Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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LXIV	A
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'For lo a knight that had a gate to ward	B
A man of chiefest trust about his king	C
Hath promised so to beguile the guard	D
That me and mine he undertakes to bring	C
Safe where the tyrant haply sleepeth hard	D
He counselled me to undertake this thing	C
Of these some little succor to intreat	D
Whose name accomplish can the feat '	-
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LXV	A
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This said his answer did the nymph attend	D
Her looks her sighs her gestures all did pray him	E
But Godfrey did his grant suspend	D
He the worst and that awhile did stay him	E
He who no God he loves no friend	D
He the heathen false would thus betray him	E
But yet such ruth dwelt in his princely	F
That gainst his made him kind	D
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LXVI	A
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Besides the kindness of his gentle	G
Ready to each distressed wight	D
The maiden's offer profit with it brought	D
For if the Syrian kingdom were her right	D
That won the way were easy which he sought	D
To bring all Asia subject to his might	D
There might he raise munition arms and treasure	H
To work the Egyptian king and his displeasure	H
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LXVII	A
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Thus was his heart long time betwixt	D
and remorse not granting nor denying	C
Upon his eyes the dame her lookings fixed	D
As if her life and death lay on his saying	C
Some tears she shed with sighs and sobbings mixed	D
As if her hopes were dead through his delaying	C
At last her earnest suit the duke denayed	D
But with sweet words thus would content the maid	D
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LXVIII	A
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'If not in service of our God we fought	D
In meaner quarrel if this sword were shaken	I
Well might thou gather in thy gentle	G
So fair a princess should not be forsaken	I
But since these armies from the world's end brought	D
To free this sacred town have undertaken	I
It were unfit we turned our strength away	J
And victory even in her coming stay	J
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LXIX	K
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'I promise thee and on my princely word	D
The burden of thy wish and hope	L
That when this chosen temple of the Lord	D
Her holy doors shall to his saints unclose	K
In and peace then this victorious sword	D
Shall execute due vengeance on thy foes	K
But if for of a worldly dame	M
I left this work such were my shame '	-
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LXX	K
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At this the princess bent her eyes to ground	D
And stood unmoved though not unmarked a space	K
The secret bleeding of her inward wound	D
Shed heavenly dew upon her angel's face	K
'Poor wretch ' quoth she 'in tears and drowned	D
Death be thy peace the grave thy resting place	K
Since such thy hap that lest thou find	D
The gentlest heart on earth is proved unkind	D
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LXXI	K
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'Where none attends what boots it to complain	N
Men's froward hearts are moved with women's tears	K
As marble stones are pierced with drops of rain	N
No plaints find passage through unwilling ears	K
The tyrant haply would his wraith restrain	N
he these prayers ruthless Godfrey	F
Yet not thy fault is this my chance I	O
Hath made even pitiless in thee	F
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LXXII	K
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'So both thy and hap denayed me	F
Grief mischief care hath overthrown me	F
The star that ruled my birthday hath betrayed me	F
My genius his charge but dares not own me	F
Of queen like my flight hath disarrayed me	F
My father died ere he five years had me	F
My kingdom lost and lastly resteth now	P
Down with the tree sith broke is every bough	P
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LXXIII	K
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'And for the modest lore of maidenhood	D
Bids me not sojourn with these armed men	Q
O whither shall I fly what secret wood	D
Shall hide me from the tyrant or what den	Q
What rock what vault what cave can do me	F
No no where death is sure it resteth then	Q
To scorn his power and be it therefore	R
Armida lived and died both like a queen '	-
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LXXIV	A
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With that she looked as if a proud disdain	N
Kindled displeasure in her	H
The way she came she turned her steps again	Q
With gesture sad but in disdainful kind	D
A tempest railed down her cheeks amain	Q
With tears of woe and sighs of anger's wind	D
The drops her footsteps wash whereon she treads	K
And seems to step on pearls or crystal beads	K
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LXXV	A
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Her cheeks on which this streaming nectar fell	S
Stilled through the limbeck of her diamond eyes	K
The roses white and red resembled well	S
Whereon the rory May dew sprinkled lies	K
When the fair morn first blusheth from her cell	S
And breatheth balm from opened paradise	K
Thus sighed thus mourned thus wept this lovely queen	Q
And in each drop bathed a grace unseen	Q
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LXXVI	A
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Thrice twenty Cupids unperceived flew	T
To gather up this liquor ere it fall	U
And of each drop an arrow forged new	T
Else as it came snatched up the crystal ball	U
And at rebellious hearts for wildfire threw	T
O wondrous love thou makest gain of all	U
For if she weeping sit or smiling stand	D
She bends thy bow or kindleth else thy brand	D
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LXXVII	A
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This forged plaint drew forth unfeigned tears	K
From many eyes and pierced each worthy's heart	D
Each one condoleth with her that her	H
And of her grief would her bear the smart	D
If Godfrey aid her not not one but swears	K
Some tigress gave him suck on roughest part	D
Midst the rude crags on Alpine cliffs aloft	D
Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft	D
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LXXVIII	A
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But jolly Eustace in whose breast the brand	D
Of love and kindled had the flame	M
While others softly whispered underhand	D
Before the duke with comely boldness came	M
'Brother and lord ' quoth he 'too long you stand	D
In your first purpose yet vouchsafe to frame	M
Your to ours and lend this virgin aid	D
Thanks are half lost when turns are delayed	D
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LXXIX	K
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'And not that Eustace's talk assays	K
To turn these forces from this present war	R
Or that I wish you should your armies raise	K
From Sion's walls my speech tends not so far	V
But we that venture all for fame and praise	K
That to no charge nor service bounden are	V
Forth of our troop may ten well spared be	F
To succor her which naught can weaken thee	F
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LXXX	K
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'And they shall in God's high service fight	D
That virgins innocent save and defend	D
Dear will the spoils be in the Heaven's	K
That from a tyrant's head we rend	D
Nor seemed I forward in this lady's right	D
With hope of gain or profit in the end	D
But for I he arms unworthy bears	K
To a maiden's cause that shuns or	R

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