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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 05</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVI<br>Guascher and Raiphe in valor like there was.<br>The one and other Guido, famous both,<br>Germer and Eberard to overpass,<br>In foul oblivion would my Muse be loth,<br>With his Gildippes dear, Edward alas,<br>A loving pair, to war among them go'th<br>In bond of virtuous love together tied,<br>Together served they, and together died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVII<br>In school of love are all things taught we see,<br>There learned this maid of arms the ireful guise,<br>Still by his side a faithful guard went she,<br>One true-love knot their lives together ties,<br>No would to one alone could dangerous be,<br>But each the smart of other's anguish tries,<br>If one were hurt, the other felt the sore,<br>She lost her blood, he spent his life therefore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVIII<br>But these and all, Rinaldo far exceeds,<br>Star of his sphere, the diamond of this ring,<br>The nest where courage with sweet mercy breeds:<br>A comet worthy each eye's wondering,<br>His years are fewer than his noble deeds,<br>His fruit is ripe soon as his blossoms spring,<br>Armed, a Mars, might coyest Venus move,<br>And if disarmed, then God himself of Love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIX<br>Sophia by Adige's flowery bank him bore,<br>Sophia the fair, spouse to Bertoldo great,<br>Fit mother for that pearl, and before<br>The tender imp was weaned from the teat,<br>The Princess Maud him took, in Virtue's lore<br>She brought him up fit for each worthy feat,<br>Till of these wares the golden trump he hears,<br>That soundeth glory, fame, praise in his ears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LX<br>And then, though scantly three times five years old,<br>He fled alone, by many an unknown coast,<br>O'er Aegean Seas by many a Greekish hold,<br>Till he arrived at the Christian host;<br>A noble flight, adventurous, brave, and bold,<br>Whereon a valiant prince might justly boast,<br>Three years he served in field, when scant begin<br>Few golden hairs to deck his ivory chin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXI<br>The horsemen past, their void-left stations fill<br>The bands on foot, and Reymond them beforn,<br>Of Tholouse lord, from lands near Piraene Hill<br>By Garound streams and salt sea billows worn,<br>Four thousand foot he brought, well armed, and skill<br>Had they all pains and travels to have borne,<br>Stout men of arms and with their guide of power<br>Like Troy's old town defenced with Ilion's tower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXII<br>Next Stephen of Amboise did five thousand lead,<br>The men he prest from Tours and Blois but late,<br>To hard assays unfit, unsure at need,<br>Yet armed to point in well-attempted plate,<br>The land did like itself the people breed,<br>The soil is gentle, smooth, soft, delicate;<br>Boldly they charge, but soon retire for doubt,<br>Like fire of straw, soon kindled, soon burnt out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXIII<br>The third Alcasto marched, and with him<br>The boaster brought six thousand Switzers bold,<br>Audacious were their looks, their faces grim,<br>Strong castles on the Alpine clifts they hold,<br>Their shares and coulters broke, to armors trim<br>They change that metal, cast in warlike mould,<br>And with this band late herds and flocks that guide,<br>Now kings and realms he threatened and defied.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXIV<br>The glorious standard last to Heaven they sprad,<br>With Peter's keys ennobled and his crown,<br>With it seven thousand stout Camillo had,<br>Embattailed in walls of iron brown:<br>In this adventure and occasion, glad<br>So to revive the Romans' old renown,<br>Or prove at least to all of wiser thought,<br>Their hearts were fertile land although unwrought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXV<br>But now was passed every regiment,<br>Each band, each troop, each person worth regard<br>When Godfrey with his lords to counsel went,<br>And thus the Duke his princely will declared:<br>&quot;I will when day next clears the firmament,<br>Our ready host in haste be all prepared,<br>Closely to march to Sion's noble wall,<br>Unseen, unheard, or undescried at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXVI<br>&quot;Prepare you then for travel strong and light,<br>Fierce to the combat, glad to victory.&quot;<br>And with that word and warning soon was dight,<br>Each soldier, longing for near coming glory,<br>Impatient be they of the morning bright,<br>Of honor so them pricked the memory:<br>But yet their chieftain had conceived a fear<br>Within his heart, but kept it secret there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXVII<br>For he by faithful spial was assured,<br>That Egypt's King was forward on his way,<br>And to arrive at Gaza old procured,<br>A fort that on the Syrian frontiers lay,<br>Nor thinks he that a man to wars inured<br>Will aught forslow, or in his journey stay,<br>For well he knew him for a dangerous foe:<br>An herald called he then, and spake him so:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXVIII<br>&quot;A pinnace take thee swift as shaft from bow,<br>And speed thee, Henry, to the Greekish main,<br>There should arrive, as I by letters know<br>From one that never aught reports in vain,<br>A valiant youth in whom all virtues flow,<br>To help us this great conquest to obtain,<br>The Prince of Danes he is, and brings to war<br>A troop with him from under the Arctic star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXIX<br>&quot;And for I doubt the Greekish monarch sly<br>Will use with him some of his wonted craft,<br>To stay his passage, or divert awry<br>Elsewhere his forces, his first journey laft,<br>My herald good and messenger well try,<br>See that these succors be not us beraft,<br>But send him thence with such convenient speed<br>As with his honor stands and with our need.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXX<br>&quot;Return not thou, but Legier stay behind,<br>And move the Greekish Prince to send us aid,<br>Tell him his kingly promise doth him bind<br>To give us succors, by his covenant made.&quot;<br>This said, and thus instruct, his letters signed<br>The trusty herald took, nor longer stayed,<br>But sped him thence to done his Lord's behest,<br>And thus the Duke reduced his thoughts to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Torquato+Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a><div class=q>
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Guascher and Raiphe in valor like there was.
The one and other Guido, famous both,
Germer and Eberard to overpass,
In foul oblivion would my Muse be loth,
With his Gildippes dear, Edward alas,
A loving pair, to war among them go'th
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