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The Divine Comedy Part 1 - Dante Alighieri · Comedy Library

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  Speaker 1: Inferno Canto won. Midway upon the journey of our life,
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  Speaker 1: I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward
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  Speaker 1: pathway had been lost. Ah Me, how hard a thing
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  Speaker 1: it is to say? What was this forest? Savage, rough
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  Speaker 1: and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear?
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  Speaker 1: So bitter is it? Death is little more? But of
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  Speaker 1: the good detreat which there I found, Speak were I
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  Speaker 1: of the other things I saw there? I cannot well
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  Speaker 1: repeat how there I entered, so full was I of
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  Speaker 1: slumber at the moment in which I had abandoned the
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  Speaker 1: true way. But after I had reached a mountain's foot,
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  Speaker 1: at that point where the valley terminated, which had, with
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  Speaker 1: consternation pierced my heart upward, I looked, and I beheld
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  Speaker 1: its shoal vested already with that planet's rays, which leadeth
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  Speaker 1: others right by every road. Then was the fear a
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  Speaker 1: little quieted, that in my heart's lake had endured throughout
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  Speaker 1: the night which I had passed so piteously. And even
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  Speaker 1: as he who with distressful breath forth issued from the
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  Speaker 1: sea upon the shore turns to the water perilous and gazes,
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  Speaker 1: so did my soul that still was fleeing onward turn
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  Speaker 1: itself back to re behold the pass which never yet
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  Speaker 1: a living person left. After my weary body I had
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  Speaker 1: rested the way resumed I on the desert slope, so
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  Speaker 1: that the firm foot, ever was the lower and lo
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  Speaker 1: almost where the ascent began. A panther, light and swift exceedingly,
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  Speaker 1: which with a spotted skin, was covered here, and never
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  Speaker 1: moved she from before my face. Nay, rather did impede
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  Speaker 1: so much my way, that many times I to return
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  Speaker 1: had turned. The time was the beginning of the morning,
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  Speaker 1: and up the sun was mounting with those stars that
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  Speaker 1: with him were what time the love divine, at first
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  Speaker 1: in motion set those beauteous things, so were to me
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  Speaker 1: occasion of good hope, the variegated skin of that wild beast,
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  Speaker 1: the hour of time, and the delicious season. But not
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  Speaker 1: so much that did not give me fear. A lion's aspect,
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  Speaker 1: which appeared to me he seemed as if against me
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  Speaker 1: he were coming with head uplifted and with ravenous hunger,
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  Speaker 1: so that it seemed the air was afraid of him.
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  Speaker 1: And a she wolf that with all hungerings, seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be laden in her meagerness, and many folk has caused
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  Speaker 1: to live forlorn. She brought upon me so much heaviness
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  Speaker 1: with the affright, that from her aspect came that I
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  Speaker 1: the hope relinquished of the height. And as he is
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  Speaker 1: who willingly acquires, and the time comes that causes him
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  Speaker 1: to lose, who weeps in all his thoughts and is despondent,
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  Speaker 1: e'n such made me that beast without in peace, which
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  Speaker 1: coming on against me by degrees, thrust me back thither,
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  Speaker 1: where the sun is silent. While I was rushing downward
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  Speaker 1: to the lowland. Before mine eyes did one present himself,
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  Speaker 1: who seemed from long continued silence hoarse. When I beheld
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  Speaker 1: him in the desert, vast have pity on me unto him,
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  Speaker 1: I cried, which e'er thou art or shade or real man?
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  Speaker 1: He answered me, not man man. Once I was and
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  Speaker 1: both my parents were of Lombardy and Mantuans by country,
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  Speaker 1: both of them sub Julio was I born, though it
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  Speaker 1: was late, and lived at Rome under the good Augustus,
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  Speaker 1: during the time of false and lying gods. A poet
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  Speaker 1: was I, and I sang that just son of Anjizes,
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  Speaker 1: who came forth from Troy. After that illion, the superb
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  Speaker 1: was burned. But thou, why'st go thou back to such annoyance?
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  Speaker 1: Why climb'st thou not the mount delectable, which is the
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  Speaker 1: source and cause of every joy? Now art thou that
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  Speaker 1: virgilus and that fountain which spreads abroad so wide a
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  Speaker 1: river of speech. I made response to him with bashful forehead,
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  Speaker 1: Oh of the other poets, honor and light avail me
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  Speaker 1: the long study and great love that have impelled me
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  Speaker 1: to explore thy volume. Thou art my master and my author.
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  Speaker 1: There thou art alone, the one from whom I took
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful style that has done honor to me. Behold
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  Speaker 1: the beast for which I have turned back. Do thou
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  Speaker 1: protect me from her famous sage? For she doth make
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  Speaker 1: my veins and pulses tremble thee it behooves to take
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  Speaker 1: another road, responded he, when he beheld me weeping. If
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  Speaker 1: from this savage place thou wouldst escape. Because this beast
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  Speaker 1: at which thou criest out, suffers not any one to
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  Speaker 1: pass her way, But so doth harass him, that she
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  Speaker 1: destroys him, and has a nature so malign and ruthless
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  Speaker 1: that never doth she glut her greedy will, and after
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  Speaker 1: food is hungrier than before many the animals with whom
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  Speaker 1: she weds, and more, they shall be still until greyhound comes,
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  Speaker 1: who shall make her perish in her pain. He shall
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  Speaker 1: not feed on either earth or Pelf, but upon wisdom
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  Speaker 1: and on love and virtue. TwixT Feltro and Feltro. Shall
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  Speaker 1: his nation be of that low Italy. Shall he be
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  Speaker 1: the savior on whose account the maid Camilla died Euryalus
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  Speaker 1: turnus nisus of their wounds. Through every city shall he
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  Speaker 1: hunt her down till he shall have driven her back
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  Speaker 1: to Hell there from whence envy first did let her loose.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore I think and judge it for thy best. Thou
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  Speaker 1: follow me, and I will be thy guide and lead
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  Speaker 1: thee Hence through the eternal place, where thou shalt hear
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  Speaker 1: the desperate lamentations, shall see the ancient spirits disconsolate, who
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  Speaker 1: cry out each one for the second death. And thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt see those who contented are within the fire because
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  Speaker 1: they hoped to come. When it may be to the
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  Speaker 1: blessed people to whom then if thou wishest to ascend
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  Speaker 1: a soul shall be for that, then iigh more worthy
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  Speaker 1: with her. At my departure, I will leave thee, because
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  Speaker 1: that emperor who reigns above in that I was rebellious
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  Speaker 1: to his law, wills that through me none come into
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  Speaker 1: his city. He governs everywhere, and there he reigns. There
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  Speaker 1: is his city and his lofty throne. Oh happy he
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  Speaker 1: whom thereto he elects, and I to him, poet, I
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  Speaker 1: thee entreat by that same God, whom thou didst never
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  Speaker 1: know that I may escape this woe, and worse thou
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  Speaker 1: wouldst conduct me there where thou hast said that I
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  Speaker 1: may see the portal of Saint Peter, and those thou
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  Speaker 1: makest so disconsolate. Then he moved on, and I behind
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  Speaker 1: him followed end of Canto ie Inferno. Canto two. Day
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  Speaker 1: was departing, and the embrowned air released the animals that
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  Speaker 1: are on earth from their fatigues, And I the only one,
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  Speaker 1: made myself ready to sustain the war, both of the
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  Speaker 1: way and likewise of the woe which memory that errs
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  Speaker 1: not shall retrace, O muses, O, hygenius, now assist me,
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  Speaker 1: Oh memory that didst write down what I saw here,
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  Speaker 1: Thy nobility shall be manifest. And I began poet, who
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  Speaker 1: guidest me regard my manhood, if it be sufficient heir
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  Speaker 1: to the arduous pass, Thou dost confide me. Thou sayest
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  Speaker 1: that of Sylvius the Parent, while yet corruptible unto the world,
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  Speaker 1: in more went and was there bodily. But if the
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  Speaker 1: adversary of all evil was courteous, thinking of the high
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  Speaker 1: effect that issue would from him, and who and what
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  Speaker 1: to men of intellect unmeet, it seems not. For he
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  Speaker 1: was of great Rome and of her empire in the
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  Speaker 1: imperial heaven, as father chosen the wich and what, wishing
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  Speaker 1: to speak the truth established as the holy place, wherein
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  Speaker 1: sits the successor of the greatest Peter. Upon this journey,
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  Speaker 1: whence thou givest him vaunt things did he hear which
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  Speaker 1: the occasion were both of his victory and the papal mantle.
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  Speaker 1: Thither went afterwards the chosen vessel to bring back comfort.
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  Speaker 1: Thence unto that faith which of Salvation's way is the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: But I why thither come, or who concedes it? I
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  Speaker 1: not eneus am, I am not poor, nor I nor
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  Speaker 1: others think me worthy of it. Therefore, if I resign
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  Speaker 1: myself to come, I fear the coming may be ill advised.
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  Speaker 1: Thou art wise and knowest better than I speak. And
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  Speaker 1: as he is who unwills what he willed, and by
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  Speaker 1: new thoughts doth his intention change, so that from his
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  Speaker 1: design he quite withdraws such I became on that dark
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  Speaker 1: hill side because in thinking I consumed the emprise, which
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  Speaker 1: was so very prompt in the beginning. If I have
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  Speaker 1: well thy language understood, replied that shade of the magnanimous,
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  Speaker 1: thy soul attainted is with cowardice, which many times a
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  Speaker 1: man encumbers, so it turns him back from honored enterprise.
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  Speaker 1: As false sight doth the beast when he is shy,
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  Speaker 1: that thou may free thee from this apprehension. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: THEE why I came, and what I heard at the
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  Speaker 1: first moment when I grieved for THEE. Among those was
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  Speaker 1: I who are in suspense, And a fair, saintly lady
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  Speaker 1: called to me. In such wise, I besought her to
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  Speaker 1: command me. Her eyes were shining brighter than the star,
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  Speaker 1: and she began to say, gentle and low, with voice
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  Speaker 1: angelical in her own language, O spirit, courteous of manture
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  Speaker 1: of whom the fame still in the world endures and
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  Speaker 1: shall endure long lasting as the world a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine and not the friend of fortune upon the desert
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  Speaker 1: slope is so impeded upon his way that he is
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  Speaker 1: turned through terror. And may I fear already be so
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  Speaker 1: lost that I, too late have risen to his succor
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  Speaker 1: from that which I have heard of him in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Bestir THEE now, and with thy speech, or nate, and
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  Speaker 1: with what needful is for his release, assist him so
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  Speaker 1: that I may be consoled. Beatrice, am I who do
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  Speaker 1: bid THEE go? I come from there where I would
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  Speaker 1: fain return. Love moved me, which compelleth me to speak.
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  Speaker 1: When I shall be in presence of my lord full
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  Speaker 1: often will I praise THEE unto him? Then paused she,
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  Speaker 1: and thereafter I began, O Lady of virtue, Thou alone
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  Speaker 1: through whom the human race exceedeth all contained within the
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  Speaker 1: heaven that has the lesser circles. So grateful unto me
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  Speaker 1: is thy commandment to obey if twere already done, were late,
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  Speaker 1: no farther needst Thou hope to me thy wish. But
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  Speaker 1: the cause tell me why thou dost not shun the
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  Speaker 1: here descending down into this sense from the vast place
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  Speaker 1: thou burnest to return to. Since thou wouldst fain so
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  Speaker 1: inwardly discern briefly will I relate? She answered me, Why
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  Speaker 1: I am not afraid to enter here? Of those things
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  Speaker 1: only should one be afraid, which have the power of
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  Speaker 1: doing others harm? Of the rest, no, because they are
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  Speaker 1: not fearful. God, in his mercy such created me. That
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  Speaker 1: misery of yours attains me not, nor any flame assails me.
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  Speaker 1: Of this burning. A gentle lady is in heaven who
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  Speaker 1: grieves at this impediment to which I send THEE, so
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  Speaker 1: that stern judgment there above is broken. In her entreaty,
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  Speaker 1: she besought Lucia and said, thy faithful one now stands
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  Speaker 1: in need of THEE, and unto THEE, I recommend him. Lucia,
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  Speaker 1: foe of all that cruel is hastened away and came
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  Speaker 1: unto the place where I was sitting with the ancient Rachel.
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  Speaker 1: Beatrice said she the true praise of God. Why succorest
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  Speaker 1: thou not him who loved THEE? So for THEE he
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  Speaker 1: issued from the vulgar herd, dost thou not hear the
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  Speaker 1: pity of his plaint dost thou not see the death
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  Speaker 1: that combats him beside that flood, where ocean has no vaunt.
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  Speaker 1: Never were persons in the world so swift to work
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  Speaker 1: their wheel and to escape their woe as I, after
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  Speaker 1: such words as these were uttered, came hither downward from
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  Speaker 1: my blessed seat, confiding in thy dignified discourse, which honors
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  Speaker 1: THEE and those who've listened to it. After she thus
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  Speaker 1: had spoken unto me, weeping her shining eyes, she turned away,
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  Speaker 1: whereby she made me swifter in my coming, and unto THEE.
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  Speaker 1: I came as she desired. I have delivered THEE from
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  Speaker 1: that wild beast which barred the beautiful mountain's short ascent.
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  Speaker 1: What is it, then? Why why dost thou delay? Why
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  Speaker 1: is such baseness bedded in thy heart? Daring and hardihood?
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  Speaker 1: Why hast thou not seeing that three such ladies benedite
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  Speaker 1: a caring for THEE in the court of heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: so much good my speech doth promise THEE. Even as
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  Speaker 1: the flowerets by nocturnal chill, bowed down and closed. When
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  Speaker 1: the sun whitens them, uplift themselves all open on their stems.
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  Speaker 1: Such I became with my exhausted strength and such good
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  Speaker 1: courage to my heart their course that I began like
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  Speaker 1: an intrepid person. Oh, she compassionate who succored me, and courteous,
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  Speaker 1: Thou who hast abayed so soon the words of truth
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  Speaker 1: which she addressed to thee. Thou hast my heart so
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  Speaker 1: with desire disposed to the adventure with these words of thine,
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  Speaker 1: that to my first intent I have returned. Now go,
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  Speaker 1: for one's sole will is in us, both Thou leader
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  Speaker 1: and thou lord and master. Thou, thus said I to him,
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  Speaker 1: And when he had moved, I entered on the deep
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  Speaker 1: and savage way end of Canto two, Inferno, Canto three.
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  Speaker 1: Through me. The way is to the city dolent through me.
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  Speaker 1: The way is to eternal dole through me, the way
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  Speaker 1: among the people lost justice incited. My sublime creator created me,
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  Speaker 1: divine omnipotence, the highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me,
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  Speaker 1: there were no created things, only a turn an I
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  Speaker 1: eternal last, all hope abandon ye who enter in these
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  Speaker 1: words in somber color, I beheld written upon the summit
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  Speaker 1: of a gate. Whence I their senses Master hard to me,
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  Speaker 1: and he to me as one experienced.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: All suspicion needs must be abandoned, All cowardice must needs
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  Speaker 1: be here extinct. We to the place, have come where
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  Speaker 1: I have told thee thou shalt behold the people dolorous,
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  Speaker 1: who have forgone the good of intellect. And after he
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  Speaker 1: had laid his hand on mine with joyful mien, whence
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  Speaker 1: I was comforted, he led me in among the secret things.
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  Speaker 1: There sighs, complaints, and allulations loud resounded through the air
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  Speaker 1: without a star. Whence I, at the beginning wept thereat
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  Speaker 1: languages diverse, horrible dialects, accents of anger, words of agony,
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  Speaker 1: and voices high and hoarse, with sound of hands, made
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  Speaker 1: up a tumult that goes whirling on forever in that air,
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  Speaker 1: forever black, even as the sand doth when the whirlwind breathes.
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  Speaker 1: And I, who had my head with horror bound, said Master,
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  Speaker 1: what is this which now I hear? What folk is
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  Speaker 1: this which seems by pain so vanquished? And he to
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  Speaker 1: me this miserable mode maintain the melancholy souls of those
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  Speaker 1: who lived without an infamy or praise commingled are they
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  Speaker 1: with that caitive choir of angels who have not rebellious, been,
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  Speaker 1: nor faithful, were to go God, but were for self.
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  Speaker 1: The heavens expelled them, not to be less fair, nor
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  Speaker 1: them the nethermore abyss receives for glory done the damned
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  Speaker 1: world would have from them. And I, oh, Master, what
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  Speaker 1: so grievous is to these that maketh them lament so sore?
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  Speaker 1: He answered, I will tell thee very briefly. These have
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  Speaker 1: no longer any hope of death, And this blind life
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  Speaker 1: of theirs is so debased. They envious are of every
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  Speaker 1: other fate. No fame of them the world permits to
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  Speaker 1: be miser Record and justice both disdain them. Let us
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  Speaker 1: not speak of them, but look and pass. And I,
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  Speaker 1: who looked again, beheld a banner, which, whirling round, ran
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  Speaker 1: on so rapidly that of all pause it seemed to
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  Speaker 1: me indignant. And after it there came so long a
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  Speaker 1: train of people that I ne'er would have believed that,
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  Speaker 1: ever death, so many had undone. When some among them
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  Speaker 1: I had recognized, I looked, and I beheld the shade
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  Speaker 1: of him who made through cowardice the great refusal. Forthwith,
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  Speaker 1: I comprehended, and was certain that this the sect was
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  Speaker 1: of the cateriff wretches, hateful to God and to his enemies.
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  Speaker 1: These miscreants, who never were alive, were naked, and were
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  Speaker 1: stung exceedingly by gadflies and by hornets that were there.
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  Speaker 1: These did their faces irrigate with blood, which, with their
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  Speaker 1: tears commingled at their feet by the disgusting worms, was
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  Speaker 1: gathered up. And when to gazing farther, I betook me
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  Speaker 1: people I saw on a great river's bank. Whence said
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  Speaker 1: I Master, now vouchsafe to me that I may know
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  Speaker 1: who these are, and what law makes them appear so
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  Speaker 1: ready to pass over as I discern athwart the dusky light,
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  Speaker 1: and he to me, these things shall all be known
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  Speaker 1: to thee as soon as we our footsteps stay upon
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  Speaker 1: the dismal shore of Ascheron. Then, with mine eyes ashamed
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  Speaker 1: and downward cast, fearing my words might irksome be to
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  Speaker 1: him from speech, refrained eye till we reached the river,
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  Speaker 1: and lo towards us, coming in a boat, an old
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  Speaker 1: man hoary with the hair of eld, crying woe unto ye,
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  Speaker 1: ye souls depraved hope never more to look upon the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: I come to lead you to the other shore, to
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  Speaker 1: the eternal shades in heat and frost, and that yonderstandest
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  Speaker 1: living soul, withdraw THEE from these people who are dead.
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  Speaker 1: But when he saw that I did not withdraw, he said,
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  Speaker 1: by other ways, by other ports, Thou to the shore,
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  Speaker 1: shalt come not here for passage. A lighter vessel needs
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  Speaker 1: must carry THEE. And unto him the guide vex thee
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  Speaker 1: not Charon, it is so willed where there is power
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  Speaker 1: to do that which is willed, And Father question not
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  Speaker 1: thereat were quieted. The fleecy cheeks of him. The ferrymen
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  Speaker 1: of the livid fen who round his eyes had wheels
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  Speaker 1: of flame. But all those souls, who weary were and naked,
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  Speaker 1: their color changed, and gnashed their teeth together. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as they had heard those cruel words God they blasphemed
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  Speaker 1: and their progenitors, the human race, the lace, the time,
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  Speaker 1: the seed of their engendering, and of their birth. Thereafter,
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  Speaker 1: all together they drew back, bitterly, weeping to the accursed shore,
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  Speaker 1: which waiteth every man who fears not God. Charon, the demon,
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  Speaker 1: with the eyes of gleed, beckoning to them, collects them
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  Speaker 1: all together, beats with his oar. Whoever lags behind as
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  Speaker 1: in the autumn time, the leaves fall off, first one
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  Speaker 1: and then another, till the branch unto the earth surrenders
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  Speaker 1: all its spoils. In similar wise, the evil seed of
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  Speaker 1: Adam throw themselves from that margin, one by one at
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  Speaker 1: signals as a bird unto its lure. So they depart
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  Speaker 1: across the dusky wave, and ere upon the other side
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  Speaker 1: they land again. On this side a new troop assembles.
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  Speaker 1: My son, the courteous Master said to me, all those
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  Speaker 1: who perish in the wrath of God, here meet together
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  Speaker 1: out of every land. And ready are they to pass
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  Speaker 1: o'er the river, because celestial justice spurs them on, so
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  Speaker 1: that their fear is turned into desire. This way, then
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: never passes a good soul. And hence, if Charon doth
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  Speaker 1: complain of thee, well, mayst thou know now what his
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: speech imports. This being finished, all the dusk, Champagne trembled
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  Speaker 1: so violently that of that terror the recollection bathes me
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  Speaker 1: still with sweat. The land of tears gave forth a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: blast of wind and fulminated of a million light, which
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: overmastered me in every sense. And as a man whom
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: sleep hath seized, I fell end of Canto three Inferno
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  Speaker 1: Canto four broke the deep lethargy within my head a
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  Speaker 1: heavy thunder, so that I upstarted, like to a person
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  Speaker 1: who by force is wakened, and round about I moved
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  Speaker 1: my rested eyes up risen erect, and steadfastly I gazed
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  Speaker 1: to recognize the place wherein I was true? Is it
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  Speaker 1: that upon the verge I found me of the abysmal
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: valley Dolorus, that gathers thunder, of infinite llulations, obscure, profound.
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  Speaker 1: It was a nebulous so that by fixing on its
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: depths my sight nothing whatever I discerned therein. Let us
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: descend now into the blind world, began the poet Pallid utterly,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: I will be first, and thou shalt second be. And I,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: who of his color was aware, said, how shall I come?
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  Speaker 1: If thou art afraid? Who at want to be a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: comfort to my fears? And he to me? The anguish
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: of the people who are below here in my face
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  Speaker 1: depicts that pity for which terror thou hast taken. Let
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: us go on, for the long way impels us. Thus
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: he went in, and thus he made me enter the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: foremost circle that surrounds the abyss. There as it seemed
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to me from listening, were lamentations none, but only sighs.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That tremble made the everlasting air. And this arose from
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: sorrow without torment, which the crowds had. That many were,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and great of infants, and of women and of men.
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  Speaker 1: To me, the Master good, thou dost not ask what
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: spirits these which thou beholdest are?
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Will I have thee know? Ere thou go farther? That
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: they sinned not? And if they merit had tis not enough,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: because they had not baptism, which is the portal of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the faith thou holdest. And if they were before Christianity
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in the right manner, they adored not God. And among
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: such as these am I myself for such defects, and
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: not for other guilt? Lost are we? And are only
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: so far punished that without hope we live on in desire.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Great grief seized on my heart when this I heard,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Because some people of much worthiness I knew, whom that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: limbo were suspended. Tell me, my Master, tell me thou,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: my lord. Began I with desire of being certain of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that faith which overcometh every error. Came any one by
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: his own merit hence or by another's who was blessed thereafter.
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  Speaker 1: And he who understood my covert speech, replied, I was
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a novice in this state when I saw hither come
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: a mighty one with sign of victory in coronate. Hence
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: he drew forth the shade of the first parent, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that of his son Abel, and of Noah, of Moses
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  Speaker 1: the law Giver, and the obedient Abraham Patriarch, and David
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: king Israel, with his father and his children, and Rachel,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: for whose sake he did so much, and others many,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and he made them blessed. And thou must know that
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: earlier than these never were any human spirits saved. We
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: ceased not to advance because he spake, but still were
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: passing onward through the forest, the forest, say I, of thick,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: crowded ghosts. Not very far as yet our way had
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: gone this side the summit, when I saw a fire
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: that overcame a hemisphere of darkness. We were a little
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: distant from it still, but not so far that I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in part discerned not that honorable people held that place, O, Thou,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: who honorest every art and science, who may these be,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: which such great honor have? That from the fashion of
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the rest, it parts them, and he to me the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: honorable name that sounds of them above there in thy
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: life wins grace in heaven that so advances them. In
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the meantime, a voice was heard by me. All honor
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: be to the pre eminent poet. His shade returns again
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that was departed after the voice had ceased, and quiet
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: was four mighty shades I saw approaching us resemblance. Had
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: they nor sorrowful nor glad to say to me? Began
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: my gracious master him with that Falcian in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: Behold who comes before the three even as their lord.
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  Speaker 1: That one is Homer, poet sovereign. He who comes next
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: is Horace the satirist. The third is Ovid, and the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: last is Lucan. Because to each of these with me
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: applies the name that solitary voice proclaimed. They do me honor,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and in that do well. Thus I beheld assemble the
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: fair school of that lord of the song, pre eminent,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: who o'er the others like an eagle sores. When they
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: together had discoursed somewhat, they turned to me with signs
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: of salutation. And on beholding this, my master smiled, and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: more of honor. Still much more they did me in
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: that they made me one of their own band, so
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: that the sixth was I midst so much wit. Thus
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: we went on as far as to the light things,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: saying tis becoming to keep silent, as was the saying
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Where I was.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: We came unto a noble castle's foot seven times, encompassed
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: with lofty walls, defended round by a fair rivulet. This
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: we passed over, even as firm ground. Through Portal seven
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I entered with these sages. We came into a meadow
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: of fresh verdure. People were there, with solemn eyes and slow,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: of great authority in their countenance. They spake but seldom,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and with gentle voices. Thus we withdrew ourselves upon one
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: side into an opening luminous and lofty, so that they,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: all of them, were visible. Their opposite upon the green enamel,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: were pointed out to me the mighty spirits, whom to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: have seen I feel myself exalted. I saw Electra with companions,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: many amongst whom I knew, both Hector and Eneus Caesar
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in armor with gerfalcon eyes. I saw Camilla and Penthesilia
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: on the other side, and saw the King Latinus, who
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: with Lavigna his daughter sat I saw that Brutus, who
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: drove Tarquin forth Lucretia, Julia, Marcia and Cornelia, and saw
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: alone apart the Saladin. When I had lifted up my
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: brows a little, the Master I beheld, of those who
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: know sit with his philosophic family. All gaze upon him,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and all do him honor. There I beheld both Socrates
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and Plato, who nearer him before the others stand Democritus,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: who puts the world on chance, Diogenes, Anaxagoras and Thales, Zeno,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Epidocles and Heraclitus. Of qualities, I saw the good collector, Height, Discorides,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: and Orpheus, saw I Tully and Livy, and Moral, Seneca,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: eucolid Geometrician and Ptolemy, Galen, Hippocrates, and Avicenna, Avrose, who
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: the great comment made. I cannot all of them portray
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: in full, because so drives me onward the long theme
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that many times the word comes short of fact. The
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: sixfold company in two divides. Another way, my sapient guide
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: conducts me forth from the quiet, to the air that trembles,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and to a place I come where nothing shines end
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: of Canto four Inferno Canto five. Thus I descended out
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: of the first circle down to the second, that less
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: space begirds, and so much greater a doll that goads
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to wailing. There standeth Minos horribly and snarls, examines the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: transgressions at the entrance, judges and sends accordingly as he
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: girds him. I say that when the spirit evil born
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: cometh before him holy, it confesses, and this discriminator of
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: transgressions seeth what place in hell is meet? For it
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: girds himself with his tail as many times as grades
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: he wishes it should be thrust down always before him.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Many of them stand, They go by, turns, each one
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: under the judgment. And here and then a downward hurled
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: O thou that to this dolorous hostelry comest, said Minos
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: to me, when he saw me leaving the practice of
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: so great an office. Look how thou enterest and in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: whom thou trustest, Let not the portal's amplitude deceive thee
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: and unto him my guide. Why criest thou too, do
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: not impede his journey fate ordained it is so willed
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: there where there is power to do that which is willed,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: and ask no further question, And thou begin the dolcon
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: notes to grow audible unto me. Now I am come there,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: when much lamentation strikes upon me. I came into a
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: place mute of all light, which bellows as the sea
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: does in a tempest. If by opposing winds tis combated.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onwards
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: in its repine, whirling them round and smiting. It molests
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: them when they arrive before the precipice. There are the shrieks,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the plaints, and the laments. There they blaspheme the poissens divine.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I understand that unto such a torment, the carnal malefactors
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: were condemned, who reasons subjugate to appetite. And as the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: wings of starlings bear them on in the cold season
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: in large band and full, so doth that blast the
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: spirit's maledict it hither thither, downward upward drives them. No
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: hope doth comfort them for evermore, not of repose, but
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: even of lesser pain. And as the cranes go chanting
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: forth their lays, making in air a long line of themselves.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: So saw I coming uttering laminations, shadows borne onward by
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the aforesaid stress. Whereupon said I, Master, who were those
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: people whom the black air so castigates? The first of
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: those of whom intelligence thou fain wouldst have, Then said
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: he unto me. The Empress was of many languages, to
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: sensual vices. She was so abandoned that lustful she made
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: lysit in her law to remove the blame to which
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: she had been led. She is Sir Mirramis, of whom
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: we read that she succeeded Ninus and was his spouse.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: She held the land which now the Sultan rules. The
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: next is she who killed herself for love and broke
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: faith with the ashes of Sichaeus. Then Cleopatra, the voluptuous
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Helen I saw, for whom so many ruthless seasons revolved,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And saw the great Achilles, who, at the last hour
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: combated with love. Paris, I saw Tristan, and more than
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a thousand shades did he name and point out with
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: his finger whom love had separated from our life. After
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: that I had listened to my teacher naming the dames
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: of eld and Cavaliers, pity prevailed, and I was nigh bewildered,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: and I began, O poet, willingly speak, Would I to
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: those two who go together and seem upon the wind
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to be so light, and he to me, thou'lt mark
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: when they shall be nearer to us? And then do
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: thou implore them by love which leadeth them? And they
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: will come soon as the wind in our direction sways them.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: My voice, uplift eye, O, ye, weary souls, come speak
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: to us, if no one interdicts it. As turtle doves
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: called onward by desire, with open and steady wings to
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the sweetness, fly through the air by their volition born,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: so came they from the band where Dido is approaching
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: us athwart the heir malign, So strong was the affectionate appeal,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: O living creature, gracious and benignant, who visiting goest through
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the purple air, us who have stained the world in carnadine.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: If were the king of the universe, our friend, we
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: would pray unto him to give THEE peace, since thou
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: hast pity on our woe, perverse of what it pleases
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: THEE to hear and speak, That will we hear, and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: we will speak to you while silent is the wind,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: as it is now sitteth the city wherein I was born,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: upon the sea shore, where the poe descends to rest
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: in peace with all his retinue. Love that on gentle
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: heart doth swiftly seize, Seize to this man for the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: person beautiful that was taken from me, And still the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: mode offends me, Love that exempts no one beloved from loving,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly that
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. Love
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: has conducted us unto one death. Can awaiteth him who
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: quenched our life? These words were borne along from them
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to us. As soon as I had heard, though sould tormented,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I bowed my face and so long held it down
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: until the poet said to me, what thinkest? When I
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: made answer, I began, alas, how many pleasant thoughts, how
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: much desire conducted these unto the dolorous pass Then unto them,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I turned me, and I spake, and I began thine agonies. Francesca,
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: sad and compassionate to weeping, make me, but tell me,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: at the time of those sweet sighs, by what and
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: in what manner love conceded that you should know your
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: dubious desires, And she to me, there is no greater
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: And that thy teacher knows. But if to recognize the
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: earliest root of love in us, thou hast so great desire,
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I will do even as he who weeps and speaks.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: One day we reading were for our delight of Launcelot,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: how love did him in thrall alone we were, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: without any fear full Many a time our eyes together
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: drew that reading and drove the color from our faces.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: But one point only was it that o'er caame us,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: when as we read of the much longed for smile
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: being by such a noble lover, kissed this, who ne'er
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: from me shall be divided, kissed me upon the mouth,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: all palpitating. Galiotto was the book and he who wrote it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: That day.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: No farther did we read therein, and all the while
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: one's spirit uttered this, the other did weep, so that
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: for pity I swooned away as if I had been dying,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and fell even as a dead body falls. End of Inferno,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Canto one to five.
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: Canto six at the return of consciousness that closed before
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: the pity of those two relations, which utterly with sadness
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: had confused me. New torments I behold, and new tormented
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: around me, which soever way I move, and which soever
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: way I turn and gaze. In the third circle, am
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I of the rain, eternal malady and cold and heavy.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Its law and quality are never new. Huge hail and water,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: somber hued and snow athwart the tenebrous air pour down
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: a mane noisome. The earth is that receiveth. This Cereberus, monster,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: cruel and uncouth, with his three gullets, like a dog,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: is barking over the people that are there, submerged red eyes.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: He has an unctuous beard, and black and belly, large
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: and armed with claws his hands. He rends the spirits,
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: flays and quarters them howl. The rain maketh them like
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: unto dogs. One side they make a shelter for the other,
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: oft turned themselves. The wretched reprobates. When Seaberis perceived us,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: the great worm, his mouths he opened and displayed his tusks.
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Not a limb had he that was motionless, And my conductor,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: with his spans extended, took of the earth, and with
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: his fists well filled, he threw it into those rapacious gullets,
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: such as that dog is, who, by barking craves and
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: quiet grows. Soon as his food he gnaws for to
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: devour it, he but thinks and struggles. The like became
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: those muzzles filth be grimd of sarah Burus, the daemon
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: who so thunders over the souls that they would fain
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: be deaf. We passed across the shadows which subdues the
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: heavy rainstorm, and we placed our feet upon their vanity.
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: That person seems they all were lying prone upon the earth,
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: excepting one, who sat upright as soon as he beheld
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: us passing on before him. O thou that art conducted
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: through this hell? He said to me, recall me if
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: thou canst thyself wast made before I was unmade? And
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: I to him the anguish which thou hast, perhaps doth
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: draw THEE out of my remembrance, so that it seems
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: not I have ever seen THEE. But tell me who
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: thou art, that in so doleful a place art put,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: and in such punishment, if some are greater, none is
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: so displeasing. And he to me thy city, which is
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: full of envy, so that now the sack runs over
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: held me within it in the life serene, You citizens
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: were wont to call me Chiaco, for the pernicious sin
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: of gluttony. I, as thou seest, am battered by this reign,
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: And I sad soul, am not the only one, for
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: all these suffer the like penalty for the like sin.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: And word no more spake he, I answered him, Chiaco,
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: Thy wretchedness weighs on me, so that it to weep
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: invites me. But tell me if thou knowest to what
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: shall come the citizens of the divided city, if any
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: there be just in the occasion, tell me why so
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: much discord has assailed it? And he to me they,
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: after long contention will come to bloodshed, and the rustic
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: party will drive the other out with much offense. Then
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: afterwards behooves it, this one fall within three suns, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: rise again the other by force of him who now
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: is on the coast. Hi will it hold its forehead
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: a long while, keeping the other under heavy burdens. Howe'er
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: it weeps thereat and is indignant, the just are too,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: and are not understood. There envy and arrogance and avarice
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: are the three sparks that have all hearts enkindled. Here
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: ended he his tearful utterance, and I to him, I
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: wish they still to teach me and make a gift
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: to me of further speech. Ferinata and Teggio once so worthy, Jacopo, Rasticucci,
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Evrigo and Musca, and others, who on good deeds set
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: their thoughts, say where they are, and cause that I
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: may know them. For great desire constraineth me to learn
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: if Heaven doth sweeten them, or hell en venom, and
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: he they are among the blacker souls, a different sin
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: downweighs them to the bottom. If thou so far descendest
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: thou canst see them. But when thou art again in
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: the sweet world, I pray THEE to the mind of others,
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: bring me no more, I tell THEE, and no more
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: I answer. Then his straightforward eyes he turned askance, eyed
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: me a little, and then bowed his head. He fell
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: there with prone like the other blind, And the Guide
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: said to me, he wakes no more. This sigh the
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  Speaker 3: sound of the angelic trumpet. One shall approach the hostile
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  Speaker 3: potentate each one shall find again his dismal tomb, shall
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  Speaker 3: reassume his flesh and his own figure, shall hear what
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  Speaker 3: through eternity re echoes. So we passed onward, or the
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  Speaker 3: filthy mixture of shadows and of rain, with footsteps, slow
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  Speaker 3: touching a little on the future life. Wherefore I said, Master,
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  Speaker 3: these torments here, will they increase after the mighty sentence?
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  Speaker 3: Or lesser be? Or will they be as burning? And
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  Speaker 3: he to me return unto thy science, which wills that
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  Speaker 3: as the thing more perfect is, the more it feels
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  Speaker 3: of pleasure and of pain, Albeit that this people, maledict
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  Speaker 3: to true perfection, never can attain hereafter more than now
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: they look to be round in a circle. By that
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: road we went, speaking much which I do not repeat.
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: We came unto the point where the descent is. There
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: we found Plutus, the great enemy Inferno Canto seven, pap
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  Speaker 3: Be Satan, pap Bey satin Aleppe. Thus Plutus, with his
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  Speaker 3: clucking voice began, and that benignant sage, who all things knew,
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  Speaker 3: said to encourage me, Let not thy fear harm thee,
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  Speaker 3: for any power that he may have shall not prevent
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  Speaker 3: thy going down this crag. Then he turned round unto
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  Speaker 3: that bloated lip, and said, be silent, thou, accursed wolf,
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  Speaker 3: consume within thyself with thine own rage, not causeless is
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: his journey to the abyss. Thus it is willed on
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  Speaker 3: high where Michael wrought vengeance upon the proud adultery. Even
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: as the sails, inflated by the wind involved together fall
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: once now the mast, so fell the cruel monster to
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: the earth. Thus we descended into the fourth Chasm, gaining
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: still farther on the doolesome shore, which all the woe
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: of the universe in sacts justice of God Ah, who
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  Speaker 3: heaps up so many new toils and sufferings as I beheld,
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  Speaker 3: And why doth our transgression waste us? So as doth
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  Speaker 3: the billow there upon carabdis that breaks itself on that
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  Speaker 3: which it encounters. So here the folk must dance there
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  Speaker 3: round delay. Here saw I people more than elsewhere, many
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  Speaker 3: on one side and the other, with great howls, rolling
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: waits forward by main force of chest. They clashed together,
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: and then at that point each one turned backward, rolling retrograde, crying,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: why keepest and why squanderest thou? Thus they were turned
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  Speaker 3: along the lurid circle on either hand unto the opposite point,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: shouting their shameful meter. Evermore, then each when he arrived there,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: wheeled about, threw his half circle to another joust. And I,
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  Speaker 3: who had my heart pierced as it were, exclaimed, my master,
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  Speaker 3: now declare to me what people these are? And if
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  Speaker 3: all were clerks, these shaven crowns upon the left of us,
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  Speaker 3: and he to me all of them were a squint
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: and intellect in the first life, so much that therewith
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  Speaker 3: measure they no spending, made clearly enough their voices bark
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: it forth whene'er they reached the two points of the circle,
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: where asunders them the opposite defect clerks those were who
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  Speaker 3: no hairy covering have on the head, and popes and
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: cardinals in whom doth evers practice its excess. And I,
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  Speaker 3: my master, among such as these, I ought forsooth to
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  Speaker 3: recognize some few who were infected with these maladies. And
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  Speaker 3: he to me vain thought thou entertainest the undiscerning life
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  Speaker 3: which made them sordid, now makes them unto all discernment.
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  Speaker 3: Dim forever shall they come to these two buddings. These
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  Speaker 3: from the sepulcher shall rise again with a fist closed,
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  Speaker 3: and these with tresses shorn, ill giving and ill keeping,
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  Speaker 3: the fair world have taken from them and place them
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  Speaker 3: in this scuffle. Whate'er it be no words adorn I
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  Speaker 3: for it? Now, canst thou son behold the transient farce
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  Speaker 3: of goods that are committed unto fortune, for which the
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  Speaker 3: human race each other buffet. For all the gold that
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: is beneath the moon's, or ever has been of these
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: weary souls could never make a single one repose, Master,
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: I said to him, Now tell me also, what is
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: this fortune which thou speakest of, that has the world's
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: goods so within its clutches? And he to me, oh,
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: creature's imbecile? What ignorance is this which doth beset you?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: Will I have thee learn my judgment of her? He
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  Speaker 3: whose omniscience everything transcends, the heavens created and gave, who
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: should guide them that every part to every part may shine,
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: distributing the light in equal measure. He, in like manner
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: to the mundane splendors, ordained a general ministress and guide,
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: that she might change at times the empty treasures from
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: race to race, from one blood to another. Beyond resistance
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: of all human wisdom. Therefore one people triumphs, and another
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: languishes in pursuance of her judgment, which hidden is as
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: in the grass a serpent. Your knowledge has no count
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: understand against her. She makes provision, judges, and pursues her
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: governance as theirs the other gods. Her permutations have not
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: any truce. Necessity makes her precipitate. So often cometh who
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  Speaker 3: his turn obtains. And this is she who is so crucified,
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  Speaker 3: even by those who ought to give her praise, giving
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: her blame, a miss and bad repute. But she is blissful,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: and she hears it not among the other primal creatures. Gladsome,
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: she turns her sphere, and blissful she rejoices. Let us
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: descend now onto greater woe already sinks each star that
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: was ascending when I set out, And loitering is forbidden.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: We crossed the circle to the other bank, near to
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: a fount that boils and pours itself along a gully
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: that runs out of it. The water was more somber
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: far than purse, and we, in company with the the
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: dusky waves, made entrance downward by a path uncouth in
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: marsh it makes, which has the name of Styx, this
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: trystful brooklet when it has descended down to the foot
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  Speaker 3: of the malign gray shores. And I, who stood intent
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: upon beholding, saw people mud be sprent in that lagoon,
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: all of them naked, and with angry look. They smote
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: each other, not alone with hands, but with the head
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: and with the breast and feet, tearing each other piecemeal
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: with their teeth. Said the good master Son, thou now
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: beholdest the souls of those whom anger overcame. And likewise
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  Speaker 3: I would have thee know for certain beneath the water
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: people are who sigh and make this water bubble at
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: the surface, as the eye tells thee wheresoe'er it turns?
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  Speaker 3: Fixed in the mire, they say, we sullen were in
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: the sweet air, which by the sun is gladdened, bearing
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: within ourselves the sluggish reek. Now we are sullen in
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  Speaker 3: this sable mire. This hymn do they keep gurgling in
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  Speaker 3: their throats, for with unbroken words they cannot say it.
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  Speaker 3: Thus we went circling round the filthy fen, a great
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  Speaker 3: arc TwixT the dry bank and the swamp, with eyes
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: turned unto those who gorged the mire unto the foot
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: of a tower we came at last Inferno Canto eight.
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  Speaker 3: I say, continuing that long before we to the foot
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: of that high tower had come, our eyes went upward
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: to the summit of it, by reason of two flamelets
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: we saw placed there, and from afar another answered them,
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: so far that hardly could the eye attain it. And
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: to the sea of all discernment turned earned, I said,
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: what saith this? And what respondeth that other fire? And
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: who are they that made it? And he to me
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: across the turbid waves, what is expected? Thou canst now
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: discern if reek of the morass conceal it not. Cord
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: never shot an arrow from itself that sped away athwart
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: the air, so swift as I beheld a very little
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: boat come o'er the water towards us at that moment,
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: under the guidance of a single pilot, who shouted, now
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: art thou arrived fell soul, fleggeus, fleggeus, Thou christ out
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: in vain. For this once said my lord, thou shalt
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: not have us longer than in the passing of the sloth.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: As he who listens to some great deceit that has
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: been done to him and then resents it such became
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: pleggious in his gathered wrath. My guide descended down into
• 57:59
  Speaker 3: the boat, and then he made me enter after him,
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: And only when I entered seemed it laden. Soon as
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: the guide and I were in the boat, the antique
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: prow goes on its way, dividing more of the water
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: than tis wont with others. While we were running through
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: the dead canal, up rose in front of me, one
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: full of mire, and said, who art thou that comest
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: here the hour? And I to him, although I come,
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: I stay not. But who art thou that hast become
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: so squalid? Thou seest that I am one who weeps,
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: he answered, And I to him, with weeping and with wailing,
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: thou spirit maledict, do thou remain for thee I know,
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: though thou art all defiled. Then stretched he both his
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: hands unto the boat whereat My wary master thrust him back,
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: saying away there with the other dogs. There After, with
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: his arms he had clasped my neck, he kissed my
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: face and said, disdainful soul, blessed be she who bore
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: thee in her bosom, that was an arrogant person in
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: the world goodness is none that decks his memory. So
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: likewise here his shade is furious. How many are esteemed
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: great kings up there, who here shall be like unto
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: swine and mire, leaving behind them horrible dispraises. And I,
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: my Master, much should I be pleased if I could
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: see him soust into this broth before we issue forth
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: out of the lake, and he to me ere unto
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: thee the shore reveal itself. Thou shalt be satisfied. Such
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: a desire tis meet, thou shouldst enjoy a little after that,
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: I saw such havoc made of him by the people
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: of the Mire, that still I praise and thank my
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: God for it. They all were shouting at Philip, oh
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: our gentee, and that exasperate spirit Florentine, turned round upon
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: himself with his own teeth. We left him there, and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 3: more of him I tell not, but on mine ears
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: there smote a lamentation. Whenceforward I intent on bar mine eyes.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: And the Good Master said, even now, my son, the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: city draweth near, whose name is dis with the grave citizens,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: with the great throng, and I its mosques already Master
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: clearly within there in the valley, I discerned vermilion, as
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: if issuing from the fire they were, and he to
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 3: me the fire eternal that kindles them within makes them
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: look red, as thou beholdest in this nether hell. Then
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: we arrived within the motes profound that circumvolate that disconsolate city.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: The walls appeared to me to be of iron. Not
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: without making first a circuit wide, we came unto a
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: place where, aloud the pilot cried out to us, debark,
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: here is the entrance. More than a thousand of the
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: gates I saw out of the heavens rained down, who
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: angrily were saying, who is this that without death goes
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: through the kingdom of the people dead? And my sagacious
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: master made a sign of wishing secretly to speak with
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: them a little. Then they quelled their great disdain and said,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: come thou alone, and he begone, who has so boldly
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: entered these dominions. Let him return alone by his mad road,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 3: Try if he can, for thou shalt here remain who
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: hast escorted him through such dark regions? Think, reader, if
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: I was discomfited at utterance of the accursed words for
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: never to return here, I believed, Oh, my dear guide,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: who more than seven times hast rendered me security and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: drawn me from imminent peril that before me stood. Do
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: not desert me, said I thus, undone, And if the
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: going farther be denied us, let us retrace our steps
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: together swiftly. And that lord, who had led me thitherward, said,
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: unto me, fear not, because our passage none can take
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: from us. It by such is given. But here await
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: me and thy weary spirit, comfort and nourish with a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: better hope. For in this nether world I will not
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: leave thee. So onward goes, and there abandons me my
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: father sweet, and I remain in doubt, for no, and yes,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: within my head contend I could not hear what he
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: proposed to them. But with them there he did not linger.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Long ere, each within, in rivalry ran back. They closed
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: the portals, Those our adversaries on my lord's breast, who
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: had remained without, and turned me with footsteps far between,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: his eyes cast down, his forehead shorn had he of
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: all its boldness, And he said, with sighs, who has
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: denied to me the dulesome houses? And unto me thou,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: because I am angry, fear not, for I will conquer
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: in the trial whatever for defense within be planned. This
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: arrogance of theirs is nothing new, for once they used
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: it at less secret gait, which finds itself without a fastening.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: Still or it didst thou behold the dead inscription, And
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: now this side of it descends the steep passing across
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 3: the circles without escort, one by whose means the city
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: shall be opened. Inferno, Canto nine. That hue which Cowardice
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: brought out on me beholding my conductor backward turn sooner
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: repressed within him his new color. He stopped attentive, like
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: a man who listens, because the eye could not conduct
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 3: him far through the black air and through the heavy fog.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: Still it behooveth us to win the fight began he
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: else such offered us herself. Oh how I long that
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: someone here arrive. Well, I perceived as soon as the
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: beginning he covered up with what came afterward, that they
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: were words quite different from the first, But none the
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: less his saying gave me fear, because I carried out
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: the broken phrase, perhaps to a worse meaning than he
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: had into this bottom of the doleful conk doth any
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: air descend from the first grade, which, for its pain
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: has only hope cut off. This question, put I, and
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: he answered me, seldom comes to pass that one of
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: us maketh the journey upon which I go. True, it
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: is once before I here below was conjured by that
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: pitiless Eric, though, who summoned back the shades unto their bodies,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: naked of me, short while the flesh had been before
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: within that wall. She made me enter to bring a
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: spirit from the circle of Judas, that is, the lowest
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: region and the darkest and farthest from the heaven, which
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: circles all well know eye. The way therefore be reassured
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: this fen which a prodigious stench exhales encompasses about the
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: city Dolent, where now we cannot enter without anger. And more,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: he said, But not in mind I have it, because
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: mine eye had altogether drawn me towards the high tower
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: with the red flaming summit, where in a moment saw
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: I swift uprisen the three infernal furies, stained with blood,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: who had the limbs of women in their mien, and
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 3: with the greenest hydras were begirt small serpents, and cerastus
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: were their tresses. Wherewith their horrid temples were entwined. And
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: he who well the handmaids of the Queen of everlasting
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: Lamentation knew, said, unto me, behold the fierce arenies. This
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 3: is Meghera on the left hand side, she who is
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: weeping on the right. Alecto tissophone is between. And then
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: was silent. Each one her breast was rending with her nails,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: that beat them with their palms, and cried so loud
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: that I for dread pressed close. Unto the poet Medusa,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: come so we to the stone will change him, all
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 3: shouted looking down in the evil hour, avenge we not
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 3: on theseus's assault. Turn thyself round, and keep thine eyes
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: close shut.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: For if the.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: Gorgon appear and thou shouldst see it, no more returning
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: upward would there be. Thus said the master, And he
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: turned me round himself, and trusted not unto my hands,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: so far as not to blind me with his own. O,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: Ye who have undistempered intellects, observe the doctrine that conceals
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: itself beneath the veil of the mysterious verse. And now
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: there came across the turbid waves the clangor of a
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: sound with terror fraught, because of which both of the
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: margins trembled. Not otherwise it was than of a wind
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: impetuous on account of adverse heats that smites the forest,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: and without restraint the branches rends, beats down, and bears
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: away right onward, laden with dust. It goes superb and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: puts to flight the wild beasts and the shepherds mine eyes.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: He loosed, and said, direct the nerve of vision, now
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: along that ancient foam there yonder, where that smoke is
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: most intense, Even as the frogs before the hostile serpent
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: across the water, scatter all abroad, until each one is
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: huddled in the earth. More than a thousand ruined souls.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: I saw thus fleeing from before one who on foot
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: was passing o'er the sticks, with souls unwet, far off
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: his face. He fanned that unctuous air, waving his left
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: hand oft in front of him, and only with that
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: anguish seemed he weary. Well. I perceived one sent from
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: heaven was he, and to the master turned and he
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: made sign that I should quiet stand and bow before him. Ah,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: how disdainful he appeared to me. He reached the gate,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 3: and with a little nod he opened it, For there
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: was no resistance, Oh, banished out of heaven, people despised.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Thus he began upon the horrid threshold. Whence is this
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: arrogance within new couched? Wherefore recalcutrate against that will from
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: which the end can never be cut off, and which
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: has many times increased your pain? What helpeth it to
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: butt against your fates, your cereberus, if you remember well,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: for that still bears his chin and gullet pealed. Then
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: he returned along the Miriy road, and spake no word
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: to us, but had the look of one whom other
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: care constrains and goads than that of him who, in
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: his presence is, And we our feet directed towards the
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: city after those holy words, All confident within, we entered
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 3: without any contest. And I, whose inclination, had to see
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  Speaker 3: what the condition such a fortress holds. Soon as I
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  Speaker 3: was within, cast round mine eye and see on every
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  Speaker 3: hand an ample plain full of distress and torment terrible,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: even as at Arles, where stagnant grows the Rhone, even
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: as at Pola, near to the Cornaro that shuts in
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  Speaker 3: Italy and bathes its borders, the sepulchers made all the
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: place uneven. So likewise did they there on every side,
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  Speaker 3: saying that there the manner was more bitter. For flames
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: between the sepulchers were s scattered, by which they so
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  Speaker 3: intensely heated, were that iron. More so asks not any art.
