Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - Part 06 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCBCDD AEFEFEFGG AHIHIHIJJKLMLMLNOO KKKKKKKKK KJPJPJPQQ KRQRQRQQQ KQQQQQQDD AQCQCQCQQASQSQSQQQ AQAQAQAQQ ATKTKTKQQ AQDQDQDKK KAKAKAKUU KKKKKKKQQ KKQKQKQKK KSUSUSUQQ KQKQKQKQQ ACKCKCKKK AKVKVKVQQ| LXVI | A |
| True labour in the vineyard of thy Lord | B |
| Ere prime thou hast the imposed day work done | C |
| What armies conquered perished with thy sword | B |
| What cities sacked what kingdoms hast thou won | C |
| All ears are mazed while tongues thine acts record | B |
| Hands quake for fear all feet for dread do run | C |
| And though no realms you may to thraldom bring | D |
| No higher can your praise your glory spring | D |
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| LXVII | A |
| Thy sign is in his Apogaeon placed | E |
| And when it moveth next must needs descend | F |
| Chance in uncertain fortune double faced | E |
| Smiling at first she frowneth in the end | F |
| Beware thine honor be not then disgraced | E |
| Take heed thou mar not when thou think'st to mend | F |
| For this the folly is of Fortune's play | G |
| 'Gainst doubtful certain much 'gainst small to lay | G |
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| LXVIII | A |
| Yet still we sail while prosperous blows the wind | H |
| Till on some secret rock unwares we light | I |
| The sea of glory hath no banks assigned | H |
| They who are wont to win in every fight | I |
| Still feed the fire that so inflames thy mind | H |
| To bring more nations subject to thy might | I |
| This makes thee blessed peace so light to hold | J |
| Like summer's flies that fear not winter's cold | J |
| LXIX | K |
| They bid thee follow on the path now made | L |
| So plain and easy enter Fortune's gate | M |
| Nor in thy scabbard sheathe that famous blade | L |
| Till settled by thy kingdom and estate | M |
| Till Macon's sacred doctrine fall and fade | L |
| Till woeful Asia all lie desolate | N |
| Sweet words I grant baits and allurements sweet | O |
| But greatest hopes oft greatest crosses meet | O |
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| LXX | K |
| For if thy courage do not blind thine eyes | K |
| If clouds of fury hide not reason's beams | K |
| Then may'st thou see this desperate enterprise | K |
| The field of death watered with danger's streams | K |
| High state the bed is where misfortune lies | K |
| Mars most unfriendly when most kind he seems | K |
| Who climbeth high on earth he hardest lights | K |
| And lowest falls attend the highest flights | K |
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| LXXI | K |
| Tell me if great in counsel arms and gold | J |
| The Prince of Egypt war 'gainst you prepare | P |
| What if the valiant Turks and Persians bold | J |
| Unite their forces with Cassanoe's heir | P |
| Oh then what marble pillar shall uphold | J |
| The falling trophies of your conquest fair | P |
| Trust you the monarch of the Greekish land | Q |
| That reed will break and breaking wound your hand | Q |
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| LXXII | K |
| The Greekish faith is like that half cut tree | R |
| By which men take wild elephants in Inde | Q |
| A thousand times it hath beguiled thee | R |
| As firm as waves in seas or leaves in wind | Q |
| Will they who erst denied you passage free | R |
| Passage to all men free by use and kind | Q |
| Fight for your sake Or on them do you trust | Q |
| To spend their blood that could scarce spare their dust | Q |
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| LXXIII | K |
| But all your hope and trust perchance is laid | Q |
| In these strong troops which thee environ round | Q |
| Yet foes unite are not so soon dismayed | Q |
| As when their strength you erst divided found | Q |
| Besides each hour thy bands are weaker made | Q |
| With hunger slaughter lodging on cold ground | Q |
| Meanwhile the Turks seek succors from our king | D |
| Thus fade thy helps and thus thy cumbers spring | D |
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| LXXIV | A |
| Suppose no weapon can thy valor's pride | Q |
| Subdue that by no force thou may'st be won | C |
| Admit no steel can hurt or wound thy side | Q |
| And be it Heaven hath thee such favor done | C |
| 'Gainst Famine yet what shield canst thou provide | Q |
| What strength resist What sleight her wrath can shun | C |
| Go shake the spear and draw thy flaming blade | Q |
| And try if hunger so be weaker made | Q |
| LXXV | A |
| The inhabitants each pasture and each plain | S |
| Destroyed have each field to waste is laid | Q |
| In fenced towers bestowed is their grain | S |
| Before thou cam'st this kingdom to invade | Q |
| These horse and foot how canst them sustain | S |
| Whence comes thy store whence thy provision made | Q |
