Richard, I bear thy name; I'll venge thy death, Or die renowned by attempting it.
III Then spake the Knight of Trony, "I yonder see come on With sturdy strides Sir Dietrich; he'll fight with us anon To venge his slaughter'd kinsmen whom we have done to die.
In all good faith was Giselher ready to venge her wrong.
Or did stern Ares venge his thankless spear Through this night foray that hath cost thee dear!
With cursèd wounding of their sight-reft eyes, That cried to Heaven to 'venge the iniquity.
Hold, let's inquire the causers of their deaths, That we may 'venge their blood upon their heads.
Hold; let's inquire the causers of their deaths, That we may venge their blood upon their heads.
In season Rinaldo comes tovenge the secret treason.
LIV "But he, because he has before his eyes The example of his elder brother slain, Thinks to bear off the lady in such wise, That bold Olindro cannot venge the stain.
To lose me, his betrothed, a mighty cross The monarch deems, and comes to venge his loss.
Besides, you by the laws of chivalry Are bound to venge the damsel foully shent.
Quickly to venge the knight Alardo wends, But falls himself astounded on the mead; Sore handled, and unhorsed by such a stroke, His buckler in the cruel shock is broke.
Since Roland, but for this, would venge the scorn He and a thousand more from her had borne.
For well I ween to make Lurcanio rue (Informed of the event) his cruelty, Who will have thought to vengeme with his brand, And will have slain me with his very hand.
Stephen, Stephen,--now is no time to 'venge prive wrong!
King Lukafe[rh] with Baldeseynes, To venge alle, shalle have the Fowarde.
In vain you sorrow for the slaughtered prince, In vain you sorrow for his overthrow; He loves not most that doth lament the most, But he that seeks to venge the injury.
No, traitor, no; the gods will venge these wrongs, The fiends of hell will mark these injuries.
Then, losell Locrine, look unto thy self, Thrasimachus will venge this injury.
Touching that malignant Strumpet, hir owne lyfe shall reuenge the wrongs which she hath gone about to venge on vs.
For the law indifferently doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh authority to venge his own wrong.
Now as for happy thee, to whom sweet death Hath given blessed rest for life's bereaving; O envious Julia, in thy jealous heart Venge not thy wrong upon Cornelia.
What shall I do, or whither shall I fly, To vengethis outrage, or revenge my wrongs?
Ye knowen also, that your richesses moten been dispended in diverse parties; /2560 and whan that every wight hath his part, they ne wollen taken but litel reward tovenge thy deeth.
And therfore ye shul venge yow after the ordre of right, that is to seyn by the lawe, and noght by excesse ne by outrage.
For right as they han venged hem on me and doon me wrong, right so shal I venge me upon hem and doon hem wrong; / and thanne have I cured oon contrarie by another.
But lat us now putte, that ye have leve to venge yow.
Pardee, ye knowen wel, that ye maken no defence as now for to defende yow, but for to venge yow; / and so seweth it that ye han no wil to do your dede attemprely.
Yet sette I caas, ye have bothe might and licence for to [225] venge yow.
And if it so bifalle or happe that a man of gretter might and strengthe than thou art do thee grevaunce, / studie and bisie thee rather to stille the same grevaunce, than for to venge thee.
Melibee answerde, 'if I ne venge me nat of the vileinye that men han doon to me, / I sompne or warne hem that han doon to me that vileinye and alle othere, to do me another vileinye.
In other place also I rede, Wher that a jugge his oghne dede 2890 Ne wol noght venge of lawe broke, The king it hath himselven wroke.
To venge me as I may and to put forth My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
For thou hast carried with thee to the grave The only hope that in my heart yet lived, The hope that thou wouldst some day come to venge Thy sire and me.
While I still heard that our Orestes lived, And all was well with him, the hope remained That he would come, and venge our murdered sire.
None there be so bold, an' he hath done you aught, but it will cost him his life, if ye bid us venge you.
The latter weened to venge straightway his masters, till he then discovered Siegfried's mighty strength; for no match for him was the sturdy dwarf.
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