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  Speaker 3: All of their coverings uplifted were and from them issued
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  Speaker 3: forth Such dire laments soothe seemed day of the wretched
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  Speaker 3: and tormented. And I, my master, what are all those
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  Speaker 3: people who, having supulter within those tombs, make themselves audible
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  Speaker 3: by doleful size? And he to me, here are the heresiarchs,
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  Speaker 3: with their disciples of all sects, And much more than
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: thou thinkest leyden are the tombs here like together with
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  Speaker 3: its like is buried, And more and less the monuments
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: are heated. And when he to the right had turned,
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  Speaker 3: we passed between the torments and high parapets Inferno Canto ten.
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  Speaker 3: Now onward goes along narrow path between the torments and
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  Speaker 3: the city wall. My master, and I follow at his back,
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  Speaker 3: O power Supreme, that through these impious circles turnest me.
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  Speaker 3: I began as pleases THEE speak to me and my
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: longing satisfy the people who are lying in these tombs,
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  Speaker 3: might they be seen? Already are uplifted the covers all,
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  Speaker 3: and no one keepeth guard. And he to me they
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  Speaker 3: all will be closed up when from Jehosaphat they shall
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  Speaker 3: return here with the bodies they have left above their cemetery,
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  Speaker 3: have upon this side with Epicurus all his followers, who
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: with the body mortal make the soul. But in the
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: question thou dost put to me within here shalt thou
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: soon be satisfied. And likewise in the wish thou keepest silent,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: and I good leader. I but keep concealed from thee
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: my heart, that I may speak the less. Nor only
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: now hast thou there too disposed me o tuscan Thou,
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: who through the city of fire goest alive. Thou speaking modestly,
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  Speaker 3: be pleased to stay thy footsteps in this place. Thy
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: motive speaking makest thee manifest. A native of that noble
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: fatherland to which perhaps I too molestful. Was upon a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: sudden issued forth this sound from out of one of
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  Speaker 3: the tombs. Wherefore I pressed, fearing a little nearer to
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: my leader and unto me, he said, turn thee. What
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 3: dost thou behold there Ferinata, who has risen from the
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: waist upwards, Holly, shalt thou see him? I had already
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 3: fixed mine eyes on his, and he up rose, erect
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: with breast and front, even as if hell he had
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: in great despite, and with courageous hands, and prompt my
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: leader thrust me between the support bulkers towards him, exclaiming,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: let thy words explicit be As soon as I was
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: at the foot of the tomb somewhat he eyed me, and,
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: as if disdainful, then asked of me who were thine ancestors, I,
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: who desirous of obeying, was concealed it not, but all
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: revealed to him whereat he raised his brows a little upward.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: Then he said, fiercely, adverse have they been to me?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: And to my fathers and my party? So that too,
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 3: several times I scattered them. If they were banished, they
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: were turned on all sides. I answered him, the first
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: time and the second, But yours have not acquired that
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: art aright. Then there uprose upon the sight uncovered down
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: to the chin, a shadow at his side. I think
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: that he had risen on his knees round me. He gazed,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: as if solicitude he had to see if some one
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: else were with me. After his suspicion was all spent weeping,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: he said to me, if through this blind prison thou
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: goest by loftiness of genius? Where is my son? And
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: why is he not with thee? And I to him?
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: I come not of myself, He who is waiting yonder
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 3: leads me here whom in disdain. Perhaps your guido had
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 3: his language and the mode of punishment already unto me,
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: had read his name. On that account, My answer was
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: so full up. Starting suddenly, he cried out, how set'st
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: thou he had? Is he not still alive? Does not
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 3: the sweet light strike upon his eyes? When he became
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: aware of some delay which I before my answer made supine,
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: he fell again, and forth appeared no more. But the
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: other magnanimous at whose desire I had remained, did not
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: his aspect change, neither his neck he moved, nor bent
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 3: his side. And if continuing his first discourse, they have
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: that art, he said, not learned art? That more tormenteth
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: me than doth this bed. But fifty times shall not
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  Speaker 3: rekindled be the countenance of the lady who reigns here
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: Ere thou shalt know how heavy is that art, And
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: as thou wouldst to the sweet world, return, say why
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  Speaker 3: that people is so pitiless against my race in each
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: one of its laws? Whence I to him the slaughter
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: and great carnage which have with Crimson stained the Arbia,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: caused such orisons in our temple to be made after
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: his head, he with a sigh, had shaken there. I
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: was not alone, he said, nor surely without a cause,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: had with the others moved. But there I was alone,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: where every one consented to the laying waste of Florence,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: he who defended her with open face. Ah. So hereafter
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: may yor seed repose I him entreated, saw for me
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  Speaker 3: thatnot which has tangled my conceptions. Here it seems that
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: you can see, if I hear rightly beforehand, whatsoever time
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: brings with it, and in the present have another mode.
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  Speaker 3: We see, like those who have imperfect sight. The things
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: he said that distant are from us, so much still
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: shines on us. The sovereign ruler, when they draw near
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  Speaker 3: or are, is wholly vain our intellect. And if none
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: brings it to us not anything know we of your
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 3: human state? Hence thou canst understand that wholly dead will
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: be our knowledge from the moment when the portal of
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: the future shall be closed. Then, I, as if compunctuous
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: for my fault, said, now then you will tell that
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: fallen one that still his son is with the living joined.
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  Speaker 3: And if just now, in answering I was dumb, tell
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: tell him I did it because I was thinking already
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: of the error. You have solved me, and now my
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: master was recalling me. Wherefore more eagerly I prayed the
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: spirit that he would tell me who was with him?
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  Speaker 3: There he said, with more than a thousand here I
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: lie within. Here is the second Frederic and the Cardinal,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: and of the rest I speak not. Thereon, he hid himself,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 3: and I, towards the ancient poet, turned my steps. Reflecting
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 3: upon that saying, which seemed hostile to me. He moved along,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: and afterward, thus going, he said to me, why art
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: thou so bewildered? And I, in his inquiry, satisfied him.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: Let memory preserve what thou hast heard against thyself. That
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: sage commanded me, and now attend here. And he raised
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: his finger, when thou shalt be before the radiance, sweet
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: of her, whose beauteous eyes all things behold from her,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: thou'lt know the journey of thy life onto the left hand.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: Then he turned his feet. We left the wall and
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 3: went towards the middle, along a path that strikes into
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 3: a valley, which, even up there unpleasant made its stench
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: end of section two of the Inferno, Canto six or
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  Speaker 3: ten Canto eleven.
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  Speaker 5: Upon the margin of a lofty bank, which great rocks
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: broken in a circle made, we came upon a still
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 5: more cruel throng, And there by reason of the horrible
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: excess of stench the deep abyss throws out, we drew
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: ourselves aside, behind the cover of a great tomb, whereupon
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 5: I saw a riding, which said Pope Anastasius, I hold
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 5: whom out of the right way Fotinus drew slow. It
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: behooveth our descent to be, so that the scents be
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 5: first a little used to the sad blast, and then
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: we shall not heed it. The master thus and unto
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  Speaker 5: him I said some compensation, find that the time passed
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  Speaker 5: not idly, and he thou seest I think of that,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 5: my son upon the inside of these rocks began. He
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 5: then to say are three small circles, from grade to grade,
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  Speaker 5: like those which thou art leaving. They are all full
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 5: of spirits maledict, but that hereafter sight alone suffice thee hear,
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  Speaker 5: how and wherefore they are in constraint of every malice
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  Speaker 5: that whens hate in heaven. Injury is the end, and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: all such end, either by force or fraud, afflicteth others.
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  Speaker 5: But because fraud is man's peculiar vice, more it displeases God.
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  Speaker 5: And so stand loess the fraudulent, and greater dole assails
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 5: them all. The first circle of the violent is. But
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 5: since force may be used against three persons in three rounds,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 5: tis divided and constructed to God, to ourselves, and to
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 5: our neighbor, can we use force, I say, on them
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 5: and on their things, as thou shalt here with reason
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  Speaker 5: manifest a death by violence and painful wounds are to
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: our neighbor given and in his substance ruin and arson,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 5: and injurious levies. Whence homicides, and he who smites unjust
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 5: marauders and freebooters, the first round tormenteth all. In companies
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: diverse man may lay violent hands upon himself and his
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 5: own goods, and Therefore in the second round must perforce
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: without avail repent, whoever of your world deprives himself, who
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: gains and dissipates his property, and weepeth there where he
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 5: should jocund be. Violence can be done the deity in heart,
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 5: denying and blaspheming him, and by disdaining nature and her bounty.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 5: And for this reason doth the smallest round seal with
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 5: its signet sodom and cahores. And who disdaining God, speaks
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: from the heart fraud, wherewithal is every conscience stun a
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: man may practice upon him who trusts, and him who
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 5: death no confidence imburse this latter mode, it would appear,
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 5: dissevers only the bond of love which nature makes. Wherefore
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: within the second circle nestle hypocrisy, flattery, and who deals
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: in magic, falsification, theft and simony, panders and beraiters, and
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: the like filth by the other mode forgotten is that
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: love which nature makes, and what is after added from
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 5: which there is a special faith engendered. Hence, in the
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 5: smallest circle, where the point is of the universe upon
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 5: which Dice is seated, whoever betrays forever is consumed, And
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: I my master clear enough proceeds thy reasoning and full
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: well distinguishes this cavern and the people who possess it.
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: But tell me those within the fat lagoon, whom the
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: wind drives, and whom the rain doth beat, and who
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: encounter with such bitter tongues. Wherefore are they inside of
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 5: the red city not punished? If God has given them
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: in his wrath? And if he has not, wherefore in
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: such fashion, and unto me he said, why wanders so
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: thine intellect from that which it is wont or sooth
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 5: thy mind? Where is it elsewhere? Looking hast thou no
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: recollection of those words with which thine ethics thoroughly discusses
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: the dispositions Three that Heaven abides not in continents and
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 5: malice and insane bestiality, And how in continence, less God
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 5: offendeth and less blame attracts. If thou regardest this conclusion well,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 5: and to thy mind, recallest who they are that up
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 5: outside are undergoing penance? Clearly wilt thou perceive why from
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: these felons they separated are? And why less wroth justice
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 5: divine doth smite them with its hammer? O son, that
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 5: healest all distempered vision, thou dost content me. So when
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 5: thou resolvest that doubting pleases me no less than knowing
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 5: once more a little backward turned, THEE said I. There
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 5: where thou sayest that usery offends goodness divine, and disengage
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 5: the knot philosophy, he said to him who heeds it
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 5: noteth not only in one place alone, after which manner
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 5: nature takes your course from intellect divine and from its art.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 5: And if thy physics carefully thou noticest after not many pages,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 5: shalt thou find that this your art, as far as possible,
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: follows as the disciple doth the Master, so that your
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: art is, as it were, God's grandchild. From these two.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 5: If thou bringest to thy mind genesis at the beginning,
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 5: it behooves mankind to gain their life and to advance.
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 5: And since the usurer takes another way, nature herself and
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 5: in her follower disdains, he for elsewhere he puts his hope.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 5: But follow now as I would Faang go on, for
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 5: quivering are the fishes on the horizon, and the wane
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 5: wholly over Karus lies, and far beyond there we descend
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 5: the crag Inferno, Canto twelve. The place where to descend
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 5: the bank we came was alpine. And from what was there, moreover,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 5: of such a kind that every eye would shun it,
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 5: such as that ruin is, which in the flank smote
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 5: on this side of Trent the adige, either by earthquake
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: or by failing stay. For from the mountain's top from
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 5: which it moved onto the plain the cliff is shattered.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: So some path twould give to him who was above.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: Even such was the descent of that ravine, and on
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: the border of the broken chasm the infamy of crete
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: was stretched along who was conceived in the fictitious cow.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 5: And when he thus beheld, he bit himself, even as
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 5: one whom anger racks within my sage towards him, shouted, peradventure.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 5: Thou think'st that here may be the Duke of Athens, who,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 5: in the world above brought death to thee get thee
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 5: gone beast. For this one cometh not instructed by thy sister,
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 5: but he comes in order to behold your punishments, as
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 5: is that bull who breaks loose at the moment in
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 5: which he has received the mortal blow, who cannot walk,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: but staggers. Here and there the minotaur beheld, I do
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: the like, and he the wary, cried, run to the passage,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 5: while he wroth, tis well thou shouldst descend? Thus down
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 5: we took our way, or that discharge of stones, which
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: oftentimes did move themselves beneath my feet from the unwonted burden.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 5: Thoughtful I went, And he said, thou art, thinking perhaps
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 5: upon this ruin, which is guarded by that brute anger,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 5: which just now I quenched. Now will I have thee know?
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 5: The other time I here descended to the nether hell,
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 5: this precipice had not yet fallen down. But truly, if
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 5: I well discern, a little before his coming, who the
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 5: mighty spoil bore off from dice in the supernal circle.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 5: Upon all sides, the deep and loathsome valley trembled, so
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: that I thought the universe was thrilled with love, by
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 5: which there are who think the world oft times converted
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 5: into chaos. And at that moment this primeval crag, both
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 5: here and elsewhere, made such overthrow. But fix thine eyes below,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: for draweth near the river of blood, within which boiling
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 5: is whoever by violence doth injure others, Oh blind cupidity,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 5: O wrath, insaying that spurs us onwards. So in our
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: short life and in the eternal, then so badly steeps us.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 5: I saw an ample mote, bent like a bow, as
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 5: one which all the plane encompasses, conformable to what my
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 5: guide had said. And between this and the embankment's foot
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 5: centaurs in file were running, armed with arrows as in
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 5: the world. They used the chase to follow, beholding us descend.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 5: Each one stood still, and from the squadron three detached
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 5: themselves with bows and arrows. In advance selected and from
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: afar one cried, unto what torment come, ye, who down
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 5: the hillside are descending? Tell us from here? If not
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 5: I draw the bow, my master said, our answer will
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 5: we make to Chirun near you there in evil hour?
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 5: That will of thine was ever more so hasty. Then
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 5: touched he me and said, this one is Nessus, who
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 5: perished for the lovely Dejaneira, and for himself himself did
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 5: vengeance take. And in the midst who at his breast
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 5: is gazing, is the great Chirun who brought up Achilles.
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 5: That other Pholus is who was so wrathful, thousands and
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 5: thousands go about the moat, shooting with shafts. Whatever soul
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 5: emerges out of the blood more than his crime. A
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 5: lots near we approached, unto those myster's fleet churon and
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 5: arrow took, and with the notch backward upon his jaws,
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 5: he put his beard. After he had uncovered his great mouth,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 5: he said to his companions, are you aware that he
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 5: behind moveth whatever he touches? Thus, are not wont to
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 5: do the feat of dead men? And my good guide,
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 5: who now was at his breast where the two natures
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 5: are together joined, replied, indeed he lives, and thus alone
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 5: me it behooves to show him the dark valley necessity
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 5: and not delight impels us. Some one withdrew from singing Hallelujah, who,
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 5: unto me committed this new office. No thief is he,
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 5: nor I a thievish spirit. But by that virtue through
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 5: which I am moving my steps along this savage thoroughfare.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 5: Give us some one of thine to be with us,
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 5: and who may show us where to pass the ford,
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 5: and who may carry this one on his back, For
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 5: tis no spirit that can walk the air upon his
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 5: right breast Chiron wheeled about and said to nessus, turn
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 5: and do thou guide them and warn aside if other
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 5: band may meet you. We, with our faithful escort onward,
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 5: moved along the brink of the vermilion boiling, wherein the
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 5: boiled were uttering loud laments. People I saw within up
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 5: to the eyebrows, and the great Centaur said, tyrants are
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: these who dealt in bloodshed and in pillaging. Here they
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 5: lament their pitiless mischiefs. Here is Alexander, and fierce thye Nis,
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 5: who upon sicily brought dolorous years. That forehead there which
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 5: has the hair so black, is Azelene. And the other,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 5: who is blonde obizo, is of Vesti, who, in truth
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 5: up in the world was by his step son slain.
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 5: Then turned I to the poet, and he said, now
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 5: he be first to thee, and second I. A little
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: farther on, the centaur stopped above a folk who, far
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 5: down as the throat seemed from that boiling stream to
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 5: issue forth a shade. He showed us on one side alone,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 5: saying he cleft asunder in God's bosom. The heart that
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: still upon the Thames is honored. Then people saw I,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: who from out of the river lifted their heads, and
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 5: also all the check and many among these I recognized. Thus,
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 5: evermore and more grew shallower that blood, so that the
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 5: feet alone it covered. And there across the moat our
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 5: passage was even as thou here upon this side beholdest
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 5: the boiling stream that I diminishes this entire said, I
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 5: wish thee to believe that on this other side more
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 5: and more declines its bed until it reunites itself where
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 5: it behooveth tyranny to groan justice divine. Upon this side
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 5: is goating that Attila, who was a scourge on earth,
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 5: and Pirrus and Sextus, and forever milks the tears which,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 5: with the boiling it unseals in rehnire da Cornetto and
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 5: renier Pazzo, who made a on the highways so much war.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: Then back he turned and passed again the ford Inferno,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 5: Canto thirteen. Not yet had nessus reached the other side,
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 5: when we had put ourselves within a wood that was
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 5: not marked by any path whatever. Not foliage green, but
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 5: of a dusky color. Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertangled.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 5: Not apple trees were there, but thorns with poison. Such
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 5: tangled thickets have not, nor so dense those savage wild
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: beasts that in hatred hold TwixT senina and cornetto the
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 5: tilled places. There do the hideous harpies make their nests,
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 5: who chase the trojans from the strophidies with sad announcement
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 5: of impending doom. Broad wings have they, and necks and
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 5: faces human and feet with claws and their great bellies.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 5: Fledged they make laments upon the wondrous trees. And the
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 5: good Master ere thou enter farther, know that thou art
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 5: within the second round. Thus he began to say, and
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 5: shalt be till thou comest out upon the horrible sand.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 5: Therefore look well round, and thou shalt see things that
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 5: will credence give unto my speech. I heard on all
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 5: sides lamentations uttered, and person none beheld I who might
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 5: make them. Whence utterly bewildered, I stood still. I think
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 5: he thought that I perhaps might think so many voices
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 5: issued through those trunks from people who concealed themselves from us. Therefore,
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 5: the Master said, if thou break off some little spray
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: from any of those trees, the thoughts thou hast will
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 5: wholly be made vain. Then stretched ie forth my hand
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 5: a little forward, and plucked a branchlet off from a
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 5: great thorn. And the trunk cried, why dost thou mangle me?
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 5: After it had become embrowned with blood, it recommenced its cry,
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 5: why dost thou rend me? Hast thou no spirit of
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 5: pity whatsoever? Men? Once we were and now are changed
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 5: to trees. Indeed, thy hand should be more pitiful, even
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 5: if the souls of serpents we had been, as out
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 5: of a green brand that is on fire at one
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 5: of the ends, and from the other drips and hisses
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: with the wind that is escaping. So from that splinter
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 5: issued forth together both words and blood. Whereat I let
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 5: the tip fall, and stood like a man who is afraid.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: Had he been able sooner to believe my sage made answer,
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: Oh thou wounded soul? What only in my verses he
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 5: has seen? Not upon thee had he stretched forth his hand,
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: whereas the thing incredible has caused me to put him
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: to an act which grieveth me. But tell him who
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 5: thou wast, so that by way of some amends thy
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 5: fame he may refresh up in the world to which
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 5: he can return. And the trunk said, so thy sweet
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 5: words allure me. I cannot silent be, and you be vexed,
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: not that I a little to the discourse am tempted.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 5: I am the one who both keys had in keeping
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 5: of Frederick's heart, and turned them to and fro so
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: softly in unlocking, and in locking that from his secrets
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 5: most men I withheld fidelity. I bore the glorious office
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 5: so great I lost thereby my sleep and pulses. The courtesan,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 5: who never from the dwelling of Caesar turned aside her
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: strumpet eyes death universal, and the vice of courts inflamed
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 5: against me all the other minds, and they inflamed, and
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 5: did so inflame Augustus, that my glad honors turned to
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 5: dismal mournings, my spirit in disdainful exultation, thinking by dying
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 5: to escape disdain made me unjust against myself.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 6: The just.
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 5: I, by the roots unwanted of this, would do swear
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 5: to you that never broke I faith, unto my Lord,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 5: who was so worthy of honor, and to the world.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 5: If one of you return, let him my memory comfort,
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 5: which is lying still prostrate from the blow that envy dealt.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 5: It waited a while, and then, since he is silent,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 5: the poet said to me, lose not the time, but
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: speak and question him, if more may please. Whence I
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 5: to him, do thou again inquire concerning what thou think'st
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 5: will satisfy me? For I cannot, such pity is in
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 5: my heart. Therefore he recommenced. So may the man do
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 5: for thee freely what thy speech implores. Spirit incarnate again,
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 5: be pleased to tell us in what way the soul
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 5: is bound within these knots, And tell us if thou
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 5: canst if any from such members ever is freed. Then
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 5: blew the trunk a main, and afterward the wind was
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 5: into such a voice converted with brevities shall be replied
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 5: to you. When the exasperated soul abandons the body, whence
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 5: it rent itself away, Minas consigns it to the seventh abyss.
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: It falls into the forest, and no part is chosen
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 5: for it. But where fortune hurls it there like a
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 5: grain of spelt, it germinates. It springs us sapling and
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 5: a forest tree, the harpies feeding. Then upon its leaves
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 5: do pain create and for the pain and outlet like others.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 5: For our spoils shall we return, but not that anyone
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 5: may them revest, for 'tis not just to have what
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 5: one casts off. Here we shall drag them, and along
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 5: the dismal forest our bodies shall suspended, be each to
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 5: the thorn of his molested shade. We were attentive still
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 5: unto the trunk, thinking that more it yet might wish
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 5: to tell us, when by a tumult we were overtaken
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 5: in the same way as he is who perceives the
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 5: bore and chase approaching to his stand, who hears the
• 1:43:15
  Speaker 5: crashing of the beasts and branches. And two behold upon
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 5: our left hand side, naked and scratched, fleeing so furiously
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 5: that of the forest every fan they broke. He who
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 5: was in advance, now help death, Help, And the other one,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 5: who seemed to lag too much, was shouting Lano were
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 5: not so alert those legs of thine at jostings of
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 5: the topo. And then, perchance, because his breath was failing,
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 5: he grouped himself together with a bush. Behind them was
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 5: the forest full of black she mast ravenous and swift
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 5: of foot, as greyhounds who are issuing from the chain
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 5: on him who had crouched down, they set their teeth
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 5: and him they lacerated, peace by peace. Thereafter bore away
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 5: those aching members thereat. My escort took me by the
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 5: hand and led me to the bush that all in
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 5: Vain was weeping from its bloody lacerations. Oh Jacopo, it
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 5: said a saint Andrea, What helped it thee of me
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 5: to make a screen? What blame have I and thy
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 5: nefarious life? When near him had the master stayed his steps,
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 5: he said, who wast thou that through wounds so many
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 5: art blowing out with blood thy dolorous speech. And he
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 5: to us, oh souls, that hither come to look upon
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 5: the shameful massacre that has so rent away from me
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 5: my leaves, gathered them up beneath the dismal bush. I
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 5: of that city was which to the Baptist changed its
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 5: first patron. Wherefore he for this forever with his art,
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 5: will make me sad. And were it not that on
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 5: the pass of Arnaut some glimpses of him are remaining
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 5: still those citizens who afterwards rebuilt it upon the ashes
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 5: left by Attila in Vain, had caused their labor to
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 5: be done of my own house. I made myself a
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 5: gibbet Inferno, Canto fourteen, because the charity of my native
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 5: place constrained me. Gathered I these scattered leaves and gave
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 5: them back to him, who now was horse. Then came
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 5: we to the confine where disparted. The second round is
• 1:46:16
  Speaker 5: from the third, and where a horrible form of justice
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 5: is beheld clearly to manifest these novel things, I say
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 5: that we arrived upon a plane which from its bed
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 5: rejecteth every plant. The dolorous forest is a garland to
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 5: it all round about as the sad moat to that
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: there close upon the edge we stayed our feet. The
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 5: soil was of an arid and thick sand, not of
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 5: another fashion made than that which by the feet of
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 5: Cato once was pressed vengeance of God. God, Oh, how
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 5: much oughtest thou by each one to be dreaded? Who
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 5: doth read that which was manifest unto mine? Eyes of
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 5: naked souls beheld I many herds, who all were weeping
• 1:47:18
  Speaker 5: very miserably, and over them seemed set a law diverse
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 5: supine upon the ground. Some folk were lying, and some
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 5: were sitting, all drawn up together, and others went about continually.
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 5: Those who were going round were far the more, and
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 5: those were less, who lay down to their torment, but
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 5: had their tongues more loosed to lamentation. Or all the
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: sand waste, with a gradual fall, were raining down dilated
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 5: flakes of fire, as of the snow on alp without
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: a wind. As Alexander in those torrid parts of India
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 5: beheld upon his host, flames fall unbroken till they reached
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 5: the ground. Whence he provided with his phalanxes to trample
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 5: down the soil, because the vapor better extinguished was while
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 5: it was single. Thus was descending the eternal heat. Whereby
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: the sand was set on fire like tender beneath the steel.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 5: For doubling of the dole without repose. Forever was the
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 5: dance of miserable hands, now there now here shaking away
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 5: from off them the fresh gleads. Master began, I thou,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 5: who overcomest all things except the demon's dire that issued
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 5: against us at the entrance of the gate. Who is
• 1:48:59
  Speaker 5: that mighty one one who seems to heed not the fire,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 5: and lieth lowering and disdainful, so that the rain seems
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 5: not to ripen him? And he himself who had become
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 5: aware that I was questioning my guide about him, cried,
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 5: such as I was living, am I dead? If Jove
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 5: should weary out his smith, from whom he seized in
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 5: anger the sharp thunderbolt, wherewith upon the last day I
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 5: was smitten. And if he wearied out by turns the
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 5: others in Mongibello at the swarthy forge, vociferating help, good
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 5: vulcan help. Even as he did there at the fight
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 5: of Flegra, and shot his bolts at me with all
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 5: his might, he would not have thereby a joyous vengeance.
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 5: Then did my leaders speak with such great force that
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 5: I had never heard him speak so loud, O Capannaeus,
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 5: in that is not extinguished thine arrogance, Thou punished art
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 5: the more not any torment saving thine own rage would
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 5: be unto thy fury pain complete. Then he turned round
• 1:50:28
  Speaker 5: to me with bitter lip, saying, one of the seven
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 5: kings was he who thebes besieged and held, and seems
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 5: to hold God in disdain, and little seems to prize him.
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 5: But as I said to him, his own despites are
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 5: for his breast. The fittest ornaments now follow me and mine.
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 5: Thou do not place as yet thy feet upon the
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 5: burning sand, but always keep them close unto the wood,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 5: speaking no word, We came to where their gushes forth
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 5: from the wood a little rivulet, whose redness makes my
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 5: hair still stand on in as from the bullet came
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 5: springs the brooklet the sinful women later share among them.
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 5: So downward through the sand it went its way. The
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 5: bottom of it, and both sloping banks were made of stone,
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 5: and the margins at the side. Whence I perceived that
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 5: there the passage was in all the rest which I
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 5: have shown to thee. Since we have entered in within
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 5: the gate whose threshold unto no one is denied, nothing
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 5: has been discovered by thine eyes so notable as is
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 5: the present river, which all the little flames above it quenches.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 5: These words were of my leader, whence I prayed him
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 5: that he would give me largesse of the food for
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 5: which he had given me largesse of desire. In the
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 5: midst there sits a wasted land, said he thereafterward, whose
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 5: name is Crete, under whose king the world of old
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 5: was chaste. There is a mountain there that once was
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 5: glad with waters and with leaves, which was called Ida,
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 5: now tis deserted, as a thing worn out. Rhea once
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 5: chose it for the faithful cradle of her own son,
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 5: and to conceal him better. Whenever he cried, she there
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 5: had clamors made. A grand old man stands in the
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 5: mount erect, who holds his shoulders turned to words Damietta,
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 5: and looks at Rome as if it were his mirror.
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 5: His head is fashioned of refined gold, and of pure
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 5: silver are the arms and breast. Then he is brass,
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 5: as far down as the fork. From that point downward,
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 5: all is chosen iron, save that the right foot is
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 5: of kiln baked clay, and more he stands on that
• 1:53:30
  Speaker 5: than on the other. Each part except the gold, is
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 5: by a fissure, asunder cleft. That dripping is with tears,
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 5: which gather together perforate that cavern. From rock to rock
• 1:53:48
  Speaker 5: they fall into this valley, acheron sticks and flagethon they form.
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 5: Then downward go along this narrow sluice, to that point
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 5: where is no more descending. They form cocatus. What that
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 5: pool may be, thou shalt behold so here it is
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 5: not narrated, And I to him, if so, the present
• 1:54:17
  Speaker 5: runneld doth take its rise in this way from our world.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 5: Why only on this verge appears it to us, and
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 5: he to me. Thou knowest the place is round, And
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 5: notwithstanding thou hast journeyed far still to the left, descending
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 5: to the bottom, thou hast not yet through all the
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 5: circle turned. Therefore, if something new appear to us, it
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 5: should not bring amazement to thy face. And I again, Master,
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 5: where shall be found lethe and phlegethon For of one
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 5: thou art silent, and sayest the other of this rain
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 5: is made in all questions. Truly thou dost please me,
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 5: replied he. But the boiling of the red water might
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 5: well solve one of them. Thou makest thou shalt see lethy.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 5: But outside this moat there were the souls repair to
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 5: lay themselves. When sin repented of has been removed, Then
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 5: said he, it is time now to abandon the wood,
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 5: take heed that thou come after me away the margins
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 5: make that are not burning, and over them all vapors
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 5: are extinguished. Inferno Canto fifteen now bears us onward one
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 5: of the hard margins, and so the brooklet's mists overshadows
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 5: it from fire. It saves the water and the dikes,
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 5: even as the Flemings TwixT kadzen and bridges, fearing the
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 5: flood that towards them hurls itself, their bulwarks build to
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 5: put the sea to flight, and as the Paduans along
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 5: the Brenta to guard their villas and their villages, or
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 5: ever chiarentana feel the heat in such similitude had those
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 5: been made, albeit not so lofty nor so thick, whoever
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 5: he might be, the master, made them. Now were we
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 5: from the forest, so remote I could not have discovered
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 5: where it was, even if backward I had turned myself.
• 1:56:52
  Speaker 5: When we a company of souls encountered who came beside
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 5: the dike, and everyone gazed at us as at evening
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 5: we are wont to eye each other under a new moon,
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 5: And so towards us sharpened they their brows, as an
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 5: old tailor at the needle's eye. Thus scrutinized by such
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: a family. By someone, I was recognized who seized my
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 5: garment's hymn and cried out, what a marvel. And I,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 5: when he stretched forth his arm to me on his
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 5: baked aspect, fastened so mine eyes that the scorched countenance
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 5: prevented not his recognition by my intellect, and bowing down
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 5: my face unto his own, I made reply, are you here,
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 5: ser Brunetto? And he may it not displease THEE, O
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 5: my son in a brief space with thee Brunetto Latini backward,
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 5: return and let the trail go on? I said to
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 5: him with all my power, I ask it, And if
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 5: you wish me to sit down with you, I will,
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 5: if he please, for I go with him, Oh son,
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 5: he said, whoever of this heard a moment stops lies
• 1:58:23
  Speaker 5: then a hundred years, nor fans himself when smiteth him
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  Speaker 5: the fire. Therefore go on, I at thy skirts will come,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 5: and afterward will I rejoin my band, which goes lamenting
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 5: its eternal doom. I did not dare go down from
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 5: the road level to walk with him, but my head
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 5: bowed I held as one who goeth reverently. And he began,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 5: what fortune or what faith before the last day leadeth
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 5: THEE down here? And who is this that showeth THEE
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 5: the way up there above us in the life Serene?
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 5: I answered him, I lost me in a valley, or
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 5: ever yet my age had been completed. But yester morn
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 5: I turned my back upon it. This one appeared to me,
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 5: returning thither and homeward. Leadeth me along this road, and
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 5: he to me. If thou, thy star, do follow, thou
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 5: canst not fail thee of a glorious port. If well
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 5: I judged in the life beautiful, and if I had
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: not died so prematurely, seeing heaven thus benignant unto THEE,
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 5: I would have given THEE comfort in the work. But
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 5: that ungrateful and alignant people, which of old time from
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 5: fissole descended and smacks still of the mountain. And the
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: granite will make itself for thy good deeds, thy foe.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 5: And it is right for among crabbed sorbs, it ill
• 2:00:20
  Speaker 5: befits the sweet fig to bear fruit. Old rumor in
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 5: the world proclaims them blind a people avaricious, envious, and
• 2:00:33
  Speaker 5: proud take heed that of their customs. Thou do cleanse
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: thee Thy fortune, so much honor doth reserve THEE. One
• 2:00:44
  Speaker 5: party and the other shall be hungry for THEE. But
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 5: far from goat shall be the grass there litter. Let
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 5: the beasts of FASOLEI make of themselves, nor let them
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 5: touch the plant, if any still upon their dunghill rise
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 5: in which may yet revive the consecrated seed of those
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 5: Romans who remain there when the nest of such great
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 5: malice it became. If my entreaty wholly were fulfilled, replied
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  Speaker 5: I to him, Not yet would you be in banishment
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 5: from human nature placed, For in my mind is fixed
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  Speaker 5: and touches now my heart the dear and good paternal
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 5: image of you. When in the world, from hour to
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 5: hour you taught me how a man becomes eternal, and
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: how much I am grateful while I live, behooves that
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 5: in my language be discerned. What you narrate of my career,
• 2:01:55
  Speaker 5: I write and keep it to be glossed with other
• 2:01:59
  Speaker 5: texts by a lady who can do it. If I
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 5: reach her. This much will I have manifest to you,
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 5: provided that my conscience do not chide me. For whatsoever
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 5: fortune I am ready such handsel is not new unto
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 5: mine ears. Therefore, let fortune turn her wheel around as
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 5: it may please her, and the churl his mattic. My master. Thereupon,
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 5: on his right cheek did backward, turn himself and looked
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 5: at me. Then said he listeneth well, who noticeth it?
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 5: Nor speaking less? On that account, I go with serre brunetto,
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 5: and I ask who are his most known and most
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 5: eminent companions? And he to me to know of some
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 5: is well of others. It were laudable to be silent,
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 5: for short would be the time for so much speech.
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 5: Know them in some that all of them were clerks
• 2:03:11
  Speaker 5: and men of letters great and of great fame, and
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 5: the world tainted with the self same sin. Priscian goes
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 5: yonder with that wretched crowd in Francis of a corso,
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 5: And thou hadst seen there, had thou hatst a hankering
• 2:03:32
  Speaker 5: for such scurf, that one who, by the servant of
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 5: the servants, was transferred from Arno to Bacchiglioni, where he
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 5: has left his sin excited nerves. More would I say,
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 5: But coming and discoursing can be no longer. For that
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 5: I behold new smoke uprising yonder from the sand. A
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 5: people comes with whom I may not be commended unto
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 5: thee be my tesoro, in which I still live, And
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 5: no more I ask. Then he turned round and seemed
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 5: to be like those who at Farona run for the
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 5: green mantle across the plain, and seemed to be among
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 5: them the one who wins and not the one who loses.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 5: End of Kanto eleven through Kanto fifteen of the Divine Comedy.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 4: In Ferno Kanto sixteen. Now was I where was heard
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 4: the reverberation of water falling into the next round, like
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 4: to that humming which the beehives make. When shadows three
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 4: together started forth running from out a company that passed
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 4: beneath the rain of the sharp Martyrdom towards us. Came they,
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 4: and each one cried out, stop thou, for by thy
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 4: garb to us, thou seemest to be some one of
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 4: our depraved city. Ah Me, what wounds I saw upon
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 4: their limbs, recent and ancient by the flames burnt in
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 4: It pains me still, but to remember it unto their cries,
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 4: my teacher paused, attentive, he turned his face towards me.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 4: And now wait, he said, to these we should be courteous,
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 4: And if it were not for the fire that darts
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 4: the nature of this region, I should say that haste
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 4: were more becoming to THEE than them. As soon as
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 4: we stood still, they recommenced the old refrain, and when
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 4: they overtook us, formed of themselves a wheel, all three
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 4: of them as champions stripped and oiled, are wont to
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 4: do watching for their advantage and their hold before they
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 4: come to blows and thrusts between them. Thus, wheeling round
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 4: did every one his visage direct to me, so that
• 2:05:53
  Speaker 4: in opposite wise his neck and feet continual journey made.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 4: And if the misery of this soft play bring and
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 4: disdain ourselves and our entreaties began one and our aspect
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 4: black and blistered, let the renown of us thy mind
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 4: incline to tell us who thou art, who thus securely
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 4: thy living feet dost move along through hell. He in
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 4: whose footprints thou dost see me treading naked and skinless,
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 4: though he now may go, was of a greater rank
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 4: than thou dost think. He was the grandson of the
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 4: good Gualdrada. His name was Guido Guera, and in life
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 4: much did he with his wisdom and his sword. The
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 4: other who close by me treads the sand, Tegaio Alo
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 4: Brandi is whose fame above there in the world should
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 4: welcome be. And I, who with them on the cross
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 4: emplaced Jacopo Rousticucci was and truly my savage wife. More
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 4: than aught else doth harm me. Could I have been
• 2:06:47
  Speaker 4: protected from the fire below. I should have thrown myself
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 4: among them, and think that the teacher would have suffered it.
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 4: But as I should have burned and baked myself, my
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 4: terror overmastered my good will, which made me greedy of
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 4: embracing them, and I began sorrow and not disdain. Did
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 4: your condition fix within me? So that tardily it wholly
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 4: is stripped off? As soon as this my lord said
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 4: unto me words on account of which I thought within me,
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 4: that people such as you are were approaching I of
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: your city am, and evermore your labors and your honorable names,
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 4: I with affection have retraced and heard I leave the
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 4: gaul and go for the sweet fruits promised to me
• 2:07:25
  Speaker 4: by the voracious leader. But to the center first I
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 4: needs must plunge. So may the soul for a long
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 4: while conduct those limbs of thine. Did he make answer then?
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 4: And so may thy renowns shine after thee valor and courtesy.
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 4: Say if they dwell within our city as they used
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 4: to do, or if they wholly have gone out of it?
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 4: For Gauielmo Borsier, who is in torment with us of late,
• 2:07:50
  Speaker 4: and goes there with his comrades, doth greatly mortify us
• 2:07:53
  Speaker 4: with his words. The new inhabitants, and the sudden gains
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 4: pride and extravagance have in thee in general Florence, so
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 4: that thou weep'st thereat already in this wise, I exclaimed,
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 4: with face uplifted, And the three, taking that for my reply,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 4: looked at each other as one looks at truth. If
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 4: other times so little it doth cost, THEE replied, they
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 4: all to satisfy another. Happy art Thou thus speaking at
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 4: thy will. Therefore, if thou escape from these dark places
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 4: and come to rebehold the beauteous stars, when it shall
• 2:08:26
  Speaker 4: pleasure THEE to say, I was see that thou speak
• 2:08:30
  Speaker 4: of us unto the people. Then they broke up the wheel,
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 4: and in their flight it seemed as if their agile
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 4: legs were wings. Not an amen could possibly be said
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 4: so rapidly as they had disappeared. Wherefore the master deemed
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 4: best to depart. I followed him, and little had we
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 4: gone before the sound of water was so near us
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 4: that speaking we should hardly have been heard, even as
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 4: that stream which holdeth its own course the first from
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 4: monte Vesso towards the east, upon the left hand slope
• 2:08:57
  Speaker 4: of the Apennine, which is above called Aquakai. The ere
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 4: it down descendeth into its low bed, and at Forli
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 4: is vacant of that name reverberates there above San benedetto
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 4: from Alps by falling at a single leap, where for
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 4: a thousand there were room enough. Thus downward from a
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 4: bank precipitate, we found resounding that dark tinted water, so
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 4: that it soon the ear would have offended. I had
• 2:09:20
  Speaker 4: a cord around me, girt and therewith all I willoom
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 4: had designed to take the panther with the painted skin.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 4: After I this had all from me unloosed, as my
• 2:09:29
  Speaker 4: conductor had commanded me, I reached it to him, gathered
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 4: up and coiled whereat. He turned himself to the right side,
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 4: and at a little distance from the verge, he cast
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 4: it down into that deep abyss. It must needs be
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 4: some novelty, respond, I said within myself to the new signal.
• 2:09:46
  Speaker 4: The master with his eye is following. So ah me,
• 2:09:50
  Speaker 4: how very cautious men should be with those who not
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 4: alone behold the act, but with their wisdom look into
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 4: the thoughts. He said to me, Soon there will upward
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 4: come what I wait, and what thy thought is dreaming,
• 2:10:02
  Speaker 4: must soon reveal itself unto thy sight ae to that
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 4: truth which has the face of falsehood. A man should
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 4: close his lips as far as may be, because without
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 4: his fault it causes shame. But here I cannot, and
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 4: reader by the notes of this my comedy to thee
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 4: I swear, so may they not be void of lasting favor.
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 4: Athwart that dense and darksome atmosphere, I saw a figure
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 4: swimming upward, come marvelous unto every steadfast heart, even as
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 4: he returns, Who goeth thoun sometimes to clear an anchor
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 4: which has grappled reef, or aught else that in the
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 4: sea is hidden, who upward stretches and draws in his feet,
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 4: end of Canto sixteen. In Fair Noel, Canto seventeen, Behold
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 4: the monster with the pointed tale, who cleaves the hills
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 4: and breaketh walls and weapons. Behold him who infecteth all
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 4: the world. Thus, unto me, my guide began to say
• 2:10:56
  Speaker 4: and beckoned him that he should come to shore, near
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 4: to the confine of the trodden marbles. And that uncleanly
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 4: image of deceit came up and thrust ashore its head
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 4: and bust, but on the border did not drag its tail.
• 2:11:08
  Speaker 4: The face was as the face of a just man.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 4: Its semblance outwardly was so benign and of a serpent.
• 2:11:14
  Speaker 4: All the trunk, beside two paws it had hairy, unto
• 2:11:17
  Speaker 4: the armpits, the back and breast, and both the sides
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 4: it had depicted or with nooses, and with shields, with colors,
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 4: more groundwork or broidery. Never in cloth did tartars make,
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 4: nor turks, nor were such tissues by arachne laid, as
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 4: sometimes wherries lie upon the shore, that part are in
• 2:11:35
  Speaker 4: the water, part on land, and as among the guzzling Germans.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 4: There the beaver plants himself to wage his war. So
• 2:11:41
  Speaker 4: that vile monster lay upon the border, which is of stone,
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 4: and shutteth in the sand. His tail was wholly quivering
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 4: in the void, contorting upwards the envenomed fork, that, in
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 4: the guise of scorpion, armed its point. The guide said,
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 4: now perforce must turn aside our way a little, even
• 2:11:58
  Speaker 4: to that beast malevolently yonder coucheth him. We therefore, on
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 4: the right side, descended and made ten steps upon the
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 4: outer verge completely to avoid the sand and flame. And
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 4: after we are come to him, I see a little
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 4: farther off upon the sand a people sitting near the
• 2:12:15
  Speaker 4: hollow place. Then said to me the Master, so that
• 2:12:19
  Speaker 4: full experience of this round thou bear away. Now go
• 2:12:22
  Speaker 4: and see what their condition is there. Let thy conversation
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 4: be concise. Till thou returnest I will speak with him
• 2:12:29
  Speaker 4: that he concede to us his stalwart shoulders. Thus farther still,
• 2:12:33
  Speaker 4: upon the outermost head of that seventh circle, all alone
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 4: I went, where sat the melancholy folk. Out of their
• 2:12:40
  Speaker 4: eyes was gushing forth their woe. This way, that way
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 4: they helped them with their hands, now from the flames,
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 4: and now from the hot soil. Not otherwise in summer
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 4: do the dogs now with the foot, now with the muzzle,
• 2:12:52
  Speaker 4: when by fleas or flies or gadflies they are bitten.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 4: When I had turned mine eyes upon the faces of
• 2:12:57
  Speaker 4: some on whom the dolorous fires fall, not one of
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 4: them I knew, But I perceived that from the neck
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 4: of each there hung a pouch which certain color had
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 4: and certain blazon. And thereupon it seems their eyes are feeding.
