Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 04 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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XLIX	A
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'If then you scorn to be in prison pent	B
If bonds as high disgrace your hands refuse	A
Or if your still to maintain are bent	B
Your liberty as men of honor use	A
To Antioch what if forthwith you went	B
And leave me here your absence to excuse	A
There with Prince Boemond live in ease and peace	A
Until this storm of Godfrey's	A
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L	-
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'For soon if forces come from Egypt land	C
Or other nations that us here confine	D
Godfrey will beaten be with his own wand	E
And he wants that valor great of thine	D
Our camp may seem an arm without a hand	C
Amid our troops unless thy eagle shine '	-
With that came Guelpho and those words approved	F
And prayed him go if him he or loved	G
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LI	-
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Their speeches soften much the warrior's heart	H
And make his wilful at last relent	B
So that he yields and saith he will depart	H
And leave the Christian camp incontinent	I
His friends whose love did never shrink or start	H
Preferred their aid what way soe'er he went	B
He thanked them all but left them all besides	A
Two bold and trusty squires and so he rides	A
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LII	-
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He rides revolving in his spright	B
Such haughty as fill the glorious	A
On hard adventures was his whole delight	B
And now to wondrous acts his will inclined	B
against the Pagans would he fight	B
And kill their kings from Egypt unto Inde	B
From Cynthia's hills and Nilus' unknown spring	J
He would fetch praise and glorious conquest bring	J
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LIII	-
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But Guelpho when the prince his leave had take	K
And now had spurred his courser on his way	L
No longer tarriance with the would make	K
But to find Godfredo if he may	L
Who him approaching forthwith spake	K
'Guelpho ' quoth he 'for thee I only stay	L
For thee I sent my heralds all about	B
In every tent to seek and find thee out '	-
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LIV	M
	-
This said he softly drew the knight aside	B
Where none might and then bespake him thus	A
'How chanceth it thy nephew's rage and pride	B
Makes him so far forget and us	A
Hardly could I believe what is betide	B
A murder done for cause so frivolous	A
How I have loved him thou and all can tell	-
But Godfrey loved him but whilst he did well	-
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LV	M
	-
'I must provide that every one have right	B
That all be each cause be well discussed	B
As far from partial love as free from spite	B
I complaints yet naught but proves I trust	B
Now if Rinaldo weigh our rule too light	B
And have the sacred lore of war so brust	B
Take you the charge that he before us come	N
To clear and our upright dome	O
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LVI	M
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'But let him come withouten bond or chain	P
For still my to do him grace are framed	B
But if our power he haply shall disdain	P
As well I his courage yet untamed	B
To bring him by persuasion take some	N
Else if I prove severe both you be blamed	B
That forced my gentle nature gainst my	Q
To rigor lest our laws return to naught '	-
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LVII	M
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Lord Guelpho answered thus 'What heart can bear	R
Such slanders false devised by and spite	B
Or with stayed reproaches	A
And not revenge by battle or by fight	B
The Norway Prince hath bought his folly dear	S
But who with words could stay the knight	B
A fool is he that comes to preach or prate	B
When men with swords their right and wrong debate	B
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LVIII	M
	-
'And where you wish he should submit	B
To the censure of your upright laws	A
Alas that cannot be for he is flit	B
Out if this camp withouten stay or pause	A
There take my gage behold I offer it	B
To him that first accused him in this cause	A
Or any else that dare and will maintain	P
That for his pride the prince was justly slain	P
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LIX	A
	-
'I say with reason Lord Gernando's pride	B
He hath abated if he have offended	B
Gainst your commands who are his lord and guide	B
Oh pardon him that fault shall be amended '	-
'If he be gone ' quoth Godfrey 'let him ride	B
And brawl elsewhere here let all strife be ended	B
And you Lord Guelpho for your nephew's sake	K
Breed us no new nor quarrels old '	-
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LX	A
	-
This while the fair and false Armida strived	B
To get her promised aid in sure possession	T
The day to end with endless plaint she derived	B
beauty craft for her made intercession	T
But when the earth was once of light deprived	B
And western seas Titan's hot impression	T
'Twixt two old knights and matrons twain she went	B
Where pitched was her fair and curious tent	B
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LXI	A
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But this false queen of craft and sly invention	T
Whose looks love's arrows were whose eyes his quivers	A
Whose beauty matchless free from reprehension	T
A wonder left by Heaven to after livers	A
Among the Christian lord had bred contention	T
Who first should quench his flames in Cupid's rivers	A
While all her weapons and her darts rehearsed	B
Had not Godfredo's constant bosom pierced	B
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LXII	A
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To change his modest the dame procureth	U
And proffereth heaps of love's enticing treasure	V
But as the falcon newly gorged endureth	U
Her keeper lure her oft but comes at leisure	V
So he whom fulness of delight assureth	U
What long repentance comes of love's short	B
Her crafts her arts and all despiseth	U
So base affections fall when riseth	U
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LXIII	A
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And not one foot his steadfast foot was moved	B
Out of that heavenly path wherein he paced	B
Yet thousand wiles and thousand ways she proved	B
To have that castle fair of raised	B
She used those looks and smiles that most behoved	B
To melt the frost which his hard heart embraced	B
And gainst his breast a thousand shot she ventured	B
Yet was the fort so strong it was not entered	B
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LXIV	M
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The dame who that one blink of her eye	Q
Could make the chastest heart love's sweet	B
Oh how her pride abated was hereby	Q
When all her sleights were void her crafts were vain	T
Some other where she would her forces try	Q
Where at more ease she might more vantage gain	T
As tired soldiers whom some fort keeps out	B
Thence raise their siege and spoil the towns about	B

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