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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531504" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - part 04</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">XLIX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If then you scorn to be in prison pent,<br>If bonds, as high disgrace, your hands refuse;<br>Or if your still to maintain are bent<br>Your liberty, as men of honor use:<br>To Antioch what if forthwith you went?<br>And leave me here your absence to excuse,<br>There with Prince Boemond live in ease and peace,<br>Until this storm of Godfrey's.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">L</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For soon, if forces come from Egypt land,<br>Or other nations that us here confine,<br>Godfrey will beaten be with his own wand,<br>And he wants that valor great of thine,<br>Our camp may seem an arm without a hand,<br>Amid our troops unless thy eagle shine:'<br>With that came Guelpho and those words approved,<br>And prayed him go, if him he or loved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their speeches soften much the warrior's heart,<br>And make his wilful at last relent,<br>So that he yields, and saith he will depart,<br>And leave the Christian camp incontinent.<br>His friends, whose love did never shrink or start,<br>Preferred their aid, what way soe'er he went:<br>He thanked them all, but left them all, besides<br>Two bold and trusty squires, and so he rides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He rides, revolving in his spright<br>Such haughty as fill the glorious;<br>On hard adventures was his whole delight,<br>And now to wondrous acts his will inclined;<br>against the Pagans would he fight,<br>And kill their kings from Egypt unto Inde,<br>From Cynthia's hills and Nilus' unknown spring<br>He would fetch praise and glorious conquest bring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Guelpho, when the prince his leave had take<br>And now had spurred his courser on his way,<br>No longer tarriance with the would make,<br>But to find Godfredo, if he may:<br>Who him approaching, forthwith spake,<br>'Guelpho,' quoth he, 'for thee I only stay,<br>For thee I sent my heralds all about,<br>In every tent to seek and find thee out.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This said, he softly drew the knight aside<br>Where none might , and then bespake him thus:<br>'How chanceth it thy nephew's rage and pride,<br>Makes him so far forget and us?<br>Hardly could I believe what is betide,<br>A murder done for cause so frivolous,<br>How I have loved him, thou and all can tell;<br>But Godfrey loved him but whilst he did well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I must provide that every one have right,<br>That all be , each cause be well discussed,<br>As far from partial love as free from spite,<br>I complaints, yet naught but proves I trust:<br>Now if Rinaldo weigh our rule too light,<br>And have the sacred lore of war so brust,<br>Take you the charge that he before us come<br>To clear and our upright dome.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But let him come withouten bond or chain,<br>For still my to do him grace are framed;<br>But if our power he haply shall disdain,<br>As well I his courage yet untamed,<br>To bring him by persuasion take some:<br>Else, if I prove severe, both you be blamed,<br>That forced my gentle nature gainst my <br>To rigor, lest our laws return to naught.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Guelpho answered thus: 'What heart can bear<br>Such slanders false, devised by and spite?<br>Or with stayed, reproaches,<br>And not revenge by battle or by fight?<br>The Norway Prince hath bought his folly dear,<br>But who with words could stay the knight?<br>A fool is he that comes to preach or prate<br>When men with swords their right and wrong debate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LVIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And where you wish he should submit<br>To the censure of your upright laws;<br>Alas, that cannot be, for he is flit<br>Out if this camp, withouten stay or pause,<br>There take my gage, behold I offer it<br>To him that first accused him in this cause,<br>Or any else that dare, and will maintain<br>That for his pride the prince was justly slain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LIX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I say with reason Lord Gernando's pride<br>He hath abated, if he have offended<br>Gainst your commands, who are his lord and guide,<br>Oh pardon him, that fault shall be amended.'<br>'If he be gone,' quoth Godfrey, 'let him ride<br>And brawl elsewhere, here let all strife be ended:<br>And you, Lord Guelpho, for your nephew's sake,<br>Breed us no new, nor quarrels old.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This while, the fair and false Armida strived<br>To get her promised aid in sure possession,<br>The day to end, with endless plaint she derived;<br>, beauty, craft for her made intercession:<br>But when the earth was once of light deprived,<br>And western seas Titan's hot impression,<br>'Twixt two old knights, and matrons twain she went,<br>Where pitched was her fair and curious tent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this false queen of craft and sly invention, -<br>Whose looks, love's arrows were; whose eyes his quivers;<br>Whose beauty matchless, free from reprehension,<br>A wonder left by Heaven to after-livers, -<br>Among the Christian lord had bred contention<br>Who first should quench his flames in Cupid's rivers,<br>While all her weapons and her darts rehearsed,<br>Had not Godfredo's constant bosom pierced.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To change his modest the dame procureth,<br>And proffereth heaps of love's enticing treasure:<br>But as the falcon newly gorged endureth<br>Her keeper lure her oft, but comes at leisure;<br>So he, whom fulness of delight assureth<br>What long repentance comes of love's short,<br>Her crafts, her arts, and all despiseth,<br>So base affections fall, when riseth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And not one foot his steadfast foot was moved<br>Out of that heavenly path, wherein he paced,<br>Yet thousand wiles and thousand ways she proved,<br>To have that castle fair of raised:<br>She used those looks and smiles that most behoved<br>To melt the frost which his hard heart embraced,<br>And gainst his breast a thousand shot she ventured,<br>Yet was the fort so strong it was not entered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXIV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dame who that one blink of her eye<br>Could make the chastest heart love's sweet,<br>Oh, how her pride abated was hereby!<br>When all her sleights were void, her crafts were vain,<br>Some other where she would her forces try,<br>Where at more ease she might more vantage gain,<br>As tired soldiers whom some fort keeps out,<br>Thence raise their siege, and spoil the towns about.</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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'If then you scorn to be in prison pent,
If bonds, as high disgrace, your hands refuse;
Or if your still to maintain are bent
Your liberty, as men of honor use:
To Antioch what if forthwith you went?
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