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 4: And as I gazing round me come among them upon
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 4: a yellow pouch I azure saw that had the face
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 4: and posture of a lion. Proceeding then the current of
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 4: my sight. Another of them saw I red as blood,
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 4: display a goose more white than butter is, And one
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 4: who with an azure sow and gravit emblazoned, had his
• 2:13:30
  Speaker 4: little pouch of white, said unto me, what dost thou
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 4: in this moat? Now get thee gone? And since thou
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 4: art still alive, know that a neighbor of mine, Vitaliano,
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 4: will have a seat here on my left hand side.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 4: A padoan am I with these florentines full. Many a
• 2:13:46
  Speaker 4: time they thunder in mine ears, exclaiming, come the sovereign cavalier,
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 4: he who shall bring the satchel with three goats. Then
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 4: twisted he his mouth, and forth he thrust his tongue,
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 4: like to an ox that licks its nose. And, fearing
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 4: lest my my longer stay might vex him who had
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 4: warned me not to tarry long backward, I turned me
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 4: from those weary souls. I found my guide, who had
• 2:14:07
  Speaker 4: already mounted upon the back of that wild animal, and
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 4: said to me, now be both strong and bold. Now
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 4: we descend by stairways such as these mount thou in front,
• 2:14:17
  Speaker 4: for I will be midway, so that the tail may
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 4: have no power to harm thee such as he is,
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 4: who has so near the egg of corton that his
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 4: nails are blue already and trembles all. But looking at
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 4: the shade, even such became I at those proffered words.
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 4: But shame in me his menaces produced, which maketh servants strong.
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 4: Before good Master, I seated me upon those monstrous shoulders,
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 4: I wish to say. And yet the voice came, not
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 4: as I believed, take heed that thou embrace me, But
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 4: he who other times had rescued me in other peril.
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 4: Soon as I had mounted within, his arms encircled and
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 4: sustained me, and said, now geryon, bestir thyself. The circles large,
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 4: and the descent be little. Think of the novel burden
• 2:14:59
  Speaker 4: which thou hast, even as the little vessel shoves from
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 4: shore backwards, still backward. So he thence withdrew, And when
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 4: he wholly felt himself afloat there where his breast had been,
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 4: he turned his tail, and that extended like an eel,
• 2:15:12
  Speaker 4: he moved, and with his paws drew to himself the air.
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 4: A greater fear I do not think there was what
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 4: time abandoned Phaeton, the reins whereby the heavens as still appears,
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 4: were scorched, Nor when the wretched icarus his flanks felt
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 4: stripped of feathers by the melting wax, his father crying
• 2:15:29
  Speaker 4: an ill way, Thou takest, then was my own? When
• 2:15:33
  Speaker 4: I perceived myself on all sides in the air, and
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 4: saw extinguished the sight of everything but of the monster.
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 4: Onward he goeth swimming slowly, slowly, wheels and descends. But
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 4: I perceive it only by wind upon my face, and
• 2:15:47
  Speaker 4: from below I heard already on the right the whirlpool
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 4: making a horrible crashing under us. Whence I thrust out
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 4: my head with eyes cast downward. Then was I still
• 2:15:56
  Speaker 4: more fearful of the abyss, because I fires beheld, heard laments,
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 4: whereat I trembling all the closer cling I saw then,
• 2:16:04
  Speaker 4: for before I had not seen it, the turning and
• 2:16:07
  Speaker 4: descending by great horrors that were approaching upon divers sides
• 2:16:12
  Speaker 4: as falcon who has long been on the wing, who,
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 4: without seeing either lore nor bird, maketh the falconer say,
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 4: ah me, thou stoopest descendeth, weary. Whence he started swiftly
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 4: through a hundred circles, and the lights far from his
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 4: master sullen and disdainful. Even thus did Garyon place us
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 4: on the bottom, close to the bases of the rough
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 4: hewn rock, and being disencumbered of our persons, he sped
• 2:16:35
  Speaker 4: away as arrow from the string end of Canto seventeen.
• 2:16:39
  Speaker 4: In Ferno, Canto eighteen, there is a place in hill
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 4: called Mala Bulge, wholly of stone and of an iron color,
• 2:16:47
  Speaker 4: as is the circle that around it turns right in
• 2:16:50
  Speaker 4: the middle of the field malign there yawns a well
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 4: exceeding wide and deep, of which its place the structure
• 2:16:55
  Speaker 4: will recount. Round then is that enclosure which remains between
• 2:16:59
  Speaker 4: the well and the foot of the high hard bank,
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 4: and has distinct in valleys ten its bottom. As wherefore
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 4: the protection of the walls, many and many moats surround
• 2:17:08
  Speaker 4: the castles, the part in which they are a figure
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  Speaker 4: forms just such an image those presented there. And as
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 4: about such strongholds, from their gates unto the outer bank
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 4: are little bridges. So from the precipice's base did Craggs project,
• 2:17:21
  Speaker 4: which intersected dikes and moats unto the well that truncates
• 2:17:25
  Speaker 4: and collects them within this place. Down shaken from the
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 4: back of geryon we found us, and the poet held
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 4: to the left, and I moved on behind. Upon my
• 2:17:34
  Speaker 4: right hand I beheld new anguish, new torments, and new
• 2:17:37
  Speaker 4: wielders of the lash, wherewith the foremost bulgia was replete.
• 2:17:41
  Speaker 4: Down at the bottom were the sinners naked. This side
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 4: the middle came they facing us beyond it, with us,
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 4: but with greater steps, Even as the Romans for the
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 4: Mighty host the year of Jubilee upon the bridge, have
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 4: chosen a mode to pass the people over for all.
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 4: Upon one side towards the castle their faces have and
• 2:18:00
  Speaker 4: go unto Saint Peter's. On the other side they go
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 4: towards the mountain. This side and that along the livid
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 4: stone beheld thy horned demons with great scourges, who cruelly
• 2:18:11
  Speaker 4: were beating them behind ah me, how they did make
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 4: them lift their legs at the first blows, and sooth
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 4: not any one the second waited for nor for the third.
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 4: While I was going on mine eyes by one encountered
• 2:18:23
  Speaker 4: were and straight. I said, already, with sight of this one,
• 2:18:27
  Speaker 4: I am not unfed. Therefore I stayed my feet to
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 4: make him out, And with me the sweet guide came
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 4: to a stand, and to my going somewhat back, assented,
• 2:18:37
  Speaker 4: And he the scourged one, thought to hide himself, lowering
• 2:18:40
  Speaker 4: his face. But little it availed him, For said I
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  Speaker 4: thou that castest down thine eyes, if false, are not
• 2:18:46
  Speaker 4: the features which thou bearest? Thou art venedico caccianimico. But
• 2:18:51
  Speaker 4: what doth bring thee to such pungent sauces? And he
• 2:18:54
  Speaker 4: to me unwillingly I tell it, but forces me thine
• 2:18:58
  Speaker 4: utterance distinct, which makes me recollect the ancient world. I
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 4: was the one who the fair Guisola induced to grant
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 4: the wishes of the marquis. Howe'er the shameless story may
• 2:19:08
  Speaker 4: be told, Not the sole Bolognese am I who weeps here. Nay, Rather,
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 4: is this place so full of them that not so
• 2:19:15
  Speaker 4: many tongues to day are taught TwixT reno and Savena
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 4: to say sipa. And if thereof thou wishest pledge or proof,
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 4: bring to thy mind our avaricious heart. While speaking in
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 4: this manner with his scourge, a demon smote him and said,
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 4: get thee gone, pander for there are no women here
• 2:19:31
  Speaker 4: for coin, I joined myself again unto mine escort. Thereafterward,
• 2:19:36
  Speaker 4: with footsteps few, we came to where a crag projected
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 4: from the bank. This very easily did we ascend, and
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 4: turning to the right along its ridge, from those eternal circles,
• 2:19:45
  Speaker 4: we departed. When we were there, where it was hollowed
• 2:19:49
  Speaker 4: out beneath to give passage to the scourged, the guide said,
• 2:19:53
  Speaker 4: wait and see that on thee strike the vision of
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 4: those others, evil born, of whom thou hast not yet
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 4: beheld the faces, because together with us they have gone
• 2:20:03
  Speaker 4: from the old bridge. We looked upon the train which
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 4: towards us came upon the other border, and which the scourges,
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 4: in like manner smite. And the good Master, without my inquiring,
• 2:20:13
  Speaker 4: said to me, see that tall one who is coming,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 4: and for his pain seemed not to shed a tear. Still,
• 2:20:19
  Speaker 4: what a royal aspect he retains, that Jason is, who,
• 2:20:23
  Speaker 4: by his heart and cunning the Colchians of the ram
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 4: made destitute. He, by the isle of Lemnos, passed along
• 2:20:29
  Speaker 4: after the daring women, pitiless, had unto death, devoted all
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 4: their males. There with his tokens, and with ornate words
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 4: did he deceive Hypsipyle, the maiden, who first herself had
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 4: all the rest deceived. There did he leave her pregnant
• 2:20:43
  Speaker 4: and forlorn. Such sin unto such punishment condemns him. And
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 4: also for Medea is vengeance done with him. Go those
• 2:20:52
  Speaker 4: who in such wise deceive, And this sufficient be of
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 4: the first valley to know, and those that in its
• 2:20:58
  Speaker 4: jaws its hold. We were already where the narrow path
• 2:21:02
  Speaker 4: crosses athwart the second dike and forms that of a
• 2:21:04
  Speaker 4: buttress for another arch. Thence we heard people who are
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 4: making moan in the next bolgia, snorting with their muzzles
• 2:21:11
  Speaker 4: and with their palms beating upon themselves. The margins were
• 2:21:15
  Speaker 4: encrusted with a mold by exhalation from below that sticks there,
• 2:21:19
  Speaker 4: and with the eyes and nostrils wages war. The bottom
• 2:21:22
  Speaker 4: is so deep no place suffices to give us sight
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 4: of it without ascending the arches, back where most the
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 4: crag impens. Thither we came, And thence down in the
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 4: moat I saw people smothered in a filth that out
• 2:21:34
  Speaker 4: of human privies seemed to flow. And whilst below there
• 2:21:38
  Speaker 4: with mine eye I search I saw one with his
• 2:21:40
  Speaker 4: head so foul with ordure, it was not clear if
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 4: he were clerk or layman. He screamed to me, wherefore
• 2:21:47
  Speaker 4: art thou so eager to look at me more than
• 2:21:50
  Speaker 4: the other foul ones? And I to him, because if
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 4: I remember, I have already seen thee with dry hair,
• 2:21:57
  Speaker 4: and thou art alessio interminie of lucca. Therefore I eye
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 4: thee more than all the others. And he thereon belaboring
• 2:22:05
  Speaker 4: his pumpkin. The flatteries have submerged me here below, wherewith
• 2:22:10
  Speaker 4: my tongue was never surfeited. Then said to me, the guide,
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 4: see that thou thrust thy visage somewhere farther in advance,
• 2:22:17
  Speaker 4: that with thine eyes thou well the face attained of
• 2:22:20
  Speaker 4: that uncleanly and disheveled drab, who there doth scratch herself
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 4: with filthy nails and crouches. Now and now on foot
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 4: is standing. That's the harlot, is it who replied unto
• 2:22:29
  Speaker 4: her paramour when he said, have I great gratitude from thee,
• 2:22:33
  Speaker 4: nay marvelous, and herewith let our sight be satisfied. End
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 4: of Canto eighteen Inferno, Canto nineteen o Simon Magus, O,
• 2:22:45
  Speaker 4: forlorn disciples, ye, who the things of God, which ought
• 2:22:48
  Speaker 4: to be the brides of holiness rapaciously for silver and
• 2:22:52
  Speaker 4: for gold, do prostitute. Now it behooves for you the
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 4: trumpet sound, because in this third Boljay ye abide, we
• 2:23:00
  Speaker 4: had already on the following tomb ascended to that portion
• 2:23:02
  Speaker 4: of the crag which o'er the middle of the moat
• 2:23:04
  Speaker 4: hangs plumb. Wisdom Supreme, O, how great art thou ShoWest
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 4: in heaven, in earth, and in the evil world? And
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 4: with what justice doth thy power distribute? I saw upon
• 2:23:16
  Speaker 4: the sides and on the bottom the livid stone with perforations,
• 2:23:19
  Speaker 4: filled all of one size, and every one was round
• 2:23:23
  Speaker 4: to me less ample seemed they not nor greater than
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 4: those that in my beautiful Saint John, are fashioned for
• 2:23:28
  Speaker 4: the place of the baptizers, and one of which not
• 2:23:32
  Speaker 4: many years ago I broke for some one who was
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 4: drowning in it. Be this a seal all men to undeceive.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 4: Out of the mouth of each one. There protruded the
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 4: feet of a transgressor, and the legs up to the calf.
• 2:23:44
  Speaker 4: The rest within remained in all of them. The souls
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 4: were both on fire. Wherefore the joints so violently quivered,
• 2:23:51
  Speaker 4: they would have snapped asunder withs and bands, even as
• 2:23:54
  Speaker 4: the flame of unctuous things is wont to move upon
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 4: the outer surface. Only so likewise was it there from
• 2:24:00
  Speaker 4: heel to point. Master, who is that one who writhes
• 2:24:04
  Speaker 4: himself more than is other comrades quivering? I said, and
• 2:24:09
  Speaker 4: whom a redder flame is sucking? And he to me,
• 2:24:12
  Speaker 4: if thou wilt have me bear thee down there along
• 2:24:15
  Speaker 4: that bank which lowest lies from him, thou'lt know his
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 4: errors and himself, and I what pleases thee to me
• 2:24:21
  Speaker 4: is pleasing Thou art, my lord, And knowest that I
• 2:24:24
  Speaker 4: depart not from thy desire, and knowest what is not
• 2:24:27
  Speaker 4: spoken straightway. Upon the fourth dike we arrived, we turned,
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 4: and on the left hand side descended down in the bottom,
• 2:24:34
  Speaker 4: full of holes and narrow, and the good Master, yet
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 4: from off his haunch, deposed me not till to the
• 2:24:40
  Speaker 4: hole he brought me of him who so lamented with
• 2:24:43
  Speaker 4: his shanks. Whoe'er thou art that standest upside down? O
• 2:24:47
  Speaker 4: doleful soul implanted like a stake, to say, began I
• 2:24:51
  Speaker 4: if thou canst speak out, I stood even as the
• 2:24:54
  Speaker 4: friar who is confessing the false assassin, who, when he
• 2:24:57
  Speaker 4: is fixed, recalls him so that death may be delayed.
• 2:25:01
  Speaker 4: And he cried out, dost thou stand there already? Dost
• 2:25:05
  Speaker 4: thou stand there already? Bonafaci? By many years the record
• 2:25:08
  Speaker 4: lied to me. Art thou so early satiate with that
• 2:25:11
  Speaker 4: wealth for which thou didst not fear to take by
• 2:25:14
  Speaker 4: fraud the beautiful lady, and then work her woe. Such
• 2:25:18
  Speaker 4: I became as people are who stand not comprehending what
• 2:25:22
  Speaker 4: is answered them, as if bemocked, and know not how
• 2:25:24
  Speaker 4: to answer. Then said Virgilius, say to him straightway, I
• 2:25:29
  Speaker 4: am not he. I am not he thou thinkest. And
• 2:25:32
  Speaker 4: I replied, as was imposed on me, whereat the spirit
• 2:25:36
  Speaker 4: writhe with both his feet. Then, sighing with a voice
• 2:25:38
  Speaker 4: of lamentation, said to me, then, what wantest thou of me?
• 2:25:43
  Speaker 4: If who I am, thou carest so much to know
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 4: that thou, on that account hast crossed the bank? Know
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 4: that I vested was with the great mantle, And truly
• 2:25:52
  Speaker 4: was I son of the she bear, so eager to
• 2:25:54
  Speaker 4: advance the cubs that wealth above, And hear myself I
• 2:25:57
  Speaker 4: pocketed beneath my head. The others are dragged down, who
• 2:26:01
  Speaker 4: have preceded me in simony, flattened along the fissure of
• 2:26:04
  Speaker 4: the rock below. There I shall likewise fall whenever that
• 2:26:08
  Speaker 4: one shall come whom I believed thou wost what time
• 2:26:11
  Speaker 4: the sudden question I proposed? But longer I my feet
• 2:26:15
  Speaker 4: already toast, and here have been in this way upside down,
• 2:26:19
  Speaker 4: Then he will plant and stay with reddened feet. For
• 2:26:22
  Speaker 4: after him shall come of fouler deed from towards the west,
• 2:26:25
  Speaker 4: a pastor without law such as befits to cover him
• 2:26:28
  Speaker 4: and me New Jason. Will he be of whom we
• 2:26:31
  Speaker 4: read in Maccabees, And as his king was pliant, so
• 2:26:34
  Speaker 4: he who governs France shall be to this one. I
• 2:26:37
  Speaker 4: do not know if I were here too bold that him.
• 2:26:40
  Speaker 4: I answered only in this meter. I pray THEE tell
• 2:26:43
  Speaker 4: me now how great a treasure our lord demanded of
• 2:26:45
  Speaker 4: Saint Peter first before he put the keys into his keeping.
• 2:26:49
  Speaker 4: Truly he nothing asked but follow me, nor Peter, nor
• 2:26:53
  Speaker 4: the rest asked of Matthias silver or gold, When he
• 2:26:56
  Speaker 4: by lot was chosen unto the place the guilty soul
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 4: had lost. Therefore, stay here, for thou art justly punished,
• 2:27:03
  Speaker 4: and keep safeguard o'er the ill gotten money which caused
• 2:27:06
  Speaker 4: THEE to be valiant against Charles. And were it not
• 2:27:09
  Speaker 4: that still, forbids it me the reverence for the keys
• 2:27:12
  Speaker 4: superlative thou hadst in keeping in the gladsome life, I
• 2:27:16
  Speaker 4: would make use of words more grievous still, because your
• 2:27:19
  Speaker 4: avarice afflicts the world, trampling the good and lifting the depraved.
• 2:27:24
  Speaker 4: The evangelist you pastors had in mind when she who
• 2:27:27
  Speaker 4: sitteth upon many waters to fornicate with kings, by him
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 4: was seen the same who with the seven heads was born,
• 2:27:33
  Speaker 4: and power and strength from the ten horns received, so
• 2:27:36
  Speaker 4: long as virtue to her spouse was pleasing, Ye have
• 2:27:40
  Speaker 4: made yourselves a god of gold and silver. And from
• 2:27:42
  Speaker 4: the idolater, how differ ye save that he one, and
• 2:27:46
  Speaker 4: ye a hundred worship Ah Constantine. Of how much ill
• 2:27:50
  Speaker 4: was mother? Not thy conversion, but that marriage dower which
• 2:27:54
  Speaker 4: the first wealthy father took from thee. And while I
• 2:27:57
  Speaker 4: sang to him such notes as these, is that anger
• 2:28:00
  Speaker 4: or that conscience stung him? He struggled violently with both
• 2:28:04
  Speaker 4: his feet I think in sooth that it my leader
• 2:28:06
  Speaker 4: pleased with such contented lip. He listened, ever, unto the
• 2:28:09
  Speaker 4: sound of true words expressed. Therefore, with both his arms
• 2:28:13
  Speaker 4: he took me up, And when he had me all
• 2:28:16
  Speaker 4: upon his breast remounted by the way where he descended,
• 2:28:19
  Speaker 4: nor did he tire to have me clasped to him.
• 2:28:22
  Speaker 4: Both bore me to the summit of the arch, which
• 2:28:24
  Speaker 4: from the fourth dike to the fifth is passage. There
• 2:28:27
  Speaker 4: tenderly he laid his burden down tenderly on the crag
• 2:28:31
  Speaker 4: uneven and steep that would have been hard passage for
• 2:28:33
  Speaker 4: the goats. Thence was unveiled to me another valley end
• 2:28:38
  Speaker 4: of Canto nineteen Inferno. Canto twenty of a new pain
• 2:28:44
  Speaker 4: behooves me to make verses and give material to the
• 2:28:47
  Speaker 4: twentieth canto of the first song, which is of the submerged.
• 2:28:51
  Speaker 4: I was already thoroughly disposed to peer down into the
• 2:28:54
  Speaker 4: uncovered depth, which bathed itself with tears of agony. And
• 2:28:58
  Speaker 4: people saw I through the circular valley, silent and weeping,
• 2:29:02
  Speaker 4: coming at the pace which in this world the litanies
• 2:29:04
  Speaker 4: assume as lower down. My sight descended on them wondrously,
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 4: each one seemed to be distorted from chin to the
• 2:29:11
  Speaker 4: beginning of the chest. For towards the reins the countenance
• 2:29:14
  Speaker 4: was turned, and backward it behooved them to advance, as
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 4: to look forward had been taken from them. Perchance, indeed,
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 4: by violence of palsy, some one has been thus wholly
• 2:29:25
  Speaker 4: turned awry. But I ne'er saw it, nor believed it
• 2:29:28
  Speaker 4: can be. As God may, let thee reader gather fruit
• 2:29:32
  Speaker 4: from this thy reading. Think now for thyself, how I
• 2:29:35
  Speaker 4: could ever keep my face unmoistened when our own image
• 2:29:39
  Speaker 4: near me I beheld distorted. So the weeping of the
• 2:29:42
  Speaker 4: eyes along the fissure bathed the hinder parts. Truly I wept,
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 4: leaning upon a peak of the hard crag, so that
• 2:29:49
  Speaker 4: my escort said to me, art thou too, of the
• 2:29:53
  Speaker 4: other fools here pity lives when it is wholly dead.
• 2:29:57
  Speaker 4: Who is a greater reprobate than he who feels compassion
• 2:30:00
  Speaker 4: at the doomed divine? Lift up, Lift up thy head,
• 2:30:04
  Speaker 4: and see for whom opened the earth before the theban's eyes.
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 4: Wherefore they all cried, whither rushest thou Amphiaros, why dost
• 2:30:13
  Speaker 4: leave the war? And downward sees he not to fall
• 2:30:16
  Speaker 4: a main as far as Minos, who lays hold on
• 2:30:18
  Speaker 4: all see he has made a bosom of his shoulders
• 2:30:22
  Speaker 4: because he wished to see too far before him. Behind
• 2:30:25
  Speaker 4: he looks, and backward goes his way. Behold Esus, who
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 4: his semblance changed when from a male a female he
• 2:30:32
  Speaker 4: became his members, being all of them transformed, And afterwards
• 2:30:37
  Speaker 4: was forced to strike once more the two entangled serpents.
• 2:30:40
  Speaker 4: With his rod ere he could have again his manly plumes.
• 2:30:44
  Speaker 4: That errans is who backs the other's belly. Who in
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 4: the hills of Luni, where there grubs the Kararese, who
• 2:30:50
  Speaker 4: houses underneath among the marbles white a cavern had for
• 2:30:54
  Speaker 4: his abode. Whence to behold the stars and see the
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 4: view was not cut off from him. And she there
• 2:31:01
  Speaker 4: who is covering up her breasts, which thou beholdest not
• 2:31:04
  Speaker 4: with loosened tresses, and on that side has all the
• 2:31:07
  Speaker 4: hairy skin. Was Manto, who made quest through many lands,
• 2:31:12
  Speaker 4: afterwards tarried there where I was born, whereof I would
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 4: thou list to me A little after her father had
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 4: from life departed, and the city of Bacchus had become
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 4: enslaved she a long season wandered through the world above
• 2:31:26
  Speaker 4: and beauteous. Italy lies a lake at the ALP's foot
• 2:31:29
  Speaker 4: that shuts in Germany over Tyrol, and has the name Benaco.
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 4: By a thousand springs, I think, and more is bathed
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 4: TwixT Garda and Valcamonica Pannino, with water that grows stagnant
• 2:31:42
  Speaker 4: in that lake. Midway a place is where the Trentine pastor,
• 2:31:46
  Speaker 4: and he of Brescia and the Veronese might give his
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 4: blessing if he passed that way. Sitteth Pesquiera fortress fair
• 2:31:53
  Speaker 4: and strong, to front the Brescians and the Bergamasques, where
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 4: round about the bank descendeth lowest there of necessity must
• 2:32:01
  Speaker 4: fall whatever in bosom of Benco cannot stay, and grows
• 2:32:04
  Speaker 4: a river down through verdant pastures. Soon as the water
• 2:32:08
  Speaker 4: doth begin to run, no more Benco is it called,
• 2:32:11
  Speaker 4: but Mincio far as governo where it falls in po
• 2:32:15
  Speaker 4: Not far it runs before it finds a plain in
• 2:32:18
  Speaker 4: which it spreads itself and makes it marshy and oft.
• 2:32:21
  Speaker 4: Tis wonton summer to be sickly passing that way. The
• 2:32:24
  Speaker 4: virgin pitiless land in the middle of the fen descried,
• 2:32:27
  Speaker 4: untilled and naked of inhabitants there to escape all human intercourse.
• 2:32:32
  Speaker 4: She with her servants stayed her arts to practice, and lived,
• 2:32:36
  Speaker 4: and left her empty body there. The men thereafter, who
• 2:32:39
  Speaker 4: were scattered round, collected in that place, which was made
• 2:32:42
  Speaker 4: strong by the lagoon it had on every side. They
• 2:32:45
  Speaker 4: built their city over those dead bones, And after her,
• 2:32:48
  Speaker 4: who first the place selected Mantua, named it without other
• 2:32:52
  Speaker 4: omen its. People once within, more crowded, were ere. The
• 2:32:55
  Speaker 4: stupidity of Casaloi from Pinamonte had received deceit. Therefore, I
• 2:33:00
  Speaker 4: caution thee if e'er thou hearest originate my city. Otherwise
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 4: no falsehood may the verity defraud. And I, my master,
• 2:33:08
  Speaker 4: Thy discourses are to me so certain, and so take
• 2:33:11
  Speaker 4: my faith that unto me the rest would be spent coals.
• 2:33:15
  Speaker 4: But tell me of the people who are passing, if
• 2:33:17
  Speaker 4: any one note worthy, thou beholdest, for only unto that
• 2:33:21
  Speaker 4: my mind reverts. Then, said he to me. He who
• 2:33:24
  Speaker 4: from the cheek thrusts out his beard upon his swarthy shoulders,
• 2:33:28
  Speaker 4: was at the time when Greece was void of males,
• 2:33:31
  Speaker 4: so that there scarce remained one in the cradle an Augur,
• 2:33:35
  Speaker 4: and with calcins gave the moment in alias when to
• 2:33:38
  Speaker 4: sever the first cable Eryphilus his name was, and so
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 4: sings my lofty tragedy in some part or other. That
• 2:33:45
  Speaker 4: knowest thou well, who knowest the whole of it. The next,
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 4: who is so slender in the flanks, was Michael Scott,
• 2:33:52
  Speaker 4: who of a verity magical illusions knew the game. Behold
• 2:33:56
  Speaker 4: Guido Bonati. Beholdest Dente, who now unto his leather and
• 2:34:00
  Speaker 4: his thread, would fain have stuck. But he too late repents.
• 2:34:04
  Speaker 4: Behold the wretched ones who left the needle, the spool
• 2:34:07
  Speaker 4: and rock and made them fortune tellers. They wrought their
• 2:34:10
  Speaker 4: magic spells with herb and image. But come now, for
• 2:34:13
  Speaker 4: already holds the confines of both the hemispheres, and under
• 2:34:16
  Speaker 4: Seville touches the ocean wave Cain and the thorns, And
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 4: yesternight the moon was round. Already thou shouldst remember well
• 2:34:25
  Speaker 4: it did not harm thee from time to time within
• 2:34:27
  Speaker 4: the forest deep. Thus spake he to me, and we
• 2:34:30
  Speaker 4: walked the while end of Kanto twenty.
• 2:34:33
  Speaker 7: Kanto twenty one, from bridge to bridge, thus speaking other
• 2:34:37
  Speaker 7: things of which my comedy cares not to sing. We
• 2:34:40
  Speaker 7: came along and held the summit. When we halted, behold
• 2:34:43
  Speaker 7: another fissure of Malabolgia and other vain laments. And I
• 2:34:46
  Speaker 7: beheld him marvelously dark, as in the arsenal of the
• 2:34:49
  Speaker 7: Venetians boils in the winter, the tenacious pitch to smear
• 2:34:53
  Speaker 7: their unsound vessels over again for sale, they cannot, and
• 2:34:56
  Speaker 7: instead thereof one makes his vessel new. One recalks the
• 2:35:00
  Speaker 7: ribs of that which many a voyage is made. One
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 7: hammers at the prow, one at the stern, This one makes,
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 7: or in that one cordage twists another mend's the mainsail.
• 2:35:09
  Speaker 7: In the mizzen. Thus not by fire, but by the
• 2:35:12
  Speaker 7: art divine was boiling down below there a dense pitch
• 2:35:15
  Speaker 7: which upon every side the bank the lined. I saw
• 2:35:18
  Speaker 7: it that I did not see within it aught with
• 2:35:20
  Speaker 7: the bubbles that the boiling rays, and all swell up
• 2:35:23
  Speaker 7: and resubside compressed the while below there fixedly I gazed,
• 2:35:28
  Speaker 7: my leader, crying out, beware, beware, drew me unto himself
• 2:35:32
  Speaker 7: from where I stood. Then I turned round, as one
• 2:35:35
  Speaker 7: who is impatient to see what it behooves him to escape,
• 2:35:38
  Speaker 7: and whom a sudden terror death of man who, while
• 2:35:41
  Speaker 7: he looks, delays not his departure. And I beheld behind
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 7: us a black devil running along upon the crack approach. Ah,
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 7: how ferocious was he in his aspect, and how he
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 7: seemed to me in action, ruthless with open wings, and
• 2:35:54
  Speaker 7: laid upon his feet his shoulders, which sharp pointed, were
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 7: and high as sinner to him cumber with both haunches,
• 2:36:01
  Speaker 7: and he held clutch the sinews of the feet. From
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 7: off our bridge, he said, O male brancay, behold one
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 7: of the elders of Saint Cita. Plunge him beneath, for
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 7: I return for others unto that town, which is well
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 7: furnished with them. All these are barraters, except Bonturo. Know
• 2:36:19
  Speaker 7: into yes, for money there is changed. He hurled him
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 7: down and over the hard crag, turned round, and never
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 7: was a mastiff loosen in so much hurry to pursue
• 2:36:27
  Speaker 7: a thief. The others sank and rose again face downward.
• 2:36:31
  Speaker 7: But the demons under cover of the bridge cried, here
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 7: the Santo Volto has no place here, swims one otherwise
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 7: than in the Sergio. Therefore, if foe our ghafts thou
• 2:36:42
  Speaker 7: wishest not do not uplift thyself above the pitch. They
• 2:36:46
  Speaker 7: seized him. Then with more than a hundred rakes. They said,
• 2:36:49
  Speaker 7: it here behooves thee to dance covered. That if thou
• 2:36:52
  Speaker 7: canst thou secretly miss Pilfer. Not otherwise the cooks their
• 2:36:56
  Speaker 7: scullions make immerse into the middle of the cauldron the
• 2:36:59
  Speaker 7: meat with us hooks, so that it may not float.
• 2:37:02
  Speaker 7: Said the good Master to me, that it be not
• 2:37:05
  Speaker 7: apparent thou art here crouched thyself down behind a jag,
• 2:37:08
  Speaker 7: that thou mayest have some screen, And for no outrage
• 2:37:11
  Speaker 7: that is done to me. Be thou afraid because these
• 2:37:13
  Speaker 7: things I know, For once before was I in such
• 2:37:16
  Speaker 7: a scuffle. Then he passed on beyond the bridge's head,
• 2:37:20
  Speaker 7: and as upon the sixth bank he arrived, need was
• 2:37:22
  Speaker 7: for him to have his steadfast front with the same
• 2:37:25
  Speaker 7: fury and the same uproar as dogs leap out upon
• 2:37:28
  Speaker 7: a mendicant, who, on a sudden begs where he stops.
• 2:37:31
  Speaker 7: They issued from beneath the little bridge and turned against
• 2:37:34
  Speaker 7: him all their grappling irons. But he cried out, be
• 2:37:36
  Speaker 7: none of you malignant. Before those hooks of yours lay
• 2:37:39
  Speaker 7: hold of me. Let one of you step forward, may
• 2:37:42
  Speaker 7: hear me and then take counsel as to grappling me.
• 2:37:46
  Speaker 7: They all cried out, Let Malakodah go where at once
• 2:37:49
  Speaker 7: started and the rested still. And he came to him, saying,
• 2:37:52
  Speaker 7: what avails it thinkest thou Malakota to behold me advanced
• 2:37:57
  Speaker 7: into this place? My master said, say hitherto from all
• 2:38:00
  Speaker 7: your skill of fence, without the will divine and Fado's fishes,
• 2:38:04
  Speaker 7: let me go on for it in heaven is will
• 2:38:06
  Speaker 7: that I another show this savage road. Then was his
• 2:38:09
  Speaker 7: arrogance so humbled in him that he let fall his
• 2:38:12
  Speaker 7: grapnel at his feet, and to the others said, now
• 2:38:15
  Speaker 7: strike him not, and unto me my god, O, Thou,
• 2:38:18
  Speaker 7: who sittest among the splinters of the bridge, crouched down securely,
• 2:38:21
  Speaker 7: now returned to me again. Wherefore I started and came
• 2:38:25
  Speaker 7: swiftly to him, And all the devils forward thrust themselves,
• 2:38:28
  Speaker 7: so that I feared they would not keep their compact,
• 2:38:31
  Speaker 7: And thus beheld I once afraid the soldiers who issued
• 2:38:34
  Speaker 7: under safeguard from Caprona, seeing themselves among so many foes close,
• 2:38:39
  Speaker 7: did I press myself with all my person beside my
• 2:38:42
  Speaker 7: leader and turned not mine eyes from off their countenance,
• 2:38:45
  Speaker 7: which was not good. They lowered their rakes, and wilt
• 2:38:48
  Speaker 7: thou have me hit him? They said to one another
• 2:38:50
  Speaker 7: on the rump, and answered, yes, see that thou nick
• 2:38:54
  Speaker 7: him with it. The same demon who was holding parley
• 2:38:56
  Speaker 7: with my conductor turned him very quickly and said, be quiet,
• 2:38:59
  Speaker 7: Be quiet. Scarmiglione then said to us, you can no
• 2:39:03
  Speaker 7: farther go forward upon this crag, because is lying all
• 2:39:06
  Speaker 7: shattered at the bottom of the sixth arch. And if
• 2:39:09
  Speaker 7: it still doth please ye to go onward, pursue your
• 2:39:12
  Speaker 7: way along upon this rock. Near is another crag that
• 2:39:14
  Speaker 7: yields a path. Yesterday, five hours later than this hour,
• 2:39:18
  Speaker 7: one thousand and two hundred and sixty six years were complete,
• 2:39:22
  Speaker 7: that here the way was broken. I send in that
• 2:39:24
  Speaker 7: direction some of mine to see. If any one doth
• 2:39:27
  Speaker 7: air himself, go ye with them, for they will not
• 2:39:30
  Speaker 7: be vicious. Step forward, Ali Quinon Calcabrina began he to
• 2:39:34
  Speaker 7: cry out, and thou Conazzo and Barberica, do thou guide
• 2:39:38
  Speaker 7: the ten? Come forward, Libicoco and Dragignazzo, and Tuscchiato, and Grafiacane,
• 2:39:44
  Speaker 7: and far Faillo and mad Rubicante search ye all round
• 2:39:48
  Speaker 7: about the boiling pitch. Let these be safe as far
• 2:39:50
  Speaker 7: as the next crag that all unbroken passes, or at
• 2:39:53
  Speaker 7: the dens. Oh me, what is a master that I see? Pray?
• 2:39:57
  Speaker 7: Let us go, I said, without an escort. If thou
• 2:40:00
  Speaker 7: knowest how, since for myself I ask nun If thou
• 2:40:03
  Speaker 7: art as observant as thy wont is, dost thou not
• 2:40:06
  Speaker 7: see that they do gnash their teeth with their browser,
• 2:40:09
  Speaker 7: threatening woe to us and he to me. I will
• 2:40:12
  Speaker 7: not have thee fear. Let them gnash on according to
• 2:40:15
  Speaker 7: their fancy, because they do it. For those boiling wretches
• 2:40:18
  Speaker 7: along the left hand dike, they wheeled about, but first
• 2:40:21
  Speaker 7: had each one thrust his tongue between his teeth towards
• 2:40:24
  Speaker 7: their leader for a signal, and he made a trumpet
• 2:40:27
  Speaker 7: of his rump Kanto twenty two. I have erewhile seen
• 2:40:33
  Speaker 7: horsemen moving camp begin the storming, and their must make,
• 2:40:36
  Speaker 7: and sometimes starting off for their escape. Vont couriers have
• 2:40:39
  Speaker 7: I seen upon your land? O aritenes and foragers go
• 2:40:43
  Speaker 7: forth tournaments stricken, and the joustings run, sometimes with trumpets
• 2:40:47
  Speaker 7: and sometimes with bells, with kettle drums and signals, with
• 2:40:50
  Speaker 7: the castles, with our own, and with outlandish things, But
• 2:40:53
  Speaker 7: never yet with bagpipes. So uncouth did I see horsemen move,
• 2:40:57
  Speaker 7: nor infantry, nor ship by any sign of land or star.
• 2:41:01
  Speaker 7: We went upon our way with the ten demons ah
• 2:41:04
  Speaker 7: savage company, but in the church with saints, and in
• 2:41:07
  Speaker 7: the tavern with the gluttons. Ever upon the pitch was
• 2:41:11
  Speaker 7: my intent to see the whole condition of that Bolgia,
• 2:41:13
  Speaker 7: and of the people who therein were burned, Even as
• 2:41:16
  Speaker 7: the dolphins when they make a sign to mariners by
• 2:41:18
  Speaker 7: arching at the back, that they should council take to
• 2:41:21
  Speaker 7: save their vessel. Thus, sometimes to alleviate his pain, one
• 2:41:24
  Speaker 7: of the sinners would display his back, and.
• 2:41:27
  Speaker 8: In less time conceal it. Then it lightens, as on
• 2:41:33
  Speaker 8: the brink of water in a ditch.
• 2:41:35
  Speaker 7: The frogs stand only with their muzzles out, so that
• 2:41:37
  Speaker 7: they hide their feet another bulk. So upon every side
• 2:41:40
  Speaker 7: the sinners stood. But ever as Barbaricha near them came,
• 2:41:43
  Speaker 7: thus underneath the pointing they withdrew, I saw, And still
• 2:41:47
  Speaker 7: my heart doth shudder at it. One waiting. Thus, even
• 2:41:50
  Speaker 7: as it comes to pass, one frog remains, and down
• 2:41:53
  Speaker 7: another dives, and Grafya Khan, who most confronted him, grappled
• 2:41:57
  Speaker 7: him by his tresses, smeared with pitch, and drew him up,
• 2:42:00
  Speaker 7: so that he seemed an honor. I knew before the
• 2:42:03
  Speaker 7: names of all of them, so had I noted them
• 2:42:05
  Speaker 7: when they were chosen, And when they called each other listened,
• 2:42:08
  Speaker 7: how o rubiicant they see that thou do lay thy
• 2:42:11
  Speaker 7: claws upon him, so that thou mayst flay him? Cried
• 2:42:14
  Speaker 7: altogether the accursed ones, and I, my master, see to
• 2:42:18
  Speaker 7: it if thou canst that thou mayst know who is
• 2:42:21
  Speaker 7: this luckless wight thus come into his adversary's hands nearer
• 2:42:25
  Speaker 7: to the side of him. My leader drew asked of
• 2:42:28
  Speaker 7: him whence he was, and he replied, I in the
• 2:42:30
  Speaker 7: Kingdom of Navarre was born, my mother placed me servant
• 2:42:34
  Speaker 7: to a lord, for she had borne me to a
• 2:42:35
  Speaker 7: ribald knave, destroyer of himself of his things. Then I
• 2:42:40
  Speaker 7: domestic was of good King Thibalt, and I set me
• 2:42:43
  Speaker 7: there to practice paratry, for which I pay the reckoning.
• 2:42:46
  Speaker 7: In this heat and Chirigato, from whose mouth projected on
• 2:42:49
  Speaker 7: either side a tusk as an ambore, caused him to
• 2:42:52
  Speaker 7: feel how one of them could rip among malicious cats.
• 2:42:56
  Speaker 7: The mouse had come, but Barberica clasped it in his
• 2:42:59
  Speaker 7: arms and said, stand ye aside, while I infork him
• 2:43:03
  Speaker 7: to my master. He turned round his head ask him again,
• 2:43:06
  Speaker 7: He said, if more thou wished to know from him
• 2:43:08
  Speaker 7: before some one destroy him the guide. Now tell then,
• 2:43:13
  Speaker 7: of the other culprits. Knowest thou any one who is
• 2:43:15
  Speaker 7: elation under the pitch, and he I separated lately from
• 2:43:19
  Speaker 7: one who is a neighbor to it. With that I
• 2:43:21
  Speaker 7: still were covered up with him, for I should fear
• 2:43:24
  Speaker 7: not either claw nor hook, and Libikoko we have borne
• 2:43:27
  Speaker 7: too much. And with his grapnels seized him by the arm.
• 2:43:31
  Speaker 8: So that by rending he tore off at tendon ke.
• 2:43:36
  Speaker 8: Drag Ignazzo wished to pounce upon him.
• 2:43:40
  Speaker 7: Down at the legs. Whence there Decurion turned round and
• 2:43:43
  Speaker 7: round about with evil look. When they again somewhat were
• 2:43:46
  Speaker 7: pacified of him, who still was looking at his wound, demanded,
• 2:43:50
  Speaker 7: my conductor, without stay, who is that one from whom
• 2:43:53
  Speaker 7: a luckless parting?
• 2:43:54
  Speaker 8: Thou sayest thou hast made to come ashore? And he replied,
• 2:44:00
  Speaker 8: was friar Gomita.
• 2:44:01
  Speaker 7: If Galura vessel of all fraud, who had the enemies
• 2:44:04
  Speaker 7: of his lord in hand, and dealt so with them,
• 2:44:07
  Speaker 7: each exults thereat money he took, and let them smoothly off,
• 2:44:10
  Speaker 7: as he says. And in other offices a buried or
• 2:44:13
  Speaker 7: was he not mean but sovereign, fore gathers with him
• 2:44:18
  Speaker 7: one dom Michel zankey of Logodoro. And if Sardinia to gossip,
• 2:44:22
  Speaker 7: never do their tongues feel tired? O me see that one?
• 2:44:25
  Speaker 7: How he grinds his teeth still farther would I speak?
• 2:44:28
  Speaker 7: But am afraid lest he to scratch my itch be
• 2:44:31
  Speaker 7: making ready? And the grand Provos turned to Farfara Lanch,
• 2:44:35
  Speaker 7: who rolled his eyes about as if to strike, said,
• 2:44:37
  Speaker 7: stand aside there, thou malicious bird, if you desire either
• 2:44:41
  Speaker 7: to see or hear the terror stricken recommends thereon Tuscans
• 2:44:45
  Speaker 7: are lombards. I will make them come, but let the
• 2:44:48
  Speaker 7: mali branchey cease a little, so that these may not
• 2:44:51
  Speaker 7: their revenges fear. And I down, sitting in this very
• 2:44:54
  Speaker 7: place for one that I am will make seven come,
• 2:44:57
  Speaker 7: when I shall whistle, as our accustom is to do,
• 2:44:59
  Speaker 7: whenever one of us comes out cunyatso at these words,
• 2:45:03
  Speaker 7: his muzzle lifted, shaking his head, and said, jest hear
• 2:45:06
  Speaker 7: the trick which he has thought of down to throw himself.
• 2:45:09
  Speaker 7: Whence he whose stares in great abundance had responded, I
• 2:45:13
  Speaker 7: by far too cunning ann when I procure for mine
• 2:45:16
  Speaker 7: a greater sadness. Ali Heen held not in, but running
• 2:45:20
  Speaker 7: counter unto the rest, said to him, if thou die,
• 2:45:22
  Speaker 7: I will not follow thee upon the gallop, but I
• 2:45:25
  Speaker 7: will beat my wings above the pitch. The height be
• 2:45:27
  Speaker 7: left and be the bank as shield to see if
• 2:45:30
  Speaker 7: thou alone dost counter vail us o thou who readest
• 2:45:33
  Speaker 7: thou shalt hear new sport. Each to the other side,
• 2:45:36
  Speaker 7: his eyes averted. He first, who most reluctant, was to
• 2:45:40
  Speaker 7: do it. The navarrees selected well his time, planted his
• 2:45:44
  Speaker 7: feet on land, and in a moment leaped and released
• 2:45:46
  Speaker 7: himself from their design. Whereat each one was suddenly stung
• 2:45:50
  Speaker 7: with shame. But he most who was cause of the defeat.
• 2:45:53
  Speaker 7: Therefore he moved and cried, thou art overtaken. But little
• 2:45:58
  Speaker 7: it availed, for wings could not outstrie the fear. The
• 2:46:01
  Speaker 7: other one went under, and flying upward he his breast
• 2:46:03
  Speaker 7: directed not otherwise. The duck, upon his sudden dives under
• 2:46:07
  Speaker 7: when the falcon is approaching, and upward he returneth a
• 2:46:09
  Speaker 7: cross and weary, infuriated at the mockery. Calcabrino flying behind him,
• 2:46:14
  Speaker 7: followed close Desyrus the others should escape to have a quarrel,
• 2:46:19
  Speaker 7: And when the barriter had disappeared, he turned its talons
• 2:46:22
  Speaker 7: upon his companion and grappled with him right above the moat,
• 2:46:26
  Speaker 7: but soothed. The other claw was a dodied sparhawk to
• 2:46:29
  Speaker 7: clapper claw him well, and both of them fell in
• 2:46:32
  Speaker 7: the middle of the boiling pond. A sudden intercessor was
• 2:46:35
  Speaker 7: the heat, but ne'ertheless of rising There was naught to
• 2:46:38
  Speaker 7: such degree they had their wings belind, lamenting with the others.
• 2:46:42
  Speaker 7: Barbaricha made four of them fly to the other side
• 2:46:45
  Speaker 7: with all their gaffs, and very speedily this side and
• 2:46:48
  Speaker 7: that to their posts descended. They stretched their hooks towards
• 2:46:51
  Speaker 7: the pigeon snared, who were already baked within the crust.
• 2:46:55
  Speaker 7: And in this manner, busied did we leave them.
• 2:46:59
  Speaker 8: Infernal kent twenty three silent alone, and without company we
• 2:47:05
  Speaker 8: went the one in front the other after as go
• 2:47:09
  Speaker 8: the minor friars along their way. Upon the fable of
• 2:47:13
  Speaker 8: Aesop was directed my thought by reason of the present quarrel,
• 2:47:17
  Speaker 8: where he is spoken of the frog and mouse, For
• 2:47:21
  Speaker 8: MoU anisa are not more alike than this one is
• 2:47:25
  Speaker 8: to that, if well we couple end and beginning with
• 2:47:28
  Speaker 8: a steadfast mind, and even as one thought from another springs,
• 2:47:34
  Speaker 8: so afterwards from that was born another, which the first
• 2:47:38
  Speaker 8: fear within me double made. Thus did I ponder, these
• 2:47:42
  Speaker 8: on our account are laughed to scorn, with injury, and
• 2:47:47
  Speaker 8: scoff so great that much I think it must annoy them.
• 2:47:51
  Speaker 8: If anger, being grafted on ill will, they will come
• 2:47:54
  Speaker 8: after us more merciless than dog. Upon the leverett which
• 2:47:58
  Speaker 8: he seizes. I felt my hair stand all on end
• 2:48:04
  Speaker 8: already with terror, and stood backwardly intent. When I said, Master,
• 2:48:08
  Speaker 8: if thou hidest not thyself and me forthwith of malibranche,
• 2:48:13
  Speaker 8: I am in dread. We have them now behind us,
• 2:48:17
  Speaker 8: So I imagine them, I already feel them, And he
• 2:48:24
  Speaker 8: if I were made of leaded glass, thine outward image
• 2:48:27
  Speaker 8: should I not attract sooner to me than I imprint
• 2:48:32
  Speaker 8: thee inner? Just now thy thoughts came in among my
• 2:48:36
  Speaker 8: own with similar attitude and similar face, so that of
• 2:48:40
  Speaker 8: both one counsel soul I made. If preadventure the right
• 2:48:45
  Speaker 8: bank so slope that we to the next Bolgia can descend,
• 2:48:51
  Speaker 8: we shall escape from the imagined chase. Not yet he
• 2:48:55
  Speaker 8: finished rendering such opinion. When I beheld them, come with
• 2:49:01
  Speaker 8: outstretched wings, not far remote, with will to seize upon us.