| Thy ships to bring it are perchance assigned | Q |
| Oh that you live so long as please the wind | Q |
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| LXXVI | A |
| Perhaps thy fortune doth control the wind | Q |
| Doth loose or bind their blasts in secret cave | A |
| The sea pardie cruel and deaf by kind | Q |
| Will hear thy call and still her raging wave | A |
| But if our armed galleys be assigned | Q |
| To aid those ships which Turks and Persians have | A |
| Say then what hope is left thy slender fleet | Q |
| Dare flocks of crows a flight of eagles meet | Q |
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| LXXVII | A |
| My lord a double conquest must you make | T |
| If you achieve renown by this emprize | K |
| For if our fleet your navy chase or take | T |
| For want of victuals all your camp then dies | K |
| Of if by land the field you once forsake | T |
| Then vain by sea were hope of victories | K |
| Nor could your ships restore your lost estate | Q |
| For steed once stolen we shut the door too late | Q |
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| LXXVIII | A |
| In this estate if thou esteemest light | Q |
| The proffered kindness of the Egyptian king | D |
| Then give me leave to say this oversight | Q |
| Beseems thee not in whom such virtues spring | D |
| But heavens vouchsafe to guide my mind aright | Q |
| To gentle thoughts that peace and quiet bring | D |
| So that poor Asia her complaints may cease | K |
| And you enjoy your conquests got in peace | K |
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| LXXIX | K |
| Nor ye that part in these adventures have | A |
| Part in his glory partners in his harms | K |
| Let not blind Fortune so your minds deceive | A |
| To stir him more to try these fierce alarms | K |
| But like the sailor 'scaped from the wave | A |
| From further peril that his person arms | K |
| By staying safe at home so stay you all | U |
| Better sit still men say than rise to fall | U |
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| LXXX | K |
| This said Aletes and a murmur rose | K |
| That showed dislike among the Christian peers | K |
| Their angry gestures with mislike disclose | K |
| How much his speech offends their noble ears | K |
| Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes | K |
| To view what countenance every warrior bears | K |
| And lastly on the Egyptian baron stayed | Q |
| To whom the duke thus for his answer said | Q |
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| LXXXI | K |
| Ambassador full both of threats and praise | K |
| Thy doubtful message hast thou wisely told | Q |
| And if thy sovereign love us as he says | K |
| Tell him he sows to reap an hundred fold | Q |
| But where thy talk the coming storm displays | K |
| Of threatened warfare from the Pagans bold | Q |
| To that I answer as my cousin is | K |
| In plainest phrase lest my intent thou miss | K |
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| LXXXII | K |
| Know that till now we suffered have much pain | S |
| By lands and seas where storms and tempests fall | U |
| To make the passage easy safe and plain | S |
| That leads us to this venerable wall | U |
| That so we might reward from Heaven obtain | S |
| And free this town from being longer thrall | U |
| Nor is it grievous to so good an end | Q |
| Our honors kingdoms lives and goods to spend | Q |
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| LXXXIII | K |
| Nor hope of praise nor thirst of worldly good | Q |
| Enticed us to follow this emprise | K |
| The Heavenly Father keep his sacred brood | Q |
| From foul infection of so great a vice | K |
| But by our zeal aye be that plague withstood | Q |
| Let not those pleasures us to sin entice | K |
| His grace his mercy and his powerful hand | Q |
| Will keep us safe from hurt by sea and land | Q |
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| LXXXIV | A |
| This is the spur that makes our coursers run | C |
| This is our harbor safe from danger's floods | K |
| This is our bield the blustering winds to shun | C |
| This is our guide through forests deserts woods | K |
| This is our summer's shade our winter's sun | C |
| This is our wealth our treasure and our goods | K |
| This is our engine towers that overthrows | K |
| Our spear that hurts our sword that wounds our foes | K |
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| LXXXV | A |
| Our courage hence our hope our valor springs | K |
| Not from the trust we have in shield or spear | V |
| Not from the succors France or Grecia brings | K |
| On such weak posts we list no buildings rear | V |
| He can defend us from the power of kings | K |
| From chance of war that makes weak hearts to fear | V |
| He can these hungry troops with manna feed | Q |
| And make the seas land if we passage need | Q |
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