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XVI	A
Soon was the prey out of their hands recovered	B
By step and step the Frenchmen gan retire	C
Till on a little hill at last they hovered	B
Whose strength preserved them from Clorinda's ire	C
When as a tempest that hath long been covered	B
In watery clouds breaks out with sparkling fire	D
With his strong squadron Lord Tancredi came	E
His heart with rage his eyes with courage flame	E
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XVII	A
Mast great the spear was which the gallant bore	F
That in his warlike pride he made to shake	G
As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar	F
The king that wondered at his bravery spake	G
To her that near him seated was before	F
Who felt her heart with love's hot fever quake	G
Well shouldst thou know quoth he each Christian knight	H
By long acquaintance though in armor dight	H
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XVIII	A
Say who is he shows so great worthiness	I
That rides so rank and bends his lance so fell	J
To this the princess said nor more nor less	K
Her heart with sighs her eyes with tears did swell	J
But sighs and tears she wisely could suppress	K
Her love and passion she dissembled well	J
And strove her love and hot desire to cover	D
Till heart with sighs and eyes with tears ran over	D
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XIX	K
At last she spoke and with a crafty sleight	H
Her secret love disguised in clothes of hate	H
Alas too well she says I know that knight	H
I saw his force and courage proved late	H
Too late I viewed him when his power and might	H
Shook down the pillar of Cassanoe's state	H
Alas what wounds he gives how fierce how fell	J
No physic helps them cure nor magic's spell	J
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XX	K
Tancred he hight O Macon would he wear	L
My thrall ere fates him of this life deprive	A
For to his hateful head such spite I bear	L
I would him reave his cruel heart on live	A
Thus said she they that her complainings hear	M
In other sense her wishes credit give	A
She sighed withal they construed all amiss	K
And thought she wished to kill who longed to kiss	K
XXI	K
This while forth pricked Clorinda from the throng	N
And 'gainst Tancredi set her spear in rest	H
Upon their helms they cracked their lances long	N
And from her head her gilden casque he kest	H
For every lace he broke and every thong	N
And in the dust threw down her plumed crest	H
About her shoulders shone her golden locks	K
Like sunny beams on alabaster rocks	K
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XXII	K
Her looks with fire her eyes with lightning blaze	K
Sweet was her wrath what then would be her smile	O
Tancred whereon think'st thou what dost thou gaze	K
Hast thou forgot her in so short a while	O
The same is she the shape of whose sweet face	K
The God of Love did in thy heart compile	O
The same that left thee by the cooling stream	P
Safe from sun's heat but scorched with beauty's beam	P
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XXIII	K
The prince well knew her though her painted shield	H
And golden helm he had not marked before	F
She saved her head and with her axe well steeled	H
Assailed the knight but her the knight forbore	F
'Gainst other foes he proved him through the field	H
Yet she for that refrained ne'er the more	F
But following Turn thee cried in ireful wise	K
And so at once she threats to kill him twice	K
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XXIV	A
Not once the baron lifts his armed hand	H
To strike the maid but gazing on her eyes	K
Where lordly Cupid seemed in arms to stand	H
No way to ward or shun her blows he tries	K
But softly says No stroke of thy strong hand	H
Can vanquish Tancred but thy conquest lies	K
In those fair eyes which fiery weapons dart	H
That find no lighting place except this heart	H
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XXV	A
At last resolved although he hoped small grace	K
Yet ere he did to tell how much he loved	H
For pleasing words in women's ears find place	K
And gentle hearts with humble suits are moved	H
O thou quoth he withhold thy wrath a space	K
For if thou long to see my valor proved	H
Were it not better from this warlike rout	H
Withdrawn somewhere alone to fight it out	H
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XXVI	A
So singled may we both our courage try	F
Clorinda to that motion yielded glad	H
And helmless to the forestward gan hie	Q
Whither the prince right pensive wend and sad	H
And there the virgin gan him soon defy	F
One blow she strucken and he warded had	H
When he cried Hold and ere we prove our might	H
First hear thou some conditions of the fight	H
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XXVII	F
She stayed and desperate love had made him bold	H
Since from the fight thou wilt no respite give	F
The covenants be he said that thou unfold	H
This wretched bosom and my heart out rive	F
Given thee long since and if thou cruel would	H
I should be dead let me no longer live	F
But pierce this breast that all the world may say	K
The eagle made the turtle dove her prey	K
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XXVIII	F
Save with thy grace or let thine anger kill	R
Love hath disarmed my life of all defence	K
An easy labor harmless blood to spill	R
Strike then and punish where is none offence	K
This said the prince and more perchance had will	R
To have declared to move her cruel sense	K
But in ill time of Pagans thither came	E
A troop and Christians that pursued the same	E
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XXIX	K
The Pagans fled before their valiant foes	K
For dread or craft it skills not that we know	S
A soldier wild careless to win or lose	K
Saw where her locks about the damsel flew	T
And at her back he proffereth as he goes	K
To strike where her he did disarmed view	T
But Tancred cried Oh stay thy cursed hand	H
And for to ward the blow lift up his brand	H
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XXX	K
But yet the cutting steel arrived there	F
Where her fair neck adjoined her noble head	H
Light was the wound but through her amber hair	F
The purple drops down railed bloody red	H
So rubies set in flaming gold appear	F
But Lord Tancredi pale with rage as lead	H
Flew on the villain who to flight him bound	H
The smart was his though she received the wound	H

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