• 2:49:06
  Speaker 7: My leader on a sudden seize me up. Even as
• 2:49:09
  Speaker 7: a mother who by noises wakened close beside her sees
• 2:49:11
  Speaker 7: the enkindled flames, who takes her son and flies, does
• 2:49:15
  Speaker 7: not stop, having more care of him than of herself,
• 2:49:18
  Speaker 7: so that she close her only with a shift, and
• 2:49:20
  Speaker 7: downward from the top of the hard bank supine he
• 2:49:23
  Speaker 7: gave him to the pendent rock that one side of
• 2:49:26
  Speaker 7: the other bulge of walls ne'er ran so swiftly water
• 2:49:29
  Speaker 7: through a sluice to turn the wheel of any land
• 2:49:32
  Speaker 7: built mill when nearest to the paddles it approaches, as
• 2:49:35
  Speaker 7: did my master down along that border, bearing me with
• 2:49:38
  Speaker 7: him on his breast, away is his own son, and
• 2:49:40
  Speaker 7: not as a companion. Hardly the bed of the ravine
• 2:49:44
  Speaker 7: below his feet had reached ere they had reached the
• 2:49:46
  Speaker 7: hill right over us, but he was not afraid, for
• 2:49:49
  Speaker 7: the high providence which had ordained to place the ministers
• 2:49:52
  Speaker 7: of the fifth moat the power of thence departing took
• 2:49:55
  Speaker 7: from all the painted people. There below we found, who
• 2:49:58
  Speaker 7: went about with footsteps, very slow.
• 2:50:01
  Speaker 8: Weeping, and in their semblance tired and vanquished. They had
• 2:50:06
  Speaker 8: on mantles, with the hoods low down.
• 2:50:09
  Speaker 7: Before their eyes, and fashioned of the cut that in
• 2:50:11
  Speaker 7: cologned they for the monks were made without. They gilded
• 2:50:15
  Speaker 7: our so that it dazzles, but inwardly all leaden, and
• 2:50:18
  Speaker 7: so heavy that Frederick used to put them on straw. Oh,
• 2:50:22
  Speaker 7: everlastingly fatiguing mantle again, we turned us still to the
• 2:50:26
  Speaker 7: left hand, along with them, intent on their sad plaint.
• 2:50:29
  Speaker 7: But owing to the weight that weary folk came on
• 2:50:31
  Speaker 7: so tardily that we were new in company at each
• 2:50:34
  Speaker 7: motion of the haunch. Whence I and my leader see
• 2:50:38
  Speaker 7: thou find some one who may, by deed or name
• 2:50:40
  Speaker 7: be known, And thus in going move thine eye about,
• 2:50:43
  Speaker 7: And one who understood the Tuscan's speech cried to us
• 2:50:46
  Speaker 7: from behind, stayy your feet, ye who so runnethwart the
• 2:50:50
  Speaker 7: dusky air, Perhaps thou'lt have for me with thou demandest,
• 2:50:55
  Speaker 7: where the leader turned him and said, wait, And then
• 2:50:57
  Speaker 7: according to his pace proceed I stopped, and too beheld
• 2:51:01
  Speaker 7: I show great haste of spirit in their faces to
• 2:51:04
  Speaker 7: be with me. But the burden in the narrow way
• 2:51:06
  Speaker 7: delayed them. When they came up long with an eye askance,
• 2:51:10
  Speaker 7: they scanned me without uttering a word. Then to each
• 2:51:13
  Speaker 7: other turned and said together he, by the action of
• 2:51:16
  Speaker 7: his throat, seems living, and if dead they are, by
• 2:51:19
  Speaker 7: what privilege go they n covered by the heavy stole,
• 2:51:23
  Speaker 7: then said to me, tuscan, who to the college of
• 2:51:26
  Speaker 7: miserable hypocrites are come? Do not disdain to tell us
• 2:51:29
  Speaker 7: who thou art? And I to them borne was I
• 2:51:32
  Speaker 7: and grew up in the great town on the fair
• 2:51:34
  Speaker 7: river of Arnau. And with the body am I have
• 2:51:36
  Speaker 7: always had. But who are ye in whom their trickles
• 2:51:40
  Speaker 7: down along your cheeks such grief as I behold? And
• 2:51:43
  Speaker 7: what pain is upon you that so sparkles? And one
• 2:51:46
  Speaker 7: replied to me, these orange cloaks are made of lead,
• 2:51:49
  Speaker 7: so heavy that the weights.
• 2:51:50
  Speaker 8: Cause in this way their balances to creak. Fratti GODENTI
• 2:51:56
  Speaker 8: were we and Bolognese.
• 2:51:58
  Speaker 7: I cavalano, he loderingo named and together taken by thy city,
• 2:52:03
  Speaker 7: as the wont is to take one man alone for
• 2:52:05
  Speaker 7: maintenance of its peace. And we were such that still
• 2:52:07
  Speaker 7: it is apparent round GARDINGO, oh friars began I your iniquitous,
• 2:52:13
  Speaker 7: but said no more, for to mine eyes there rushed
• 2:52:15
  Speaker 7: one crucified with three stakes on the ground. When me
• 2:52:19
  Speaker 7: he saw, he writhed himself all over, blowing into his
• 2:52:22
  Speaker 7: beard with suspirations. And the friar Cutalan, who noticed this,
• 2:52:26
  Speaker 7: said to me this transfixed one whom thou seest counseled
• 2:52:30
  Speaker 7: the pharisees, that it would meet to put one man
• 2:52:32
  Speaker 7: to torture for the people. Crosswise and naked is he
• 2:52:36
  Speaker 7: on the path, as thou perceivest, and he needs must
• 2:52:39
  Speaker 7: feel whoever passes first, how much he weighs. And in
• 2:52:42
  Speaker 7: like mode, his father in law is punished within this
• 2:52:44
  Speaker 7: moat and the others of the council, which for the
• 2:52:47
  Speaker 7: Jews was a malignant seed. And thereupon I saw Virgilius
• 2:52:51
  Speaker 7: marvel over him was extended on the cross, so vilely
• 2:52:55
  Speaker 7: an eternal banishment. Then he directed to the friar his
• 2:52:58
  Speaker 7: voice be not displeased. If granted thee to tell us,
• 2:53:02
  Speaker 7: if to the right hand any pass slope down, by
• 2:53:04
  Speaker 7: which we too may issue forth from here, without constraining
• 2:53:07
  Speaker 7: some of the black angels to come and extricate us
• 2:53:10
  Speaker 7: from this deep. Then he made answer nearer than thou hopest.
• 2:53:14
  Speaker 7: There is a rock that forth from the great circle
• 2:53:17
  Speaker 7: proceeds and crosses all the cruel valleys, save that at
• 2:53:20
  Speaker 7: this tis broken and does not bridge it. You will
• 2:53:23
  Speaker 7: be able to mount up the ruin that sidelong slopes
• 2:53:26
  Speaker 7: and at the bottom rises. The leaders stood awhile, with
• 2:53:30
  Speaker 7: head bowed down. Then said the business badly be recounted,
• 2:53:34
  Speaker 7: who grapples with his hook the sinner's yonder and the friar.
• 2:53:38
  Speaker 7: Many of the devil's vices once heard I at Bologna,
• 2:53:41
  Speaker 7: and among them that he's a liar and the father
• 2:53:43
  Speaker 7: of lie.
• 2:53:45
  Speaker 8: Thereat my leader, with great strides, went on somewhat disturbed,
• 2:53:49
  Speaker 8: with anger in his looks. Whence from the heavy laden
• 2:53:52
  Speaker 8: I departed after the prints of his beloved feet. Inferno
• 2:53:59
  Speaker 8: knotwin four in that part of the youthful year, wherein
• 2:54:04
  Speaker 8: the sun his locks beneath Aquarius tempers and Now the
• 2:54:09
  Speaker 8: nights draw near to half the day.
• 2:54:12
  Speaker 7: What time the hoarfrost copies on the ground the outward
• 2:54:15
  Speaker 7: semblance of her sister white, but little last the temper
• 2:54:18
  Speaker 7: of her pen. The husband'sman, whose forage faileth him, rises
• 2:54:22
  Speaker 7: and looks and seeth the champagne, all gleaming white whereat.
• 2:54:26
  Speaker 7: He beats his flank, returns indoors and up and down
• 2:54:29
  Speaker 7: laments like a poor wretch who knows not what to do.
• 2:54:33
  Speaker 7: Then he returns, and hope revives again, Seeing the world
• 2:54:36
  Speaker 7: has changed its countenance in the little time, he takes
• 2:54:39
  Speaker 7: his shepherd's crook, and forth the little lambs to pasture drives.
• 2:54:43
  Speaker 7: Thus did the Master fill me with alarm when I
• 2:54:45
  Speaker 7: beheld his forehead, So disturb and to the ailment came
• 2:54:48
  Speaker 7: as soon as the plaster. For as we came unto
• 2:54:51
  Speaker 7: the ruined bridge, the leader turned to me with that
• 2:54:54
  Speaker 7: sweet look which at the mountain's foot I first beheld.
• 2:54:57
  Speaker 7: His arms. He opened, after some advisement, with ainn himself elected,
• 2:55:01
  Speaker 7: looking first well at the ruin, and laid hold of me.
• 2:55:04
  Speaker 7: And even as he who acts and meditates for I,
• 2:55:07
  Speaker 7: it seems that he provides beforehand, so upward lifting me
• 2:55:10
  Speaker 7: towards the summit of a huge rock, he scanned another crag,
• 2:55:13
  Speaker 7: saying to that one grapple afterwards, but try first if
• 2:55:17
  Speaker 7: it is such that will hold thee. This was no
• 2:55:20
  Speaker 7: way for one clothed with a cloak. For hardly we
• 2:55:23
  Speaker 7: he light and I pushed upward, were able to ascend
• 2:55:25
  Speaker 7: from jag to jag. And had it not been that
• 2:55:28
  Speaker 7: upon that precinct, shorter was the ascent than on the
• 2:55:30
  Speaker 7: other he I know not, but I had been dead beat.
• 2:55:35
  Speaker 7: But because malabolga towards the mouth, that the profoundest well
• 2:55:38
  Speaker 7: is all inclining the structure of each valley, doth import
• 2:55:41
  Speaker 7: that one bank rises and the other sinks. Still, we
• 2:55:44
  Speaker 7: arrived at length upon the point wherefrom the last stone
• 2:55:46
  Speaker 7: breaks itself asunder. The breath was from my lungs so
• 2:55:50
  Speaker 7: milked away when I was up, that I could go
• 2:55:52
  Speaker 7: no farther. Nay, I sat down upon my first arrival.
• 2:55:57
  Speaker 7: Now it behooves THEE thus to put off sloth my
• 2:55:59
  Speaker 7: master's for sitting upon down or under quilt, when cometh
• 2:56:03
  Speaker 7: not to fame without in which whoso his life consumes
• 2:56:06
  Speaker 7: such vestige, leaveth of himself on earth. As spoken air
• 2:56:10
  Speaker 7: or in the water foam, and therefore raised thee up
• 2:56:14
  Speaker 7: o'ercome the anguish with spirit that o'ercometh every battle. If
• 2:56:17
  Speaker 7: with its heavy body it sink, not a longer stairway
• 2:56:21
  Speaker 7: it behooves thee mount tis not enough from these to
• 2:56:23
  Speaker 7: have departed. Let it avail thee. If thou understand me,
• 2:56:27
  Speaker 7: then I uprose, showing myself provided better with breath than
• 2:56:30
  Speaker 7: I didn't feel myself, and said, go on, for I
• 2:56:33
  Speaker 7: am strong and bold. Upward, we took our way along
• 2:56:37
  Speaker 7: the crag, which jagged was and narrow and difficult, and
• 2:56:40
  Speaker 7: more precipitous far than that. Before speaking, I went not
• 2:56:44
  Speaker 7: to appear exhausted whereat A voice from the next mote
• 2:56:47
  Speaker 7: came forth, not well adapted to articulate words. I know
• 2:56:51
  Speaker 7: not what it said. Thou art the back, I now
• 2:56:53
  Speaker 7: was of the arch that passes there. But he seemed
• 2:56:56
  Speaker 7: moved to anger who was speaking. I was bent downward,
• 2:56:59
  Speaker 7: but my living eyes could not attain the bottom for
• 2:57:01
  Speaker 7: the dark. Wherefore I master see that thou arrive at
• 2:57:05
  Speaker 7: the next round, and let us descend the wall, For
• 2:57:08
  Speaker 7: as from hence I hear and understand. Not so I
• 2:57:10
  Speaker 7: look down and nothing I distinguish other response, he said,
• 2:57:14
  Speaker 7: I make thee not except the doing, for the modest
• 2:57:17
  Speaker 7: asking ought to be followed by the deed. In silence,
• 2:57:20
  Speaker 7: we from the bridge descended at its head, where it
• 2:57:23
  Speaker 7: connects itself with the eighth bank, and then was manifest
• 2:57:26
  Speaker 7: to me the Bolgia, and I beheld therein a terrible
• 2:57:29
  Speaker 7: throng of serpents, and of such a monstrous kind that
• 2:57:32
  Speaker 7: the resemblance still congeals my blood. Let Libya boast no
• 2:57:36
  Speaker 7: longer with her sand, for if chilidri Chiculian fairy, she
• 2:57:40
  Speaker 7: breathes with chencrie and with amphis baena. Neither so many plagues,
• 2:57:44
  Speaker 7: nor so malignant e'er showed me with all Ethiopia, nor
• 2:57:48
  Speaker 7: with whatever on the Red Sea is among this cruel
• 2:57:51
  Speaker 7: and most dismal throng. People were running, naked and affrighted,
• 2:57:55
  Speaker 7: without the hope of whole or heliotrope. They had their
• 2:57:59
  Speaker 7: hands with serpents bound behind them, these riveted upon their reins.
• 2:58:03
  Speaker 7: The tail and head were in front of them, entwined,
• 2:58:06
  Speaker 7: and lo at one who is upon our side. There
• 2:58:09
  Speaker 7: darted forth this serpent, which transfixed him there where the
• 2:58:12
  Speaker 7: neck is knotted to the shoulders. Nor o so quickly
• 2:58:16
  Speaker 7: ere nor eye was written. As he took fire and burned,
• 2:58:19
  Speaker 7: and ashes wholly behooved it that in falling he became.
• 2:58:23
  Speaker 7: And when he on the ground was thus destroyed, the
• 2:58:25
  Speaker 7: ashes drew together, and of themselves into himself they instantly returned.
• 2:58:30
  Speaker 7: Even thus by the great sages tis confessed. The phoenix
• 2:58:33
  Speaker 7: dies and then is born again when it approaches its
• 2:58:36
  Speaker 7: five hundredth year. On herb or grain. It feeds not
• 2:58:39
  Speaker 7: in its life, but only on tears of incense, and
• 2:58:42
  Speaker 7: amomum and gnarred and myrrh are its last winding sheet.
• 2:58:46
  Speaker 7: And as he is who falls and knows not how
• 2:58:49
  Speaker 7: by force of demons, who to earth down drag him,
• 2:58:51
  Speaker 7: or other opellation that binds man when he rises and
• 2:58:55
  Speaker 7: around him looks wholly bewildered by the mighty anguish which
• 2:58:58
  Speaker 7: he has suffered, And in looking sighs. Such was that
• 2:59:01
  Speaker 7: sinner after he had risen Justice of God? Oh how
• 2:59:04
  Speaker 7: severe it is that blows like these and vengeance poureth down.
• 2:59:08
  Speaker 7: The guide thereafter asked him who he was. Whence he replied,
• 2:59:12
  Speaker 7: I reigned from Tuscany a short time since into this
• 2:59:15
  Speaker 7: cruel orge, a beastial life and not a human pleased me,
• 2:59:19
  Speaker 7: even as the mule I was a'mvan mi fuci beast,
• 2:59:22
  Speaker 7: and Pistoia was my worthy den And I, unto the guide,
• 2:59:27
  Speaker 7: tell him to stir not and ask what crime has
• 2:59:29
  Speaker 7: thrust him here below? For once a man of blood
• 2:59:32
  Speaker 7: and wrath, I saw him, and the sinner who had
• 2:59:35
  Speaker 7: heard dissembled not, but unto me directed mind and faced,
• 2:59:38
  Speaker 7: and with a melancholy shame was painted. Then said, it
• 2:59:42
  Speaker 7: pains me more than thou hast caught me amid this misery,
• 2:59:45
  Speaker 7: where thou seest me than when I from the other
• 2:59:48
  Speaker 7: life was taken. What thou demandest I cannot deny. So
• 2:59:52
  Speaker 7: low am I put down, because I robbed the sacristy
• 2:59:55
  Speaker 7: of the fair ornaments, and falsely once twas laid upon another.
• 2:59:58
  Speaker 7: But thou thou mayst not such a sight and joy.
• 3:00:01
  Speaker 7: If thou shalt e'er be out of the dark places,
• 3:00:03
  Speaker 7: thine earst my announcement, open here Pistoya. First of NERI
• 3:00:08
  Speaker 7: groweth meager. Then Florence doth renew her men and manners.
• 3:00:12
  Speaker 7: Mars straws a vapor up from Valdi Maghra, which is
• 3:00:15
  Speaker 7: with turbid clouds enveloped round, and with impetuous and bitter
• 3:00:19
  Speaker 7: tempest for Campo Pesian, which shall be the battle when
• 3:00:22
  Speaker 7: itchall suddenly rend the mist asunder, so that each Bianco
• 3:00:25
  Speaker 7: shall thereby be smitten. And this I've said, that it
• 3:00:28
  Speaker 7: may give thee pain.
• 3:00:32
  Speaker 8: Inferno Kento twenty five. At the conclusion of his words,
• 3:00:37
  Speaker 8: the thief lifted his hands aloft with both the figs, crying,
• 3:00:42
  Speaker 8: take that God for thee. I aim them. From that
• 3:00:46
  Speaker 8: time forth the serpents were my friends. For one entwined
• 3:00:51
  Speaker 8: itself about his neck, as if it said, I will
• 3:00:55
  Speaker 8: not thou speak more, and round his arms and rebound him,
• 3:01:01
  Speaker 8: clinching itself together so in front that with them he
• 3:01:05
  Speaker 8: could not emotion make Pistoia, ah, pistoia. Why resolve not
• 3:01:11
  Speaker 8: to burn thyself to ashes and so perish, since in
• 3:01:14
  Speaker 8: ill doing thou thy seed excellest. Through all the somber
• 3:01:20
  Speaker 8: circles of this hell spirit I saw nought against God.
• 3:01:24
  Speaker 8: So proud not he who fell at thebes down from
• 3:01:28
  Speaker 8: the walls. He fled away and spake no further word,
• 3:01:32
  Speaker 8: And I beheld the centaur, full of rage, come crying
• 3:01:36
  Speaker 8: out where is where is the scoffer? I do not
• 3:01:41
  Speaker 8: think Maremma has so many serpents as he had all
• 3:01:47
  Speaker 8: along his back. As far as where our countenance begins,
• 3:01:53
  Speaker 8: upon the shoulders, and behind the nape, with wings wide open,
• 3:01:58
  Speaker 8: was a dragon lying, and he sets fire to all
• 3:02:01
  Speaker 8: that he encounters. My master said that one is Caucus, who,
• 3:02:07
  Speaker 8: beneath the rock upon Mount Aventine created oftentimes a lake
• 3:02:13
  Speaker 8: of blood. He goes not on the same road with
• 3:02:19
  Speaker 8: his brothers, by reason of the fraudulent theft he made
• 3:02:23
  Speaker 8: of the great herd which he had nearer to him,
• 3:02:27
  Speaker 8: whereat his torturous actions ceased beneath the mace of Hercules,
• 3:02:33
  Speaker 8: who preadventure gave him a hundred, and he felt not
• 3:02:37
  Speaker 8: ten while he was speaking. Thus he had pressed by,
• 3:02:41
  Speaker 8: and spirits thee had underneath us come of which nor
• 3:02:46
  Speaker 8: I was aware, nor my leader, until what time they shouted,
• 3:02:52
  Speaker 8: who are you? On which account our story made a halt,
• 3:02:57
  Speaker 8: And then we were intent on them alone. I did
• 3:03:01
  Speaker 8: not know them, But it came to pass, as it
• 3:03:04
  Speaker 8: is wont to happen, by some chance, that one to
• 3:03:07
  Speaker 8: name the other was compell'd, exclaiming, where can chi'an fah
• 3:03:14
  Speaker 8: have remain'd whence I, so that the leader might attend
• 3:03:19
  Speaker 8: upward from chin to nose. My finger laid. If thou
• 3:03:23
  Speaker 8: art reader, slow now to believe what I shall say,
• 3:03:27
  Speaker 8: it will no marvel be for I, who saw it,
• 3:03:30
  Speaker 8: hardly can admit it. As I was holding rais'd on
• 3:03:36
  Speaker 8: them my brows. Behold a serpent with six feet darts
• 3:03:40
  Speaker 8: forth in front of one, and fastens wholly on him.
• 3:03:44
  Speaker 8: With middle feet. It bound him round the paunch, and
• 3:03:48
  Speaker 8: with the forward ones his arms. It seiz'd, then thrust
• 3:03:52
  Speaker 8: its teeth through one cheek, and the other the hindermost.
• 3:03:56
  Speaker 8: It stretched upon his thighs, and put its tail threw
• 3:04:00
  Speaker 8: in between the two, and up behind along the reins
• 3:04:04
  Speaker 8: outspread it ivy was never fastened by its barbs into
• 3:04:09
  Speaker 8: a tree. So as this horrible reptile upon the other's
• 3:04:13
  Speaker 8: limbs entwined his own. Then they stuck close, as if
• 3:04:20
  Speaker 8: of heated wax they had been made, and intermixed their color.
• 3:04:26
  Speaker 8: Nor one nor the other seemed now what he was,
• 3:04:31
  Speaker 8: even as proceedeth on before the flame upward along the
• 3:04:35
  Speaker 8: paper of brown color, which is not black as yet,
• 3:04:38
  Speaker 8: and the white dyes. The other two looked on and
• 3:04:41
  Speaker 8: each of them cried out, O me and Jello, how
• 3:04:45
  Speaker 8: thou changest behold Thou now art neither two nor one.
• 3:04:51
  Speaker 8: Already the two heads had become one, when there appeared
• 3:04:56
  Speaker 8: to us two figures mingled into one face, where in
• 3:05:00
  Speaker 8: the two were lost. Of the four lists were fashioned,
• 3:05:04
  Speaker 8: the two arms, the thighs and legs, the belly, in
• 3:05:07
  Speaker 8: the chest members became that never yet were seen. Every
• 3:05:13
  Speaker 8: original aspect there was canceled two, and yet none did
• 3:05:16
  Speaker 8: the perverted image appear, And such departed with slow pace,
• 3:05:21
  Speaker 8: even as a lizard under the great scourge of days,
• 3:05:24
  Speaker 8: cunicular exchanging hedge lighting appeareth if the road did cross.
• 3:05:33
  Speaker 8: Thus did appear, coming towards the bellies of the two others,
• 3:05:37
  Speaker 8: a small fiery serpent, livid and black as is a peppercorn.
• 3:05:42
  Speaker 8: And in that part whereat is first received our ailment.
• 3:05:46
  Speaker 8: It one of them transfixed, then downward, fell in front
• 3:05:49
  Speaker 8: of him, extended. The one transfix looked at it, but
• 3:05:53
  Speaker 8: said nought, nay. Rather, with feet motionless, he yawned, just
• 3:05:57
  Speaker 8: as if sleep or fever had assailed him. He at
• 3:06:01
  Speaker 8: the serpent gazed, and it at him, one through the wound,
• 3:06:05
  Speaker 8: the other through the mouth smoked violently, and the smoke commingled.
• 3:06:09
  Speaker 8: Henceforth be silent Lucan, where he mentions wretched Sabellius and Nasidius,
• 3:06:16
  Speaker 8: and wait to hear what now shall be shot. Forth
• 3:06:19
  Speaker 8: be silent Ovid of Cadmus and Erythusa. For if him
• 3:06:26
  Speaker 8: to a snake, her to a fountain converts, he fabling
• 3:06:30
  Speaker 8: that I grudge him not, because two natures never front
• 3:06:34
  Speaker 8: to front. Has he transmuted so that both the forms
• 3:06:37
  Speaker 8: to interchange their matter ready were together. They responded in
• 3:06:42
  Speaker 8: such wise that to a fork the serpent cleft his
• 3:06:45
  Speaker 8: tail and eke the wounded dew his feet together. The legs,
• 3:06:50
  Speaker 8: together with the thighs themselves adhered, so that in little
• 3:06:54
  Speaker 8: time the juncture no sign whatever made that was apparent.
• 3:06:58
  Speaker 8: He with the cloven tail assumed the figure the other
• 3:07:02
  Speaker 8: one was losing, and his skin became elastic, and the
• 3:07:05
  Speaker 8: others hard. I saw the arms draw inward at the armpits,
• 3:07:09
  Speaker 8: and both feet of the reptile that were short lengthen
• 3:07:13
  Speaker 8: as much as those contracted were. Thereafter, the hind feet,
• 3:07:18
  Speaker 8: together twisted, became the member that a man conceals, and
• 3:07:22
  Speaker 8: of his own the wretch had two created, while both
• 3:07:25
  Speaker 8: of them the exhalation veils with the new color and
• 3:07:29
  Speaker 8: engenders hair on one of them, and depiliates the other.
• 3:07:35
  Speaker 8: The one up rows and down the other fell through,
• 3:07:38
  Speaker 8: turning not away their impious lamps, underneath which each one
• 3:07:45
  Speaker 8: his muzzle changed. He who was standing drew it towards
• 3:07:49
  Speaker 8: the temples, and from excessive matter which came thither issued
• 3:07:52
  Speaker 8: the years from out the hollow cheeks. What did not
• 3:07:56
  Speaker 8: backward run and was retained of that excess, made to
• 3:07:59
  Speaker 8: the face a nose, and the lips thickened far as
• 3:08:03
  Speaker 8: was befitting. He who lay prostrate, thrust his muzzle forward
• 3:08:07
  Speaker 8: and backward draws the ears into his head in the
• 3:08:11
  Speaker 8: same manner as the snail its horns. And so the tongue,
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  Speaker 8: which was entire and apt for speech before, is cleft,
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  Speaker 8: and the by forked in. The other closes up, and
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  Speaker 8: the smoke ceases. The soul, which to a reptile had
• 3:08:28
  Speaker 8: been changed. Along the valley hissing, takes to flight, and
• 3:08:32
  Speaker 8: after him the others speaking sputters. Then did he turn
• 3:08:37
  Speaker 8: upon him his new shoulders, and said to the other,
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  Speaker 8: I'll have buoso run crawling as I have done along
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  Speaker 8: this road. In this way I beheld the seventh ballast
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  Speaker 8: shift and reshift. And here be my excuse, the novelty
• 3:08:53
  Speaker 8: if aught my pen transgress, and notwithstanding that mine eyes
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  Speaker 8: might be somewhat bewildered and my mind dismayed, they could
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  Speaker 8: not flee away so secretly. But that I plainly saw
• 3:09:08
  Speaker 8: Puccio scien Cato. And he it was, whose soul of
• 3:09:14
  Speaker 8: three companions, which came in the beginning, was not changed.
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  Speaker 8: The other was he whom thou gaville weepest end of
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  Speaker 8: Inferno cant He twenty one to twenty.
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  Speaker 9: Five, Canto twenty six. Rejoice, O Florence, since thou art
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  Speaker 9: so great that over sea and land thou beatst thy wings,
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  Speaker 9: and throughout Hell thy name is spread abroad among the
• 3:09:45
  Speaker 9: thieves five citizens of thine like these I found whence
• 3:09:50
  Speaker 9: shame comes unto me, and thou thereby to no great
• 3:09:54
  Speaker 9: honor risest. But if when morn is near our dreams
• 3:09:58
  Speaker 9: are true, feel shalt thou in a little time from
• 3:10:02
  Speaker 9: now what Prato, If none other craves for thee, and
• 3:10:07
  Speaker 9: if it now were it were not too soon, would
• 3:10:11
  Speaker 9: that it were, seeing it needs must be for twill
• 3:10:14
  Speaker 9: aggrieve me more the more I age. We went our way,
• 3:10:19
  Speaker 9: and up along the stairs the Bourns had made us
• 3:10:22
  Speaker 9: to descend. Before remounted my conductor and drew me, and
• 3:10:28
  Speaker 9: following the solitary path among the rocks and ridges of
• 3:10:32
  Speaker 9: the crag, the foot without the hand sped not at all.
• 3:10:38
  Speaker 9: Then sorrowed I, and sorrow now again when I direct
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  Speaker 9: my mind to what I saw, and more my genius
• 3:10:45
  Speaker 9: curb than I am wont that it may run not
• 3:10:48
  Speaker 9: unless virtue guide it, so that if some good star
• 3:10:52
  Speaker 9: or better thing have given me good, I may myself
• 3:10:55
  Speaker 9: not grudge it. As many as the hind who on
• 3:10:59
  Speaker 9: the hill rests the time when he who lights the world,
• 3:11:01
  Speaker 9: his countenance keeps least concealed from us, while as the
• 3:11:05
  Speaker 9: fly gives place unto the gnat seeth the glow worms
• 3:11:09
  Speaker 9: down along the valley, perchance there where he plows and
• 3:11:13
  Speaker 9: makes his vintage with flames, as Manifold resplendent. All was
• 3:11:18
  Speaker 9: the eighth Bolgia. As I grew aware as soon as
• 3:11:22
  Speaker 9: I was where the depth appeared, and such as he
• 3:11:27
  Speaker 9: who with the bears avenged him beheld Elijah's chariot at
• 3:11:31
  Speaker 9: departing what time the steeds to heaven erect uprose, for
• 3:11:35
  Speaker 9: with his eye he could not follow it so as
• 3:11:38
  Speaker 9: to see aught else than flame alone, even as a
• 3:11:41
  Speaker 9: little cloud ascending upward. Thus, each along the gorge of
• 3:11:46
  Speaker 9: the entrenchment was moving, for not one reveals the theft,
• 3:11:51
  Speaker 9: and every flame a sinner steals away. I stood upon
• 3:11:55
  Speaker 9: the bridge, uprisen to see so that if I had seized,
• 3:11:59
  Speaker 9: not on a rock down, had I fallen without being pushed?
• 3:12:03
  Speaker 9: And the leader, who beheld me so attent, exclaimed, within
• 3:12:07
  Speaker 9: the fires the spirits are each swathes himself with that
• 3:12:11
  Speaker 9: wherewith he burns my master, I replied, by hearing THEE,
• 3:12:16
  Speaker 9: I am more sure. But I surmised already it might
• 3:12:19
  Speaker 9: be so, and already wish to ask THEE who is
• 3:12:23
  Speaker 9: within that fire which comes so cleft at top it
• 3:12:26
  Speaker 9: seems uprising from the pyre, where was Eteocles with his
• 3:12:30
  Speaker 9: brother placed? He answered me within there are tormented Ulysses
• 3:12:36
  Speaker 9: and diomed And thus together they unto vengeance, run as
• 3:12:41
  Speaker 9: unto wrath. And there within their flame do they lament
• 3:12:45
  Speaker 9: the ambush of the horse which made the door. Whence
• 3:12:48
  Speaker 9: issued forth the Roman's gentle seed. Therein as wept the
• 3:12:53
  Speaker 9: craft for which, being dead, Di Damia still deplores Achilles
• 3:12:59
  Speaker 9: and pain, for the palladium there is born. If they
• 3:13:03
  Speaker 9: within those sparks possess the power to speak, I said
• 3:13:07
  Speaker 9: thee master, much I pray and repray that the prayer
• 3:13:11
  Speaker 9: be worth a thousand. If thou make no denial of
• 3:13:14
  Speaker 9: a waiting until the horned flame shall hither come, Thou
• 3:13:18
  Speaker 9: seest that with desire I lean towards it, and he
• 3:13:23
  Speaker 9: to me worthy is thy entreaty of much applause, And
• 3:13:27
  Speaker 9: therefore I accept it, But take heed that thy tongue
• 3:13:30
  Speaker 9: restrain itself. Leave me to speak, because I have conceived
• 3:13:35
  Speaker 9: that which thou wishest. For they might disdain, perchance, since
• 3:13:39
  Speaker 9: they were Greeks, discourse of thine. When now the flame
• 3:13:44
  Speaker 9: had come unto that point where to my leader it
• 3:13:47
  Speaker 9: seemed time and place after this fashion, did I hear
• 3:13:50
  Speaker 9: him speak, O, ye, who are twofold within one fire?
• 3:13:55
  Speaker 9: If I deserved of you while I was living, if
• 3:13:57
  Speaker 9: I deserved of you, or much or little when in
• 3:14:00
  Speaker 9: the world I wrote the lofty verses, do not move on,
• 3:14:04
  Speaker 9: but one of you declare whither? Being lost, he went
• 3:14:08
  Speaker 9: away to die. Then of the antique flame. The greater
• 3:14:12
  Speaker 9: horn Murmuring began to wave itself about, even as a
• 3:14:15
  Speaker 9: flame doth which the wind fatigues. Thereafterward, the summit to
• 3:14:21
  Speaker 9: and fro, moving as if it were the tongue that spake,
• 3:14:25
  Speaker 9: it uttered forth a voice and said, when I from
• 3:14:28
  Speaker 9: Circe had departed, who concealed me more than a year
• 3:14:32
  Speaker 9: there near unto Gaieta, or ever yet aneas named it.
• 3:14:37
  Speaker 9: So nor fondness for my son, nor reverence for my
• 3:14:41
  Speaker 9: old father, nor the due affection which Joyous should have
• 3:14:44
  Speaker 9: made Penelope, could overcome within me the desire I had
• 3:14:49
  Speaker 9: to be experienced of the world and of the vice
• 3:14:51
  Speaker 9: and virtue of mankind. But I put forth on the
• 3:14:56
  Speaker 9: high open sea with one soul ship, and that small
• 3:15:00
  Speaker 9: company by which I never had deserted, been both of
• 3:15:04
  Speaker 9: the shores I saw as far as Spain, far as Morocco,
• 3:15:08
  Speaker 9: and the Isle of Sardes, and the others which that
• 3:15:10
  Speaker 9: sea bathes round about. I and my company were old
• 3:15:14
  Speaker 9: and slow when at that narrow passage we arrived, where
• 3:15:18
  Speaker 9: Hercules his landmarks set as signals that man no further
• 3:15:21
  Speaker 9: onward should adventure. On the right hand behind me, I
• 3:15:25
  Speaker 9: left Seville, and on the other already I had left Ciuta.
• 3:15:30
  Speaker 9: O brothers, who amid a hundred thousand perils, I said,
• 3:15:36
  Speaker 9: have come unto the west to this so inconsiderable vigil,
• 3:15:40
  Speaker 9: which is remaining of your senses. Still be ye unwilling
• 3:15:44
  Speaker 9: to deny the knowledge following the sun of the unpeopled world.
• 3:15:49
  Speaker 9: Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang. Ye were
• 3:15:53
  Speaker 9: not made to live like unto brutes, but for pursuit
• 3:15:57
  Speaker 9: of virtue and of knowledge. So eager did I render
• 3:16:02
  Speaker 9: my companions with this brief exhortation for the voyage that
• 3:16:05
  Speaker 9: then I hardly could have held them back. And having
• 3:16:10
  Speaker 9: turned our stern unto the morning, we of the oars
• 3:16:13
  Speaker 9: made wings for our mad flight, evermore, gaining on the
• 3:16:16
  Speaker 9: larboard side, already all the stars of the other pole.
• 3:16:21
  Speaker 9: The night beheld, and ours so very low it did
• 3:16:24
  Speaker 9: not rise above the ocean floor. Five times rekindled, and
• 3:16:29
  Speaker 9: as many quenched had been the splendor underneath the moon
• 3:16:32
  Speaker 9: since we had entered into the deep pass. When there
• 3:16:36
  Speaker 9: appeared to us a mountain dim from distance, and it
• 3:16:40
  Speaker 9: beheld to me so high as I had never any
• 3:16:43
  Speaker 9: one beheld. Joyful were we and soon it turned to weeping,
• 3:16:51
  Speaker 9: For out of the new land a whirlwind rose and
• 3:16:53
  Speaker 9: smote upon the fore part of the ship. Three times
• 3:16:57
  Speaker 9: it made her whirl with all the waters. At the
• 3:16:59
  Speaker 9: fourth time it made the stern uplift, and the prow
• 3:17:02
  Speaker 9: downward go as pleased another, until the sea above us
• 3:17:05
  Speaker 9: closed again Canto twenty seven. Already was the flame erect
• 3:17:14
  Speaker 9: and quiet to speak no more, and now departed from
• 3:17:17
  Speaker 9: us with the permission of the gentle poet. When yet another,
• 3:17:20
  Speaker 9: which behind it came, caused us to turn our eyes
• 3:17:23
  Speaker 9: upon its top by a confused sound that issued from it,
• 3:17:27
  Speaker 9: as the Sicilian bull that bellowed first with the lament
• 3:17:30
  Speaker 9: of him, and that was right, who with his file
• 3:17:33
  Speaker 9: had modulated it bellowed so with the voice of the afflicted, that,
• 3:17:38
  Speaker 9: notwithstanding it was made of brass, still it appeared with agony,
• 3:17:42
  Speaker 9: transfixed thus by not having any way or issue at
• 3:17:46
  Speaker 9: first from out the fire to its own language, converted
• 3:17:49
  Speaker 9: were the melancholy words. But afterwards, when they had gathered
• 3:17:55
  Speaker 9: way up through the point, giving it that vibration the
• 3:17:58
  Speaker 9: tongue had given them in their passage, we heard it said,
• 3:18:02
  Speaker 9: O thou at whom I aim my voice, and who
• 3:18:06
  Speaker 9: but now wast speaking Lombard, saying, now go thy way
• 3:18:11
  Speaker 9: no more. I urge thee, because I come perchance a
• 3:18:14
  Speaker 9: little late, to stay and speak with me. Let it
• 3:18:16
  Speaker 9: not irk thee thou seest it irks not me? And
• 3:18:19
  Speaker 9: I am burning if thou but lately into this blind
• 3:18:23
  Speaker 9: world hast fallen down from that sweet Lacian land, wherefrom
• 3:18:28
  Speaker 9: I bring the whole of my transgression. Say if the
• 3:18:32
  Speaker 9: Romagnuols have peace or war? For I was from the
• 3:18:36
  Speaker 9: mountains there between Urbino and the yoke where Tiber bursts.
• 3:18:41
  Speaker 9: I still was downward bent and listening when my conductor
• 3:18:44
  Speaker 9: touched me on the side, saying, speak thou, this one
• 3:18:47
  Speaker 9: a Latian is And I, who had beforehand my reply
• 3:18:51
  Speaker 9: in readiness, forthwith began to speak, O soul that down
• 3:18:56
  Speaker 9: below there art concealed. Romagna thine is not and never
• 3:19:01
  Speaker 9: has been without war in the bosom of its tyrants.
• 3:19:04
  Speaker 9: But open war I none have left there. Now Ravenna
• 3:19:08
  Speaker 9: stands as it long years hath stood. The eagle of
• 3:19:12
  Speaker 9: Polenta there is brooding, so that she covers Servia with
• 3:19:15
  Speaker 9: her vans, the city which once made thou long resistance,
• 3:19:19
  Speaker 9: and of the French. A sanguinary heap beneath the green
• 3:19:23
  Speaker 9: paws finds itself again Verruccio's ancient mastiff and the new
• 3:19:29
  Speaker 9: which made such bad disposal of Montaigne, where they are
• 3:19:33
  Speaker 9: wont to make wimbles of their teeth. The cities of
• 3:19:37
  Speaker 9: Lamne and Santerno governs the lioncel of the white hair,
• 3:19:41
  Speaker 9: who changes sides TwixT summer time and winter. And that
• 3:19:44
  Speaker 9: of which the Savvio bathes the flank, even as it
• 3:19:47
  Speaker 9: lies between the plain and mountain, lives between tyranny and
• 3:19:51
  Speaker 9: a free state. Now I entreat thee tell us, who
• 3:19:55
  Speaker 9: thou art be not more stubborn than the rest have been,
• 3:19:59
  Speaker 9: so that thy name hold front there in the world.
• 3:20:02
  Speaker 9: After the fire a little more had roared in its
• 3:20:04
  Speaker 9: own fashion, the sharp point. It moved this way and that,
• 3:20:09
  Speaker 9: and then gave forth such breath. If I believed that
• 3:20:12
  Speaker 9: my reply were made to one who the world would
• 3:20:15
  Speaker 9: e'er return, this flame without more flickering would stand still.
• 3:20:20
  Speaker 9: But inasmuch as never from this depth did any one return.
• 3:20:23
  Speaker 9: If I hear true without the fear of infamy, I
• 3:20:26
  Speaker 9: answer I was a man of arms. Then Cordelier, believing
• 3:20:32
  Speaker 9: thus begirt to make amends. And truly my belief had
• 3:20:35
  Speaker 9: been fulfilled. But for the High Priest, who may ill betide,
• 3:20:39
  Speaker 9: who put me back into my former sins, and how
• 3:20:42
  Speaker 9: and wherefore I will have thee Here while I was
• 3:20:46
  Speaker 9: still the form of bone and pulp, my mother gave
• 3:20:48
  Speaker 9: to me. The deeds I did were not those of
• 3:20:50
  Speaker 9: a lion, but of a fox. The machinations and the
• 3:20:55
  Speaker 9: covert ways, I knew them all, and practiced so their
• 3:20:58
  Speaker 9: craft that to the ends of the earth the sound
• 3:21:01
  Speaker 9: went forth. When now unto that portion of mine age
• 3:21:06
  Speaker 9: I saw myself arrived. When each one ought to lower
• 3:21:09
  Speaker 9: the sails and coil away the ropes, that which before
• 3:21:12
  Speaker 9: had pleased then displeased me. And penitent and confessing, I surrendered. Ah,
• 3:21:18
  Speaker 9: woe is me, and it would have bestead me the
• 3:21:23
  Speaker 9: leader of the modern Pharisees having a war near Antilaerton,
• 3:21:26
  Speaker 9: and not with Saracens nor with the Jews. For each
• 3:21:29
  Speaker 9: one of his enemies was Christian, and none of them
• 3:21:32
  Speaker 9: had been to conquer acre, nor merchandising in the Sultan's land,
• 3:21:36
  Speaker 9: nor the High office, nor the sacred orders in him
• 3:21:39
  Speaker 9: regarded nor in me that cord which used to make
• 3:21:42
  Speaker 9: those girt with it more meager. But even as Constantine
• 3:21:46
  Speaker 9: sought out Sylvester to cure his leprosy within Soracte, so
• 3:21:51
  Speaker 9: this one sought me out as an adept to cure
• 3:21:54
  Speaker 9: him of the fever of his pride. Counsel. He asked
• 3:21:58
  Speaker 9: of me. I. I was silent because his words appeared inebriate.
• 3:22:03
  Speaker 9: And then he said, be not thy heart afraid. Henceforth
• 3:22:08
  Speaker 9: I THEE absolve, and thou instruct me how to raise
• 3:22:11
  Speaker 9: Palestrina to the ground heaven have I power to lock
• 3:22:16
  Speaker 9: and to unlock, as thou dost know. Therefore the keys
• 3:22:19
  Speaker 9: are two, the which my predecessor held not dear. Then
• 3:22:24
  Speaker 9: urged me on his weighty arguments, there where my silence
• 3:22:28
  Speaker 9: was the worst advice, and said I, Father, since thou
• 3:22:31
  Speaker 9: washest me of that sin into which I now must fall,
• 3:22:35
  Speaker 9: the promise long, with the fulfillment short, will make THEE
• 3:22:38
  Speaker 9: triumph in the lofty seat. Francis came afterward, when I
• 3:22:43
  Speaker 9: was dead for me, But one of the black Charabims
• 3:22:46
  Speaker 9: said to him, take him, not do me no wrong.
• 3:22:50
  Speaker 9: He must come down among my servitors, because he gave
• 3:22:53
  Speaker 9: the fraudulent advice, from which time forth I have been
• 3:22:56
  Speaker 9: at his hair. For who repents not can not be absolved,
• 3:23:01
  Speaker 9: nor can one both repent and will at once, because
• 3:23:05
  Speaker 9: of the contradiction which consents not. O miserable me, how
• 3:23:10
  Speaker 9: I did shudder when he seized on me, saying, peradventure,
• 3:23:14
  Speaker 9: thou didst not think that I was a logician. He
• 3:23:18
  Speaker 9: bore me into Minos, who entwined eight times his tail
• 3:23:22
  Speaker 9: about his stubborn back, and after he had bitten it,
• 3:23:25
  Speaker 9: in great rage, said of the thievish fire a culprit
• 3:23:29
  Speaker 9: this wherefore hear where thou seest, I am lost and vested.
• 3:23:34
  Speaker 9: Thus in going I bemoan me. When it had thus
• 3:23:38
  Speaker 9: completed its recital, the flame departed, uttering lamentations, writhing and
• 3:23:42
  Speaker 9: flapping its sharp pointed horn. Onward we passed both I
• 3:23:46
  Speaker 9: and my conductor up o'er the crag above another arch
• 3:23:49
  Speaker 9: which the moat covers, where is paid the fee by
• 3:23:52
  Speaker 9: those who, sowing discord, win their burden Canto twenty eight.
• 3:24:02
  Speaker 9: Whoever could, even with untrammeled words, tell of the blood
• 3:24:06
  Speaker 9: and of the wounds in full, which now I saw
• 3:24:09
  Speaker 9: by many times narrating each tongue would for a certainty
• 3:24:13
  Speaker 9: fall short by reason of our speech and memory that
• 3:24:17
  Speaker 9: have small room to comprehend so much if were again
• 3:24:21
  Speaker 9: assembled all the people which formerly upon the fateful land
• 3:24:24
  Speaker 9: of Puglia were lamenting for their blood shed by the
• 3:24:27
  Speaker 9: Romans and the lingering war that of the rings made
• 3:24:30
  Speaker 9: such illustrious spoils, as Livy has recorded, who errs not
• 3:24:34
  Speaker 9: with those who felt the agony of blows by making
• 3:24:37
  Speaker 9: Canistan to Robert Guiscard and all the rest whose bones
• 3:24:41
  Speaker 9: are gathered still at Seperano, where a renegade was each Apulian,
• 3:24:45
  Speaker 9: And at Tagliacozzo, where without arms the old Alardo conquered,
• 3:24:49
  Speaker 9: and one his limb transpierced and one lopped off would
• 3:24:53
  Speaker 9: show it would be nothing to compare with the disgusting
• 3:24:57
  Speaker 9: mode of the ninth Bolgia. A cask, by losing centerpiece
• 3:25:03
  Speaker 9: or cant was never shattered. So as I saw one
• 3:25:07
  Speaker 9: rent from the chin to where one breaketh wind between
• 3:25:11
  Speaker 9: his legs was hanging down his entrails, his heart was visible,
• 3:25:16
  Speaker 9: and the dismal sack that maketh excrement of what is eaten.
• 3:25:21
  Speaker 9: While I was all absorbed in seeing him, he looked
• 3:25:24
  Speaker 9: at me and opened with his hands his bosom, saying,
• 3:25:28
  Speaker 9: see how now I rend me, how mutilated sea is
• 3:25:32
  Speaker 9: Mahomet in front of me, doth Ali weeping go cleft
• 3:25:36
  Speaker 9: in the face from forelock unto chin, and all the
• 3:25:39
  Speaker 9: others whom thou here beholdest, disseminators of scandal and of schism,
• 3:25:44
  Speaker 9: while living were and therefore are cleft. Thus a devil
• 3:25:48
  Speaker 9: is behind here, who doth cleave us thus cruelly unto
• 3:25:52
  Speaker 9: the falcion's edge, putting again each one of us this ream,
• 3:25:56
  Speaker 9: when we have gone around the doleful road, by reason
• 3:25:59
  Speaker 9: that our wounds are closed. Again, Ere any one in
• 3:26:02
  Speaker 9: front of him repass But who art thou that musest
• 3:26:07
  Speaker 9: on the crag perchance to postpone going to the pain
• 3:26:10
  Speaker 9: that is adjudged upon thine accusations. Nor death hath reached him, yet,
• 3:26:17
  Speaker 9: nor guilt doth bring him. My master made reply to
• 3:26:20
  Speaker 9: be tormented, but to procure him full experience. Me, who
• 3:26:24
  Speaker 9: am dead, behooves it to conduct him down here through hell,
• 3:26:28
  Speaker 9: from circle unto circle. And this is true, as that
• 3:26:31
  Speaker 9: I speak to thee. More than a hundred were there
• 3:26:36
  Speaker 9: when they heard him, who in the moat stood still
• 3:26:38
  Speaker 9: to look at me, through wonderment, oblivious of their torture.
