Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - Part 05 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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LXV	A
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But yet all ways the wily witch could find	B
Could not Tancredi's heart to loveward move	A
His sails were filled with another wind	B
He list no blast of new affection prove	A
For as one poison doth exclude by kind	B
Another's force so love excludeth love	A
These two nor more nor less the dame	C
Could win the all burnt in her sweet flame	C
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LXVI	A
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The princess though her purpose would not frame	C
As late she hoped and as still she would	D
Yet for the lords and knights of greatest name	C
Became her prey as erst you it told	E
She ere truth revealing time or frame	C
Bewrayed her act to lead them to some hold	E
Where chains and band she meant to make them prove	A
Composed by Vulcan not by gentle love	A
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LXVII	A
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The time prefixed at length was come and past	F
Which Godfrey had set down to lend her aid	G
When at his feet to earth she cast	F
'The hour is come my Lord ' she humbly said	H
'And if the tyrant haply at last	F
His banished niece hath your assistance prayed	G
He will in arms to save his kingdom rise	I
So shall we harder make this enterprise	I
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LXVIII	A
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'Before report can bring the tyrant news	J
Or his espials certify their king	K
Oh let thy these few champions choose	J
That to her kingdom should thy handmaid bring	K
Who except Heaven to aid the right refuse	J
Recover shall her crown from whence shall spring	K
Thy profit for betide thee peace or war	L
Thine all her cities all her subjects are '	-
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LXIX	J
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The captain the damsel fair assured	M
His word was passed and should not be recanted	N
And she with sweet and humble grace endured	M
To let him point those ten which late he granted	O
But to be one each one fought and procured	M
No suit no entreaty intercession wanted	O
There envy each at others' love exceeded	O
And all importunate made more than needed	O
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LXX	J
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She that well the secret of their hearts	J
And how best to warm them in their blood	O
Against them threw the cursed poisoned darts	J
Of and grief at others'	J
For love she was weak without those arts	J
And slow for is Cupid's food	P
For the swift steed runs not so fast	F
As when some strain some strive him to outgone	Q
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LXXI	J
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Her words in such alluring sort she framed	R
Her looks enticing and her wooing smiles	J
That every one his fellows' favors blamed	R
That of their mistress he received erewhiles	J
This foolish crew of lovers unashamed	R
Mad with the poison of her secret wiles	J
Ran forward still in this disordered sort	S
Nor could Godfredo's bridle rein them short	S
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LXXII	J
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He that would each	T
Withouten partial love of every knight	U
Although he swelled with shame with grief and ire	V
To these fellows and these fashions light	U
Yet since by no advice they would retire	V
Another way he sought to set them right	U
'Write all your names ' quoth he 'and whom chance	J
Of lot to this exploit will first advance '	-
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LXXIII	J
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Their names were writ and in an helmet shaken	Q
While each did fortune's grace and aid implore	L
At last they drew them and the foremost taken	Q
The Earl of Pembroke was Artemidore	L
Doubtless the county his bread well baken	Q
Next Gerrard followed then with tresses hoar	L
Old Wenceslaus that Cupid's rage	W
Now in his doating and his dying age	W
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LXXIV	A
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Oh how contentment in their foreheads shined	B
Their looks with swelled with secret	X
These three it seemed success designed	B
To make the lords of love and beauty's treasure	L
Their fellows at their hap repined	B
And with small wait Fortune's leisure	L
Upon his lips that read the scrolls attending	K
As if their lives were on his words depending	K
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LXXV	A
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Guasco the fourth Ridolpho him succeeds	J
Then Ulderick whom love list so advance	J
Lord William of Ronciglion next he reads	J
Then Eberard and Henry born in France	J
Rambaldo last whom wicked lust so leads	J
That he forsook his Saviour with mischance	J
This wretch the tenth was who was thus deluded	B
The to their huge grief were all excluded	B
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LXXVI	A
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O'ercome with envy wrath and	B
The blind Fortune curse and all her laws	J
And mad with love yet out on love they cry	L
That in his kingdom let her judge their cause	J
And for man's is such that oft we try	L
Things most forbidden without stay or pause	J
In spite of fortune purposed many a knight	B
To follow fair Armida when 'twas night	B
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LXXVII	A
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To follow her by night or else by day	B
And in her quarrel venture life and limb	Y
With sighs and tears she gan them softly pray	B
To keep that promise when the skies were dim	Y
To this and that knight did she plain and say	B
What grief she to part withouten him	Y
Meanwhile the ten had donned their armor best	B
And taken leave of Godfrey and the	Z
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LXXVIII	A
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The duke advised them every one apart	B
How light how trustless was the Pagan's	B
And told what policy what what art	B
Avoids which heedless men betray'th	A2
His speeches pierce their ear but not their heart	B
Love calls it folly whatso saith	A2
Thus warned he leaves them to their wanton guide	B
Who parts that night such haste had she to ride	B
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LXXIX	B
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The conqueress departs and with her led	B
These prisoners whom love would captive keep	B2
The hearts of those she left behind her bled	B
With point of sorrow's arrow pierced deep	B2
But when the night her drowsy mantle spread	B
And filled the earth with silence shade and sleep	B2
In secret sort then each forsook his tent	B
And as blind Cupid led them blind they went	B
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LXXX	B
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Eustatio first who scantly could	B
Till friendly night might hide his haste and shame	C
He rode in post and let his breast him bear	L
As his blind fancy would his journey frame	C
All night he wandered and he not where	L
But with the morning he espied the dame	C
That with her guard up from a village rode	B
Where she and they that night had made abode	B
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LXXXI	B
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Thither he galloped fast and drawing near	L
Rambaldo the knight and loudly cried	B
'Whence comes young Eustace and what seeks he here '	-
'I come ' quoth he 'to serve the Queen Armide	B
If she me would we all were there	L
Where my good will and might best be tried '	-
'Who ' quoth the other 'choseth thee to prove	A
This high exploit of hers ' He answered 'Love '	-

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