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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 05 - part 01</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THE ARGUMENT.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Gernando scorns Rinaldo should aspire<br>To rule that charge for which he seeks and strives,<br>And slanders him so far, that in his ire<br>The wronged knight his foe of life deprives:<br>Far from the camp the slayer doth retire,<br>Nor lets be bound in chains or gyves:<br>Armide departs content, and from the seas<br>Godfrey news which him and his displease.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">While thus Armida false the knights misled<br>In wandering errors of love,<br>And , besides the champions promised,<br>The other lordlings in her aid to move,<br>In Godfrey's a strong contention bred<br>Who fittest were this hazard great to prove;<br>For all the worthies of the adventures' band<br>Were like in birth, in power, in strength of hand.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But first the prince, by grave advice, decreed<br>They should some knight choose at their own election,<br>That in his charge Lord Dudon might succeed,<br>And of that glorious troop should take protection;<br>So none should grieve, displeased with the deed,<br>Nor blame the causer of their new subjection:<br>Besides, Godfredo showed by this device,<br>How much he held that regiment in price.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">III</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He called the worthies then, and spake them so:<br>'Lordlings, you I yielded to your will,<br>And gave you license with this dame to go,<br>To win her kingdom and that tyrant kill:<br>But now again I let you further ,<br>In following her it may betide yon ill;<br>Refrain therefore, and change this forward <br>For death unsent for, danger comes unsought.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IV</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'But if to shun these perils, sought so far,<br>May seem disgraceful to the place yon hold;<br>If grave advice and counsel are<br>Esteemed detractors from your courage bold;<br>Then , I none against his will debar,<br>Nor what I granted erst I now withhold;<br>But he mine empire, as it ought of right,<br>Sweet, easy, , gentle, meek and light.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">V</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Go then or tarry, each as likes him best,<br>Free power I grant you on this enterprise;<br>But first in Dudon's place, now laid in chest,<br>Choose you some other captain stout and ;<br>Then ten appoint among the worthiest,<br>But let no more attempt this hard emprise,<br>In this my will content you that I have,<br>For power constrained is but a glorious slave.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VI</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Thus Godfrey said, and thus his brother spake,<br>And answered for and all his peers:<br>'My lord, as well it fitteth thee to make<br>These delays and cast these and ,<br>So 'tis our part at first to undertake;<br>Courage and haste beseems our might and years;<br>And this proceeding with so grave advice,<br>, in you, in us were cowardice.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VII</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Since then the feat is easy, danger none,<br>All set in battle and in hardy fight,<br>Do thou permit the chosen ten to gone<br>And aid the damsel:' thus devised the knight,<br>To make men the sun of honor shone<br>There where the lamp of Cupid gave the light:<br>The his guile, and it approve,<br>And call that knighthood which was childish love.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VIII</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But loving Eustace, that with eye<br>Beheld the worth of Sophia's child,<br>And his fair shape did secretly envy,<br>Besides the in his breast compiled,<br>And, for in love he would no company,<br>He stored his mouth with speeches smoothly filed,<br>Drawing his rival to attend his word;<br>Thus with fair sleight he laid the knight abord:</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IX</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Of great Bertoldo thou far greater heir,<br>Thou star of knighthood, flower of chivalry,<br>Tell me, who now shall lead this squadron fair,<br>Since our late guide in marble cold doth lie?<br>I, that with famous Dudon might compare<br>In all, but years, hoar locks, and gravity,<br>To whom should I, Duke Godfrey's brother, yield,<br>Unless to thee, the Christian army's shield?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">X</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Thee whom high birth makes equal with the best<br>Thine acts prefer both me and all beforn;<br>Nor that in fight thou both surpass the ,<br>And Godfrey's worthy , I hold in scorn;<br>Thee to obey then am I only pressed;<br>Before these worthies be thine eagle borne;<br>This honor haply thou esteemest light,<br>Whose day of glory never yet found night.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XI</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Yet mayest thou further by this means display<br>The spreading wings of thy immortal fame;<br>I will procure it, if thou sayest not nay,<br>And all their wills to thine election frame:<br>But for I scantly am resolved which way<br>To bend my force, or where employ the same,<br>Leave me, I pray, at my discretion free<br>To Armida, or serve here with thee.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XII</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This last request, for love is evil to hide,<br>Empurpled both his cheeks with scarlet red;<br>Rinaldo soon his passions had descried,<br>And gently smiling turned aside his head,<br>And, for weak Cupid was too feeble eyed<br>To strike him sure, the fire in him was dead;<br>So that of rivals was he naught afraid,<br>Nor cared he for the journey or the maid.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIII</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But in his revolved he oft<br>Dudon's high prowess, death and burial,<br>And how Argantes bore his plumes aloft,<br>Praising his fortunes for that worthy's fall;<br>Besides, the knight's sweet words and praises soft<br>To his due honor did him fitly call,<br>And made his heart rejoice, for well he,<br>Though much he praised him, all his words were.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIV</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Degrees,' quoth he, 'of honors high to hold,<br>I would them first deserve, and the;<br>And were my valor such as you have told,<br>Would I for that to higher place aspire:<br>But if to honors due raise me you would,<br>I will not of my works refuse the hire;<br>And much it glads me, that my power and might<br>Ypraised is by such a valiant knight.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XV</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'I neither seek it nor refuse the place,<br>Which if I get, the praise and thanks be thine.'<br>Eustace, this spoken, hied thence apace<br>To which way his fellows' hearts incline:<br>But Prince Gernando coveted the place,<br>Whom though Armida sought to undermine,<br>Gainst him yet vain did all her engines prove,<br>His pride was such, there was no place for love.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XVI</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531501" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Gernando was the King of Norway's son,<br>That many a realm and region had to guide,<br>And for his elders lands and crowns had won.<br>His heart was puffed up with endless pride:<br>The other boasts more what had done<br>Than all his ancestors' great acts beside;<br>Yet his forefathers old before him were<br>Famous in war and peace five hundred years.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Torquato+Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a></strong></div>