• 3:26:44
  Speaker 9: Now say to Fradocino, then to arm him, thou, who
• 3:26:48
  Speaker 9: perhaps wilt shortly see the sun, if soon he wished
• 3:26:52
  Speaker 9: not here to follow me, so with provisions that no
• 3:26:56
  Speaker 9: stress of snow may give the victory to the novarise,
• 3:26:59
  Speaker 9: which otherwise to gain would not be easy. After one
• 3:27:04
  Speaker 9: foot to go away he lifted this word, did mohammet
• 3:27:07
  Speaker 9: say unto me? Then to depart upon the ground he
• 3:27:09
  Speaker 9: stretched it another one, who had his throat pierced through
• 3:27:14
  Speaker 9: and nose cut off close underneath the brows, had no
• 3:27:17
  Speaker 9: longer but a single year, staying to look in wonder
• 3:27:21
  Speaker 9: with the others. Before the others, did his gillet open,
• 3:27:25
  Speaker 9: which outwardly was read in every part, And said, o thou,
• 3:27:29
  Speaker 9: whom guilt doth not condemn, and whom I once saw
• 3:27:33
  Speaker 9: up in Latian land, unless too great similitude deceive me
• 3:27:37
  Speaker 9: called to remembrance peer de medicina, If ere thou see
• 3:27:41
  Speaker 9: again the lovely plain that from Vircelli slopes to Marcabo,
• 3:27:46
  Speaker 9: and make it known to the best too of Fano,
• 3:27:48
  Speaker 9: to Messer Guido and Angioello. Likewise, that if foreseeing here
• 3:27:54
  Speaker 9: be not in vain cast over from their vessels, shall
• 3:27:57
  Speaker 9: they be and drown near unto the Catolica by the
• 3:28:01
  Speaker 9: betrayal of a tyrant fell between the isles of Cyprus
• 3:28:04
  Speaker 9: and Majorca. Neptune ne'er yet beheld so great a crime,
• 3:28:09
  Speaker 9: neither of pirates nor Argolic people. That traitor who sees
• 3:28:13
  Speaker 9: only with one eye and holds the land which some
• 3:28:16
  Speaker 9: one here with me would fain be fasting from the
• 3:28:20
  Speaker 9: vision of will make them come unto a parley with him? Then,
• 3:28:24
  Speaker 9: will do so that to Fokara's wind they shall not
• 3:28:27
  Speaker 9: stand in need of thou or prayer. And I to him,
• 3:28:32
  Speaker 9: show to me and declare, if thou wouldst have me
• 3:28:35
  Speaker 9: bear up news of thee who is this person of
• 3:28:38
  Speaker 9: the bitter vision? Then did he lay his hand upon
• 3:28:42
  Speaker 9: the jaw of one of his companions, and his mouth OpEd, crying,
• 3:28:46
  Speaker 9: this is he, and he speaks not this one being banished.
• 3:28:49
  Speaker 9: Every doubt submerged in Caesar by affirming the fore armed
• 3:28:53
  Speaker 9: always with detriment aloud delay, Oh, how bewildered unto me
• 3:28:59
  Speaker 9: appeared with tongue sasunder in his windpipe. Slit Curio, who
• 3:29:03
  Speaker 9: in speaking was so bold, and one who both his
• 3:29:07
  Speaker 9: hands dissevered, had the stumps uplifting through the murky air,
• 3:29:11
  Speaker 9: so that the blood made horrible. His face cried out,
• 3:29:14
  Speaker 9: thou shalt remember Mosca also, who said, alas a thing
• 3:29:18
  Speaker 9: done has an end, which was an ill seed for
• 3:29:21
  Speaker 9: the Tuscan people, and death unto thy race. Thereto, I added,
• 3:29:27
  Speaker 9: whence he, accumulating woe on woe, departed like a person
• 3:29:31
  Speaker 9: sad and crazed. But I remained to look upon the crowd,
• 3:29:36
  Speaker 9: and saw a thing which I should be afraid without
• 3:29:38
  Speaker 9: some further proof, even to recount if it were not
• 3:29:42
  Speaker 9: the good conscience reassures me that good companion which emboldens
• 3:29:46
  Speaker 9: man beneath the hauberk of its feeling pure, I truly saw,
• 3:29:51
  Speaker 9: and still I seemed to see it a trunk without
• 3:29:55
  Speaker 9: a head, walk in like manner as the others of
• 3:29:58
  Speaker 9: the mournful herd, and by the hair it held, the
• 3:30:01
  Speaker 9: head dissevered, hung from the hand in fashion of a lantern.
• 3:30:06
  Speaker 9: And that upon us gazed and said, O me, it
• 3:30:11
  Speaker 9: of itself made to itself a lamp. And they were
• 3:30:15
  Speaker 9: two in one and one and two. How that can be?
• 3:30:19
  Speaker 9: He knows who ordains it? When it was come close
• 3:30:22
  Speaker 9: to the bridge's foot, it lifted high its arm with
• 3:30:25
  Speaker 9: all the head, to bring more closely unto us its words,
• 3:30:29
  Speaker 9: which were behold now the sore penalty. Thou, who dost
• 3:30:35
  Speaker 9: breathing go to the dead beholding, beholdeth any be as
• 3:30:39
  Speaker 9: great as this, And so that thou may carry news
• 3:30:43
  Speaker 9: of me. Know that Bertram de Bourne, am I the
• 3:30:47
  Speaker 9: same who gave to the young king the evil comfort
• 3:30:51
  Speaker 9: I made the father and the son rebellious. Achatefell not
• 3:30:55
  Speaker 9: more with Absalom, and David did with his accursed goatings.
• 3:31:00
  Speaker 9: Because I parted persons so united parted? Do I now
• 3:31:04
  Speaker 9: bear my brain alas from its beginning, which is in
• 3:31:09
  Speaker 9: this trunk. Thus is observed in me the counterpoise, Canto
• 3:31:17
  Speaker 9: twenty nine. The many people and the divers wounds. These
• 3:31:22
  Speaker 9: eyes of mine had so inebriated that they were wishful
• 3:31:25
  Speaker 9: to stand still and weep. But said Virgilius, what dost
• 3:31:30
  Speaker 9: thou still gaze at? Why is thy sight still riveted
• 3:31:34
  Speaker 9: down there among the mournful mutilated shades. Thou hast not
• 3:31:38
  Speaker 9: done so at the other bulge. Consider if to count them,
• 3:31:43
  Speaker 9: thou believest that two and twenty miles the valley winds,
• 3:31:47
  Speaker 9: and now the moon is underneath our feet. Henceforth, the
• 3:31:51
  Speaker 9: time allotted us is brief, and more is to be
• 3:31:54
  Speaker 9: seen than what thou seest. If thou hadst I mayde
• 3:31:59
  Speaker 9: am answer thereupon attended to the cause for which I looked,
• 3:32:03
  Speaker 9: Perhaps a longer stay thou wouldst have pardoned. Meanwhile, my
• 3:32:08
  Speaker 9: guide departed, and behind him I went already making my reply,
• 3:32:12
  Speaker 9: and superadding. In that cavern where I held mine eyes
• 3:32:16
  Speaker 9: with such attention fixed, I think a spirit of my
• 3:32:19
  Speaker 9: blood laments the sin which down below there costs so much.
• 3:32:24
  Speaker 9: Then said the master, be no longer broken thy thought.
• 3:32:27
  Speaker 9: From this time forward, upon him attend elsewhere, and let
• 3:32:32
  Speaker 9: there him remain. For I saw below the little bridge,
• 3:32:36
  Speaker 9: pointing at thee and threatening with his finger fiercely, and
• 3:32:40
  Speaker 9: heard him called Jeri de bello, so wholly at that
• 3:32:44
  Speaker 9: time wast thou impeded by him who formerly held altaforte.
• 3:32:49
  Speaker 9: Thou didst not look that way. So he departed o
• 3:32:55
  Speaker 9: my conductor, his own violent death, which is not yet
• 3:32:58
  Speaker 9: avenged for him, I said, by any who his share
• 3:33:01
  Speaker 9: in the shame made him disdainful. Whence he went away
• 3:33:04
  Speaker 9: as I imagined without speaking to me, and thereby made
• 3:33:07
  Speaker 9: me pity him the more. Thus did we speak as
• 3:33:11
  Speaker 9: far as the first place, upon the crag which the
• 3:33:14
  Speaker 9: next valley shows down to the bottom. If there were
• 3:33:16
  Speaker 9: more light, when we were now right over the last
• 3:33:20
  Speaker 9: cloister of Maleabulge, so that its lay brothers could manifest
• 3:33:24
  Speaker 9: themselves unto our sight, divers lamentings pierced me through and
• 3:33:28
  Speaker 9: through which with compassion had their arrows barbed. Where at
• 3:33:33
  Speaker 9: mine ears I covered with my hands. What pain would
• 3:33:37
  Speaker 9: be if from the hospitals of Valdichiana TwixT July and September,
• 3:33:42
  Speaker 9: and of Maremma and Sardinia, all the diseases in one
• 3:33:46
  Speaker 9: moat were gathered. Such was it here, and such a
• 3:33:49
  Speaker 9: stench came from it, as from putrescent limbs. Is wont
• 3:33:53
  Speaker 9: to issue. We had descended on the furthest bank, from
• 3:33:57
  Speaker 9: the long crag upon the left hand. Still and then
• 3:34:00
  Speaker 9: more vivid was my power of sight down towards the bottom,
• 3:34:04
  Speaker 9: where the Ministress of the high Lord Justice Infallible punished
• 3:34:08
  Speaker 9: his forgers, which she here records. I do not think
• 3:34:12
  Speaker 9: a sadder sight to see was in Aegina the whole
• 3:34:15
  Speaker 9: people sick when was the air so full of pestilence.
• 3:34:19
  Speaker 9: The animals, down to the little worm, all fell. And
• 3:34:22
  Speaker 9: afterwards the ancient people, according as the poets have affirmed,
• 3:34:25
  Speaker 9: were from the seat of ants restored again. Then was
• 3:34:28
  Speaker 9: it to behold through that dark valley, the spirits languishing
• 3:34:32
  Speaker 9: in diverse heaps. This on the belly, that upon the
• 3:34:37
  Speaker 9: back one of the other lay, and others crawling shifted
• 3:34:40
  Speaker 9: themselves among the dismal road. We, step by step, went
• 3:34:44
  Speaker 9: onward without speech, gazing upon and listening to the sick,
• 3:34:48
  Speaker 9: who had not strength enough to lift their bodies. I
• 3:34:52
  Speaker 9: saw two sitting leaned against each other as leans in heating,
• 3:34:56
  Speaker 9: platter against platter, from head to foot, bespotted oar with scabs,
• 3:35:01
  Speaker 9: and never saw I plied a curry comb by stable boy,
• 3:35:05
  Speaker 9: for whom his master waits, or him who keeps awake unwillingly,
• 3:35:08
  Speaker 9: as every one was plying fast the bite of nails
• 3:35:12
  Speaker 9: upon himself for the great rage of itching, which no
• 3:35:15
  Speaker 9: other succor had, and the nails downward with them dragged
• 3:35:20
  Speaker 9: the scab in fashion as a knife, the scales of
• 3:35:23
  Speaker 9: bream or any other fish that has them largest. O
• 3:35:28
  Speaker 9: thou that with thy fingers dost dismail THEE began, my
• 3:35:32
  Speaker 9: leader unto one of them, and makest of them pincers now,
• 3:35:35
  Speaker 9: and then tell me if any Latian is with those
• 3:35:37
  Speaker 9: who are herein so may thy nails suffice THEE to
• 3:35:41
  Speaker 9: all eternity unto this work Latians? Are we whom thou
• 3:35:46
  Speaker 9: so wasted seest both of us here? One weeping made reply,
• 3:35:50
  Speaker 9: But who art thou that questionest about us? And said
• 3:35:54
  Speaker 9: the guide One am I who descends down with this
• 3:35:58
  Speaker 9: living man from cliff to cliff, And I intend to
• 3:36:01
  Speaker 9: show hell unto him. Then broken was their mutual support
• 3:36:05
  Speaker 9: and trembling. Each one turned himself to me, with others
• 3:36:09
  Speaker 9: who had heard him by rebound wholly to me. Did
• 3:36:12
  Speaker 9: the goods master gather, saying, say, unto them, whate'er thou wishest?
• 3:36:17
  Speaker 9: And I began, since he would have it. So so
• 3:36:21
  Speaker 9: may your memory not steal away in the first world
• 3:36:24
  Speaker 9: from out the minds of men, but so may it
• 3:36:26
  Speaker 9: survive neath many sons, say to me who ye are
• 3:36:31
  Speaker 9: and of what people? Let not your foul and loathsome
• 3:36:34
  Speaker 9: punishment make you afraid to show yourselves to me. I
• 3:36:39
  Speaker 9: Evarezzo was one made reply, and Albert of Siena had
• 3:36:43
  Speaker 9: me burned. But what I died for does not bring
• 3:36:46
  Speaker 9: me here? Tis true? I said to him, speaking in jest,
• 3:36:49
  Speaker 9: that I could rise by flight into the air. And
• 3:36:51
  Speaker 9: he who had conceited, but little wit, would have me
• 3:36:54
  Speaker 9: show to him the art. And only because no Daedalus
• 3:36:57
  Speaker 9: I made him made me be burnt by one whom
• 3:37:01
  Speaker 9: held him as his son. But unto the last Bolgia
• 3:37:05
  Speaker 9: of the ten for alchemy, which in the world I practiced,
• 3:37:09
  Speaker 9: minus who cannot err, has me condemned. And to the
• 3:37:14
  Speaker 9: poet said I, noou was ever so vain a people
• 3:37:17
  Speaker 9: as the Siennese, not for a certainty the French, by
• 3:37:21
  Speaker 9: far whereat The other leper who had heard me, replied,
• 3:37:25
  Speaker 9: unto my speech, taking out Strica, who knew the art
• 3:37:28
  Speaker 9: of moderate expenses, and Niccolo, who the luxurious use of
• 3:37:32
  Speaker 9: clothes discovered earliest of all within that garden where such
• 3:37:36
  Speaker 9: seed takes root, and taking out the band among whom
• 3:37:39
  Speaker 9: is squandered Caccia de ascian Tis, vineyards and vast woods,
• 3:37:44
  Speaker 9: and where his wit the Abbagliaro preferred. But that thou
• 3:37:48
  Speaker 9: know who thus dot second thee against the Siennese makes
• 3:37:52
  Speaker 9: sharp thine eye towards me, so that my face well
• 3:37:56
  Speaker 9: answer thee, and thou shalt see I am Capocchio's aid,
• 3:38:00
  Speaker 9: who metals falsified by alchemy. Thou must remember if I
• 3:38:04
  Speaker 9: well descry thee, how I a skillful ape of nature
• 3:38:07
  Speaker 9: was Canto thirty Twas at the time when Juno was
• 3:38:16
  Speaker 9: enraged for Semyla against the theban blood, as she already
• 3:38:19
  Speaker 9: more than once had shown so reft of reason, Athamas
• 3:38:23
  Speaker 9: became that, seeing his own wife with children twain walking
• 3:38:26
  Speaker 9: encumbered upon either hand, he cried, spread out the nets,
• 3:38:31
  Speaker 9: that I may take the lioness and her whelps upon
• 3:38:33
  Speaker 9: the passage, and then extended his unpitying claws, seizing the
• 3:38:37
  Speaker 9: first who had the name Learchus, and whirled him round
• 3:38:40
  Speaker 9: and dashed him on a rock, and she with the
• 3:38:44
  Speaker 9: other burthen drowned herself. And at the time when fortune
• 3:38:48
  Speaker 9: downward hurled the Trojan's arrogance, that all things dared so
• 3:38:53
  Speaker 9: that the king was with his kingdom crushed. Hecubus sad,
• 3:38:57
  Speaker 9: disconsolate and captive. When lifeless, she beheld Polyxina and of
• 3:39:02
  Speaker 9: her Polydorus on the shore of ocean was the dolorous one,
• 3:39:05
  Speaker 9: aware out of her senses like a dog. She barked
• 3:39:09
  Speaker 9: so much the anguish had her mind distorted. But not
• 3:39:13
  Speaker 9: of thebes, the furies, nor the Trojan were ever seen
• 3:39:17
  Speaker 9: in any one so cruel in goading beasts and much
• 3:39:20
  Speaker 9: more human members. As I beheld two shadows, pale and naked, who,
• 3:39:25
  Speaker 9: biting in the manner, ran along that a boar does
• 3:39:29
  Speaker 9: when from the stye turned loose. One to Capocchio came
• 3:39:32
  Speaker 9: and by the nape seized with his teeth his neck,
• 3:39:36
  Speaker 9: so that in dragging it made his belly grate the
• 3:39:39
  Speaker 9: solid bottom. And the Aratine, who trembled had remained, said
• 3:39:42
  Speaker 9: to me that mad sprite is Gianni Chici, and raving
• 3:39:47
  Speaker 9: goes thus harrying other people, Oh, said I to him,
• 3:39:52
  Speaker 9: So may not the other set teeth on thee. Let
• 3:39:56
  Speaker 9: it not weary thee to tell us who it is?
• 3:39:59
  Speaker 9: Ere it dart hence, and he to me, that is
• 3:40:04
  Speaker 9: the ancient ghost of the nefarious Mirrah, who became beyond
• 3:40:08
  Speaker 9: all rightful love her father's lover. She came to sin
• 3:40:12
  Speaker 9: with him after this manner, by counterfeiting of another's form,
• 3:40:16
  Speaker 9: as he who goeth yonder undertook that he might gain
• 3:40:19
  Speaker 9: the lady of the herd to counterfeit in himself. Busso Donati,
• 3:40:24
  Speaker 9: making a will and giving it due form. And after
• 3:40:27
  Speaker 9: the two maniacs had passed on whom I held mine eye,
• 3:40:30
  Speaker 9: I turned it back to look upon the other evil born.
• 3:40:34
  Speaker 9: I saw one made in fashion of a lute. If
• 3:40:37
  Speaker 9: he had only had the groin cut off just at
• 3:40:39
  Speaker 9: the point at which a man is forked. The heavy
• 3:40:44
  Speaker 9: dropsy that so disproportions the limbs with humors which it
• 3:40:48
  Speaker 9: ill concocts that the face corresponds not to the belly,
• 3:40:52
  Speaker 9: compelled him so to hold his lips apart, as does
• 3:40:55
  Speaker 9: the hectic, who, because of thirst, one towards the chin,
• 3:40:59
  Speaker 9: the other upward turns. O ye, who without any torment
• 3:41:04
  Speaker 9: are And why I know not? In the world of woe,
• 3:41:07
  Speaker 9: he said to us, behold and be attentive. Unto the
• 3:41:10
  Speaker 9: misery of Master Adam. I had while living much of
• 3:41:14
  Speaker 9: what I wished, and now alas a drop of water
• 3:41:17
  Speaker 9: crave the rivulets that from the verdant hills of Cassanton
• 3:41:22
  Speaker 9: descend down into Arnau, making their channels to be cold
• 3:41:26
  Speaker 9: and moist. Ever before me stand and not in vain.
• 3:41:30
  Speaker 9: For far more doth their image dry me up than
• 3:41:33
  Speaker 9: the disease which strips my face of flesh. The rigid
• 3:41:37
  Speaker 9: justice that chastises me draweth occasion from the place in
• 3:41:40
  Speaker 9: which I sinned to put the more my sighs in flight.
• 3:41:44
  Speaker 9: There's Romena, where I counterfeited the currency imprinted with the Baptist,
• 3:41:49
  Speaker 9: for which I left my body burned above. But if
• 3:41:53
  Speaker 9: I here could see the twistful soul of Guido or
• 3:41:55
  Speaker 9: as Alessandro, or their brother, for brand is found, I
• 3:41:58
  Speaker 9: would not give the one is within already if the
• 3:42:04
  Speaker 9: raving shades that are going round about speak truth? But
• 3:42:07
  Speaker 9: what avails me whose limbs are tied? If I were
• 3:42:11
  Speaker 9: only still so light that in a hundred years I
• 3:42:14
  Speaker 9: could advance one inch, I had already started on the
• 3:42:17
  Speaker 9: way seeking him out among this squalid folk, although the
• 3:42:21
  Speaker 9: circuit be eleven miles and be not less than half
• 3:42:24
  Speaker 9: a mile across. For them am I in such a family?
• 3:42:29
  Speaker 9: They did induce me into coining florins which had three
• 3:42:32
  Speaker 9: carrots of impurity. And I to him, who are the
• 3:42:37
  Speaker 9: two poor wretches that smote like unto a wet hand
• 3:42:41
  Speaker 9: in winter? Lying there close upon thy right hand confines.
• 3:42:45
  Speaker 9: I found them here, replied he, when I rained into
• 3:42:48
  Speaker 9: this chasm. And since they have not turned, nor do
• 3:42:52
  Speaker 9: I think they will for evermore. One the false woman
• 3:42:56
  Speaker 9: is who accused Joseph, the other false signin Greek of Troy.
• 3:43:00
  Speaker 9: From acute fever. They send forth such Reek, and one
• 3:43:04
  Speaker 9: of them, who felt himself annoyed at being peradventure named
• 3:43:07
  Speaker 9: so darkly smote with the fist upon his hardened paunch.
• 3:43:11
  Speaker 9: It gave a sound as if it were a drum.
• 3:43:14
  Speaker 9: And Master Adam smote him in the face with arm
• 3:43:17
  Speaker 9: that did not seem to be less hard, saying to him,
• 3:43:20
  Speaker 9: although be taken from me all motion for my limbs
• 3:43:23
  Speaker 9: that heavy, are I have an arm unfettered for such need?
• 3:43:27
  Speaker 9: Whereat he answer made, when thou didst go unto the fire,
• 3:43:31
  Speaker 9: thou hadst it not so ready, but hadst it so
• 3:43:35
  Speaker 9: and more, when thou wast coining the dropsicle, thou sayest
• 3:43:40
  Speaker 9: true in that, but thou wast not so true a
• 3:43:43
  Speaker 9: witness there where thou wast questioned of the truth at Troy.
• 3:43:48
  Speaker 9: If I spake false, thou falsifiedst the coin, said Sinon,
• 3:43:53
  Speaker 9: And for one fault I am here, and thou for
• 3:43:56
  Speaker 9: more than any other demon. Remember perjurer about the horse,
• 3:44:01
  Speaker 9: He made reply, who had the swollen belly? And rueful
• 3:44:04
  Speaker 9: be at thee. The whole world knows it rueful to
• 3:44:09
  Speaker 9: thee the thirst wherewith cracks thy tongue, the Greek said,
• 3:44:12
  Speaker 9: and the putrid water that hedges sow thy paunch before
• 3:44:15
  Speaker 9: thine eyes. Then the false coiner so is gaping wide
• 3:44:20
  Speaker 9: thy mouth for speaking evil, as tis wont Because if
• 3:44:23
  Speaker 9: I have thirst and humor stuff me, thou hast the
• 3:44:26
  Speaker 9: burning and the head that aches, and to lick up
• 3:44:29
  Speaker 9: the mirror of Narcissus, Thou wouldst not want words many
• 3:44:33
  Speaker 9: to invite THEE in listening to them. I was wholly
• 3:44:38
  Speaker 9: fixed when said the Master to me, now just look
• 3:44:42
  Speaker 9: for little wants it that I quarrel with THEE. When
• 3:44:45
  Speaker 9: I heard him, in anger speak to me, I turn
• 3:44:48
  Speaker 9: me round towards him with such shame that still it
• 3:44:50
  Speaker 9: eddies through my memory. And as he is who dreams
• 3:44:54
  Speaker 9: of his own harm, who dreaming wishes it may be
• 3:44:56
  Speaker 9: a dream, so that he craves what is as if
• 3:44:59
  Speaker 9: it were not such, I became, not having power to speak,
• 3:45:03
  Speaker 9: for to excuse myself. I wished, and still excused myself,
• 3:45:08
  Speaker 9: and did not think I did it. Less shame doth
• 3:45:12
  Speaker 9: wash away a greater fault, the Master said, than this
• 3:45:15
  Speaker 9: of thine has been. Therefore thyself disburden of all sadness,
• 3:45:20
  Speaker 9: and make account that I am aye beside thee, if
• 3:45:22
  Speaker 9: e'er it come to pass that fortune bring thee where
• 3:45:25
  Speaker 9: there are people in a like dispute for a base
• 3:45:28
  Speaker 9: wish it is to wish to hear it. End of Inferno,
• 3:45:34
  Speaker 9: Canto twenty six to thirty.
• 3:45:37
  Speaker 2: Canto thirty one.
• 3:45:40
  Speaker 3: One.
• 3:45:41
  Speaker 2: And self same tongue first wounded me, so that it
• 3:45:44
  Speaker 2: tinged the one cheek and the other, and then held
• 3:45:47
  Speaker 2: out to me the medicine. Thus do I hear that
• 3:45:50
  Speaker 2: once Aarchilles's spear, his and his father's, used to be
• 3:45:54
  Speaker 2: the cause first of a sad and then a gracious boon.
• 3:45:59
  Speaker 2: We turned our back upon the wretched valley, upon the
• 3:46:02
  Speaker 2: bank that girds it, round about going across it without
• 3:46:06
  Speaker 2: any speech. There it was less than night and less
• 3:46:10
  Speaker 2: than day, so that my sight went little in advance.
• 3:46:14
  Speaker 2: But I could hear the blare of a loud horn,
• 3:46:18
  Speaker 2: so loud it would have made each thunder faint, which
• 3:46:22
  Speaker 2: counter to it, following its way, mine eyes directed wholly
• 3:46:27
  Speaker 2: to one place. After the dolorous discomfiture, when Charlemagne the
• 3:46:33
  Speaker 2: Holy Emprise lost so terribly, Orlando sounded not short while
• 3:46:40
  Speaker 2: my head turned thitherward, I held, when many lofty towers
• 3:46:44
  Speaker 2: I seemed to see, whereat I master say, what town
• 3:46:49
  Speaker 2: is this? And he to me, because thou peerest forth
• 3:46:55
  Speaker 2: athwart the darkness at too great a distance, it happens
• 3:46:59
  Speaker 2: that thou e'erest in thy fancy, well shalt thou see
• 3:47:03
  Speaker 2: if thou arrivest there. How much the sense deceives itself
• 3:47:08
  Speaker 2: by distance. Therefore a little faster spur. Thee On then
• 3:47:13
  Speaker 2: tenderly took me by the hand and said, before we
• 3:47:17
  Speaker 2: farther have advanced, that the reality may seem to thee
• 3:47:21
  Speaker 2: less strange, know that these are not towers but giants.
• 3:47:26
  Speaker 2: And they are in the well around the bank, from
• 3:47:30
  Speaker 2: navel downward, one in all of them. As when the
• 3:47:34
  Speaker 2: fog is vanishing away, little by little doth the sight
• 3:47:38
  Speaker 2: refigure whe'er the mist that crowds the air conceals so
• 3:47:43
  Speaker 2: piercing through the dense and darksome air, more and more near,
• 3:47:47
  Speaker 2: approaching toward the verge. My error fled, and fear came
• 3:47:52
  Speaker 2: over me, because as on its circular parapets, Montenegrionne crowns
• 3:47:59
  Speaker 2: itself with towers. Even thus the margin which surround the well,
• 3:48:04
  Speaker 2: with one half of their bodies, turreted the horrible giants
• 3:48:08
  Speaker 2: whom Jove menaces even now from out the heavens when
• 3:48:12
  Speaker 2: he thunders. And I of one already saw the face,
• 3:48:17
  Speaker 2: shoulders and breasts, and great part of the belly, and
• 3:48:21
  Speaker 2: down along his sides, both of his arms. Certainly, Nature
• 3:48:26
  Speaker 2: when she left the making of animals like these, by
• 3:48:29
  Speaker 2: taking such executors from Mars, and if of elephants and whales,
• 3:48:34
  Speaker 2: she doth not repent her. Whosoever looketh subtlety, more just,
• 3:48:39
  Speaker 2: and more discreet, will hold her for it. For where
• 3:48:43
  Speaker 2: the argument of intellect is added unto evil, will and power,
• 3:48:47
  Speaker 2: no rampart can the people make against it. His face
• 3:48:52
  Speaker 2: appeared to me as long and large as is at
• 3:48:55
  Speaker 2: Rome the pine cone of Saint Peter's, and in proportion
• 3:48:59
  Speaker 2: where the other bones, so that the margin, which an
• 3:49:02
  Speaker 2: apron was down from the middle, showed so much of
• 3:49:06
  Speaker 2: him above it that to reach up to his hair.
• 3:49:09
  Speaker 2: Three Frieslanders in vain had vaulted them. For I beheld
• 3:49:14
  Speaker 2: thirty great palms of him down from the place where
• 3:49:18
  Speaker 2: man is mantle buckles. Raphael may amarek zebari Alai began
• 3:49:24
  Speaker 2: to clamor the ferocious mouth to which were not befitting
• 3:49:28
  Speaker 2: sweeter psalms Anon to him, my guide, soul, idiotic, keep
• 3:49:35
  Speaker 2: to thy horn, and vent thyself with that. When wrath
• 3:49:39
  Speaker 2: or other passion touches thee, search round thy neck, and
• 3:49:43
  Speaker 2: thou wilt find the belt which keeps it fastened, Oh
• 3:49:47
  Speaker 2: bewildered soul, and see it where it bars. Thy mighty breast,
• 3:49:52
  Speaker 2: then said to me, he doth himself accused. This one
• 3:49:57
  Speaker 2: is Nimrod, by whose evil one language in the world
• 3:50:02
  Speaker 2: is still not used. Here. Let us leave him and
• 3:50:06
  Speaker 2: not speak in vain, for even such to him as
• 3:50:09
  Speaker 2: every language as his to others, which to none is known.
• 3:50:15
  Speaker 2: Therefore a longer journey did we make. Turned to the
• 3:50:18
  Speaker 2: left in a crossbow shot off we found another, far
• 3:50:22
  Speaker 2: more fierce and large. In binding him. Who might the
• 3:50:26
  Speaker 2: master be? I cannot say, But he had pinioned close
• 3:50:30
  Speaker 2: behind the right arm and in front the other, with
• 3:50:33
  Speaker 2: chains that held him so be girt about from the
• 3:50:37
  Speaker 2: neck down, and on the part uncovered it wound itself
• 3:50:40
  Speaker 2: as far as the fifth gyre. This proud one wished
• 3:50:44
  Speaker 2: to make experiment on his own power against the supreme Jove.
• 3:50:49
  Speaker 2: My leader said, whence he has such a girden, and
• 3:50:54
  Speaker 2: Philates is his name? He showed great prowess. What time
• 3:50:58
  Speaker 2: the giants terrified the gods the arms he wielded. Never
• 3:51:03
  Speaker 2: more he moves, And I to him, if possible, I
• 3:51:08
  Speaker 2: should wish that of the measureless Briarus, these eyes of
• 3:51:11
  Speaker 2: mine might have experience. Whence he replied, thou shalt behold
• 3:51:17
  Speaker 2: Antaeus close by here, who can speak and is unbound,
• 3:51:22
  Speaker 2: who at the bottom of all crime, shall place us
• 3:51:26
  Speaker 2: much farther yon as he whom thou wouldst see. And
• 3:51:29
  Speaker 2: he is bound and fashion like to this one, save
• 3:51:33
  Speaker 2: that he seems an aspect more ferocious. There never was
• 3:51:38
  Speaker 2: an earthquake of such might that it could shake a
• 3:51:41
  Speaker 2: tower so violently as Imfilates suddenly shook himself. Then was
• 3:51:47
  Speaker 2: I more afraid of death than ever, for nothing more
• 3:51:50
  Speaker 2: was needful than the fear. If I had not beheld
• 3:51:54
  Speaker 2: the manacles. Then we proceeded farther in advance, and to
• 3:51:59
  Speaker 2: Antinnis came, who full five ells without the head forth
• 3:52:03
  Speaker 2: issued from the cavern o Thou who in the valley
• 3:52:08
  Speaker 2: fortunate which Scipio the hair of glory made when Hannibal
• 3:52:12
  Speaker 2: turned back with all his hosts once brought'st a thousand
• 3:52:16
  Speaker 2: lions for thy prey. And who hast thou been at
• 3:52:19
  Speaker 2: the mighty war among thy brothers? Some, it seems, still
• 3:52:24
  Speaker 2: think the sons of earth the victory would have gained
• 3:52:28
  Speaker 2: place us below, Nor be disdainful of it there where
• 3:52:32
  Speaker 2: the cold doth luck Cochitus up. Make us not go
• 3:52:37
  Speaker 2: to titious nor typheus. This one can give of that
• 3:52:42
  Speaker 2: where here is long For therefore stoop down and do
• 3:52:45
  Speaker 2: not curl thy lip. Still in the world can he
• 3:52:49
  Speaker 2: restore thy fame because he lives and still expects long life.
• 3:52:54
  Speaker 2: If to itself grace call him not untimely, So said
• 3:53:00
  Speaker 2: the master, And in haste the other his hands extended
• 3:53:04
  Speaker 2: and took up my guide, hands whose great pressure Hercules
• 3:53:09
  Speaker 2: once felt. Virgilius, when he had felt himself embrace, set
• 3:53:13
  Speaker 2: on to me, draw nigh that I may take thee
• 3:53:17
  Speaker 2: then of himself and me one bundle made as seems
• 3:53:22
  Speaker 2: acarisenda to behold beneath the leaning side, where goes a
• 3:53:27
  Speaker 2: cloud above it, so that opposite it hangs. Such did
• 3:53:32
  Speaker 2: anteus seem to me, who stood watching, to see him stoop.
• 3:53:37
  Speaker 2: And then it was I could have wished to go
• 3:53:39
  Speaker 2: some other way, but lightly in the abyss which swallows
• 3:53:43
  Speaker 2: up Judas with Lucifer he put us down, Nor thus
• 3:53:48
  Speaker 2: bode downward. May he there delay, but as a mass
• 3:53:53
  Speaker 2: does in a ship up rose Inferno, Canto thirty two.
• 3:54:05
  Speaker 2: If I had rhymes both rough and stridulus, as were
• 3:54:09
  Speaker 2: appropriate to the dismal hole down upon which thrust all
• 3:54:12
  Speaker 2: the other rocks, I would press out the juice of
• 3:54:16
  Speaker 2: my conception more fully. But because I have them, not,
• 3:54:21
  Speaker 2: not without fear, I bring myself to speak. For tis
• 3:54:25
  Speaker 2: no enterprise to take in jest to sketch the bottom
• 3:54:29
  Speaker 2: of all the universe, nor for a tongue that cries
• 3:54:33
  Speaker 2: Mama and babo. But may these ladies help this verse
• 3:54:37
  Speaker 2: of mine, who helped Amphion in enclosing thebes, that from
• 3:54:42
  Speaker 2: the fact the word be not diverse, O rabble ill
• 3:54:47
  Speaker 2: begotten above all who are in the place to speak
• 3:54:51
  Speaker 2: of which is hard. Twere better ye had here been
• 3:54:55
  Speaker 2: sheep or goats. When we were down within the darksome,
• 3:54:59
  Speaker 2: well beneath the giant's feet, but lower far, and I
• 3:55:03
  Speaker 2: was scanning still the lofty wall. I heard it said
• 3:55:07
  Speaker 2: to me, look how thou steppest take heed, Thou do
• 3:55:11
  Speaker 2: not trample with thy feet the heads of the tired,
• 3:55:15
  Speaker 2: miserable brothers whereat. I turned me round and saw before
• 3:55:21
  Speaker 2: me and under foot a lake that from the frost
• 3:55:25
  Speaker 2: the semblance had of glass and not of water, so
• 3:55:29
  Speaker 2: thick a veil ne'er made upon its current and winter
• 3:55:33
  Speaker 2: time Danube in Austria. Nor there beneath the frigid sky
• 3:55:38
  Speaker 2: the dawn as was here, so that of Tabernik had
• 3:55:42
  Speaker 2: fallen upon it, where Pytropania and the edge would not
• 3:55:47
  Speaker 2: have given a creek as to croak. The frog doth
• 3:55:50
  Speaker 2: place himself with muzzle out of water when it is
• 3:55:54
  Speaker 2: dreaming of gleaning. Oftentimes the peasant girl lived as far
• 3:55:59
  Speaker 2: down as where the shame appears. Were the disconsolate shades
• 3:56:04
  Speaker 2: within the ice, setting their teeth under the note of storks,
• 3:56:09
  Speaker 2: each one as countenance held downward, bent from mouth, the
• 3:56:14
  Speaker 2: cold from eyes. The doleful heart among them, witness of
• 3:56:19
  Speaker 2: itself procures when round about me somewhat I had looked
• 3:56:25
  Speaker 2: I downward, turned me and saw two so close the
• 3:56:29
  Speaker 2: hair upon their heads together mingled, Ye, who so strain
• 3:56:34
  Speaker 2: your breast together? Tell me? I said, who are you?
• 3:56:39
  Speaker 2: And they bent their necks, and when to me their faces.
• 3:56:42
  Speaker 2: They had lifted their eyes, which first were only missed
• 3:56:46
  Speaker 2: within gushed o'er the eyelids, and the frost congealed the
• 3:56:51
  Speaker 2: tears between, and lock them up again clamp never bound
• 3:56:57
  Speaker 2: together wood with woods so strongly. Whereat they like two
• 3:57:02
  Speaker 2: he goats, budded together so much wrath o'er came them,
• 3:57:08
  Speaker 2: And one who had by reason of the cold lost
• 3:57:11
  Speaker 2: both his ears, still with his visage downward, said why
• 3:57:16
  Speaker 2: dost thou so mirror thyself than us? If thou desire
• 3:57:20
  Speaker 2: to know who these two are? The valley whence Bizenio descends,
• 3:57:25
  Speaker 2: belonged to them and to their father Albert. They from
• 3:57:30
  Speaker 2: one body came and all cadea. Thou shalt search through,
• 3:57:34
  Speaker 2: and shalt not find a shade more worthy to be
• 3:57:37
  Speaker 2: fixed in gelatine. Not he and whom were broken breast
• 3:57:41
  Speaker 2: and shadow at one and the same blow by Arthur's
• 3:57:45
  Speaker 2: hand focaccia, Not not he whom me encumbers. So with
• 3:57:51
  Speaker 2: his head I see no farther forward, and bore the
• 3:57:55
  Speaker 2: name of Sassil Mascheroni. Well knowest thou who he was,
• 3:58:00
  Speaker 2: if thou art Tuscan, And that thou put me not
• 3:58:03
  Speaker 2: to further speech, Know that I comest see on de
• 3:58:07
  Speaker 2: Pazzi was in wait Carlinio to exonerate me. Then I
• 3:58:13
  Speaker 2: beheld a thousand faces made purple with cold. Whence o'er
• 3:58:18
  Speaker 2: me came a shudder, and evermore will come at frozen ponds.
• 3:58:23
  Speaker 2: And while we were advancing towards the middle, where everything
• 3:58:27
  Speaker 2: of weight unites together, and I was shivering in the
• 3:58:30
  Speaker 2: eternal shade. Whether twill or destiny or chance, I know not,
• 3:58:36
  Speaker 2: But in walking among the heads, I struck my foot
• 3:58:39
  Speaker 2: hard in the face of one weeping. He growled, Why
• 3:58:44
  Speaker 2: dost thou trample me unless thou comest to increase the
• 3:58:48
  Speaker 2: vengeance of MONTEPERTI? Why dost thou molest me? And I
• 3:58:54
  Speaker 2: my master now wait here for me, that I, through
• 3:58:58
  Speaker 2: him may issue from a doubt. Then thou mayst hurry
• 3:59:02
  Speaker 2: me as thou shalt wish. The leader stopped. And to
• 3:59:06
  Speaker 2: that one I said, who was blaspheming vehemently. Still, who
• 3:59:12
  Speaker 2: art thou that thus reprehendest others? Now? Who art thou
• 3:59:17
  Speaker 2: that goest through? And Honoria Smiting replied, he other people's cheeks,
• 3:59:23
  Speaker 2: so that if thou wert living, twere too much living?
• 3:59:27
  Speaker 2: I am and dear to THEE it may be, was
• 3:59:31
  Speaker 2: my response. If thou demandest fame that mid the other
• 3:59:34
  Speaker 2: notes thy name, I place, and he to me for
• 3:59:38
  Speaker 2: the reverse, I long take thyself hence and give me
• 3:59:42
  Speaker 2: no more trouble, for ill thou knowest to flatter in
• 3:59:46
  Speaker 2: this hollow. Then by the scalp behind, I seized upon
• 3:59:51
  Speaker 2: him and said, it must needs be thou name thyself,
• 3:59:55
  Speaker 2: or not a hair remain upon thee here? Whence he
• 3:59:59
  Speaker 2: to me, though thou strip off my hair, I will
• 4:00:02
  Speaker 2: not tell THEE who I am, nor show THEE if
• 4:00:05
  Speaker 2: on my head a thousand times thou fall. I had
• 4:00:09
  Speaker 2: his hair and hand already twisted, and more than one
• 4:00:13
  Speaker 2: shock of it had pulled out. He barking with his
• 4:00:16
  Speaker 2: eyes held firmly down, when cried another, what doth ail thee?
• 4:00:22
  Speaker 2: Bocha is not enough to clatter with thy jaws? But
• 4:00:26
  Speaker 2: thou art, but thou must bark? What devil touches thee, now,
• 4:00:32
  Speaker 2: said I I care not to have THEE speak a
• 4:00:35
  Speaker 2: cursed traitor, for n to thy shame. I will report
• 4:00:39
  Speaker 2: of vivoracious news. Be gone, replied he, and tell what
• 4:00:44
  Speaker 2: thou wilt, But be not silent if thou issue hence
• 4:00:48
  Speaker 2: of him who had just now his tongue so prompt
• 4:00:52
  Speaker 2: he weepeth here the silver of the French I saw.
• 4:00:55
  Speaker 2: Thus canst thou praise it him? Of Dura, there were
• 4:00:59
  Speaker 2: the sinner's stad and out in the cold. If thou
• 4:01:03
  Speaker 2: shouldst question be, who else was there thou hast beside
• 4:01:07
  Speaker 2: thee hymn of Baccaria, of whom the gore at Florence
• 4:01:10
  Speaker 2: slid asunder giannied el Cilendiir I think may be yonder
• 4:01:15
  Speaker 2: with Ganelian and Tibelido, who opted Pazania when the people slept.
• 4:01:22
  Speaker 2: Already we had gone away from him. When I beheld
• 4:01:24
  Speaker 2: two frozen in one hole, so that one head a
• 4:01:28
  Speaker 2: hood was to the other, and even as bread through
• 4:01:31
  Speaker 2: hunger is devour the uppermost, and the other set his
• 4:01:35
  Speaker 2: teeth there where the brain is to the nape united.
• 4:01:40
  Speaker 2: Not in another fashion, Tydeus gnawed the temples of menelipidus
• 4:01:44
  Speaker 2: in disdain that that one did the skull and the
• 4:01:48
  Speaker 2: other things. O thou, who ShoWest by such beastial sign
• 4:01:53
  Speaker 2: thy hatred against him whom thou art eating. Tell me
• 4:01:57
  Speaker 2: the Wherefore, said I with this compassion, that if thou
• 4:02:01
  Speaker 2: rightfully of him complain, in knowing who ye are and
• 4:02:04
  Speaker 2: his transgression, I in the world above repay thee for it,
• 4:02:09
  Speaker 2: if that wherewith I speak, be not dried up Inferno,
• 4:02:19
  Speaker 2: Canto thirty three. His mouth uplifted from his grim repast
• 4:02:26
  Speaker 2: that sinner, wiping it upon the hair of the same
• 4:02:29
  Speaker 2: head that he behind had wasted. Then he began, thou
• 4:02:34
  Speaker 2: wilt that I renew the desperate grief which wrings my
• 4:02:38
  Speaker 2: heart already to think of only ere I speak it.
• 4:02:42
  Speaker 2: But if my words be seed that may bear fruit
• 4:02:45
  Speaker 2: of infamy to the traitor whom I gnaw speaking and weeping,
• 4:02:50
  Speaker 2: shalt thou see together. I know not who thou art,
• 4:02:55
  Speaker 2: nor by what mode thou hast come down here, But
• 4:02:59
  Speaker 2: a florente thou seemest to me truly when I hear
• 4:03:03
  Speaker 2: thee thou hast to know. I was Count Ugolino, and
• 4:03:08
  Speaker 2: this one was Ruggieri. The Archbishop. Now I will tell
• 4:03:12
  Speaker 2: thee why I am such a neighbor that, by the
• 4:03:16
  Speaker 2: effect of his malicious thoughts, trusting in him, I was
• 4:03:21
  Speaker 2: made prisoner, and after put to death, I need not say,
• 4:03:26
  Speaker 2: but ne'ertheless what thou canst not have heard, That is
• 4:03:30
  Speaker 2: to say, how cruel was my death? Here shalt thou
• 4:03:34
  Speaker 2: and shalt know if he has wronged me. A narrow
• 4:03:38
  Speaker 2: perforation in the mew, which bears because of me the
• 4:03:42
  Speaker 2: title of famine, and which others still must be locked up,
• 4:03:46
  Speaker 2: had shown me through its opening many moons already when
• 4:03:51
  Speaker 2: I dream the evil dream which of the future rent
• 4:03:54
  Speaker 2: for me the veil, This one appeared to me as
• 4:03:58
  Speaker 2: lord and master hunting the wolf and whelps upon the
• 4:04:02
  Speaker 2: mountain for which the Piaisans can at Luca see with
• 4:04:07
  Speaker 2: sleuth hound's gaunt, eager and well trained Guliandi, with Sistemandi
• 4:04:13
  Speaker 2: and Lalla FRIANCHI had set me out before him to
• 4:04:16
  Speaker 2: the front, after brief course seemed unto me, forespent the
• 4:04:20
  Speaker 2: father and the sons, and with sharp tushes it seemed
• 4:04:24
  Speaker 2: to me I saw their flanks ripped open. When I,
• 4:04:29
  Speaker 2: before the morrow, was awake, moaning amid their sleep, I
• 4:04:32
  Speaker 2: heard my sons, who with me were and asking after
• 4:04:37
  Speaker 2: bread cruel indeed art thou if yet thou grieve, not
• 4:04:42
  Speaker 2: thinking of what my heart foreboded me, And weepest thou
• 4:04:46
  Speaker 2: not what art thou wont to weep at? They were
• 4:04:50
  Speaker 2: awake now, and the hour drew nigh at which our
• 4:04:54
  Speaker 2: food used to be brought to us. And through his
• 4:04:57
  Speaker 2: dream was each one apprehensive. And I heard, locking up
• 4:05:02
  Speaker 2: the under door of the horrible tower whereat Without a word,
• 4:05:06
  Speaker 2: I gazed into the faces of my sons. I wept
• 4:05:11
  Speaker 2: not I within so turned a stone. They wept, and
• 4:05:16
  Speaker 2: darling little ansel mine said, thou dost gaze, so, father,
• 4:05:22
  Speaker 2: what doth ail thee? Still not a tear I shed,
• 4:05:26
  Speaker 2: nor answer made all of that day, nor yet the
• 4:05:30
  Speaker 2: night thereafter, until another sun rose on the world. As
• 4:05:35
  Speaker 2: now A little glimmer made its way into the dolorous prison.
• 4:05:39
  Speaker 2: And I saw upon four faces my very own aspect,
• 4:05:44
  Speaker 2: both of my hands in agony. I bit, and, thinking
• 4:05:48
  Speaker 2: that I did it from desire of eating. On a
• 4:05:51
  Speaker 2: sudden they uprose and said, they, Father, much less pain
• 4:05:57
  Speaker 2: twill give us, if thou do eat of us. Thyself
• 4:06:01
  Speaker 2: did clothe us with this poor flesh, and do thou
• 4:06:05
  Speaker 2: strip it off? I calm me then, not to make
• 4:06:10
  Speaker 2: them more sad. That day we all were silent, and
• 4:06:13
  Speaker 2: the next ah abdued earth. Wherefore didst thou not open?
