Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - Part 08 Poem Rhyme Scheme

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XCIX	A
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'Thou must ' quoth she 'be mine ambassador	B
Be wise be careful true and diligent	C
Go to the camp present thyself before	D
The Prince Tancredi wounded in his tent	E
Tell him thy mistress comes to care his sore	D
If he to grant her peace and rest consent	E
Gainst whom fierce love such cruel war hath raised	F
So shall his wounds be cured her torments eased	G
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C	-
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'And say in him such hope and trust she hath	H
That in his powers she fears no shame nor scorn	I
Tell him thus much and whatso'er he saith	H
Unfold no more but make a quick return	J
I for this place is free from harm and scath	H
Within this valley will meanwhile sojourn '	-
Thus spake the princess and her servant true	K
To execute the charge imposed flew	K
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CI	A
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And was received he so discreetly wrought	L
First of the watch that guarded in their place	A
Before the wounded prince then was he brought	L
Who heard his message kind with gentle grace	A
Which told he left him tossing in his thought	L
A thousand doubts and turned his speedy pace	A
To bring his lady and his mistress word	M
She might be welcome to that courteous lord	N
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CII	A
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But she impatient to whose desire	B
Grievous and harmful seemed each little stay	O
Recounts his steps and thinks now draws he nigher	B
Now enters in now speaks now comes his way	O
And that which grieved her most the careful squire	B
Less speedy seemed than e'er before that day	O
Lastly she forward rode with love to guide	P
Until the Christian tents at hand she spied	P
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CIII	A
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Invested in her starry veil the night	Q
In her kind arms embraced all this round	R
The silver moon form sea uprising bright	Q
Spread frosty pearl upon the candid ground	R
And Cynthia like for beauty's glorious light	Q
The love sick nymph threw glittering beams around	R
And counsellors of her old love she made	S
Those valleys dumb that silence and that shade	S
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CIV	T
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Beholding then the camp quoth she 'O fair	B
And castle like pavilions richly wrought	L
From you how sweet methinketh blows the air	B
How comforts it my heart my soul my thought	L
Through heaven's fair face from gulf of sad despair	B
My tossed bark to port well nigh is brought	L
In you I seek redress for all my harms	A
Rest midst your weapons peace amongst your arms	A
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CV	T
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'Receive me then and let me mercy find	U
As gentle love assureth me I shall	V
Among you had I entertainment kind	U
When first I was the Prince Tancredi's thrall	W
I covet not led by ambition blind	U
You should me in my father's throne install	W
Might I but serve in you my lord so dear	B
That my content my joy my comfort were '	-
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CVI	T
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Thus parleyed she poor soul and never feared	X
The sudden blow of Fortune's cruel spite	Q
She stood where Phoebe's splendent beam appeared	X
Upon her silver armor double bright	Q
The place about her round she shining cleared	X
With that pure white wherein the nymph was dight	X
The tigress great that on her helmet laid	X
Bore witness where she went and where she stayed	X
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CVII	T
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So as her fortune would a Christian band	X
Their secret ambush there had closely framed	X
Led by two brothers of Italia land	X
Young Poliphern and Alicandro named	X
These with their forces watched to withstand	X
Those that brought victuals to their foes untamed	X
And kept that passage them Erminia spied	X
And fled as fast as her swift steed could ride	X
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CVIII	T
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But Poliphern before whose watery eyes	A
His aged father strong Clorinda slew	K
When that bright shield and silver helm he spies	A
The championess he thought he saw and knew	K
Upon his hidden mates for aid he cries	A
Gainst his supposed foe and forth he flew	K
As he was rash and heedless in his wrath	H
Bending his lance 'Thou art but dead ' he saith	H
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CIX	A
	-
As when a chased hind her course doth bend	X
To seek by soil to find some ease or goad	X
Whether from craggy rock the spring descend	X
Or softly glide within the shady wood	X
If there the dogs she meet where late she wend	X
To comfort her weak limbs in cooling flood	X
Again she flies swift as she fled at first	X
Forgetting weakness weariness and thirst	X
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CX	A
	-
So she that thought to rest her weary sprite	X
And quench the endless thirst of ardent love	T
With dear embracements of her lord and knight	X
But such as marriage rites should first approve	T
When she beheld her foe with weapon bright	X
Threatening her death his trusty courser move	T
Her love her lord herself abandoned	X
She spurred her speedy steed and swift she fled	X
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CXI	A
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Erminia fled scantly the tender grass	A
Her Pegasus with his light footsteps bent	X
Her maiden's beast for speed did likewise pass	A
Yet divers ways such was their fear they went	X
The squire who all too late returned alas	A
With tardy news from Prince Tancredi's tent	X
Fled likewise when he saw his mistress gone	Y
It booted not to sojourn there alone	Z
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CXII	A
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But Alicandro wiser than the rest	X
Who this supposed Clorinda saw likewise	A
To follow her yet was he nothing pressed	X
But in his ambush still and close he lies	A
A messenger to Godfrey he addressed	X
That should him of this accident advise	A
How that his brother chased with naked blade	X
Clorinda's self or else Clorinda's shade	X
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CXIII	A
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Yet that it was or that it could be she	-
He had small cause or reason to suppose	A
Occasion great and weighty must it be	-
Should make her ride by night among her foes	A
What Godfrey willed that observed he	-
And with his soldiers lay in ambush close	A
These news through all the Christian army went	X
In every cabin talked in every tent	X
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CXIV	T
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Tancred whose thoughts the squire had filled with doubt	X
By his sweet words supposed now hearing this	A
Alas the virgin came to seek me out	X
And for my sake her life in danger is	A
Himself forthwith he singled from the rout	X
And rode in haste though half his arms he miss	A
Among those sandy fields and valleys green	A2
To seek his love he galloped fast unseen	A2

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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 06 - Part 08 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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