Crossword-Solution: LXV 3 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Said one--"Folks of a surly Tapster tell, And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell; They talk of some strict Testing of us--Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well." LXV.

LXV Gualter del Hum he calls, that Count Rollanz; "A thousand Franks take, out of France our land; Dispose them so, among ravines and crags, That the Emperour lose not a single man." Gualter replies: "I'll do as you command." A thousand Franks, come out of France their land, At Gualter's word they scour ravines and crags; They'll not come down, howe'er the news be bad, Ere from their sheaths swords seven hundred flash.

LXV But now was passed every regiment, Each band, each troop, each person worth regard When Godfrey with his lords to counsel went, And thus the Duke his princely will declared: “I will when day next clears the firmament, Our ready host in haste be all prepared, Closely to march to Sion’s noble wall, Unseen, unheard, or undescried at all.

LXV “His mind is this, he prays thee be contented To joy in peace the conquests thou hast got, Be not thy death, or Sion’s fall lamented, Forbear this land, Judea trouble not, Things done in haste at leisure be repented: Withdraw thine arms, trust not uncertain lot, For oft to see what least we think betide; He is thy friend ’gainst all the world beside.

LXV But yet all ways the wily witch could find Could not Tancredi’s heart to loveward move, His sails were filled with another wind, He list no blast of new affection prove; For, as one poison doth exclude by kind Another’s force, so love excludeth love: These two alone nor more nor less the dame Could win, the rest all burnt in her sweet flame.