• 4:06:20
  Speaker 2: When we had come unto the fourth day, Gaddo threw
• 4:06:24
  Speaker 2: himself down, outstretched before my feet, saying, my father, why
• 4:06:29
  Speaker 2: dost thou not help me? And there he died. And
• 4:06:34
  Speaker 2: as thou seest me, I saw the three fall one
• 4:06:37
  Speaker 2: by one between the fifth day and the sixth, whence
• 4:06:41
  Speaker 2: I betook me already blind, a groping over each, and
• 4:06:46
  Speaker 2: three days called them after they were dead. Then hunger
• 4:06:50
  Speaker 2: did what sorrow could not do. When he had said this,
• 4:06:56
  Speaker 2: with his eyes distorted, the wretched skull resumed he with
• 4:07:00
  Speaker 2: his teeth, which as a dog's upon the bone, were strong.
• 4:07:06
  Speaker 2: Ah Pisa, thou uproarium of the people of the fair land,
• 4:07:11
  Speaker 2: there where the sea doth sound. Since slow to punish
• 4:07:15
  Speaker 2: thee thy neighbors, are Let the Capabria and the Gorgana
• 4:07:21
  Speaker 2: move and make a hedge across the mouth of Arno,
• 4:07:24
  Speaker 2: that every person in thee it may drown. For if
• 4:07:29
  Speaker 2: Count Ugulino had the fame of having in thy castles
• 4:07:32
  Speaker 2: thee betrayed. Thou shalt not on such cross have put
• 4:07:36
  Speaker 2: his sons guiltless of any crime. Thou modern thebes their
• 4:07:42
  Speaker 2: youth may doula GACIONI and regatta, and the other two
• 4:07:46
  Speaker 2: my song doth name above. We pass still further onward,
• 4:07:51
  Speaker 2: where the ice and nether people ruggedly in swaths, not
• 4:07:56
  Speaker 2: downward turned, but all of them reversed, weeping itself there
• 4:08:01
  Speaker 2: does not let them weep. And grief that finds a
• 4:08:04
  Speaker 2: barrier in the eyes turns itself inward to increase the anguish.
• 4:08:10
  Speaker 2: Because the earliest tears a cluster form, and in the
• 4:08:13
  Speaker 2: manner of a crystal visor, fill all the cup beneath
• 4:08:17
  Speaker 2: the eyebrow full. And notwithstanding that, as in a callous
• 4:08:23
  Speaker 2: because of cold, all sensibility its station had abandoned. In
• 4:08:27
  Speaker 2: my face, still it appeared to me I felt some wind.
• 4:08:32
  Speaker 2: Whence I, my master, who sets this in motion, is
• 4:08:38
  Speaker 2: not below here every vapor quenched. Whence he to me full?
• 4:08:43
  Speaker 2: Soon shalt thou beware Thine eye shall answer make to
• 4:08:47
  Speaker 2: thee of this seeing a cause which raineth down the
• 4:08:51
  Speaker 2: blast and one of the wretches of the foul crust
• 4:08:55
  Speaker 2: cried out to us, Oh soul, so merciless, that the
• 4:09:00
  Speaker 2: last port has given on to you, lift from mine
• 4:09:03
  Speaker 2: eyes the rigid veils, that I may vent the sorrow
• 4:09:07
  Speaker 2: which impregns my heart a little e'er the weeping recongeal.
• 4:09:13
  Speaker 2: Whence I to him, if thou wouldst have me help thee,
• 4:09:18
  Speaker 2: say who thou wast? And if I free thee? Not,
• 4:09:21
  Speaker 2: may I go to the bottom of the ice. Then
• 4:09:25
  Speaker 2: he replied, I am friar elbigario. He I am of
• 4:09:30
  Speaker 2: the fruit of the bad garden. Who here a date
• 4:09:34
  Speaker 2: am getting for my fig.
• 4:09:37
  Speaker 7: O?
• 4:09:37
  Speaker 2: Said I to him. Now art thou too dead? And
• 4:09:41
  Speaker 2: he to me, how may my body fare up in
• 4:09:44
  Speaker 2: the world? No knowledge I possess such an advantage has
• 4:09:50
  Speaker 2: this potamia, as sometimes the soul descendeth here sooner than
• 4:09:55
  Speaker 2: a tropos in motion sets it, And that thou mayest
• 4:09:59
  Speaker 2: mo or willingly remove from off my countenance. These glassy tears.
• 4:10:04
  Speaker 2: Know that as soon as my soul betrays as I
• 4:10:08
  Speaker 2: have done, his body by a demon is taken from him,
• 4:10:12
  Speaker 2: who thereafter rules it until his time has wholly been
• 4:10:17
  Speaker 2: revolved itself down rushes into such a cistern, and still,
• 4:10:23
  Speaker 2: perchance above appears the body of yonder shade that winters
• 4:10:28
  Speaker 2: here behind me. This thou shouldst know if thou hast
• 4:10:32
  Speaker 2: just come down. It is Sobranca the Aria, And many
• 4:10:36
  Speaker 2: years have passed away since he is thus locked up,
• 4:10:40
  Speaker 2: I think, said I to him, Thou dost deceive me
• 4:10:44
  Speaker 2: fora Branca the Aria is not dead as yet, and
• 4:10:48
  Speaker 2: eats and drinks, and sleeps and puts on clothes in
• 4:10:52
  Speaker 2: moat above, said he of Malbranche, there whereas boiling the
• 4:10:57
  Speaker 2: tenacious pitch. And yet has Michael Zance not arrived when
• 4:11:02
  Speaker 2: this one left, a devil in his steed and his
• 4:11:05
  Speaker 2: own body, and one near of kin, who made together
• 4:11:08
  Speaker 2: with him the betrayal, But hitherward stretched out thy hand
• 4:11:13
  Speaker 2: forthwith opened my eyes, and opened them I did not,
• 4:11:16
  Speaker 2: and to be rude to him with courtesy ah genesee
• 4:11:21
  Speaker 2: ye man at Variance, with every virtue, full of every vice.
• 4:11:26
  Speaker 2: Wherefore are ye not scattered from the world. For with
• 4:11:30
  Speaker 2: the vilest spirit of Romagagna, I've found of you one
• 4:11:34
  Speaker 2: such who, for his deeds and soul, already in cocayitas baths,
• 4:11:40
  Speaker 2: and still above in body, seems alive Inferno, Panto thirty
• 4:11:50
  Speaker 2: four Vicsilar regis prodeant in thurne toward us. Therefore, look
• 4:11:59
  Speaker 2: in front of my master said, if thou discernest him,
• 4:12:05
  Speaker 2: as when there breathe a heavy fog, or when our
• 4:12:08
  Speaker 2: hemisphere is darkening into night, appears far off a mill,
• 4:12:12
  Speaker 2: that wind is turning, methought that such a building? Then
• 4:12:16
  Speaker 2: I saw, and for the wind, I drew myself behind
• 4:12:22
  Speaker 2: my guide, because there was no other shelter, now was I,
• 4:12:27
  Speaker 2: And with fear in verse, I put it there where
• 4:12:30
  Speaker 2: the shades were wholly covered up and glimmered through, like
• 4:12:35
  Speaker 2: on the straws and glass. Some throne or lying others
• 4:12:40
  Speaker 2: stand erect this with the head, and that one with
• 4:12:43
  Speaker 2: the souls. Another bowlike face to feet inverts. When in
• 4:12:49
  Speaker 2: advance so far we had proceeded that it my master
• 4:12:53
  Speaker 2: pleased to show me the creature who once had the
• 4:12:56
  Speaker 2: beauteous semblance. He from before army moved and made me stop, saying,
• 4:13:04
  Speaker 2: behold this, and behold the place where thou, with fortitude
• 4:13:09
  Speaker 2: must arm thyself. How frozen I became and powerless. Then
• 4:13:15
  Speaker 2: ask it not, reader, for I write it not, because
• 4:13:19
  Speaker 2: all language would be insufficient I did not die, and
• 4:13:24
  Speaker 2: I alive remain not think for thyself now hast thou
• 4:13:29
  Speaker 2: aught of wit what I became, being of both deprived.
• 4:13:35
  Speaker 2: The Emperor of the Kingdom dolorous from his mid breast
• 4:13:38
  Speaker 2: forth issued from the ice, and better with a giant
• 4:13:42
  Speaker 2: I compare than do the giants with those arms of his.
• 4:13:47
  Speaker 2: Consider now, how great must be that whole, which on
• 4:13:51
  Speaker 2: to such a part conforms itself. Were he as fair
• 4:13:56
  Speaker 2: once as he is now foul? And lifted up his
• 4:13:59
  Speaker 2: brow against his maker, which may proceed from him all tribulation, Oh,
• 4:14:05
  Speaker 2: in a marvel. It appeared to me when I beheld
• 4:14:08
  Speaker 2: three faces on his head, The one in front, and
• 4:14:13
  Speaker 2: that vermilion was Two were the others that were joined
• 4:14:17
  Speaker 2: with this above the middle part of either shoulder, and
• 4:14:21
  Speaker 2: they were joined together at the crest, and the right
• 4:14:25
  Speaker 2: hand one seemed TwixT white and yellow. The left was
• 4:14:29
  Speaker 2: such to look upon as those who come from where
• 4:14:31
  Speaker 2: the nile falls valleyward. Underneath each came forth two mighty wings,
• 4:14:39
  Speaker 2: such as it befitting, were so great a bird sails
• 4:14:43
  Speaker 2: of the sea. I never saw so large. No feathers
• 4:14:48
  Speaker 2: had they, but as of a bat. Their fashion was
• 4:14:52
  Speaker 2: and he was waving them, so that three winds proceeded
• 4:14:57
  Speaker 2: forth therefrom Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed. With six eyes
• 4:15:06
  Speaker 2: did he weep, and down three chins trickled the tear
• 4:15:09
  Speaker 2: drops in the bloody drivel. At every mouth. He with
• 4:15:14
  Speaker 2: his teeth was crunching a sinner in the manner of
• 4:15:18
  Speaker 2: a brake, so that he three of them tormented. Thus
• 4:15:23
  Speaker 2: to him in front, the biting was as nought unto
• 4:15:27
  Speaker 2: the climing. For sometimes the spy utterly stripped of all
• 4:15:31
  Speaker 2: the skin, remained that soul up there, which has the
• 4:15:37
  Speaker 2: greatest pain. The master said, his judas is Scariot, with
• 4:15:43
  Speaker 2: head inside, he plies his legs without of the two
• 4:15:48
  Speaker 2: others who head downward are the one who hangs from
• 4:15:52
  Speaker 2: the black jowl is Brutus. See how he rises himself
• 4:15:57
  Speaker 2: and speaks no word. And the other, who so stalwart seems,
• 4:16:03
  Speaker 2: is Cassius. But night is reascending, and tis time that
• 4:16:08
  Speaker 2: we depart, for we have seen the hole. As seemed
• 4:16:13
  Speaker 2: him good, I clasped him round the neck, and he
• 4:16:17
  Speaker 2: the vantage seized of time and place. And when the
• 4:16:21
  Speaker 2: wings were opened wide apart, he laid fast hold upon
• 4:16:25
  Speaker 2: the shaggy sides from fell to fell, descended downward, then
• 4:16:30
  Speaker 2: between the thick hair and the frozen crust. When we
• 4:16:36
  Speaker 2: were come to where the thigh revolves exactly on the
• 4:16:40
  Speaker 2: thickness of the haunch, the guide, with labor and with
• 4:16:44
  Speaker 2: hard drawn breath, turned round his head where he had
• 4:16:48
  Speaker 2: had his legs, and grappled to their as one who mounts,
• 4:16:54
  Speaker 2: so that a hell I thought we were returning. Keep
• 4:16:58
  Speaker 2: fast thy hold, for by such stairs as these, the
• 4:17:02
  Speaker 2: master said, panting as one fatigued, must we perforce depart
• 4:17:08
  Speaker 2: from so much evil? Then through the opening of a
• 4:17:12
  Speaker 2: rock he issued, and down upon the margin seated me.
• 4:17:16
  Speaker 2: Then towards me he outstretched his wary step. I lifted
• 4:17:22
  Speaker 2: up mine eyes and thought to see Lucifer in the
• 4:17:25
  Speaker 2: same way I had left him, And I beheld him upward,
• 4:17:29
  Speaker 2: hold his legs. And if I then became disquieted, let
• 4:17:35
  Speaker 2: stolid people think, who do not see what the point
• 4:17:38
  Speaker 2: is beyond which I had passed, rise up, the Master said,
• 4:17:43
  Speaker 2: upon thy feet. The way is long and difficult, the road,
• 4:17:49
  Speaker 2: and now the sun to middle Tierce returns. It was
• 4:17:54
  Speaker 2: not any palace corridor there where we were, but dungeon natural,
• 4:18:01
  Speaker 2: with floor uneven and unease of light. Ere from the abyss.
• 4:18:06
  Speaker 2: I tear myself away, my master, said I, when I
• 4:18:10
  Speaker 2: had arisen to draw me from an error, Speak a little.
• 4:18:15
  Speaker 2: Where is the ice, and how is this one fixed
• 4:18:19
  Speaker 2: us upside down? And how in such short time from
• 4:18:23
  Speaker 2: eve to morn has the sun made his transit? And
• 4:18:27
  Speaker 2: he to me, thou still imaginest Thou art beyond the
• 4:18:31
  Speaker 2: center where I grasped the hair of the fell worm,
• 4:18:35
  Speaker 2: who minds the world. That side thou wast so long
• 4:18:40
  Speaker 2: as I descended, which round I turned me, Thou didst
• 4:18:44
  Speaker 2: pass the point to which things heavy draw from every side.
• 4:18:49
  Speaker 2: And now beneath the hemisphere art come opposite which overhangs
• 4:18:54
  Speaker 2: the vast dry land, and neath whose cope was put
• 4:18:57
  Speaker 2: to death the man who without sin was born and lived.
• 4:19:04
  Speaker 2: Thou hast thy feet upon the little spear which makes
• 4:19:07
  Speaker 2: the other face of the Judicia. Here it is morn
• 4:19:12
  Speaker 2: when it is evening there, and thee, with his hair
• 4:19:15
  Speaker 2: a stairway made us still fixed remaineth as he was
• 4:19:20
  Speaker 2: before upon this side. He fell down out of heaven,
• 4:19:25
  Speaker 2: and all the land that willem here emerged, for fear
• 4:19:29
  Speaker 2: of him made of the sea a veil, and came
• 4:19:32
  Speaker 2: to our hemisphere, and peradventure to flee from him what
• 4:19:37
  Speaker 2: on this side appears at the place vacant here, and
• 4:19:40
  Speaker 2: back recoil'd a place there is below from beezelbub as
• 4:19:47
  Speaker 2: far receding as the tomb abstends, which nought by sight
• 4:19:51
  Speaker 2: is known, but by sound of a small rivulet, that
• 4:19:57
  Speaker 2: there descendeth through chasm within the stone, which is gnawed
• 4:20:02
  Speaker 2: with course that winds about and slightly falls the Guide
• 4:20:07
  Speaker 2: and I into that hidden road. Now entered to return
• 4:20:10
  Speaker 2: to the bright world, and without care of having any rest,
• 4:20:16
  Speaker 2: we mounted up, he first and I the second, till
• 4:20:20
  Speaker 2: I be held through a round aperture some of the
• 4:20:23
  Speaker 2: beauteous things that Heaven doth bear. Thence we came forth
• 4:20:29
  Speaker 2: to re behold the stars. End of Inferno, Canto thirty
• 4:20:40
  Speaker 2: one to thirty four.
• 4:20:42
  Speaker 10: Canto Ie to run or better waters hoists its sail,
• 4:20:47
  Speaker 10: the little vessel of my genius, Now that leaves behind
• 4:20:51
  Speaker 10: itself a sea so cruel, and of that second kingdom,
• 4:20:56
  Speaker 10: will I sing, wherein the human spirit doth purge itself
• 4:21:00
  Speaker 10: health and to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. But let
• 4:21:05
  Speaker 10: dead poesy, here rise again, oh holy muses, since that
• 4:21:10
  Speaker 10: I am yours, and hear calliope somewhat ascend my song,
• 4:21:15
  Speaker 10: accompanying with that sound of which the miserable magpies felt
• 4:21:20
  Speaker 10: the blow so great that they despaired of pardon. Sweet
• 4:21:25
  Speaker 10: color of the oriental sapphire that was upgathered in the
• 4:21:29
  Speaker 10: cloudless aspect of the pure air as far as the
• 4:21:33
  Speaker 10: first circle. Unto mine eyes did recommence delight. Soon as
• 4:21:37
  Speaker 10: I issued forth from the dead air, which had with
• 4:21:41
  Speaker 10: sadness filled mine eyes and breast the beauteous planet, that
• 4:21:46
  Speaker 10: to love insights, was making all the orient to laugh,
• 4:21:50
  Speaker 10: veiling the fishes that were in her escort. To the
• 4:21:54
  Speaker 10: right hand, I turned and fixed my mind upon the
• 4:21:58
  Speaker 10: other pole, and saw for stars ne'er seen before, save
• 4:22:02
  Speaker 10: by the primal people, rejoicing in their flamelets. Seemed the
• 4:22:06
  Speaker 10: heaven O thou septain trianal and widowed sight, because thou
• 4:22:12
  Speaker 10: art deprived of seeing these, when from regarding them I
• 4:22:18
  Speaker 10: had withdrawn, turning a little to the other pole, there
• 4:22:22
  Speaker 10: where the wain had disappeared. Already, I saw beside me
• 4:22:26
  Speaker 10: an old man alone, worthy of so much reverence. In
• 4:22:31
  Speaker 10: his look that more owes not to father any sun.
• 4:22:36
  Speaker 10: A long beard, and with white hair intermingled, he wore
• 4:22:40
  Speaker 10: in semblance like unto the tresses, of which a double
• 4:22:43
  Speaker 10: list fell on his breast. The rays of the four
• 4:22:47
  Speaker 10: consecrated stars did so adorn his countenance with light that
• 4:22:52
  Speaker 10: him I saw, as were the sun before him. Who
• 4:22:56
  Speaker 10: are you, ye, who counter the blind river? Have fled
• 4:23:01
  Speaker 10: away from the eternal prison? Moving those venerable plumes? He said,
• 4:23:07
  Speaker 10: who guided you? Or who has been your lamp? In
• 4:23:11
  Speaker 10: issuing forth out of the night? Profound that ever black
• 4:23:16
  Speaker 10: makes the infernal valley? The laws of the abyss? Are
• 4:23:21
  Speaker 10: they thus broken? Or is there changed? In heaven? Some
• 4:23:26
  Speaker 10: counsel knew that, being damned, ye come unto my crags.
• 4:23:33
  Speaker 10: Then did my leader lay his grasp upon me, And
• 4:23:37
  Speaker 10: with his words, and with his hands and signs reverent
• 4:23:41
  Speaker 10: he made in me my knees and brow. Then answered him,
• 4:23:46
  Speaker 10: I came not of myself, A lady from heaven descended,
• 4:23:50
  Speaker 10: at whose prayers I aided this one with my company.
• 4:23:54
  Speaker 10: But since it is thy, will more be unfolded of
• 4:23:58
  Speaker 10: our condition? How it truly is mine? Cannot be that
• 4:24:02
  Speaker 10: this should be denied. Thee this one has never his
• 4:24:06
  Speaker 10: last evening seen, but by his folly was so near
• 4:24:10
  Speaker 10: to it, that very little time was there to turn.
• 4:24:14
  Speaker 10: As I have said, I unto him was sent to
• 4:24:17
  Speaker 10: rescue him, And other way was none than this to
• 4:24:21
  Speaker 10: which I have myself betaken. I have shown him all
• 4:24:26
  Speaker 10: the people of perdition, and now those spirits I intend
• 4:24:30
  Speaker 10: to show, who purge themselves beneath thy guardianship. How I
• 4:24:35
  Speaker 10: have brought him would be long to tell THEE. Virtue
• 4:24:38
  Speaker 10: descendeth from on high that aids me to lead him
• 4:24:41
  Speaker 10: to behold THEE and to hear THEE. Now may it
• 4:24:45
  Speaker 10: please THEE to vouchsafe his coming. He seeketh liberty, which
• 4:24:49
  Speaker 10: is so dear as knoweth he who life for her refuses.
• 4:24:54
  Speaker 10: Thou know'st it, since for her to THEE not bitter
• 4:24:58
  Speaker 10: was death in Utica, where thou didst leave the vesture
• 4:25:01
  Speaker 10: that will shine so the great day by us The
• 4:25:05
  Speaker 10: eternal edicts are not broken, since this one lives, and
• 4:25:09
  Speaker 10: Minos binds not me but of that circle I where
• 4:25:14
  Speaker 10: are the chaste eyes of thy Marcia, who in looks
• 4:25:17
  Speaker 10: still praise THEE, O Holy breast, to hold her as
• 4:25:21
  Speaker 10: thine own for her love. Then incline thyself to us,
• 4:25:25
  Speaker 10: permit us through thy sevenfold realm to go. I will
• 4:25:30
  Speaker 10: take back this grace from THEE to her. If to
• 4:25:33
  Speaker 10: be mentioned there below thou daanest Marcia so pleasing was
• 4:25:39
  Speaker 10: unto mine eyes while I was on the other side.
• 4:25:44
  Speaker 10: Then said he that every grace she wished of me
• 4:25:48
  Speaker 10: I granted.
• 4:25:50
  Speaker 11: Now that she dwells beyond the evil river, she can
• 4:25:55
  Speaker 11: no longer move me by that law, which, when I
• 4:26:00
  Speaker 11: issued forth from there was made.
• 4:26:03
  Speaker 10: But if a lady of Heaven do move and rule
• 4:26:08
  Speaker 10: thee as thou dost say, no flattery is needful. Let
• 4:26:15
  Speaker 10: it suffice THEE that for her thou ask me go
• 4:26:20
  Speaker 10: then and see thou gird this one about with a
• 4:26:24
  Speaker 10: smooth rush, and that thou wash his face, so that
• 4:26:28
  Speaker 10: thou cleanse away all stain therefrom For twere not fitting
• 4:26:35
  Speaker 10: that the eye, or cast by any mist, should go
• 4:26:39
  Speaker 10: before the first Angel, who is of those of Paradise.
• 4:26:44
  Speaker 10: This little island round about its base below there yonder
• 4:26:49
  Speaker 10: where the billow beats it doth rushes bear upon its
• 4:26:54
  Speaker 10: washy ooze. No other plant that putteth forth the leaf,
• 4:26:59
  Speaker 10: or that doth dure it can there have life, because
• 4:27:03
  Speaker 10: it yieldeth not unto the shocks thereafter be not this
• 4:27:09
  Speaker 10: way your return. The sun, which now is rising, will
• 4:27:14
  Speaker 10: direct you to take the mount by easier ascent. With
• 4:27:19
  Speaker 10: this he vanished, and I raised me up without a word,
• 4:27:23
  Speaker 10: and wholly drew myself unto my guide, and turned mine
• 4:27:27
  Speaker 10: eyes to him, And he began, sun, follow thou my steps.
• 4:27:33
  Speaker 10: Let us turn back, For on this side declines the
• 4:27:36
  Speaker 10: plain unto its lower boundaries. The dawn was vanquishing the
• 4:27:41
  Speaker 10: matin hour which fled before it, so that from Afar
• 4:27:45
  Speaker 10: I recognized the trembling of the sea along the solitary plain.
• 4:27:51
  Speaker 10: We went, as one who unto the lost road, returns,
• 4:27:55
  Speaker 10: and till he finds it seems to go in vain.
• 4:28:00
  Speaker 10: As soon as we were come to where the dew
• 4:28:02
  Speaker 10: fights with the sun, and being in a part where
• 4:28:06
  Speaker 10: shadow falls, little evaporates both of his hands upon the
• 4:28:10
  Speaker 10: grass outspread in gentle manner did my master place, whence I,
• 4:28:15
  Speaker 10: who of his action was aware, extended unto him my
• 4:28:19
  Speaker 10: tearful cheeks. There did he make in me uncovered wholly
• 4:28:25
  Speaker 10: that hue which hell had covered up in me. Then
• 4:28:29
  Speaker 10: came we down upon the desert shore, which never yet
• 4:28:33
  Speaker 10: saw navigate its waters any that afterward had known return
• 4:28:38
  Speaker 10: there he begirt me as the other pleased, Oh marvelous,
• 4:28:43
  Speaker 10: For even as he called the humble plant, such it
• 4:28:47
  Speaker 10: sprang up again suddenly there where he uprooted it. Kanto
• 4:28:53
  Speaker 10: too already had the sun the horizon reached, whose circle
• 4:28:58
  Speaker 10: of meridian cover or Jerusalem with its most lofty point,
• 4:29:03
  Speaker 10: and night that opposite to him revolves, was issuing forth
• 4:29:07
  Speaker 10: from Ganges with the scales that fall from out her
• 4:29:10
  Speaker 10: hand when she exceedeth, so that the white and the
• 4:29:14
  Speaker 10: vermilion cheeks of beautiful Aurora, where I was by too
• 4:29:18
  Speaker 10: great age, were changing into orange. We still were on
• 4:29:23
  Speaker 10: the border of the sea, like people who are thinking
• 4:29:26
  Speaker 10: of their road, who go in heart and with the
• 4:29:30
  Speaker 10: body stay and lo as, when upon the approach of morning,
• 4:29:36
  Speaker 10: through the gross vapors, Mars grows fiery red down in
• 4:29:40
  Speaker 10: the west, upon the ocean floor appeared to me. May
• 4:29:43
  Speaker 10: I again behold it a light along the sea, so
• 4:29:47
  Speaker 10: swiftly coming its motion by no flight of wing is equalled,
• 4:29:52
  Speaker 10: from which, when I a little had withdrawn mine eyes
• 4:29:55
  Speaker 10: that I might question my conductor again, I saw it brighter,
• 4:30:00
  Speaker 10: grown and larger. Then on each side of it appeared
• 4:30:04
  Speaker 10: to me I knew not what of white, And underneath it,
• 4:30:08
  Speaker 10: little by little there came forth another my master. Yet
• 4:30:13
  Speaker 10: had uttered not a word while the first whiteness into
• 4:30:17
  Speaker 10: wings unfolded. But when he clearly recognized the pilot, he cried,
• 4:30:22
  Speaker 10: make haste, make haste to bow the knee. Behold the
• 4:30:27
  Speaker 10: Angel of God. Fold thou thy hands. Henceforward shalt thou
• 4:30:32
  Speaker 10: see such officers. See how he scorneth human arguments, so
• 4:30:38
  Speaker 10: that nor o'er he wants, nor other sail than his
• 4:30:41
  Speaker 10: own wings between so distant shores. See how he holds
• 4:30:47
  Speaker 10: them pointed up to Heaven, fanning the air with the
• 4:30:51
  Speaker 10: eternal pinions that do not molt themselves like mortal hair.
• 4:30:57
  Speaker 10: Then as still nearer and mourn near us, came the
• 4:31:01
  Speaker 10: bird divine, more radiant. He appeared, so that near by
• 4:31:06
  Speaker 10: the eye could not endure him. But down I cast it,
• 4:31:11
  Speaker 10: and he came to shore with a small vessel, very
• 4:31:14
  Speaker 10: swift and light, so that the water swallowed not thereof
• 4:31:20
  Speaker 10: upon the stern stood the celestial pilot. Beatitude seemed written
• 4:31:26
  Speaker 10: in his face, and more than a hundred spirits sat
• 4:31:30
  Speaker 10: within in x to Israel de Egypto. They chanted all
• 4:31:35
  Speaker 10: together in one voice, with whatso in that psalm is
• 4:31:39
  Speaker 10: after written. Then made he sign of Holy Rood upon them,
• 4:31:44
  Speaker 10: whereat all cast themselves upon the shore. And he departed
• 4:31:49
  Speaker 10: swiftly as he came. The throng, which still remained there unfamiliar,
• 4:31:55
  Speaker 10: seemed with the place all round about them, gazing as
• 4:31:59
  Speaker 10: one who is new matters makes a say on every side.
• 4:32:04
  Speaker 10: Was darting forth the day the sun, who had with
• 4:32:08
  Speaker 10: his resplendent shafts from the mid heaven, chased forth the capricorn.
• 4:32:12
  Speaker 10: When the new people lifted up their faces towards us,
• 4:32:15
  Speaker 10: saying to us, if ye know, show us the way
• 4:32:19
  Speaker 10: to go unto the mountain, and answer made Virgilius, ye
• 4:32:24
  Speaker 10: believe perchance that we have knowledge of this place. But
• 4:32:28
  Speaker 10: we are strangers, even as yourselves. Just now. We came
• 4:32:32
  Speaker 10: a little while before you another way, which was so
• 4:32:36
  Speaker 10: rough and steep that mounting will henceforth seem sport to us.
• 4:32:41
  Speaker 10: The souls, who had, from seeing me draw breath, become
• 4:32:45
  Speaker 10: aware that I was still alive, Pallid, in their astonishment
• 4:32:49
  Speaker 10: became and as to messenger who bears the olive. The
• 4:32:54
  Speaker 10: people thronged to listen to the news, and no one
• 4:32:57
  Speaker 10: shows himself afraid of crowding. So at the sight of
• 4:33:01
  Speaker 10: me stood motionless those fortunate spirits, all of them as
• 4:33:06
  Speaker 10: if oblivious to go and make them fair. One from
• 4:33:10
  Speaker 10: among them saw I coming forward as to embrace me
• 4:33:14
  Speaker 10: with such great affection that it incited me to do
• 4:33:18
  Speaker 10: the like, Oh, empty shadows save in aspect. Only three
• 4:33:24
  Speaker 10: times behind it did I clasp my hands as oft
• 4:33:28
  Speaker 10: returned with them to my own breast. I think with
• 4:33:32
  Speaker 10: wonder I depicted me whereat the shadow smiled and backward drew,
• 4:33:37
  Speaker 10: and I, pursuing it, pressed farther forward gently. It said
• 4:33:42
  Speaker 10: that I should stay my steps. Then knew I who
• 4:33:46
  Speaker 10: it was, and I entreated that it would stop awhile
• 4:33:49
  Speaker 10: to speak with me. It made reply to me, even
• 4:33:53
  Speaker 10: as I loved THEE in mortal body, so I love
• 4:33:57
  Speaker 10: THEE free. Therefore I stop. But wherefore goest thou my
• 4:34:02
  Speaker 10: own cassella, to return once more? There where I am
• 4:34:07
  Speaker 10: I make this journey, said I, But how from THEE
• 4:34:11
  Speaker 10: has so much time been taken? And he to me
• 4:34:15
  Speaker 10: no outrage has been done me. If he who takes
• 4:34:19
  Speaker 10: both when and whom he pleases, has many times denied
• 4:34:23
  Speaker 10: to me this passage, for of a righteous will his
• 4:34:26
  Speaker 10: own is made. He sooth to say, for three months
• 4:34:30
  Speaker 10: past has taken whoever wished to enter with all peace.
• 4:34:35
  Speaker 10: Whence I, who now had turned unto that shore where
• 4:34:39
  Speaker 10: salt the waters of the Tiber grow benignantly by him,
• 4:34:43
  Speaker 10: have been received unto that outlet. Now his wing is pointed,
• 4:34:47
  Speaker 10: because for evermore assemble there those who towards Acheron do
• 4:34:52
  Speaker 10: not descend. And I, if some new law take not
• 4:34:58
  Speaker 10: from THEE memory or practice of the song of love,
• 4:35:01
  Speaker 10: which used to quiet in me all my longings, THEE
• 4:35:05
  Speaker 10: may it please to comfort therewial somewhat the soul of mine, that,
• 4:35:10
  Speaker 10: with its body hitherward coming, is so much distressed love
• 4:35:16
  Speaker 10: that within my mind discourses with me. Forthwith began he
• 4:35:21
  Speaker 10: so melodiously. The melody within me still is sounding my
• 4:35:26
  Speaker 10: Master and myself, and all that people which with him
• 4:35:31
  Speaker 10: were appeared as satisfied, as if naught else might touch
• 4:35:35
  Speaker 10: the mind of any We, all of us were moveless
• 4:35:39
  Speaker 10: and attentive. Unto his notes, and lo the grave old man, exclaiming,
• 4:35:45
  Speaker 10: what is this, ye laggard spirits, what negligence? What standing
• 4:35:51
  Speaker 10: still is this run to the mountain, to strip off
• 4:35:55
  Speaker 10: the slough? That let not God be manifest to you,
• 4:36:02
  Speaker 10: even as when collecting grain or tears, the doves together
• 4:36:07
  Speaker 10: at their pasture met quiet, nor showing their accustomed pride,
• 4:36:12
  Speaker 10: if aught appear of which they are afraid upon a
• 4:36:16
  Speaker 10: sudden leave their food alone, because they are assailed by
• 4:36:20
  Speaker 10: greater care. So that fresh company did I behold the song, relinquish,
• 4:36:27
  Speaker 10: and go towards the hill, as one who goes and
• 4:36:30
  Speaker 10: knows not whitherward. Nor was our own departure less in
• 4:36:34
  Speaker 10: haste Kanto three, inasmuch as the instantaneous flight had scattered
• 4:36:43
  Speaker 10: them asunder, or the plain turned to the mountain, whither
• 4:36:48
  Speaker 10: reason spurs us I pressed me close unto my faithful comrade.
• 4:36:53
  Speaker 10: And how without him had I kept my course? Who
• 4:36:56
  Speaker 10: would have led me up along the mountain. He seemed
• 4:37:00
  Speaker 10: to me within himself, remorseful, oh noble conscience, And without
• 4:37:06
  Speaker 10: a stain, how sharp a sting is trivial fault to thee.
• 4:37:12
  Speaker 10: After his feet had laid aside the haste which mars
• 4:37:16
  Speaker 10: the dignity of every act my mind that hitherto had
• 4:37:20
  Speaker 10: been restrained, let loose its faculties, as if delighted, and
• 4:37:25
  Speaker 10: I my sight directed to the hill the highest, towards
• 4:37:29
  Speaker 10: the heaven, uplifts itself. The sun, that in our rear
• 4:37:34
  Speaker 10: was flaming red, was broken in front of me into
• 4:37:37
  Speaker 10: the figure which had in me the stoppage of its rays.
• 4:37:41
  Speaker 10: Unto one side. I turned me with the fear of
• 4:37:44
  Speaker 10: being left alone. When I beheld only in front of
• 4:37:47
  Speaker 10: me the ground obscured, Why dost thou still mistrust my comforter,
• 4:37:54
  Speaker 10: began to say to me, turned wholly round. Dost thou
• 4:37:58
  Speaker 10: not think me with thee that I guide? Thee tis
• 4:38:02
  Speaker 10: evening there already where is buried. The body within which
• 4:38:05
  Speaker 10: I cast a shadow tis from Brundusiuan Tayan and naples.
• 4:38:10
  Speaker 9: Has it now?
• 4:38:12
  Speaker 10: If in front of me no shadow fall, marvel not
• 4:38:15
  Speaker 10: at it more than at the heavens. Because one ray
• 4:38:19
  Speaker 10: impedeth not another to suffer torments, both of cold and heat.
• 4:38:24
  Speaker 10: Bodies like this that power provides, which wills that how
• 4:38:28
  Speaker 10: it works be not unveiled to us. Insane is he
• 4:38:33
  Speaker 10: who hopeth that our reason can traverse thee illimitable way
• 4:38:37
  Speaker 10: which the one substance in three persons follows mortals remain
• 4:38:43
  Speaker 10: contented at the quia. For if ye had been able
• 4:38:47
  Speaker 10: to see all, no need there were for Mary to
• 4:38:51
  Speaker 10: give birth. And ye have seen desiring without fruit, those
• 4:38:55
  Speaker 10: whose desire would have been quieted, which evermore is given
• 4:39:00
  Speaker 10: them for a grief. I speak of Aristotle, and of Plato,
• 4:39:04
  Speaker 10: and many others. And here bowed his head, and more
• 4:39:09
  Speaker 10: he said no, and remained disturbed. We came meanwhile, unto
• 4:39:15
  Speaker 10: the mountain's foot. There so precipitate we found the rock
• 4:39:20
  Speaker 10: that nimble legs would there have been in Vain, TwixT
• 4:39:24
  Speaker 10: Lerchy and Turbia. The most desert, the most secluded pathway
• 4:39:30
  Speaker 10: is a stare easy and open if compared with that
• 4:39:35
  Speaker 10: who knoweth Now upon which hand the hill slopes down.
• 4:39:39
  Speaker 10: My master said, his footsteps staying, so that who goeth
• 4:39:43
  Speaker 10: without wings may mount. And while he held his eyes
• 4:39:48
  Speaker 10: upon the ground, examining the nature of the path, and
• 4:39:53
  Speaker 10: I was looking up around the rock on the left hand,
• 4:39:56
  Speaker 10: appeared to me a throng of souls. The moved their
• 4:40:00
  Speaker 10: feet in our direction, and did not seem to move.
• 4:40:04
  Speaker 10: They came so slowly. Lift up thine eyes. I to
• 4:40:08
  Speaker 10: the master, said, behold on this side, who will give
• 4:40:12
  Speaker 10: us counsel, if thou of thine own self can have
• 4:40:16
  Speaker 10: it not? Then he looked at me, and with frank expression, replied,
• 4:40:23
  Speaker 10: let us go there, for they come slowly, and thou
• 4:40:26
  Speaker 10: be steadfast in thy hope, sweet sun. Still was that
• 4:40:31
  Speaker 10: people as far off from us after a thousand steps
• 4:40:34
  Speaker 10: of ours, I say, as a good thrower with his
• 4:40:37
  Speaker 10: hand would reach, when they all crowded unto the hard
• 4:40:41
  Speaker 10: masses of the high bank and motionless stood and close
• 4:40:46
  Speaker 10: as he stands still to look, who goes in doubt? Oh,
• 4:40:51
  Speaker 10: happy dead o spirits elect already Virgilius made beginning by
• 4:40:57
  Speaker 10: that peace which I believe is waiting for you, all
• 4:41:01
  Speaker 10: tell us upon what side the mountain slopes, so that
• 4:41:05
  Speaker 10: the going up be possible. For to lose time irks
• 4:41:09
  Speaker 10: him most, who most knows? As sheep come issuing forth
• 4:41:15
  Speaker 10: from out the fold by ones and twos and threes,
• 4:41:19
  Speaker 10: and the others stand timidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils.
• 4:41:24
  Speaker 10: And what the foremost does the others do huddling themselves
• 4:41:28
  Speaker 10: against her, if she stop simple and quiet, and the
• 4:41:31
  Speaker 10: wherefore no not so moving to approach us? Thereupon I
• 4:41:37
  Speaker 10: saw the leader of that fortunate flock, modest in face
• 4:41:41
  Speaker 10: and dignified in gait. As soon as those in the
• 4:41:46
  Speaker 10: advance saw broken the light upon the ground at my
• 4:41:50
  Speaker 10: right side, so that from me the shadow reached the rock,
• 4:41:54
  Speaker 10: they stopped and backward drew themselves somewhat, and all the
• 4:41:59
  Speaker 10: others who came after them, not knowing why nor wherefore,
• 4:42:03
  Speaker 10: did the same. Without your asking. I confess to you
• 4:42:08
  Speaker 10: this is a human body which you see, whereby the
• 4:42:12
  Speaker 10: sunshine on the ground is cleft marvel. Ye not thereat,
• 4:42:17
  Speaker 10: but be persuaded that not without a power which comes
• 4:42:21
  Speaker 10: from heaven doth he endeavor to surmount this wall. The
• 4:42:27
  Speaker 10: master thus and said, those worthy people return, ye then,
• 4:42:32
  Speaker 10: and enter in before us, making a signal with the
• 4:42:36
  Speaker 10: back of the hand. And one of them began, whoe'er
• 4:42:40
  Speaker 10: thou art, thus going turn thine eyes. Consider well, if
• 4:42:45
  Speaker 10: e'er thou saw me in the other world. I turned
• 4:42:49
  Speaker 10: me towards him and looked at him closely. Blonde was
• 4:42:53
  Speaker 10: he beautiful and of noble aspect, But one of his
• 4:42:58
  Speaker 10: eyebrows had a blow divided, when with humility I had
• 4:43:03
  Speaker 10: disclaimed ere having seen him. Now behold, he said, and
• 4:43:09
  Speaker 10: showed me high upon his breast a wound. Then said
• 4:43:13
  Speaker 10: he with a smile. I am MANFREDI, the grandson of
• 4:43:18
  Speaker 10: the Empress Costanza. Therefore, when thou returnest, I beseech thee
• 4:43:24
  Speaker 10: go to my daughter beautiful, the mother of Cicily's honor
• 4:43:28
  Speaker 10: and of arrogance, and the truth teller, if aught else
• 4:43:31
  Speaker 10: be told. After I had my body lacerated by these
• 4:43:36
  Speaker 10: two mortal stabs, I gave myself weeping to him who
• 4:43:41
  Speaker 10: willingly doth pardon horrible my iniquities had been. But infinite
• 4:43:47
  Speaker 10: goodness hath such ample arms that it receives whatever turns
• 4:43:53
  Speaker 10: to it. Had but Cosenza's pastor, who in chase of me,
• 4:43:58
  Speaker 10: was sent by Clement at that time in God read
• 4:44:02
  Speaker 10: understandingly this page. The bones of my dead body still
• 4:44:07
  Speaker 10: would be at the bridgehead near unto Benevento, under the
• 4:44:12
  Speaker 10: safeguard of the heavy cairn. Now the rain bathes and
• 4:44:17
  Speaker 10: moveth them the wind beyond the realm, almost beside the Verde,
• 4:44:21
  Speaker 10: where he transported them with tapers quenched by Malleson. Of theirs,
• 4:44:26
  Speaker 10: is not so lost eternal love that it cannot return,
• 4:44:31
  Speaker 10: so long as hope has anything of green. True is
• 4:44:36
  Speaker 10: it who, in contumacy dies of Holy Church, though penitent
• 4:44:40
  Speaker 10: at last, must wait upon the outside this bank thirty
• 4:44:44
  Speaker 10: times told the time that he has been in his presumption,
• 4:44:49
  Speaker 10: unless such decree shorter, by means of righteous prayers become
• 4:44:55
  Speaker 10: See now, if thou hast power to make me happy
• 4:44:59
  Speaker 10: by making no unto my good costanza, how thou hast
• 4:45:03
  Speaker 10: seen me and this man beside, for those on earth
• 4:45:08
  Speaker 10: can much advance us here? Kanto four. Whenever by delight
• 4:45:18
  Speaker 10: or else by pain, that seizes any faculty of ours
• 4:45:23
  Speaker 10: wholly to that the soul collects itself, it seemeth that
• 4:45:27
  Speaker 10: no other power it heeds. And this against that error
• 4:45:32
  Speaker 10: is which thinks one soul above another kindles in us.
• 4:45:37
  Speaker 10: And hence, whenever aught is heard or seen, which keeps
• 4:45:42
  Speaker 10: the soul intently bent upon it, time passes on, and
• 4:45:46
  Speaker 10: we perceive it not because one faculty is that which listens,
• 4:45:52
  Speaker 10: and other that which the soul keeps entire. This is
• 4:45:57
  Speaker 10: as if in bonds, and that is free.
• 4:46:01
  Speaker 2: Of this.
• 4:46:02
  Speaker 10: I had experience positive in hearing and in gazing at
• 4:46:06
  Speaker 10: that spirit for fifty full degrees a prisen was the sun,
• 4:46:11
  Speaker 10: and I had not perceived it. When we came to
• 4:46:15
  Speaker 10: wear those souls with one accord cried out to us,
• 4:46:19
  Speaker 10: here is what you ask. A greater opening oft times
• 4:46:24
  Speaker 10: hedges up with but a little forkful of his thorns.
• 4:46:27
  Speaker 10: The villager, what time the grape imbrowns? Than was the
• 4:46:31
  Speaker 10: passageway through which assented only my leader and myself behind him.
• 4:46:36
  Speaker 10: After that company departed from us, one climbs Sanlio and
• 4:46:42
  Speaker 10: descends in Noli and mounts the summit of Bismontova with
• 4:46:47
  Speaker 10: feet alone. But here one needs must fly with the
• 4:46:53
  Speaker 10: swift pinions and the plumes. I say of great desire.
• 4:46:57
  Speaker 10: Conducted after him who gave me home and made a
• 4:47:01
  Speaker 10: light for me, we mounted upward through the rifted rock,
• 4:47:06
  Speaker 10: and on each side the border pressed upon us, and
• 4:47:09
  Speaker 10: feet and hands the ground beneath required. When we were
• 4:47:15
  Speaker 10: come upon the upper rim of the high bank, out
• 4:47:19
  Speaker 10: on the open slope, my master said I what way
• 4:47:23
  Speaker 10: shall we take? And he to me, no step of
• 4:47:27
  Speaker 10: thine descend still up the mount behind me, win thy
• 4:47:32
  Speaker 10: way till some sage escort shall appear to us. The
• 4:47:37
  Speaker 10: summit was so high it vanquished sight, and the hillside
• 4:47:42
  Speaker 10: precipitous far more than line from middle quadrant to the center.
• 4:47:48
  Speaker 10: Spent with fatigue, was I when I began, Oh, my
• 4:47:54
  Speaker 10: sweet father, turn thee and behold how I remain alone
• 4:48:00
  Speaker 10: unless thou stay, oh son, He said, up yonder drag thyself,
• 4:48:08
  Speaker 10: pointing me to a terrace somewhat higher, which on that
• 4:48:12
  Speaker 10: side encircles all the hill. These words of his so
• 4:48:16
  Speaker 10: spurred me on that I strained every nerve behind him,
• 4:48:21
  Speaker 10: scrambling up until the circle was beneath my feet. Thereon
• 4:48:26
  Speaker 10: ourselves we seated. Both of us turned to the east
• 4:48:30
  Speaker 10: from which we had ascended. For all men are delighted
• 4:48:34
  Speaker 10: to look back to the low shores. Mine eyes. I
• 4:48:38
  Speaker 10: first directed then to the sun, uplifted them, and wondered
• 4:48:44
  Speaker 10: that on the left hand we were smitten by it.
• 4:48:47
  Speaker 10: The poet well perceived that I was wholly bewildered at
• 4:48:52
  Speaker 10: the chariot of the light, where TwixT Ust and the
• 4:48:55
  Speaker 10: Aquilon it entered. Whereon he said to me, if Master
• 4:49:00
  Speaker 10: and Pollux were in the company of yonder mirror that
• 4:49:04
  Speaker 10: up and down conducteth with its light, thou wouldst behold
• 4:49:09
  Speaker 10: the Zodiac's jagged wheel revolving still more near unto the bears,
• 4:49:14
  Speaker 10: unless it swerved aside from its old track. How that
• 4:49:18
  Speaker 10: may be, wouldst thou have power to think collected in thyself,
• 4:49:22
  Speaker 10: imagine Zion together with this mount on earth, to stand,
• 4:49:27
  Speaker 10: so that they both one soul horizon have and hemispheres diverse.
• 4:49:33
  Speaker 10: Whereby the road which phaeton Alas knew not to drive,
• 4:49:38
  Speaker 10: thou'lt see how of necessity must pass this on one side,
• 4:49:44
  Speaker 10: when that upon the other. If thine intelligence write clearly,
• 4:49:48
  Speaker 10: heed truly, my master said, I never yet saw eyes
• 4:49:54
  Speaker 10: so clearly as I now discern. There where my wit
• 4:49:58
  Speaker 10: appeared incompetent that the mid circle of supernal motion, which
• 4:50:04
  Speaker 10: in some art is the equator called and I, remains
• 4:50:08
  Speaker 10: between the sun and winter, for reason which thou sayest
• 4:50:12
  Speaker 10: departeth hence towards the Septentrian what time the Hebrews beheld
• 4:50:17
  Speaker 10: it towards the region of the heat. But if it
• 4:50:20
  Speaker 10: pleaseth thee I fain would learn how far we have
• 4:50:24
  Speaker 10: to go. For the hill rises higher than eyes of
• 4:50:28
  Speaker 10: mine have power to rise. And he to me this
• 4:50:33
  Speaker 10: mount is such that ever at the beginning down below
• 4:50:37
  Speaker 10: tis tiresome, and I the more one climbs, the less
• 4:50:41
  Speaker 10: it hurts. Therefore, when it shall seem so pleasant to
• 4:50:45
  Speaker 10: thee that going up shall be to THEE as easy
• 4:50:49
  Speaker 10: as going down the current in a boat. Then at
• 4:50:52
  Speaker 10: this pathway was ending, thou wilt be there to repose
• 4:50:56
  Speaker 10: thy panting breath. Expect no more, I answer, and this
• 4:51:01
  Speaker 10: I know for true. And as he finished uttering these words,
• 4:51:06
  Speaker 10: a voice close by us sounded, per adventure, thou wilt
• 4:51:11
  Speaker 10: have need of sitting down? Eer that at sound thereof
• 4:51:16
  Speaker 10: each one of us turned round and saw upon the
• 4:51:20
  Speaker 10: left hand a great rock, which neither I nor he
• 4:51:23
  Speaker 10: before had noticed. Thither we drew, and there were persons
• 4:51:28
  Speaker 10: there who, in the shadow stood behind the rock, as
• 4:51:32
  Speaker 10: one through indolence is wont to stand. And one of them,
• 4:51:36
  Speaker 10: who seemed to me fatigued, was sitting down, and both
• 4:51:40
  Speaker 10: his knees embraced, holding his face low down between them, bowed. Oh,
• 4:51:45
  Speaker 10: my sweet lord, I said, do turn thine eye on
• 4:51:48
  Speaker 10: him who shows himself more negligent than evensloth herself his
• 4:51:52
  Speaker 10: sister were. Then he turned round to us, and he
• 4:51:57
  Speaker 10: gave heed, just lifting up his eyes above his thigh,
• 4:52:01
  Speaker 10: and said, now go thou up, for thou art faliant.
