
To whom the king What land so far remote	F
From Asia's coasts or Phoebus' glistering rays	G
O glorious virgin that recordeth not	H
Thy fame thine honor worth renown and praise	G
Since on my side I have thy succors got	H
I need not fear in these my aged days	G
For in thine aid more hope more trust I have	A
Than in whole armies of these soldiers brave	A
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XLVIII	A
Now Godfrey stays too long he fears I ween	C
Thy courage great keeps all our foes in awe	I
For thee all actions far unworthy been	C
But such as greatest danger with them draw	J
Be you commandress therefore Princess Queen	C
Of all our forces be thy word a law	J
This said the virgin gan her beaver vail	K
And thanked him first and thus began her tale	K
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XLIX	G
A thing unused great monarch may it seem	L
To ask reward for service yet to come	M
But so your virtuous bounty I esteem	L
That I presume for to intreat this groom	N
And silly maid from danger to redeem	L
Condemned to burn by your unpartial doom	N
I not excuse but pity much their youth	O
And come to you for mercy and for ruth	O
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L	-
Yet give me leave to tell your Highness this	G
You blame the Christians them my thoughts acquite	H
Nor be displeased I say you judge amiss	G
At every shot look not to hit the white	H
All what the enchanter did persuade you is	G
Against the lore of Macon's sacred rite	H
For us commandeth mighty Mahomet	H
No idols in his temple pure to set	H
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LI	-
To him therefore this wonder done refar	J
Give him the praise and honor of the thing	P
Of us the gods benign so careful are	J
Lest customs strange into their church we bring	P
Let Ismen with his squares and trigons war	J
His weapons be the staff the glass the ring	P
But let us manage war with blows like knights	G
Our praise in arms our honor lies in fights	G
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LII	-
The virgin held her peace when this was said	H
And though to pity he never framed his thought	H
Yet for the king admired the noble maid	H
His purpose was not to deny her aught	H
I grant them life quoth he your promised aid	H
Against these Frenchmen hath their pardon bought	H
Nor further seek what their offences be	-
Guiltless I quit guilty I set them free	-
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LIII	-
Thus were they loosed happiest of humankind	H
Olindo blessed be this act of thine	C
True witness of thy great and heavenly mind	H
Where sun moon stars of love faith virtue shine	C
So forth they went and left pale death behind	H
To joy the bliss of marriage rites divine	C
With her he would have died with him content	H
Was she to live that would with her have brent	H
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LIV	A
The king as wicked thoughts are most suspicious	G
Supposed too fast this tree of virtue grew	J
O blessed Lord why should this Pharaoh vicious	G
Thus tyrannize upon thy Hebrews true	J
Who to perform his will vile and malicious	G
Exiled these and all the faithful crew	J
All that were strong of body stout of mind	H
But kept their wives and children pledge behind	H
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LV	A
A hard division when the harmless sheep	Q
Must leave their lambs to hungry wolves in charge	R
But labor's virtues watching ease her sleep	Q
Trouble best wind that drives salvation's barge	R
The Christians fled whither they took no keep	Q
Some strayed wild among the forests large	R
Some to Emmaus to the Christian host	H
And conquer would again their houses lost	H
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LVI	A
Emmaus is a city small that lies	G
From Sion's walls distant a little way	S
A man that early on the morn doth rise	G
May thither walk ere third hour of the day	S
Oh when the Christian lord this town espies	G
How merry were their hearts How fresh How gay	S
But for the sun inclined fast to west	H
That night there would their chieftain take his rest	H
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LVII	A
Their canvas castles up they quickly rear	J
And build a city in an hour's space	G
When lo disguised in unusual gear	J
Two barons bold approachen gan the place	G
Their semblance kind and mild their gestures were	J
Peace in their hands and friendship in their face	G
From Egypt's king ambassadors they come	M
Them many a squire attends and many a groom	N
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LVIII	A
The first Aletes born in lowly shed	H
Of parents base a rose sprung from a brier	J
That now his branches over Egypt spread	H
No plant in Pharaoh's garden prospered higher	J
With pleasing tales his lord's vain ears he fed	H
A flatterer a pick thank and a liar	J
Cursed be estate got with so many a crime	T
Yet this is oft the stair by which men climb	T
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LIX	G
Argantes called is that other knight	H
A stranger came he late to Egypt land	H
And there advanced was to honor's height	H
For he was stout of courage strong of hand	H
Bold was his heart and restless was his sprite	H
Fierce stern outrageous keen as sharpened brand	H
Scorner of God scant to himself a friend	H
And pricked his reason on his weapon's end	H
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LX	G
These two entreatance made they might be heard	H
Nor was their just petition long denied	H
The gallants quickly made their court of guard	H
And brought them in where sate their famous guide	H
Whose kingly look his princely mind declared	H
Where noblesse virtue troth and valor bide	H
A slender courtesy made Argantes bold	H
So as one prince salute another wold	H
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LXI	G
Aletes laid his right hand on his heart	H
Bent down his head and cast his eyes full low	-
And reverence made with courtly grace and art	H
For all that humble lore to him was know	-
His sober lips then did he softly part	H
Whence of pure rhetoric whole streams outflow	-
And thus he said while on the Christian lords	G
Down fell the mildew of his sugared words	G
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LXII	G
O only worthy whom the earth all fears	G
High God defend thee with his heavenly shield	H
And humble so the hearts of all thy peers	G
That their stiff necks to thy sweet yoke may yield	H
These be the sheaves that honor's harvest bears	G
The seed thy valiant acts the world the field	H
Egypt the headland is where heaped lies	G
Thy fame worth justice wisdom victories	G
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LXIII	G
These altogether doth our sovereign hide	H
In secret store house of his princely thought	H
And prays he may in long accordance bide	H
With that great worthy which such wonders wrought	H
Nor that oppose against the coming tide	H
Of proffered love for that he is not taught	H
Your Christian faith for though of divers kind	H
The loving vine about her elm is twined	H
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LXIV	A
Receive therefore in that unconquered hand	H
The precious handle of this cup of love	A
If not religion virtue be the band	H
'Twixt you to fasten friendship not to move	A
But for our mighty king doth understand	H
You mean your power 'gainst Juda land to prove	A
He would before this threatened tempest fell	-
I should his mind and princely will first tell	-
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LXV	A
His mind is this he prays thee be contented	H
To joy in peace the conquests thou hast got	H
Be not thy death or Sion's fall lamented	H
Forbear this land Judea trouble not	H
Things done in haste at leisure be repented	H
Withdraw thine arms trust not uncertain lot	H
For oft to see what least we think betide	H
He is thy friend 'gainst all the world beside	H

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