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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - part 03</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Arnoldo, minion of the Prince thus slain,<br>Augments the fault in telling it, and saith,<br>This Prince murdered, for a quarrel vain,<br>By young Rinaldo in his desperate wrath,<br>And with that sword that should Christ's law maintain,<br>One of Christ's champions bold he killed hath,<br>And this he did in such a place and hour,<br>As if he scorned your rule, despised your power.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And further adds, that he deserved death<br>By law, and law should inviolate,<br>That none offence could greater be uneath,<br>And yet the place the fault did aggravate:<br>If he escapes, that mischief would take breath,<br>And flourish bold in spite of rule and;<br>And that Gernando's friends would venge the wrong,<br>Although to justice that did first belong,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And by that means, should discord, and strife<br>Raise mutinies, and what therefore ensueth:<br>Lastly he praised the dead, and still had rife<br>All words he could vengeance move or rut<br>Against him Tancred argued for life,<br>With honest reasons to excuse the youth:<br>The Duke all, but with such sober cheer,<br>As banished hope, and still increased.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXVI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Great Prince,' quoth Tancred; 'set before thine eyes<br>Rinaldo's worth and courage what it is,<br>How much our hope of conquest in him lies;<br>Regard that princely house and race of his;<br>He that correcteth every fault he spies,<br>And judgeth all alike, doth all amiss;<br>For faults, you, are greater or less,<br>As is the person's that doth transgress.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXVII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Godfredo answered him; 'If high and low<br>Of sovereign power alike should the stroke,<br>Then, Tancred, ill you counsel us, I trow;<br>If lords should no law, as erst you spoke,<br>How vile and base our empire were you,<br>If none but slaves and peasants bear the yoke;<br>Weak is the sceptre and the power is small<br>That such provisos bring annexed withal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXVIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But mine was freely given ere 'twas sought,<br>Nor that it lessened be I now consent;<br>Right well I both when and where I ought<br>To give condign reward and punishment,<br>Since you are all in like subjection brought,<br>Both high and low obey, and be content.'<br>This , Tancredi stayed his words,<br>Such weight the sayings have of kings and lords.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Raymond praised his speech, for old men <br>They ever seem when most severe,<br>' 'Tis best,' quoth he, 'to make these great ones shrink,<br>The people love him whom the :<br>There must the rule to all disorders sink,<br>Where pardons more than punishments appear;<br>For feeble is each kingdom, frail and weak,<br>Unless his basis be this I speak.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XL</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These words Tancredi and pondered well,<br>And by them how Godfrey's were bent,<br>Nor list he longer with these old men dwell,<br>But turned his horse and to Rinaldo went,<br>Who, when his foe death-wounded fell,<br>Withdrew him softly to his gorgeous tent;<br>There Tancred found him, and at large declared<br>The words and speeches sharp which late you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And said, 'Although I the outward show<br>Is not witness of the secret,<br>For that some men so subtle are, I trow,<br>That what they purpose most appeareth naught;<br>Yet dare I say Godfredo means, I,<br>Such hath his looks and speeches wrought,<br>You shall first prisoner be, and then be tried<br>As he shall deem it and law provide.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With that a smile well might you <br>Rinaldo cast, with scorn and high disdain,<br>'Let them in fetters plead their cause,' quoth he,<br>'That are base peasants, born of servile stain,<br>I was free born, I live and will die free<br>Before these feet be fettered in a chain:<br>These hands were made to shake sharp spears and swords,<br>Not to be tied in gyves and twisted cords.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If my service reap this recompense,<br>To be clapt up in close and secret mew,<br>And as a thief be after dragged from thence,<br>To suffer punishment as law finds due;<br>Let Godfrey come or send, I will not hence<br>Until we who shall this bargain rue,<br>That of our tragedy the late done fact<br>May be the first, and this the second, act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Give me mine arms,' he cried; his squire them brings,<br>And clad his head, and dressed in iron strong,<br>About his neck his silver shield he flings,<br>Down by his side a cutting sword there hung;<br>Among this earth's brave lords and mighty kings,<br>Was none so stout, so fierce, so fair, so young,<br>God Mars he seemed descending from his sphere,<br>Or one whose looks could make great Mars to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tancredi labored with some speech<br>His fierce and courage to appease;<br>'Young Prince, thy valor,' thus he gan to preach,<br>'Can chastise all that do thee wrong, at ease,<br>I your can your enemies teach,<br>That you can venge you when and where you please:<br>But God forbid this day you lift your arm<br>To do this camp and us your friends such harm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLVI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tell me what will you do? why would you stain<br>Your hands in our unguilty blood?<br>By wounding Christians, will you again<br>Pierce Christ, whose parts they are and members?<br>Will you destroy us for your glory vain,<br>Unstayed as rolling waves in ocean flood?<br>Far be it from you so to prove your strength,<br>And let your zeal appease your rage at length.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLVII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For God's love stay your heat, and just displeasure,<br>Appease your wrath, your courage fierce assuage,<br>a praise; is a treasure;<br>Suffrance, an angel's is; a monster, rage;<br>At least you actions by example measure,<br>And how I in mine unbridled age<br>Was wronged, yet I would not revengement take<br>On all this camp, for one offender's sake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLVIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Cilicia conquered I, as all men,<br>And there the glorious cross on high I reared,<br>But Baldwin came, and what I got<br>Bereft me falsely when I least him;<br>He seemed my friend, and I discovered not<br>His secret covetise which since appeared;<br>Yet strive I not to get mine own by fight,<br>Or civil war, although perchance I might.</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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Arnoldo, minion of the Prince thus slain,
Augments the fault in telling it, and saith,
This Prince murdered, for a quarrel vain,
By young Rinaldo in his desperate wrath,
And with that sword that should Christ's law maintain,
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