• 4:52:08
  Speaker 10: Then knew I who he was, and the distress that
• 4:52:12
  Speaker 10: still a little did my breathing quicken? My going to
• 4:52:15
  Speaker 10: him hindered not? And after I came to him, he
• 4:52:19
  Speaker 10: hardly raised his head, saying, hast thou seen clearly how
• 4:52:24
  Speaker 10: the sun o'er thy left shoulder drives his chariot. His
• 4:52:30
  Speaker 10: sluggish attitude and his curt words a little unto laughter
• 4:52:34
  Speaker 10: moved my lips. Then I began belacqua, I grieve not
• 4:52:40
  Speaker 10: for thee henceforth, But tell me wherefore seated in this
• 4:52:44
  Speaker 10: place art thou waitest thou an escort? Or hast thy
• 4:52:48
  Speaker 10: usual habit seized upon thee? And he o, brother, what's
• 4:52:55
  Speaker 10: the use of climbing? Since to my torment would not
• 4:53:00
  Speaker 10: let me go? The Angel of God, who sitteth at
• 4:53:03
  Speaker 10: the gate first Heaven, must needs so long revolve me
• 4:53:09
  Speaker 10: round outside thereof as in my life it did, since
• 4:53:14
  Speaker 10: the good size I to the end postponed unless heir
• 4:53:20
  Speaker 10: that some prayer may bring me aid, which rises from
• 4:53:24
  Speaker 10: a heart that lives in grace. What prophet others that
• 4:53:29
  Speaker 10: in heaven are heard not? Meanwhile, the poet was before me,
• 4:53:35
  Speaker 10: mounting and saying, come, now, see the sun has touched meridian,
• 4:53:41
  Speaker 10: and from the shore the night covers already with her
• 4:53:44
  Speaker 10: foot Morocco Kanto five. I had already from those shades
• 4:53:53
  Speaker 10: departed and followed in the footsteps of my guide, when
• 4:53:58
  Speaker 10: from behind, pointing his finger at me, one shouted, See
• 4:54:03
  Speaker 10: it seems as if shone not the sunshine on the
• 4:54:07
  Speaker 10: left of him below, and like one living seems he
• 4:54:11
  Speaker 10: to conduct him mine eyes. I turned at utterance of
• 4:54:16
  Speaker 10: these words, and saw them watching with astonishment. But me,
• 4:54:20
  Speaker 10: but me and the light which was broken. Why doth
• 4:54:25
  Speaker 10: thy mind so occupy itself? The master said that thou
• 4:54:30
  Speaker 10: thy paste dost slacken? What matters it to thee? What
• 4:54:34
  Speaker 10: here is whispered? Come after me and let the people talk.
• 4:54:39
  Speaker 10: Stand like a steadfast tower that never wags its top,
• 4:54:43
  Speaker 10: for all the blowing of the winds forevermore. The man
• 4:54:48
  Speaker 10: in whom is springing thought upon thought removes from him
• 4:54:52
  Speaker 10: the mark, because the force of one the other weakens.
• 4:54:58
  Speaker 10: What could I say an answer? But I come, I
• 4:55:03
  Speaker 10: said it somewhat with that color tinged, which makes a
• 4:55:07
  Speaker 10: man of pardon sometimes worthy. Meanwhile, along the mountain side
• 4:55:14
  Speaker 10: across came people in advance of us, a little singing.
• 4:55:18
  Speaker 10: The misaarere verse by verse when they became aware I
• 4:55:23
  Speaker 10: gave no place for passage of the sunshine through my body.
• 4:55:27
  Speaker 10: They changed their song into a long horse. Oh, and
• 4:55:32
  Speaker 10: two of them, in form of messengers, ran forth to
• 4:55:36
  Speaker 10: meet us and demanded of us of your condition. Make
• 4:55:40
  Speaker 10: us cognizant, and said, my master, ye can go your
• 4:55:46
  Speaker 10: way and carry back again to those who sent you,
• 4:55:50
  Speaker 10: that this one's body is of very flesh. If they
• 4:55:54
  Speaker 10: stood still because they saw his shadow, as I suppose is,
• 4:56:00
  Speaker 10: answered them him, let them honor. It may profit them
• 4:56:06
  Speaker 10: vapors enkindled. Saw I ne'er so swiftly at early nightfall
• 4:56:11
  Speaker 10: cleave the here serene, nor at the set of sun
• 4:56:16
  Speaker 10: the clouds of August. But upward they returned in briefer time,
• 4:56:21
  Speaker 10: and on arriving with the others, wheeled towards us like
• 4:56:25
  Speaker 10: troops that run without a Ragin this folk that presses
• 4:56:30
  Speaker 10: unto us is great and cometh to implore thee, said
• 4:56:34
  Speaker 10: the poet. So still go onward, and in going, listen,
• 4:56:40
  Speaker 10: O soul that goest to be attitude with the same members.
• 4:56:44
  Speaker 10: Wherewith thou wast born shouting they came a little stay
• 4:56:49
  Speaker 10: thy steps. Look if thou e'er hast any of us seen,
• 4:56:54
  Speaker 10: so that o'er yonder thou bear news of him. Ah,
• 4:56:58
  Speaker 10: Why dost thou go on? Ah? Why not stay long?
• 4:57:03
  Speaker 10: Since we all were slain by violence and sinners even
• 4:57:08
  Speaker 10: to the latest hour? Then did a light from heaven
• 4:57:12
  Speaker 10: admonish us, so that, both penitent and pardoning forth from
• 4:57:18
  Speaker 10: life we issued reconciled to God, who, with desire to
• 4:57:22
  Speaker 10: see Him stirs our hearts. And I, although I gaze
• 4:57:28
  Speaker 10: into your faces, no one I recognize, But if may
• 4:57:32
  Speaker 10: please you aught, I have power to do ye. Well
• 4:57:35
  Speaker 10: born spirits speak ye, and I will do it by
• 4:57:39
  Speaker 10: that peace, which, following the feet of such a God
• 4:57:43
  Speaker 10: from world to world, makes itself sought by me and
• 4:57:47
  Speaker 10: one began. Each one has confidence in Thy good offices
• 4:57:52
  Speaker 10: without an oath. Unless the eye cannot cut off the
• 4:57:56
  Speaker 10: eye will whence I, who speak an before the others
• 4:58:01
  Speaker 10: pray thee. If ever thou dost see the land that
• 4:58:06
  Speaker 10: TwixT Romagna lies and that of Charles, thou be so
• 4:58:10
  Speaker 10: courteous to me of thy prayers infano, that they pray
• 4:58:15
  Speaker 10: for me devoutly, that I may purge away my grave offenses.
• 4:58:20
  Speaker 10: From thence was I but the deep wounds through which
• 4:58:25
  Speaker 10: issued the blood wherein I had my seat, were dealt
• 4:58:28
  Speaker 10: me in bosom of the Antenori, there where I thought
• 4:58:32
  Speaker 10: to be the most secure, twas he of Esta had
• 4:58:36
  Speaker 10: it done, who held me in hatred far beyond what
• 4:58:41
  Speaker 10: justice willed. But if towards the Mirah I had fled
• 4:58:45
  Speaker 10: when I was overtaken at Oriaco, I still should be
• 4:58:50
  Speaker 10: your yonder where men breathe. I ran to the lagoon,
• 4:58:55
  Speaker 10: and reed's and mire did so entangle me. I fell
• 4:58:59
  Speaker 10: and saw a lake made from my veins upon the ground.
• 4:59:05
  Speaker 10: Then said another, Ah, be that desireful filled that draws
• 4:59:10
  Speaker 10: thee to the lofty mountain, as thou, with pious pity
• 4:59:15
  Speaker 10: aidest mine. I was of Montefeltro, and am Boncante Giovanna,
• 4:59:22
  Speaker 10: nor none other cares for me. Hence among these I
• 4:59:26
  Speaker 10: go with downcast front. And I to him, what violence
• 4:59:32
  Speaker 10: or what chance led thee estray so far from Campaldino?
• 4:59:36
  Speaker 10: That never has thy sepulture been known? Oh, he replied.
• 4:59:41
  Speaker 10: At Casantino's foot a river crosses named Archiano, borne among
• 4:59:47
  Speaker 10: the hermitage Inoponine, there where the name thereof becometh void.
• 4:59:53
  Speaker 10: Did I arrive, pierced through and through the throat, fleeing
• 4:59:57
  Speaker 10: on foot and bloodying the p There my sight lost,
• 5:00:02
  Speaker 10: I and my utterance ceased in the name of Mary,
• 5:00:07
  Speaker 10: and thereat I fell, and tenantless, my flesh remain'd. Truth
• 5:00:12
  Speaker 10: will I speak repeat it to the living God's angel
• 5:00:17
  Speaker 10: took me up, and he of Hell shouted, O thou
• 5:00:21
  Speaker 10: from heaven. Why dost thou rob me? Thou bearest away
• 5:00:26
  Speaker 10: the eternal part of him for one poor little tear
• 5:00:30
  Speaker 10: that takes him from me. But with the rest I'll
• 5:00:34
  Speaker 10: deal in other fashion. Well knowest thou how in the
• 5:00:39
  Speaker 10: air is gather'd that humid vapor, which to water turns
• 5:00:44
  Speaker 10: soon as it rises, where the cold doth grasp it.
• 5:00:49
  Speaker 10: He join'd that evil will which I seeks evil to intellect,
• 5:00:54
  Speaker 10: and moved the mist and wind by means of power
• 5:00:58
  Speaker 10: which his own nature gave. Thereafter, when the day was spent,
• 5:01:04
  Speaker 10: the valley from Prato Magno to the Great Yoke covered
• 5:01:08
  Speaker 10: with fog, and made the heaven above intent, so that
• 5:01:12
  Speaker 10: the pregnant air to water changed down, fell the rain,
• 5:01:17
  Speaker 10: and to the gullies came whate'er of it. Earth tolerted not,
• 5:01:23
  Speaker 10: and as it mingled with the mighty torrents towards the
• 5:01:27
  Speaker 10: Royal River with such speed it headlong rushed that nothing
• 5:01:31
  Speaker 10: held it back. My frozen body near unto its outlet,
• 5:01:37
  Speaker 10: the robust archaean found and into Arnaut thrust it and
• 5:01:42
  Speaker 10: loosened from my breast the cross I made of me.
• 5:01:46
  Speaker 10: When agony o'er came me. It rolled me on the
• 5:01:50
  Speaker 10: banks and on the bottom, then with its booty covered
• 5:01:54
  Speaker 10: and begirt me Ah when thou hast returned unto the
• 5:02:00
  Speaker 10: world and rested thee from thy long journeying. After the
• 5:02:05
  Speaker 10: second followed the third spirit, Do thou remember me? Who
• 5:02:09
  Speaker 10: am the pia Sienna made me unmade me marema. He
• 5:02:15
  Speaker 10: knoweth it who had encircled first, espousing me my finger
• 5:02:21
  Speaker 10: with his gem end of Purgatorio Canto one.
• 5:02:27
  Speaker 6: To five, Kanto six. When air is broken up the
• 5:02:32
  Speaker 6: game of Sara, he who has lost remains behind, despondent,
• 5:02:36
  Speaker 6: the throes repeating, and in sadness, learns the people with
• 5:02:40
  Speaker 6: the other all depart. One goes in front, and one
• 5:02:43
  Speaker 6: behind doth pluck him, and at his side one brings
• 5:02:46
  Speaker 6: himself to mind. He pauses not and this and that
• 5:02:50
  Speaker 6: one hears they crowd no more to whom his hand
• 5:02:53
  Speaker 6: he stretches, and from the throng he thus defends himself.
• 5:02:57
  Speaker 6: Even such was I in that dense multitude, turning to
• 5:03:00
  Speaker 6: them this way and that my face, and promising I
• 5:03:03
  Speaker 6: freed myself therefrom There was the Aretine, who from the
• 5:03:08
  Speaker 6: arms untamed of Guindetaco had his death, and he who
• 5:03:11
  Speaker 6: fleeing from pursuit, was drowned. There was, imploring, with his
• 5:03:15
  Speaker 6: hands outstretched, Frederic Novello, and that one of Pisa, who
• 5:03:19
  Speaker 6: made the good Marsuco seem so strong. I saw count Orso,
• 5:03:23
  Speaker 6: and the soul divided by hatred and by envy from
• 5:03:25
  Speaker 6: its body, as it declared, and not for crime committed
• 5:03:29
  Speaker 6: Pierre de Brace, I say, and here provide, while still
• 5:03:32
  Speaker 6: on earth, the lady of Brabant, so that for this
• 5:03:35
  Speaker 6: she be of no worse flock. As soon as I
• 5:03:39
  Speaker 6: was free from all those shades, who only prayed that
• 5:03:41
  Speaker 6: some one else may pray, so as to hasten their
• 5:03:44
  Speaker 6: becoming holy began I. It appears that thou deniest o
• 5:03:48
  Speaker 6: light of mine, expressly in some text, that Orison can
• 5:03:51
  Speaker 6: bend decree of heaven, and ne'ertheless these people pray for
• 5:03:54
  Speaker 6: this might then their expectation bootless be or is to
• 5:03:58
  Speaker 6: me thy saying not quite clear, And he to me
• 5:04:02
  Speaker 6: my writing is explicit and not fallacious, as the hope
• 5:04:05
  Speaker 6: of these if with sane intellect tis well regarded. For
• 5:04:10
  Speaker 6: top of judgment, doth not veil itself, because the fire
• 5:04:13
  Speaker 6: of love fulfills at once what he must satisfy who
• 5:04:15
  Speaker 6: here installs him. And there where I affirmed that proposition
• 5:04:20
  Speaker 6: defect was not amended by a prayer, because the prayer
• 5:04:23
  Speaker 6: from God was separate, verily in so deep a questioning,
• 5:04:28
  Speaker 6: do not decide unless she telleth thee who light twits
• 5:04:31
  Speaker 6: truth and intellect shall be. I know not if thou
• 5:04:34
  Speaker 6: understand I speak of Beatrice. Her shalt thou see above,
• 5:04:38
  Speaker 6: smiling and happy on this mountain's top. And I good leader.
• 5:04:43
  Speaker 6: Let us make more haste, for I no longer tire
• 5:04:46
  Speaker 6: as before, and see even now the hill of shadow casts.
• 5:04:51
  Speaker 6: We will go forward with this day, he answered, as
• 5:04:54
  Speaker 6: far as now as possible for us. But otherwise the
• 5:04:57
  Speaker 6: fact is, then thou thinkest ere thou thou art up there,
• 5:05:01
  Speaker 6: thou shalt see return him who now hides himself behind
• 5:05:04
  Speaker 6: the hill. So that thou dost not interrupt his rays.
• 5:05:07
  Speaker 6: But yonder there behold a soul that stationed all all alone,
• 5:05:11
  Speaker 6: is looking hitherward. It will point out to us the
• 5:05:14
  Speaker 6: quickest way we came up unto it, O Lombard's soul,
• 5:05:19
  Speaker 6: how lofty and disdainful thou didst bear, thee and grand
• 5:05:22
  Speaker 6: and slow in moving of thine eyes. Nothing whatever did
• 5:05:25
  Speaker 6: it say to us, but let us go our way,
• 5:05:28
  Speaker 6: eyeing us only after the manner of a cotiant lion.
• 5:05:31
  Speaker 6: Still near to it. Virgilius drew entreating that it would
• 5:05:34
  Speaker 6: point us out the best ascent. And it replied not
• 5:05:37
  Speaker 6: unto his demand. But of our native land and of
• 5:05:40
  Speaker 6: our life, it questioned us. And then the sweet guide
• 5:05:44
  Speaker 6: began Mantua, and the shade, all itself recluse, rode toward
• 5:05:49
  Speaker 6: him from the place where first it was, saying, O Mantuan,
• 5:05:53
  Speaker 6: I am soredello of thine own land. And one embraced
• 5:05:56
  Speaker 6: the other, Ah servile, italy, Grief's hostile, a ship without
• 5:06:01
  Speaker 6: a pilot in a great tempest. No lady, Thou of provinces,
• 5:06:04
  Speaker 6: but broth that noble soul was so impatient only at
• 5:06:08
  Speaker 6: the sound of his own native land to make it
• 5:06:10
  Speaker 6: citizen glad welcome there. And now within THEE are not
• 5:06:14
  Speaker 6: without war thy living ones, and one doth gnaw the other,
• 5:06:17
  Speaker 6: of those whom one wall and one foss shut in
• 5:06:20
  Speaker 6: search wretched one, all about thy shores, thy sea board.
• 5:06:24
  Speaker 6: And then look within thy bosom. If any part of
• 5:06:26
  Speaker 6: THEE enjoyeth peace, what boots it that for thee Justinian
• 5:06:30
  Speaker 6: the bridal mand If empty be the saddle without in
• 5:06:33
  Speaker 6: this the shame would be the less ah people, Thou
• 5:06:36
  Speaker 6: that oughtest to be devout, and to let Caesar sit
• 5:06:39
  Speaker 6: upon the saddle. If well thou hearest what God teacheth THEE, behold,
• 5:06:43
  Speaker 6: how fell this wild beast has become, being no longer
• 5:06:46
  Speaker 6: by the spur corrected, since thou hast laid thy hand
• 5:06:49
  Speaker 6: upon the bridle O German Albert, who abandonest her that
• 5:06:53
  Speaker 6: has grown recalcitrant and savage, and oughtest to bestride her
• 5:06:56
  Speaker 6: saddle bow, May a just judgment from the stars down
• 5:06:59
  Speaker 6: fall upon thy blood, and be it new and open,
• 5:07:02
  Speaker 6: that thy successor may have fear thereof, because thy father
• 5:07:05
  Speaker 6: and thyself have suffered by greed of those transalpine lands
• 5:07:09
  Speaker 6: distrained the garden of the empire to be waste. Come
• 5:07:13
  Speaker 6: and behold Montecchi and Cappelletti, Manaldi and Philipecchi, careless man,
• 5:07:18
  Speaker 6: those sad already, and these doubt depressed, come, cruel one,
• 5:07:22
  Speaker 6: Come and behold the oppression of thy nobility, and cure
• 5:07:25
  Speaker 6: their wounds. And thou shalt see how safe is Santi Furi,
• 5:07:28
  Speaker 6: Come and behold thy rome, that is lamenting widowed alone
• 5:07:32
  Speaker 6: and day and night, exclaims might Caesar, why hast thou
• 5:07:35
  Speaker 6: forsaken me? Come and behold how loving are the people.
• 5:07:39
  Speaker 6: And if for us no pity moveth thee? Come and
• 5:07:41
  Speaker 6: be made ashamed of thy renown. And if it lawful,
• 5:07:45
  Speaker 6: be o Jove Supreme, who upon Earth for us was crucified?
• 5:07:49
  Speaker 6: Are thy just eyes averted other ware or preparation? Is
• 5:07:52
  Speaker 6: it that in the abyss of thine own counsel for
• 5:07:55
  Speaker 6: some good thou makest, from our perception utterly cut off
• 5:07:58
  Speaker 6: for all the towns of Italy a full of tyrants,
• 5:08:01
  Speaker 6: And becometh a marcellus, each peasant churl who plays the
• 5:08:04
  Speaker 6: partisan My Florence, Well, may'st thou contented be with this
• 5:08:07
  Speaker 6: digression which concerns thee not thankest to thy people, who
• 5:08:11
  Speaker 6: such forethought take many at heart have justice, but shoot
• 5:08:14
  Speaker 6: slowly that unadvised they come not to the bow, but
• 5:08:18
  Speaker 6: on their very lips. Thy people have it. Many refuse
• 5:08:21
  Speaker 6: to bear the common burden, but thy solicitous people answereth
• 5:08:24
  Speaker 6: without being asked, and crieth I submit. Now be thou joyful,
• 5:08:28
  Speaker 6: for thou hast good reason, thou affluent, thou in peace,
• 5:08:32
  Speaker 6: thou full of wisdom. If I speak true, the invent
• 5:08:35
  Speaker 6: conceals it. Not Athens and Lacedemon, they who made the
• 5:08:39
  Speaker 6: ancient laws and were so civilized, made towards living well
• 5:08:42
  Speaker 6: with a little sign compared to THEE who makest such
• 5:08:45
  Speaker 6: fine spun provisions that to the middle of November reachest,
• 5:08:48
  Speaker 6: not what thou in October spinnest. How oft, within the
• 5:08:51
  Speaker 6: time of thy remembrance, laws, money, offices and usages, hast
• 5:08:55
  Speaker 6: thou remodeled and renewed thy members. And if thou mind
• 5:08:58
  Speaker 6: thee well and see the law, thou shalt behold thyself
• 5:09:01
  Speaker 6: like a sick woman who cannot find repose upon her down,
• 5:09:05
  Speaker 6: but by her tossing mordeth oft her pain cauntos seven.
• 5:09:12
  Speaker 6: After the gracious and glad salutations had three or four
• 5:09:15
  Speaker 6: times been reiterated. Sir Dello backwardrew and said, who are you?
• 5:09:21
  Speaker 6: Or ever to this mountain were directed the souls deserving
• 5:09:23
  Speaker 6: to ascend to God. My bones were buried by Octavian.
• 5:09:26
  Speaker 6: I am virgilious, And for no crime else did I
• 5:09:29
  Speaker 6: lose heaven than for not having faith in this wise.
• 5:09:33
  Speaker 6: Then my leader made reply, as one who suddenly before
• 5:09:36
  Speaker 6: him sees something whereat he marvels, who believes, and yet
• 5:09:39
  Speaker 6: does not saying it is it is not? So he appeared,
• 5:09:43
  Speaker 6: and then bowed down his brow, and with humility returned
• 5:09:46
  Speaker 6: towards him, and where inferiors embrace embraced him. O glory
• 5:09:51
  Speaker 6: of the latins, thou said he through whom our language
• 5:09:54
  Speaker 6: showed what it could do. O pride eternal of the
• 5:09:57
  Speaker 6: place I came from? What merit or what grace to
• 5:10:00
  Speaker 6: me reveals thee if I to hear thy words be worthy?
• 5:10:03
  Speaker 6: Tell me if thou dost come from Hell? And from
• 5:10:06
  Speaker 6: what cloister through all the circles of the DULPHO rem responded,
• 5:10:10
  Speaker 6: he have I come hitherward? Heaven's power impelled me, And
• 5:10:14
  Speaker 6: with that I come I by not doing, not by
• 5:10:17
  Speaker 6: doing lost sight of that high sun which thou desirest,
• 5:10:21
  Speaker 6: and which too late by me was recognized. A place
• 5:10:24
  Speaker 6: there is below, not sad with torments, but darkness, only
• 5:10:27
  Speaker 6: where the lamentations have not the sound of wailing, but
• 5:10:30
  Speaker 6: our sighs. There dwell I with the little innocence snatched
• 5:10:33
  Speaker 6: by the teeth of death, or ever they were, from
• 5:10:35
  Speaker 6: our human sinfulness, exempt their dwell I among those who
• 5:10:39
  Speaker 6: the three saintly virtues did not put on, and without vice.
• 5:10:42
  Speaker 6: The others knew and followed all of them. But if
• 5:10:46
  Speaker 6: thou know, and can some indication give us by which
• 5:10:49
  Speaker 6: we may the sooner come where purgatory has its right beginning,
• 5:10:53
  Speaker 6: he answered, no fixed place has been assigned us. Tis
• 5:10:56
  Speaker 6: lawful for me to go up and round, so far
• 5:10:58
  Speaker 6: as I can go. As guide, I join thee, but
• 5:11:01
  Speaker 6: see already how the day declines, and to go up
• 5:11:04
  Speaker 6: by night we are not able. Therefore tis well to
• 5:11:07
  Speaker 6: think of some fair sojourn souls there are on the
• 5:11:10
  Speaker 6: right hand here withdrawn. If thou permit me, I will
• 5:11:13
  Speaker 6: lead thee to him, and thou shalt know them not
• 5:11:16
  Speaker 6: without delight. How is this was the answer should one
• 5:11:19
  Speaker 6: wish to mount by night? Would he prevented be by others,
• 5:11:23
  Speaker 6: or mayhap would not have the power? And on the
• 5:11:26
  Speaker 6: ground the good Sordello drew his finger, saying, see this
• 5:11:30
  Speaker 6: line alone, thou couldst not pass after the sun is gone?
• 5:11:33
  Speaker 6: Not that aught else would hindrance give, however, to going up,
• 5:11:36
  Speaker 6: save the nocturnal darkness. This, with the want of power,
• 5:11:39
  Speaker 6: the will perplexes. We might indeed therewith return below and
• 5:11:43
  Speaker 6: wandering walk the hillside round about, while the horizon holds
• 5:11:47
  Speaker 6: the day imprisoned thereon, my lord, as if in wonder, said,
• 5:11:51
  Speaker 6: do thou conduct us thither where thou sayest that we
• 5:11:54
  Speaker 6: can take delight in tarrying? Little had we withdrawn us
• 5:11:58
  Speaker 6: from that place? When I perceived the mount was hollowed out,
• 5:12:01
  Speaker 6: in fashion as the valleys here are hollowed. Thitherwards, said
• 5:12:04
  Speaker 6: that shade will we repair whereof itself the hillside makes
• 5:12:07
  Speaker 6: a lap, And there for the new day will we
• 5:12:10
  Speaker 6: await TwixT hill and plain. There was a winding path
• 5:12:13
  Speaker 6: which led us to the margin of that dell, where
• 5:12:15
  Speaker 6: dies the border more than half away, gold and fine silver,
• 5:12:19
  Speaker 6: and scarlet and pearl white, the Indian wood resplendent and serene, fresh,
• 5:12:24
  Speaker 6: emerald the moment it is broken by our herbage, and
• 5:12:27
  Speaker 6: by flowers within that hollow planted, each one in color
• 5:12:30
  Speaker 6: would be vanquished, as by its greater vanquished is the less.
• 5:12:34
  Speaker 6: Nor in that place had nature painted only but of
• 5:12:37
  Speaker 6: the sweetness of a thousand odors made their a mingled
• 5:12:39
  Speaker 6: fragrance and unknown salve regina. On the greens and flowers.
• 5:12:44
  Speaker 6: There seated singing spirits I beheld which were not visible
• 5:12:48
  Speaker 6: outside the valley. Before the scanty sun now seeks his nest,
• 5:12:52
  Speaker 6: began the Manchuan, who had led us thither among them,
• 5:12:55
  Speaker 6: do not wish me to conduct you better from off
• 5:12:58
  Speaker 6: this ledge the acts and faces of all of them,
• 5:13:00
  Speaker 6: will you discriminate than in the plain below? Received among
• 5:13:03
  Speaker 6: them who sits highest and the semblance bears of having
• 5:13:07
  Speaker 6: what he should have done neglected, And to the other's
• 5:13:10
  Speaker 6: song moves not his lips. Rudolph the Emperor was who
• 5:13:13
  Speaker 6: had the power to heal the wounds that Italy have slain,
• 5:13:16
  Speaker 6: so that through others slowly she revives the other, who
• 5:13:20
  Speaker 6: in look doth comfort him. Govern the region where the
• 5:13:23
  Speaker 6: water springs, the moldo bears, the elbe, and the elbe
• 5:13:26
  Speaker 6: the sea. His name was Ottocar, and in swaddling clothes
• 5:13:30
  Speaker 6: far better he than bearded. Whence the sloths his son,
• 5:13:33
  Speaker 6: who feeds in luxury, and these and the small nose,
• 5:13:36
  Speaker 6: who close in council, seems with him that has an aspect.
• 5:13:39
  Speaker 6: So benign died fleeing and disflowering the lily. Look there,
• 5:13:43
  Speaker 6: how he is beating at his breast. Behold the other one, who,
• 5:13:47
  Speaker 6: for his cheek sighing, has made of his own palm
• 5:13:49
  Speaker 6: a bed father and father in law of France's pest.
• 5:13:53
  Speaker 6: Are they and know his vicious life and leude, and
• 5:13:56
  Speaker 6: hence precedes the grief that doth so pierce them. He
• 5:13:59
  Speaker 6: who peers so stalwart and chimes in singing with that
• 5:14:02
  Speaker 6: one of the manly nose, the chord of every valor
• 5:14:05
  Speaker 6: wore begirt. And if as king had after him remained
• 5:14:08
  Speaker 6: the stripling, who in rear of him is sitting well,
• 5:14:11
  Speaker 6: had the valor passed from vase to vase, which cannot
• 5:14:14
  Speaker 6: of the other heirs be said, Frederic and Jacamo possess
• 5:14:18
  Speaker 6: the realms, but none the better heritage possesses. Not oftentimes
• 5:14:22
  Speaker 6: upriseth through the branches the probity of man. And this
• 5:14:25
  Speaker 6: he wills, who gives it, so that we may ask
• 5:14:28
  Speaker 6: of him. Eke to the large nosed reach my words
• 5:14:32
  Speaker 6: no less than to the other peer, who with him sings.
• 5:14:35
  Speaker 6: Whence Provence and Apulia grieve already the plant is as
• 5:14:38
  Speaker 6: inferior to its seed as more than Beatrice, and Margaret
• 5:14:41
  Speaker 6: Costanza boasteth of her husband. Still behold the monarch of
• 5:14:45
  Speaker 6: the simple life, Harry of England, sitting there alone. He
• 5:14:49
  Speaker 6: in his branches, has a better issue. He who the
• 5:14:51
  Speaker 6: lowest on the ground among them sits looking upward, is
• 5:14:54
  Speaker 6: the Marquis William, for whose sake Alessandria and her war
• 5:14:58
  Speaker 6: make montferrat and connivesse weep. Canto eight. Twas now the
• 5:15:06
  Speaker 6: hour that turneth back desire in those that sail the
• 5:15:08
  Speaker 6: sea and melts the heart. The day they've said to
• 5:15:11
  Speaker 6: their sweet friends farewell. And the new pilgrim penetrates with love.
• 5:15:17
  Speaker 6: If he doth hear from far away a bell that
• 5:15:19
  Speaker 6: seemeth to deplore the dying day. When I began to
• 5:15:22
  Speaker 6: make of no avail my hearing, and to watch one
• 5:15:25
  Speaker 6: of the souls at prison that begged attention with its hand,
• 5:15:28
  Speaker 6: it joined and lifted upward both its palms, fixing its
• 5:15:31
  Speaker 6: eyes upon the orient, as if it said to God,
• 5:15:33
  Speaker 6: nought else I care for Teluci sante, so devoutly issued
• 5:15:37
  Speaker 6: forth from its mouth, and with such dulcet notes it
• 5:15:40
  Speaker 6: made me issue forth from my own mind. And then
• 5:15:43
  Speaker 6: the others sweetly and devoutly accompanied it through all the
• 5:15:46
  Speaker 6: hymn entire, having their eyes upon the supernal wheels. Here, reader,
• 5:15:51
  Speaker 6: fix thine eyes well upon the truth. For now, indeed,
• 5:15:53
  Speaker 6: so subtle is the veil, surely to penetrate within is easy.
• 5:15:57
  Speaker 6: I saw that army of the gentle born thereafterward, in silence,
• 5:16:01
  Speaker 6: upward gaze, as if in expectation, pale and humble, and
• 5:16:06
  Speaker 6: from on high come forth and down descend. I saw
• 5:16:08
  Speaker 6: two angels with two flaming swords, truncated and deprived of
• 5:16:12
  Speaker 6: their points, green as the little leafless just now borne.
• 5:16:15
  Speaker 6: Their garments were, which by their verdant pinions beaten and
• 5:16:18
  Speaker 6: blown abroad. They trailed behind. One just above us came
• 5:16:21
  Speaker 6: to take his station, and one descended to the opposite bank,
• 5:16:25
  Speaker 6: so that the people were contained between them. Clearly in
• 5:16:29
  Speaker 6: them discerned I the blonde head. But in their faces
• 5:16:31
  Speaker 6: was the eye bewildered as faculty, confounded by excess from
• 5:16:35
  Speaker 6: Mary's bosom. Both of them have come, Sordello said, as
• 5:16:38
  Speaker 6: guardians of the valley against the serpent that will come Anon. Whereupon, I,
• 5:16:43
  Speaker 6: who knew not by what road, turned around and closely
• 5:16:46
  Speaker 6: drew myself utterly frozen to the faithful shoulders. And once
• 5:16:50
  Speaker 6: again Sordello, now descend, we mid the grand shades, and
• 5:16:54
  Speaker 6: we will speak to them. Right pleasant will it be
• 5:16:56
  Speaker 6: for them to see you? Only three steps? I think
• 5:16:59
  Speaker 6: that I descended and was below, and saw one who
• 5:17:02
  Speaker 6: was looking only at me, as if he fain would
• 5:17:05
  Speaker 6: know me already. Now the air was growing dark, but
• 5:17:08
  Speaker 6: not so that between his eyes and mine it did
• 5:17:10
  Speaker 6: not show what it before. Locked up toward me, he moved,
• 5:17:14
  Speaker 6: and I towards him did move. Noble judge Nino, how
• 5:17:17
  Speaker 6: it me delighted when I beheld thee not among the damned.
• 5:17:21
  Speaker 6: No greeting fair was left unsaid between us. Then asked he,
• 5:17:25
  Speaker 6: how long is it since thou camest over the far
• 5:17:27
  Speaker 6: waters to the mountain's foot, Oh, said I to him,
• 5:17:30
  Speaker 6: Through the dismal places, I came this morn and am
• 5:17:33
  Speaker 6: in the first life, albeit the other going thus I gain,
• 5:17:37
  Speaker 6: And on the instant my reply was heard, he and
• 5:17:39
  Speaker 6: Sordello both shrank back from me, like people who are
• 5:17:42
  Speaker 6: suddenly bewildered, one to Virgilius, and the other turned to
• 5:17:46
  Speaker 6: one who sat there crying up. Corado, Come and behold
• 5:17:50
  Speaker 6: what God in grace has willed, then turning to me,
• 5:17:54
  Speaker 6: by that especial grace, thou owest unto him who so
• 5:17:57
  Speaker 6: conceals his own first, wherefore that it has no when
• 5:18:00
  Speaker 6: thou shalt be beyond the waters wide, tell my Govanna
• 5:18:03
  Speaker 6: that she pray for me, where answer to the innocent
• 5:18:06
  Speaker 6: is made. I do not think her mother loves me more,
• 5:18:09
  Speaker 6: since she has laid aside her wimple white, which she,
• 5:18:12
  Speaker 6: unhappy needs, must wish again through her full easily is comprehended.
• 5:18:17
  Speaker 6: How long an woman lasts the fire of love? If
• 5:18:20
  Speaker 6: I or touch do not relight it? Often so fair
• 5:18:23
  Speaker 6: a hatchment will not make for her. The viper marshaling
• 5:18:26
  Speaker 6: the milanais afield, as would have made Galura's cock. In
• 5:18:30
  Speaker 6: this wise spoke he, with the stamp impressed upon his
• 5:18:33
  Speaker 6: aspect of that righteous zeal which measurably burneth in the heart.
• 5:18:37
  Speaker 6: My greedy eyes still wandered up to heaven, still to
• 5:18:40
  Speaker 6: that point where slowest are the stars, even as a
• 5:18:42
  Speaker 6: wheel the nearest to its axel. And my conductor son,
• 5:18:46
  Speaker 6: what dost thou gaze up up there? And I said
• 5:18:49
  Speaker 6: to him, all those three torches with which this hither
• 5:18:52
  Speaker 6: pole is on fire. And he said to me, the
• 5:18:56
  Speaker 6: four resplendent stars thou sawest this morning are down yonder low,
• 5:19:00
  Speaker 6: and these have mounted up to where those were. As
• 5:19:03
  Speaker 6: he was speaking to himself, Sir Dello drew him and said, lo,
• 5:19:07
  Speaker 6: there our adversary, and pointed with his finger to look
• 5:19:10
  Speaker 6: thither upon the side on which the little valley no
• 5:19:14
  Speaker 6: barrier hath. A serpent was, perchance the same which gave
• 5:19:18
  Speaker 6: to Eve the bitter food TwixT grass and flowers. Came
• 5:19:21
  Speaker 6: on the evil streak, turning at times its head about
• 5:19:24
  Speaker 6: and licking its back, like a beast that smooths itself.
• 5:19:28
  Speaker 6: I did not see, and therefore cannot say how the
• 5:19:31
  Speaker 6: celestial falcons gan to move, But well I saw that
• 5:19:34
  Speaker 6: they were both in motion, hearing the air cleft by
• 5:19:37
  Speaker 6: their verdant wings. The serpent fled and round the angel's
• 5:19:40
  Speaker 6: wheeled up to their stations, flying back alike the shade
• 5:19:44
  Speaker 6: that to the judge had near approached when he had
• 5:19:46
  Speaker 6: called throughout the whole assault, had not a moment loosed
• 5:19:49
  Speaker 6: its gaze upon me. So may the light that leadeth
• 5:19:52
  Speaker 6: thee on high find in thine own free will as
• 5:19:55
  Speaker 6: much of wax as needful is up to the highest
• 5:19:57
  Speaker 6: azure began it. If some true intelligence, and so of
• 5:20:00
  Speaker 6: Valdimagra or its neighbor, thou knowest tell it me who
• 5:20:03
  Speaker 6: once was great there Currado Malespino, as I called, I'm
• 5:20:07
  Speaker 6: not the elder, but from him I descended to mine.
• 5:20:10
  Speaker 6: I bore the love which here refineth, Oh said I
• 5:20:14
  Speaker 6: unto him, through your domains I never passed. But where
• 5:20:17
  Speaker 6: is there a dwelling throughout all Europe where they are
• 5:20:19
  Speaker 6: not known? That fame which doeth honor to your house
• 5:20:22
  Speaker 6: proclaims its signors and proclaims its land, so that he
• 5:20:26
  Speaker 6: knows of them who never was there. And as I
• 5:20:28
  Speaker 6: hope for heaven, I swear to you your honored family
• 5:20:31
  Speaker 6: innot abates the glory of the purse and of the sword.
• 5:20:34
  Speaker 6: It is so privileged by use and nature, that though
• 5:20:37
  Speaker 6: a guilty head misguide the world soul, it goes right
• 5:20:40
  Speaker 6: and scorns the evil way, And he now go for
• 5:20:46
  Speaker 6: the sun shall not lie seven times upon the pillow
• 5:20:48
  Speaker 6: which the ram with all his four feet covers and bestrides.
• 5:20:52
  Speaker 6: Before that such a courteous opinion shall in the meddle
• 5:20:54
  Speaker 6: of thy head be nailed with greater nails than of
• 5:20:56
  Speaker 6: another's speech, unless the course of justice standeth still. Canto nine.
• 5:21:04
  Speaker 6: The concubine of old Tithonus now gleamed white upon the
• 5:21:07
  Speaker 6: eastern balcony, forth from the arms of her sweet paramour,
• 5:21:11
  Speaker 6: with gems her forehead, all relucant was set in the
• 5:21:14
  Speaker 6: shape of that cold animal, which with its tail doth
• 5:21:17
  Speaker 6: smite Amaine the nations and of the steps with which
• 5:21:20
  Speaker 6: she mounts. The night had taken two in that place
• 5:21:23
  Speaker 6: where we were, and now the third was bending down
• 5:21:25
  Speaker 6: its wings. When I, who had something of Adam in me,
• 5:21:29
  Speaker 6: vanquished by sleep, upon the grass, reclined. There were all
• 5:21:32
  Speaker 6: five of us already sat just at the hour when
• 5:21:35
  Speaker 6: her sad lay begins, the little swallow near unto the morning,
• 5:21:39
  Speaker 6: perchance in memory of her former woes, and when the
• 5:21:42
  Speaker 6: mind of man, a wanderer, more from flesh and less
• 5:21:45
  Speaker 6: by thought, imprisoned almost prophetic in its visions is in dreams.
• 5:21:49
  Speaker 6: It seemed to me I saw suspended an eagle in
• 5:21:52
  Speaker 6: the sky with plumes of gold, with wings wide open,
• 5:21:55
  Speaker 6: and intent to stoop. And this, it seemed to me,
• 5:21:58
  Speaker 6: was where had been by animede, his kith and kin abandoned.
• 5:22:02
  Speaker 6: When to the high consistory he was wrapped, I thought
• 5:22:05
  Speaker 6: within myself, perchance he strikes from habit only here, and
• 5:22:09
  Speaker 6: from elsewhere disdains to bear up any in his feet. Then,
• 5:22:13
  Speaker 6: wheeling somewhat more, it seemed to me terrible is the
• 5:22:16
  Speaker 6: lightning He descended and snatched me upward, even to the fire.
• 5:22:20
  Speaker 6: Therein it seemed that he and I were burning, and
• 5:22:23
  Speaker 6: that the imagined fire did scorch me, so that of
• 5:22:25
  Speaker 6: necessity my sleep was broken. Not otherwise Achilles started up
• 5:22:30
  Speaker 6: around him, turning his awakened eyes, and knowing not the
• 5:22:33
  Speaker 6: place in which he was, what time from Chirne stealthily
• 5:22:36
  Speaker 6: his mother carried him, sleeping in her arms, to Cyrus,
• 5:22:39
  Speaker 6: where from the Greeks withdrew him. Afterwards that I upstarted,
• 5:22:43
  Speaker 6: when from off my face sleep fled away, and pallid
• 5:22:46
  Speaker 6: I became as doth the man who freezes with affright.
• 5:22:50
  Speaker 6: Only my comforter was at my side, and the sun
• 5:22:52
  Speaker 6: was now more than two hours high, and turned toward
• 5:22:55
  Speaker 6: the sea shore was my face. Be not intimidated, said
• 5:22:59
  Speaker 6: my lord, Be reassured, for all is well with us.
• 5:23:03
  Speaker 6: Do not restrain, but put forth all thy strength. Thou
• 5:23:06
  Speaker 6: hast at length arrived at Purgatory. See there the cliff
• 5:23:09
  Speaker 6: that closes it around. See there the entrance where it
• 5:23:12
  Speaker 6: seems disjoined. While am at dawn, which doth precede the day,
• 5:23:15
  Speaker 6: when inwardly thy spirit was asleep upon the flowers that
• 5:23:18
  Speaker 6: deck the land below, There came a lady and said,
• 5:23:22
  Speaker 6: I am Lucia. Let me take this one up who
• 5:23:25
  Speaker 6: is asleep. So will I make his journey easier for him?
• 5:23:28
  Speaker 6: So Dello and the other noble shapes remained. She took thee,
• 5:23:32
  Speaker 6: and as day grew bright upwards, she came, and I
• 5:23:34
  Speaker 6: upon her footsteps. She laid thee here, and first her
• 5:23:38
  Speaker 6: beauteous eyes that open entrance pointed out to me that
• 5:23:41
  Speaker 6: she and Sleep together went away in guise of one
• 5:23:44
  Speaker 6: whose doubts are reassured, and who to confidence his fear
• 5:23:47
  Speaker 6: doth change after the truth had been discovered to him.
• 5:23:50
  Speaker 6: So did I change, And when without disquiet my leader
• 5:23:53
  Speaker 6: saw me up along the cliff, he moved, and I
• 5:23:56
  Speaker 6: behind him toward the height. Reader, thou seest well how
• 5:24:00
  Speaker 6: I exalt my theme, And therefore, if with greater art
• 5:24:03
  Speaker 6: I fortify it, marvel not. Thereat nearer approached we, and
• 5:24:08
  Speaker 6: were in such a place that there where first appeared
• 5:24:11
  Speaker 6: to me a rift, like to a crevice that disparts
• 5:24:13
  Speaker 6: a wall. I saw a portal, and three stairs beneath,
• 5:24:16
  Speaker 6: diverse in color to go up to it, and a
• 5:24:18
  Speaker 6: gate keeper, who yet spake no word. And as I
• 5:24:22
  Speaker 6: opened more and more mine eyes, I saw him seated
• 5:24:24
  Speaker 6: on the highest stair, such in the face that I
• 5:24:27
  Speaker 6: endured it not. And in his hand he held a
• 5:24:29
  Speaker 6: naked sword, which so reflected back the sunbeams towards us
• 5:24:33
  Speaker 6: that oft in vain, I lifted up my eyes. Tell
• 5:24:36
  Speaker 6: it from where you are? What is it you wish?
• 5:24:39
  Speaker 6: Began he to exclaim, where is the escort? Take heed
• 5:24:42
  Speaker 6: your coming? Hither harm you not a lady of heaven
• 5:24:46
  Speaker 6: with these things? Conversant my master answered him, but even
• 5:24:49
  Speaker 6: now said to us, thither go there is the portal,
• 5:24:53
  Speaker 6: and may she speed your footsteps in all good again began,
• 5:24:57
  Speaker 6: the courteous janitor, come forward. Then unto these stairs of ours.
• 5:25:01
  Speaker 6: Thither did we approach. And the first stair was marble white,
• 5:25:05
  Speaker 6: so polished, and so smooth. I mirrored myself therein as
• 5:25:08
  Speaker 6: I appear. The second tinked of deeper hue than purse,
• 5:25:12
  Speaker 6: was a chalciened and uneven stone, cracked all asunder lengthwise
• 5:25:16
  Speaker 6: and cross. The third, that uppermost rests massively porfiry seemed
• 5:25:20
  Speaker 6: to me as flaming red as blood, that from a vein,
• 5:25:23
  Speaker 6: as spiriting forth. Both of his feet were holding upon
• 5:25:27
  Speaker 6: this Angel of God upon the threshold seated, which seemed
• 5:25:30
  Speaker 6: to me a stone of diamond. Along the three stairs upward.
• 5:25:33
  Speaker 6: With good will did my conductor draw me, saying as
• 5:25:36
  Speaker 6: humbly that he the fastening may undo devoutly at the
• 5:25:40
  Speaker 6: holy feet I cast me, for mercy's sake, besought that
• 5:25:43
  Speaker 6: he would open. But first upon my breast three times
• 5:25:46
  Speaker 6: I smote seven peas upon my forehead. He described with
• 5:25:49
  Speaker 6: the sword's point, and said, take heed that thou wash
• 5:25:53
  Speaker 6: these wounds, when thou shalt be within ashes or earth
• 5:25:57
  Speaker 6: that dry as excavated of that same color were his attire.
• 5:26:00
  Speaker 6: And from beneath it, he drew two keys, one was
• 5:26:04
  Speaker 6: of gold and the other was of silver. First with
• 5:26:07
  Speaker 6: the white, and after with the yellow, plied he the door,
• 5:26:10
  Speaker 6: so that I was content whenever faileth either of these keys,
• 5:26:14
  Speaker 6: so that it turned not rightly in the lock. He
• 5:26:16
  Speaker 6: said to us, this entrance doth not open. More precious
• 5:26:20
  Speaker 6: one is, but the other needs more art and intellect.
• 5:26:23
  Speaker 6: Ere at unlock, for it is that which doth the
• 5:26:25
  Speaker 6: knot unloose from Peter. I have them, And he bade
• 5:26:28
  Speaker 6: me air rather in opening than in keeping shut, if
• 5:26:31
  Speaker 6: people but fall down before my feet. Then pushed the
• 5:26:35
  Speaker 6: portals of the sacred door, exclaiming, enter, but I give
• 5:26:38
  Speaker 6: you warning that forth returns whoever looks behind. And when
• 5:26:42
  Speaker 6: upon their hinges were turned round, the swivels of that
• 5:26:44
  Speaker 6: consecrated gait, which are of metal, massive and sonorous, roared,
• 5:26:48
  Speaker 6: not so loud nor so discordant, seemed Tarpeia when was
• 5:26:52
  Speaker 6: taken from it the good Metellus, wherefore meager it remained.
