Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

Author:Torquato Tasso [Tasso, Torquato]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Godfrey, of Bouillon, ca. 1060-1100 -- Poetry, Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English, Crusades, First, 1096-1099 -- Poetry, Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244 -- Poetry
Published: 1996-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

XLI

While thus the worthies of the western crew

Maintained their brave assault and skirmish hot,

Her mighty bow Clorinda often drew,

And many a sharp and deadly arrow shot;

And from her bow no steeled shaft there flew

But that some blood the cursed engine got,

Blood of some valiant knight or man of fame,

For that proud shootress scorned weaker game.

XLII

The first she hit among the Christian peers

Was the bold son of England's noble king,

Above the trench himself he scantly rears,

But she an arrow loosed from the string,

The wicked steel his gauntlet breaks and tears,

And through his right hand thrust the piercing sting;

Disabled thus from fight, he gan retire,

Groaning for pain, but fretting more for ire.

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