• 5:26:56
  Speaker 6: At the first thunder, peel I turned attentive, and te
• 5:26:59
  Speaker 6: deum Laudamus seemed to hear in voices mingled with sweet melody,
• 5:27:03
  Speaker 6: exactly such an image rendered me that which I heard,
• 5:27:06
  Speaker 6: as we are wont to catch when people singing with
• 5:27:08
  Speaker 6: the organs stand, for now we hear, and now hear
• 5:27:11
  Speaker 6: not the words Canto ten. When we had crossed the
• 5:27:18
  Speaker 6: thresholds of the door, which the perverted love of souls
• 5:27:21
  Speaker 6: disuses because it makes the crooked way seem straight re echoing,
• 5:27:25
  Speaker 6: I heard it closed again, And if I had turned
• 5:27:28
  Speaker 6: back mine eyes upon it, what for my failing had
• 5:27:30
  Speaker 6: been fit excuse? We mounted upward through a rifted rock
• 5:27:34
  Speaker 6: which undulated to this side, and that even as a
• 5:27:36
  Speaker 6: wave receding and advancing here it behooves us to use
• 5:27:40
  Speaker 6: a little art, began my leader to adapt ourselves now
• 5:27:43
  Speaker 6: here now there, to the receding side. And this our footsteps,
• 5:27:47
  Speaker 6: so infrequent, made that sooner had the moon's decreasing disk
• 5:27:51
  Speaker 6: regained its bed to sink again to rest, than we
• 5:27:54
  Speaker 6: were forth from out that needle's eye. But when we
• 5:27:56
  Speaker 6: free and in the open wir there were the mountain
• 5:27:59
  Speaker 6: backward partles itself. I wearied out, and both of us
• 5:28:03
  Speaker 6: uncertain about our way, we stopped upon a plain more
• 5:28:06
  Speaker 6: desolate than roads, across the desert, from where its margin
• 5:28:09
  Speaker 6: borders on the void to foot of the high bank
• 5:28:12
  Speaker 6: that ever rises a human body three times told would
• 5:28:15
  Speaker 6: measure and far as I of mine could wing its flight.
• 5:28:18
  Speaker 6: Now on the left and on the right flank, Now
• 5:28:20
  Speaker 6: the same this cornice did appear to me thereon our
• 5:28:24
  Speaker 6: feet had not been moved as yet when I perceived
• 5:28:27
  Speaker 6: the embankment round about which all right of assent had interdited,
• 5:28:31
  Speaker 6: to be of marble white, and so adorned with sculptures,
• 5:28:34
  Speaker 6: that not only Polycletus but Nature's self had there been
• 5:28:37
  Speaker 6: put to shame. The angel who came down to earth
• 5:28:40
  Speaker 6: with tidings of peace that had been wept for many
• 5:28:43
  Speaker 6: a year, and opened Heaven from its long interdite in
• 5:28:46
  Speaker 6: front of us, appeared so truthfully there, sculptured in a
• 5:28:48
  Speaker 6: gracious attitude. He did not seem an image that is silent.
• 5:28:52
  Speaker 6: One would have sworn that he was saying ave. For
• 5:28:55
  Speaker 6: she was there in effigy portrayed who turned the key
• 5:28:58
  Speaker 6: to ope the exalted Love, and in her mien this
• 5:29:01
  Speaker 6: language had impressed at Cheyen Seal a day as distinctly
• 5:29:05
  Speaker 6: as any figure stamps itself in wax. Keep not thy
• 5:29:09
  Speaker 6: mind upon one place alone, the gentle master said, who
• 5:29:12
  Speaker 6: had me standing upon that side where people have their
• 5:29:15
  Speaker 6: hearts whereat. I moved mine eyes, and I beheld in
• 5:29:18
  Speaker 6: rear of Mary, and upon that side where he was standing,
• 5:29:21
  Speaker 6: who conducted me another story on the rock imposed. Wherefore
• 5:29:25
  Speaker 6: I passed Virgilius and drew near, so that before mine
• 5:29:28
  Speaker 6: eyes it might be set there sculptured in the self
• 5:29:32
  Speaker 6: same marble were the cart and oxen drawing the holy arch,
• 5:29:35
  Speaker 6: wherefore one dreads an office not appointed. People appeared in front,
• 5:29:39
  Speaker 6: and all of them, in seven choirs, divided of two senses,
• 5:29:42
  Speaker 6: made one say no, the other yes. They sing likewise
• 5:29:47
  Speaker 6: unto the smoke of the frankincense, wherein there was imaged.
• 5:29:50
  Speaker 6: Forth the eye and nose were in the yes, and
• 5:29:52
  Speaker 6: no discordant made proceeded There the vessel Benedite, dancing with
• 5:29:57
  Speaker 6: girded loins. The humble Psalmist, and more or less than
• 5:30:00
  Speaker 6: king was he in this opposite represented at the window
• 5:30:03
  Speaker 6: of a great palace. Macall looked upon him, even as
• 5:30:06
  Speaker 6: a woman, scornful and afflicted. I moved my feet from
• 5:30:09
  Speaker 6: where I had been standing to examine near at hand
• 5:30:12
  Speaker 6: another story, which after me call glimmered white. Before me
• 5:30:16
  Speaker 6: there the high glory of the Roman prince was chronicled,
• 5:30:19
  Speaker 6: whose great beneficence moved Gregory to his great victory tis
• 5:30:23
  Speaker 6: of the Emperor Trojan. I am speaking, and a poor
• 5:30:25
  Speaker 6: widow at his bridle stood in attitude of weeping and
• 5:30:28
  Speaker 6: of grief. Around about him seemed it thronged and full
• 5:30:32
  Speaker 6: of cavaliers, and the eagles in the gold above them,
• 5:30:34
  Speaker 6: visibly in the wind, were moving. The wretched woman in
• 5:30:37
  Speaker 6: the midst of these seemed to be saying, give me vengeance, Lord,
• 5:30:41
  Speaker 6: for my dead son, for whom my heart is breaking,
• 5:30:43
  Speaker 6: and he to answer her. Now wait until I shall return,
• 5:30:47
  Speaker 6: and she, my Lord, like one in whom grief is impatient,
• 5:30:50
  Speaker 6: shouldst thou not return, And he who shall be where
• 5:30:54
  Speaker 6: I am, will give it thee and she good deed
• 5:30:57
  Speaker 6: of others? What boots it thee? If thou neglect thine own?
• 5:31:00
  Speaker 6: Whence he now comfort thee? For it behooves me that
• 5:31:03
  Speaker 6: I discharge my duty. Ere I move, Justice still wills,
• 5:31:07
  Speaker 6: and pity doth retain me. He who on no new
• 5:31:10
  Speaker 6: thing has ever looked, was the creator of this visible
• 5:31:12
  Speaker 6: language novel to us, For here it is not found.
• 5:31:16
  Speaker 6: While I delighted in contemplating the images of such humility,
• 5:31:19
  Speaker 6: and dear to look on for their master's sake. Behold
• 5:31:23
  Speaker 6: upon this side, but rare they make their steps. The
• 5:31:25
  Speaker 6: poet murmured, many people, these will direct us to the
• 5:31:29
  Speaker 6: lofty stair mine. Eyes that, in beholding were intent to
• 5:31:33
  Speaker 6: see new things of which they curious, are in turning
• 5:31:36
  Speaker 6: round towards him, were not slow. But still I wish not, reader,
• 5:31:39
  Speaker 6: thou shouldt swerve from thy good purposes, because thou hearest
• 5:31:43
  Speaker 6: how God ordaineth that the debt be paid. Attend not
• 5:31:46
  Speaker 6: to the fashion of the torment. Think what follows, Think
• 5:31:49
  Speaker 6: that at the worst it cannot reach beyond the mighty
• 5:31:52
  Speaker 6: sentence masters began. I that which I behold moving toward
• 5:31:57
  Speaker 6: us seems to me not persons, And what I know
• 5:31:59
  Speaker 6: not so in sight I waver, and he to me
• 5:32:03
  Speaker 6: the grievous quality of this Their torment bows them so
• 5:32:05
  Speaker 6: to earth that mine own eyes at first contended with it.
• 5:32:09
  Speaker 6: But look there fixedly and disentangle by sight what cometh
• 5:32:12
  Speaker 6: underneath those stones. Already canst thou see how each is stricken?
• 5:32:17
  Speaker 6: O Ye, proud Christians, wretched, weary ones who, in the
• 5:32:21
  Speaker 6: vision of the mind and firm confidence have in your
• 5:32:23
  Speaker 6: back sliding steps. Do you not comprehend that we are
• 5:32:26
  Speaker 6: worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth
• 5:32:30
  Speaker 6: unto judgment without screen? Why floats aloft your spirit high
• 5:32:34
  Speaker 6: in air, like are ye unto insects undeveloped? Even as
• 5:32:37
  Speaker 6: the worm in whom formation fails as to sustain a
• 5:32:40
  Speaker 6: ceiling or a roof in place of corbal Oftentimes a
• 5:32:44
  Speaker 6: figure as seemed to join its knees unto its breast,
• 5:32:46
  Speaker 6: which makes of the unreal real anguish arise in him
• 5:32:49
  Speaker 6: who sees it fashioned. Thus beheld I those when I
• 5:32:53
  Speaker 6: had taken good head? True is it? They were more
• 5:32:56
  Speaker 6: or less bent down, according as they more or less
• 5:32:58
  Speaker 6: were laden. And he who had most patience in his
• 5:33:01
  Speaker 6: looks weeping, did seem to say, I can no more.
• 5:33:07
  Speaker 6: Canto eleven, Our Father, thou, who dwellest in the heavens,
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  Speaker 6: not circumscribed. But from the greater love thou bearest to
• 5:33:15
  Speaker 6: the first effects on high, praised be thy name in
• 5:33:18
  Speaker 6: nine on impotence by every creature, as befitting is to render,
• 5:33:22
  Speaker 6: thanks to thy sweet effluence, come unto us the peace
• 5:33:25
  Speaker 6: of thy dominion, for unto it we cannot of ourselves
• 5:33:28
  Speaker 6: if it come not with all our intellect. Even as
• 5:33:31
  Speaker 6: thine own angels of their will make sacrifice to thee
• 5:33:34
  Speaker 6: Hosanna singing, so may all men make sacrifice of theirs.
• 5:33:38
  Speaker 6: Give unto us this day our daily manner, without in which,
• 5:33:41
  Speaker 6: in this rough wilderness backward goes he who toils most
• 5:33:44
  Speaker 6: to advance. And even as we the trespass we have suffered,
• 5:33:48
  Speaker 6: pardon in one another. Pardon thou, benignly, and regard not
• 5:33:52
  Speaker 6: our desert, our virtue, which is easily overcome, put not
• 5:33:56
  Speaker 6: to proof with the old adversary, but thou from him
• 5:33:59
  Speaker 6: whose spurs it. So deliver this last petition verily, Dear Lord,
• 5:34:04
  Speaker 6: Not for ourselves is made who need it not but
• 5:34:06
  Speaker 6: for their sake, who have remained behind us. Thus for
• 5:34:10
  Speaker 6: themselves and us good furtherance, those shades imploring went beneath
• 5:34:14
  Speaker 6: a weight like unto that of which we sometimes dream
• 5:34:17
  Speaker 6: unequally in anguish, round and round and weary, all upon
• 5:34:20
  Speaker 6: that foremost cornice, purging away the smoke stains of the world.
• 5:34:25
  Speaker 6: If their good words are always said for us, what
• 5:34:28
  Speaker 6: may not here be said and done for them by
• 5:34:30
  Speaker 6: those who have a good root to their will. Well,
• 5:34:32
  Speaker 6: may be help them wash away the marks that hence
• 5:34:34
  Speaker 6: they carried, so that clean and light they may ascend
• 5:34:37
  Speaker 6: unto the starry wheels. Ah, So may pity and justice
• 5:34:42
  Speaker 6: you disburden soon, that ye may have power to move
• 5:34:45
  Speaker 6: the wing that shall uplift you. After your desire. Show
• 5:34:48
  Speaker 6: us on which hand towards the stars the way is shortest,
• 5:34:51
  Speaker 6: and if more than one the passes, point us out
• 5:34:54
  Speaker 6: that which least abruptly falls. For he who cometh with
• 5:34:57
  Speaker 6: me through the burden of Adam's flesh, wherewith he is
• 5:34:59
  Speaker 6: an vested against his will, is chary of his climbing.
• 5:35:04
  Speaker 6: The words of theirs which they returned to those that
• 5:35:06
  Speaker 6: he whom I was following, had spoken. It was not
• 5:35:09
  Speaker 6: manifest from whom they came, but it was said to
• 5:35:13
  Speaker 6: the right hand, come with us along the bank, and
• 5:35:15
  Speaker 6: ye shall find a past possible for living person to ascend.
• 5:35:19
  Speaker 6: And were I not impeded by the stone which this
• 5:35:21
  Speaker 6: proud neck of mine doth subjugate, whence I am forced
• 5:35:24
  Speaker 6: to hold my visage down him who still lives and
• 5:35:27
  Speaker 6: does not name himself, would I regard to see if
• 5:35:30
  Speaker 6: I may know him and make him piteous unto this burden.
• 5:35:34
  Speaker 6: A Latin was I, and born of a great Tuscan.
• 5:35:37
  Speaker 6: Genielmo Aldobrancheski was my father. I know not if his
• 5:35:40
  Speaker 6: name were ever with you. The ancient blood and deeds
• 5:35:43
  Speaker 6: of gallantry of my progenitors so arrogant made me that,
• 5:35:47
  Speaker 6: thinking not upon the common mother, all men I held
• 5:35:49
  Speaker 6: in scorn to such extent I died. Therefore, as know
• 5:35:52
  Speaker 6: the Sienese and every child in Campagnatico I am umberto,
• 5:35:57
  Speaker 6: and not to me alone. Hath pride done harm? But
• 5:36:00
  Speaker 6: all my kiss and kin has with it dragged into adversity.
• 5:36:03
  Speaker 6: And here must I this burden bear for it till
• 5:36:06
  Speaker 6: God be satisfied. Since I did not among the living,
• 5:36:09
  Speaker 6: here among the dead, listening, I downward bent my countenance,
• 5:36:14
  Speaker 6: and one of them, not this one who was speaking,
• 5:36:17
  Speaker 6: twisted himself beneath the weight that cramps him, and looked
• 5:36:20
  Speaker 6: at me and knew me, and called out, keeping his
• 5:36:23
  Speaker 6: eyes laboriously fixed on me, who all bowed down was
• 5:36:26
  Speaker 6: going with them? Oh, asked I him, art thou not
• 5:36:29
  Speaker 6: odoreessi Agobio's honor and the honor of that art which
• 5:36:32
  Speaker 6: is in Paris called illuminating brother, said he more laughing
• 5:36:37
  Speaker 6: are the leaves touched by the brush of Franco Bolonne's all.
• 5:36:40
  Speaker 6: He is the honor now and mine in part in
• 5:36:43
  Speaker 6: sooth I had not been so courteous while I was
• 5:36:45
  Speaker 6: living for the great desire of excellence on which my
• 5:36:48
  Speaker 6: heart was bent. Here of such pride is paid the forfeiture.
• 5:36:52
  Speaker 6: And yet I should not be here, were it not that,
• 5:36:55
  Speaker 6: having power to sin, I turned to God. O thou
• 5:36:58
  Speaker 6: vain glory of the human power, How little green upon
• 5:37:01
  Speaker 6: thy summit lingers, if it be not followed by an
• 5:37:04
  Speaker 6: age of grossness. In painting, Chimabuoe thought it was he
• 5:37:07
  Speaker 6: that should hold the field. Now Joto has the cry,
• 5:37:10
  Speaker 6: so that the other's fame is growing dim. So has
• 5:37:13
  Speaker 6: one Guido from the other taken the glory of our tongue,
• 5:37:16
  Speaker 6: And he perchance is born who from the nest shall
• 5:37:19
  Speaker 6: chase them both. Naught is this mundane rumor, but a
• 5:37:22
  Speaker 6: breath of wind that comes now this way and now that,
• 5:37:25
  Speaker 6: and changes name because it changes side. What fame shalt
• 5:37:29
  Speaker 6: thou have more if the old if old peel off
• 5:37:31
  Speaker 6: from thee thy flesh, than if thou hadst been dead
• 5:37:33
  Speaker 6: before thou left the Papua and the Dindie ere pass
• 5:37:36
  Speaker 6: a thousand years, which is a shorter space to thee
• 5:37:39
  Speaker 6: turn than the twinkling of an eye, unto the circle
• 5:37:41
  Speaker 6: that in heaven wheels slowest. With him who takes so
• 5:37:45
  Speaker 6: little of the road in front of me, all Tuscany resounded,
• 5:37:48
  Speaker 6: and now he scarce his lisp of in Siena, where
• 5:37:50
  Speaker 6: he was lured. What time was overthrown the Florentine delirium
• 5:37:54
  Speaker 6: that superb was at that day as mounts prostitute. Your
• 5:37:58
  Speaker 6: reputation is the color of grass which comes and goes,
• 5:38:01
  Speaker 6: and that discolors it by wish. It issues green from
• 5:38:03
  Speaker 6: out the earth. And I thy true speech fills my
• 5:38:07
  Speaker 6: heart with good humility and great tumor. Thou assuagest. But
• 5:38:11
  Speaker 6: who is he of whom thou now spakest that he
• 5:38:14
  Speaker 6: replied is Provenceen Salbani. And he is here because he
• 5:38:18
  Speaker 6: had presumed to bring Sienna all into his hands. He
• 5:38:21
  Speaker 6: has gone thus and goeth without rest ever since he died.
• 5:38:25
  Speaker 6: Such money renders back in payment. He who on earth
• 5:38:28
  Speaker 6: is too daring. And I if every spirit who awaits
• 5:38:32
  Speaker 6: the verge of life, before that he repent remains below
• 5:38:35
  Speaker 6: there and ascends not thither unless good orison shall him
• 5:38:38
  Speaker 6: be stead until as much time as he lived be passed.
• 5:38:42
  Speaker 6: How was the coming granted him enlargest when he and
• 5:38:45
  Speaker 6: greatest splendor lived, said he freely upon the Campo of Siena,
• 5:38:50
  Speaker 6: all shame being laid aside, he placed himself and there
• 5:38:53
  Speaker 6: to draw his friend from the duress which in the
• 5:38:55
  Speaker 6: prison house of Charles he suffered. He brought himself to
• 5:38:58
  Speaker 6: tremble in each vein. I say no more, and know
• 5:39:01
  Speaker 6: that I speak darkly. Yet little time shall pass before
• 5:39:04
  Speaker 6: thy neighbors will so demean themselves that thou canst gloss it.
• 5:39:08
  Speaker 6: This action has released him from those confines. End of
• 5:39:12
  Speaker 6: Purgatorio Cantos six through.
• 5:39:15
  Speaker 4: Eleven, Panto twelve. A breast like Oxen going in a yoke, I,
• 5:39:20
  Speaker 4: with that heavy laden soul, went on as long as
• 5:39:23
  Speaker 4: the sweet pedagogue permitted. But when he said leave him
• 5:39:26
  Speaker 4: an onward pass, for here tis good that, with the
• 5:39:29
  Speaker 4: sail and oars, as much as may be, each push
• 5:39:32
  Speaker 4: on his bark upright as walking wills it, I redrest
• 5:39:36
  Speaker 4: my person, notwithstanding that my thoughts remained with me. Downcast
• 5:39:39
  Speaker 4: and abashed. I had moved on and followed willingly the
• 5:39:42
  Speaker 4: footsteps of my master, and we both already showed how
• 5:39:45
  Speaker 4: light a foot we were, when unto me, he said,
• 5:39:48
  Speaker 4: cast down thine eyes. Twere well for thee to alleviate
• 5:39:51
  Speaker 4: the way to look upon the bed beneath thy feet,
• 5:39:54
  Speaker 4: as that some memory may exist of them above the
• 5:39:57
  Speaker 4: buried dead, their tombs on earth bare sculptured on them
• 5:39:59
  Speaker 4: what they were before. Whence often there we weep for
• 5:40:02
  Speaker 4: them afresh from pricking of remembrance, which alone to the
• 5:40:05
  Speaker 4: compassionate Dolf set its spur. So saw I there but
• 5:40:09
  Speaker 4: of a better semblance, in point of artifice, with figures
• 5:40:11
  Speaker 4: covered whate'er is pathway from the mount projects, I saw
• 5:40:15
  Speaker 4: that one who was created noble more than all other creatures,
• 5:40:18
  Speaker 4: down from heaven, flaming with lightnings fall upon one side,
• 5:40:22
  Speaker 4: I saw Briarius, smitten by the dart celestial, lying on
• 5:40:25
  Speaker 4: the other side, heavy upon the earth by mortal frost.
• 5:40:29
  Speaker 4: I saw Theembraeus, Pallas, saw and Mars, still clad in armor,
• 5:40:33
  Speaker 4: round about their father, gaze at the scattered members of
• 5:40:36
  Speaker 4: the giants. I saw at foot of his great labor Nimrod,
• 5:40:40
  Speaker 4: as if bewildered, looking at the people who had been
• 5:40:43
  Speaker 4: proud with him in cennaar oh Niobe, with what afflicted
• 5:40:46
  Speaker 4: eyes thee I beheld upon the pathway traced between thy
• 5:40:50
  Speaker 4: seven and seven children slain oh saw how fallen upon
• 5:40:54
  Speaker 4: thy proper sword didst thou appear their lifeless in Gilboa,
• 5:40:57
  Speaker 4: that felt thereafter neither rain nor dew o mad aracne
• 5:41:01
  Speaker 4: so i thee beheld e'en. Then half spider sat upon
• 5:41:05
  Speaker 4: the shreds of fabric, wrought an evil hour for thee
• 5:41:08
  Speaker 4: O re hobom no more seems to threaten thine image
• 5:41:11
  Speaker 4: there but full of consternation, a chariot bears it off
• 5:41:14
  Speaker 4: when none pursues. Displayed moreover, the Adamantine pavement, how unto
• 5:41:19
  Speaker 4: his own mother made Alcmaeon costly appear the luckless ornament
• 5:41:23
  Speaker 4: displayed how his own sons did throw themselves upon Senecherub
• 5:41:27
  Speaker 4: within the temple, and how he, being dead, they left
• 5:41:30
  Speaker 4: him there. Displayed the ruin and the cruel carnage that
• 5:41:33
  Speaker 4: to Myrius wrought when she to Cyrus said blood didst
• 5:41:36
  Speaker 4: thou thirst for? And with blood I glut thee displayed
• 5:41:40
  Speaker 4: how routed fled the Assyrians. After that, Ola farness had
• 5:41:43
  Speaker 4: been slain, and likewise the remainder of that slaughter. I
• 5:41:47
  Speaker 4: saw their troy in ashes and in caverns. O Ilian thee,
• 5:41:51
  Speaker 4: how object and debased, displayed the image that is there
• 5:41:53
  Speaker 4: discerned whoe'er of pencil master was or style? They could
• 5:41:58
  Speaker 4: portray the shades and traits which there would cause each
• 5:42:00
  Speaker 4: subtled genius to admire. Dead seemed the dead, the living
• 5:42:04
  Speaker 4: seemed alive better than I saw nought who saw the truth.
• 5:42:08
  Speaker 4: After that I trod upon while bode I went. Now
• 5:42:12
  Speaker 4: wax ye proud and on with looks uplifted ye, sons
• 5:42:15
  Speaker 4: of Eve, and bow not down your faces, so that
• 5:42:17
  Speaker 4: ye may behold your evil ways. More of the mount
• 5:42:21
  Speaker 4: by us was now encompassed, and far more spent the
• 5:42:23
  Speaker 4: circuit of the sun than had the mind preoccupied imagined.
• 5:42:27
  Speaker 4: When he whoever watchful in advance, was going on, began,
• 5:42:30
  Speaker 4: lift up thy head, tis no more time to go,
• 5:42:32
  Speaker 4: Thus meditating, Lo, there an angel who was making haste
• 5:42:36
  Speaker 4: to come toward us. Lo returning is from service of
• 5:42:39
  Speaker 4: the day, the sixth handmaiden, with reverence thine axe and
• 5:42:43
  Speaker 4: looks adorned, so that he may delight to speed us upward,
• 5:42:46
  Speaker 4: think that this day will never dawn again. I was
• 5:42:49
  Speaker 4: familiar with his admonition, ever to lose no time. So
• 5:42:52
  Speaker 4: on this theme he could not, unto me speak covertly.
• 5:42:56
  Speaker 4: Towards us came the being beautiful, vested in white, and
• 5:42:59
  Speaker 4: in his count incident such as appears the tremulous morning star.
• 5:43:03
  Speaker 4: His arms he opened and opened, Then his wings come,
• 5:43:06
  Speaker 4: said he near at hand, here are the steps, and
• 5:43:09
  Speaker 4: easy from henceforth is the ascent. At this announcement, few
• 5:43:13
  Speaker 4: are they who come, Oh, human creatures, born to soar aloft?
• 5:43:16
  Speaker 4: Why fall ye? Thus before a little wind, he led
• 5:43:20
  Speaker 4: us on to where the rock was cleft. There smote
• 5:43:22
  Speaker 4: upon my forehead with his wings. Then a safe passage
• 5:43:25
  Speaker 4: promised them to me, as on the right hand to
• 5:43:27
  Speaker 4: ascend the mount were seated as the church that lordeth
• 5:43:30
  Speaker 4: it over the well guided above Rubuccanti. The bold abruptness
• 5:43:34
  Speaker 4: of the ascent is broken by stairways that were made
• 5:43:36
  Speaker 4: there in the age when still were safe. The ledger
• 5:43:38
  Speaker 4: and the stave e'en thus attempered is the bank which
• 5:43:42
  Speaker 4: falls sheer downward from the second circle. There but on
• 5:43:45
  Speaker 4: this side, and that the high rock grays. As we
• 5:43:48
  Speaker 4: were turning thitherward, our persons bayatti popees spirto voices, saying,
• 5:43:53
  Speaker 4: in such wise the speech could tell it not ah me,
• 5:43:57
  Speaker 4: how different are these entrances from the infernal? For with
• 5:44:00
  Speaker 4: anthems here one enters, and below with wild laments, we
• 5:44:04
  Speaker 4: now were hunting up the sacred stairs, and it appeared
• 5:44:06
  Speaker 4: to me by far more easy than on the plain
• 5:44:08
  Speaker 4: it it had feared before. Whence I, my master, say,
• 5:44:12
  Speaker 4: what heavy thing has been uplifted from me, so that
• 5:44:14
  Speaker 4: hardly aught of fatigue is felt by me in walking?
• 5:44:17
  Speaker 4: He answered, when the peas which have remained still on
• 5:44:20
  Speaker 4: thy face almost obliterate, shall wholly as the first one
• 5:44:23
  Speaker 4: as be erased thy feet will be so vanquished by
• 5:44:26
  Speaker 4: good will, that not alone they shall not feel fatigue,
• 5:44:29
  Speaker 4: but urging up will be to them delight. Then did I,
• 5:44:32
  Speaker 4: even as they do, who are going with something on
• 5:44:35
  Speaker 4: the head to them unknown, unless the signs of others
• 5:44:37
  Speaker 4: make them doubt. Wherefore the hand to ascertain is helpful,
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  Speaker 4: and seeks and finds, and doth fulfill the office which
• 5:44:44
  Speaker 4: cannot be accomplished by the sight. And with the fingers
• 5:44:47
  Speaker 4: of the right hand spread I found but six the
• 5:44:50
  Speaker 4: letters that had carved upon my temples, he who bore
• 5:44:52
  Speaker 4: the keys upon beholding, which my leader smiled. End of
• 5:44:57
  Speaker 4: Canto twelve, Poor Gottorio, Anto thirteen. We were upon the
• 5:45:02
  Speaker 4: summit of the stairs, where for the second time is
• 5:45:05
  Speaker 4: cut away the mountain which ascending shriveth all there in
• 5:45:08
  Speaker 4: like manner doth a cornice bind the hill all round,
• 5:45:11
  Speaker 4: as does the first, save that its ark more suddenly
• 5:45:14
  Speaker 4: is curved.
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  Speaker 2: Shade.
• 5:45:16
  Speaker 4: Is there nune nor sculpture that appears. So seems the bank,
• 5:45:19
  Speaker 4: and so the road seems smooth, with but the livid
• 5:45:22
  Speaker 4: color of the stone. If to inquire we wait for
• 5:45:26
  Speaker 4: people here, the poet said, I fear that pearadventure too
• 5:45:30
  Speaker 4: much delay will our election have. Then steadfast on the
• 5:45:34
  Speaker 4: sun his eyes, he fixed, made his right side the
• 5:45:37
  Speaker 4: center of his motion, and turned the left part of
• 5:45:39
  Speaker 4: himself about. Oh, thou sweet light, with trust in whom
• 5:45:43
  Speaker 4: I enter upon this novel journey, Do thou lead us?
• 5:45:46
  Speaker 4: Said he, as one within here should be led. Thou
• 5:45:50
  Speaker 4: warmest the world, Thou shinest over it, if other reason
• 5:45:53
  Speaker 4: prompt not otherwise thy rays should evermore, our leaders be
• 5:45:58
  Speaker 4: as much as here is counted for so much already
• 5:46:01
  Speaker 4: there had we advanced in little time by dint of
• 5:46:04
  Speaker 4: ready will, and towards us there were heard to fly,
• 5:46:08
  Speaker 4: albeit they were not visible, spirits uttering unto Love's table
• 5:46:12
  Speaker 4: courteous invitations. The first voice that passed onward in its flight,
• 5:46:17
  Speaker 4: venum non habbandt, said in accents loud, and went reiterating
• 5:46:21
  Speaker 4: it behind us, and ere it wholly grew inaudible because
• 5:46:25
  Speaker 4: of distance, past another crying, I am orestus, And it
• 5:46:29
  Speaker 4: also stayed not. Oh, said I Father, these what voices
• 5:46:33
  Speaker 4: are they? And even as I asked, behold the third
• 5:46:37
  Speaker 4: saying love those from whom ye have had evil. And
• 5:46:40
  Speaker 4: the good Master said, this circle scourges the sin of envy,
• 5:46:44
  Speaker 4: and on that account are drawn from love the lashes
• 5:46:47
  Speaker 4: of the scourge. The bridle of another sound shall be.
• 5:46:51
  Speaker 4: I think that thou wilt hear it, as I judge,
• 5:46:53
  Speaker 4: before thou comest to the pass of pardon. But fix
• 5:46:56
  Speaker 4: thine eyes athwart the air right steadfast, and people thou
• 5:46:59
  Speaker 4: wilt before us, sitting, and each one close against the
• 5:47:02
  Speaker 4: cliff is seated, then wider. At first mine eyes I opened,
• 5:47:07
  Speaker 4: I looked before me, and saw shades with mantles, not
• 5:47:10
  Speaker 4: from the color of the stone diverse, And when we
• 5:47:13
  Speaker 4: were a little farther onward, I heard a cry of
• 5:47:15
  Speaker 4: Mary pray for us, a cry of Michael, Peter and
• 5:47:18
  Speaker 4: all Saints. I do not think there walketh still on
• 5:47:22
  Speaker 4: earth a man so hard that he would not be
• 5:47:25
  Speaker 4: pierced with pity. At what afterward I saw, For when
• 5:47:28
  Speaker 4: I had approached so near to them, that manifest to
• 5:47:31
  Speaker 4: me their axe became drained. Was I at the eyes
• 5:47:33
  Speaker 4: by heavy grief, covered with sackcloth vial they seemed to me,
• 5:47:37
  Speaker 4: And one sustained the other with his shoulder, and all
• 5:47:40
  Speaker 4: of them were by the banks sustained. Thus do the blind,
• 5:47:44
  Speaker 4: in want of livelihood, stand at the doors of churches,
• 5:47:46
  Speaker 4: asking alms, and one upon another leans his head, so
• 5:47:50
  Speaker 4: that in others pities soon may rise, not only at
• 5:47:53
  Speaker 4: the accent of their words, but at their aspect, which
• 5:47:56
  Speaker 4: no less implores. And as unto the blind the sun
• 5:48:00
  Speaker 4: comes not so to the shades of whom I just
• 5:48:03
  Speaker 4: now spake, Heaven's light will not be bounteous of itself,
• 5:48:07
  Speaker 4: For all their lids and iron wire transpierces and sows
• 5:48:11
  Speaker 4: them up as to a spar hawk. Wild is done
• 5:48:14
  Speaker 4: because it will not quiet stay to me, it seemed
• 5:48:18
  Speaker 4: in passing to do outrage, seeing the others without being seen.
• 5:48:21
  Speaker 4: Wherefore I turned me to my council sage well knew
• 5:48:25
  Speaker 4: he what the mute one wished to say, and therefore
• 5:48:27
  Speaker 4: waited not for my demand, but said, speak and be
• 5:48:30
  Speaker 4: brief and to the point. I had Virgilius upon that
• 5:48:33
  Speaker 4: side of the embankment from which one may fall, since
• 5:48:36
  Speaker 4: by no border tis in garlanded upon the other side
• 5:48:39
  Speaker 4: of me, I had the shades devout, who through the
• 5:48:42
  Speaker 4: horrible seam, pressed out the tears, so that they bathed
• 5:48:44
  Speaker 4: their cheeks to them. I turned me, and O people,
• 5:48:48
  Speaker 4: certain began I of beholding the high light which your
• 5:48:51
  Speaker 4: desire has solely in its care, so may grace speedily
• 5:48:55
  Speaker 4: dissolve the scum upon your consciences that limpidly through them
• 5:48:59
  Speaker 4: descend the river of the mind. Tell me, for dear,
• 5:49:02
  Speaker 4: twill be to me and gracious if any soul among
• 5:49:05
  Speaker 4: you here is Latian, and twill perchance be good for him.
• 5:49:08
  Speaker 4: I learn it, O brother mine, each one is citizen
• 5:49:11
  Speaker 4: of one true city. But thy meaning is who may
• 5:49:14
  Speaker 4: have lived in Italy a pilgrim. By way of answer
• 5:49:17
  Speaker 4: this I seemed to hear a little farther on than
• 5:49:19
  Speaker 4: where I stood, whereat I made myself still nearer heard
• 5:49:23
  Speaker 4: among the rest, I saw a shade that waited in aspect,
• 5:49:27
  Speaker 4: and should anyone ask how its chin, it lifted upward
• 5:49:30
  Speaker 4: like a blind man spirit. I said, whose stupe is
• 5:49:33
  Speaker 4: to ascend? If thou art he who did reply to me,
• 5:49:36
  Speaker 4: make thyself known to me by place or name. Siennaese
• 5:49:40
  Speaker 4: was I, it replied, And with the others here to
• 5:49:43
  Speaker 4: recleanse my guilty life, weeping to him to lend himself
• 5:49:46
  Speaker 4: to us, sapient I was not, although I Sapia was called,
• 5:49:50
  Speaker 4: and I was at another's harm, more happy far than
• 5:49:53
  Speaker 4: at my own good fortune. And that thou mayst not
• 5:49:55
  Speaker 4: think that I deceive thee here if I was as
• 5:49:58
  Speaker 4: foolish as I tell thee the ark already of my
• 5:50:01
  Speaker 4: years descending. My fellow citizens, bare unto callae, were joined
• 5:50:06
  Speaker 4: in battle with their adversaries, and I was praying God
• 5:50:09
  Speaker 4: for what he willed. Routed were they and turned into
• 5:50:12
  Speaker 4: the bitter passes of flight, and I the chaste beholding
• 5:50:15
  Speaker 4: a joy received unequaled by all others, so that I
• 5:50:19
  Speaker 4: lifted upward my bold face, crying to God. Henceforth I
• 5:50:23
  Speaker 4: fear thee not as did the blackbird at the little sunshine.
• 5:50:27
  Speaker 4: Peace I desired with God at the extreme of my existence,
• 5:50:30
  Speaker 4: And as yet would not my debt have been by
• 5:50:32
  Speaker 4: penitence discharged had it not been that in remembrance held
• 5:50:36
  Speaker 4: me Pierre Petignano in his holy prayers, who out of
• 5:50:40
  Speaker 4: charity was grieved for me. But who art thou that
• 5:50:43
  Speaker 4: into our conditions? Questioning goest, and hast thine eyes unbound
• 5:50:47
  Speaker 4: as I believe, and breathing Dostu's course, Mine eyes, I said,
• 5:50:51
  Speaker 4: will yet be heertained from me? But for short space.
• 5:50:55
  Speaker 4: For small is the offense committed by their being turned
• 5:50:57
  Speaker 4: with envy. Far greater is the fear wherein suspended my
• 5:51:01
  Speaker 4: soul is of the torment underneath. For even now the
• 5:51:03
  Speaker 4: load down their ways on me, and she to me
• 5:51:07
  Speaker 4: who led thee then among us up here, if to
• 5:51:09
  Speaker 4: return below, thou thinkest, and I he who is with
• 5:51:13
  Speaker 4: me and speaks not and living? Am I therefore ask
• 5:51:17
  Speaker 4: of me spirit elect, if thou would'st have me move
• 5:51:20
  Speaker 4: or yonder yet my mortal feet for thee. Oh, this
• 5:51:23
  Speaker 4: is such a novel thing to hear. She answered that
• 5:51:26
  Speaker 4: great sign it is God loves thee. Therefore, with prayer
• 5:51:29
  Speaker 4: of thine sometimes assist me, and I implore by what
• 5:51:33
  Speaker 4: thou most desirest If e're thou treadest the soil of
• 5:51:36
  Speaker 4: Tuscany well with my kindred reinstate my fame, then wilt
• 5:51:40
  Speaker 4: thou see among that people vain who hope in Tlamone
• 5:51:43
  Speaker 4: and will lose there more hope than in discovering the Diana.
• 5:51:47
  Speaker 4: But there still more the admirals will lose. End of
• 5:51:50
  Speaker 4: Canto thirteen, Portgrettorio, Canto fourteen. Who is this one that
• 5:51:56
  Speaker 4: goes about our mountain? Or ever death has given power
• 5:51:59
  Speaker 4: of flight? And open his eyes and shuts them at
• 5:52:01
  Speaker 4: his will? I know not who, but know he is
• 5:52:04
  Speaker 4: not alone. Ask him thyself, for thou art nearer to him,
• 5:52:08
  Speaker 4: and gently so that he may speak accost him. Thus
• 5:52:11
  Speaker 4: did two spirits, leaning towards each other, discourse about me.
• 5:52:14
  Speaker 4: There on the right hand, then held supine their faces
• 5:52:17
  Speaker 4: to address me, and said, the one O soul that
• 5:52:20
  Speaker 4: fastens still within the body towards heaven, art going for charity,
• 5:52:24
  Speaker 4: consul us, and declare whence comest and who art thou?
• 5:52:28
  Speaker 4: For thou makest us as much to marvel at this
• 5:52:30
  Speaker 4: grace of thine as must a thing that never yet
• 5:52:33
  Speaker 4: has been. And I through midst of Tuscany their wanders
• 5:52:37
  Speaker 4: a streamlet that is born in Falterona, and not a
• 5:52:40
  Speaker 4: hundred miles, of course, suffice it from thereupon do I
• 5:52:43
  Speaker 4: this body bring to tell you who I am? Were
• 5:52:46
  Speaker 4: a speech in vain, because my name as yet makes
• 5:52:48
  Speaker 4: no great noise, and if well thy meaning I can
• 5:52:51
  Speaker 4: penetrate with intellective mine. Then answered me he who first spake,
• 5:52:56
  Speaker 4: thou speakest of thee arno, and said the other to him,
• 5:52:59
  Speaker 4: why concealed this one the appellation of that river, even
• 5:53:02
  Speaker 4: as a man doth of things horrible? And thus the
• 5:53:05
  Speaker 4: shade that question was of this himself acquitted? I know not,
• 5:53:09
  Speaker 4: but truly tis fit the name of such a valley parish,
• 5:53:13
  Speaker 4: for from its fountain head where is so pregnant the
• 5:53:15
  Speaker 4: alpine mountain, whence is cleft paloro, that in few places
• 5:53:19
  Speaker 4: it that marks or passes to where it yields itself
• 5:53:22
  Speaker 4: in restoration of what the heaven doth of the sea
• 5:53:25
  Speaker 4: dry up. Whence have the rivers that which goes with them,
• 5:53:28
  Speaker 4: virtue is like an enemy avoided by all as is
• 5:53:31
  Speaker 4: a serpent, through misfortune of place or through bad habit
• 5:53:34
  Speaker 4: that impels them, on which account have so transformed their nature.
• 5:53:38
  Speaker 4: The dwellers in that miserable valley, it seems that Circe
• 5:53:41
  Speaker 4: has had them in her pasture. Mid ugly swine of acorns,
• 5:53:45
  Speaker 4: worthier than other food for human use. Created It first
• 5:53:48
  Speaker 4: directeth its impoverished way, curs findeth it thereafter, coming downward,
• 5:53:54
  Speaker 4: more snarling than their poisonous demands, and turns from them
• 5:53:57
  Speaker 4: disdainfully its muzzle. It goes goes on falling, and the
• 5:54:01
  Speaker 4: more it grows, the more it finds the dogs becoming wolves.
• 5:54:04
  Speaker 4: This maledict and misadventurous ditch descended then through many a
• 5:54:09
  Speaker 4: hollow gulf, it finds the foxes so replete with fraud,
• 5:54:12
  Speaker 4: they fear no cunning that may master them. Nor will
• 5:54:16
  Speaker 4: I cease, because another hears me, and well twill be
• 5:54:19
  Speaker 4: for him if still he mind him of what a
• 5:54:21
  Speaker 4: truthful spirit to me unravels thy grandson. I behold, who
• 5:54:25
  Speaker 4: doth become a hunter of those wolves upon the bank
• 5:54:28
  Speaker 4: of the wild stream, and terrifies them all. He sells
• 5:54:31
  Speaker 4: their flesh, it being yet alive. Thereafter slaughters them like
• 5:54:35
  Speaker 4: ancient beeves many of life, himself of praise, deprives blood stained.
• 5:54:41
  Speaker 4: He issues from the dismal forest. He leaves it such
• 5:54:44
  Speaker 4: a thousand years from now in its primeval state, tis
• 5:54:47
  Speaker 4: not rewooded as at the announcement of impending ills. The
• 5:54:50
  Speaker 4: face of him who listens is disturbed from whate'er side
• 5:54:54
  Speaker 4: the perilsies upon him. So I beheld that other soul,
• 5:54:58
  Speaker 4: which stood turned round to listen, grow disturbed and sad.
• 5:55:01
  Speaker 4: When it had gathered to itself the word, the speech
• 5:55:05
  Speaker 4: of one and aspect of the other had me desiroust
• 5:55:08
  Speaker 4: made to know their name, and question mixed with prayers
• 5:55:10
  Speaker 4: I made thereof whereat the spirit which first spake to
• 5:55:14
  Speaker 4: me began again. Thou wishest I should bring me to
• 5:55:17
  Speaker 4: do for THEE with doubt not do for me. But
• 5:55:20
  Speaker 4: since God willeth that in THEE shine forth such grace
• 5:55:23
  Speaker 4: of his I'll not be cherry with THEE. Know then
• 5:55:26
  Speaker 4: that I guido del duca am. My blood was so
• 5:55:30
  Speaker 4: with envy set on fire, that if I had beheld
• 5:55:33
  Speaker 4: a man make merry, thou wouldst see me sprinkled o'er
• 5:55:35
  Speaker 4: with pallor from my own sowing such the straw I
• 5:55:39
  Speaker 4: reap o human race. Why dost thou set thy heart
• 5:55:43
  Speaker 4: where interdictive partnership must be? This is reneer, This is
• 5:55:47
  Speaker 4: the boast in honor of the house of Kalboli, where
• 5:55:50
  Speaker 4: no one since has made himself the heir of his desert,
• 5:55:53
  Speaker 4: and not alone his blood is made devoid TwixT poe
• 5:55:56
  Speaker 4: and mount and seashore, and the reino of good requested
• 5:56:00
  Speaker 4: for truth and for diversion, for all within these boundaries
• 5:56:04
  Speaker 4: is full of venomous roots, so that too tardily by cultivation,
• 5:56:07
  Speaker 4: Now would they diminish? Where is Gullitzio Anarigo, Manardi, Pierre Travassaro,
• 5:56:13
  Speaker 4: and Guido di Carpiinna oh Romagnoli in the bastards turned?
• 5:56:18
  Speaker 4: When in Bologna will let Fabrol rise? When in Faenza
• 5:56:21
  Speaker 4: Bernardin di Fosco, the noble scion of ignoble seed, be
• 5:56:26
  Speaker 4: not astonished? Tuscan if I weep when I remember with
• 5:56:29
  Speaker 4: Guido da Pradra Ugolindiazzo, who was living with us, Fredericignoso
• 5:56:34
  Speaker 4: and his company, the house of Travsara and the Anastagi,
• 5:56:39
  Speaker 4: and one race and the other is extinct. The dames
• 5:56:42
  Speaker 4: and cavaliers. The toils and ease that filled our souls
• 5:56:45
  Speaker 4: with love and courtesy. There with the hearts have so
• 5:56:48
  Speaker 4: malicious grown. Oh Brettinoro, why dost thou not flee, seeing
• 5:56:53
  Speaker 4: that all thy family is gone, and many people not
• 5:56:56
  Speaker 4: to be corrupted. Banna caval does well and not began,
• 5:57:00
  Speaker 4: and ill does Crasocaro and Conio worse in talking trouble
• 5:57:04
  Speaker 4: to beget. Such counts will do well the Pagani when
• 5:57:07
  Speaker 4: their devil shall have departed, But not therefore pure will
• 5:57:11
  Speaker 4: testimony of them e'er remain o ugol in de fantoli
• 5:57:15
  Speaker 4: secure thy name is, since no longer is awaited. One
• 5:57:18
  Speaker 4: who degenerating can obscure it. But go now tuscan, for
• 5:57:22
  Speaker 4: it now delights me to weep far better than it
• 5:57:25
  Speaker 4: does to speak. So much has our discourse my mind distressed.
• 5:57:29
  Speaker 4: We were aware that those beloved souls hurt us depart Therefore,
• 5:57:33
  Speaker 4: by keeping silent, they made us of our pathway confident.
• 5:57:37
  Speaker 4: When we became alone, by going onward thunder, when it
• 5:57:40
  Speaker 4: doth cleave the air appeared a voice that counter to
• 5:57:43
  Speaker 4: us came, exclaiming, shall slay me whosoever findeth me, And
• 5:57:48
  Speaker 4: fled as the reverberation dies. If suddenly the cloud asunder bursts.
• 5:57:53
  Speaker 4: As soon as hearing had a truce, from this behold
• 5:57:56
  Speaker 4: another with so great a crash that it resembled thunderings.
• 5:57:59
  Speaker 4: Following fact, I am Aglarus, who became a stone, and
• 5:58:03
  Speaker 4: then depressed myself close to the poet, I backward and
• 5:58:06
  Speaker 4: not forward, took a step. Already on all sides the
• 5:58:10
  Speaker 4: air was quiet, and said he to me, that was
• 5:58:13
  Speaker 4: the hard curb that ought to hold a man within
• 5:58:15
  Speaker 4: its bounds. But you take in the bait, so that
• 5:58:18
  Speaker 4: the hook of the old adversary draws you to him.
• 5:58:21
  Speaker 4: And hence a veileth little kerb, or call. The heavens
• 5:58:25
  Speaker 4: are calling you, and wheel around you, displaying to you
• 5:58:27
  Speaker 4: their eternal beauties. And still your eye is looking on
• 5:58:30
  Speaker 4: the ground. Whence he who all discerns chastises you. End
• 5:58:36
  Speaker 4: of Canto fourteen, Portgettorio, Canto fifteen. As much as TwixT
• 5:58:43
  Speaker 4: the close of the third hour and dawn of day,
• 5:58:45
  Speaker 4: appereth of that sphere which I, in fashion of a child,
• 5:58:48
  Speaker 4: is playing so much it now appeared towards the night
• 5:58:52
  Speaker 4: was of his course remaining to the sun. There it
• 5:58:55
  Speaker 4: was evening, and twas midnight here, and the rays smote
• 5:58:59
  Speaker 4: the middle of our faces, because by us the mount
• 5:59:01
  Speaker 4: was so encircled that straight towards the west we were
• 5:59:04
  Speaker 4: now going. When I perceived my forehead overpowered beneath the splendor,
• 5:59:08
  Speaker 4: far more than at first and stupor were to me
• 5:59:11
  Speaker 4: the things unknown whereat towards the summit of my brow,
• 5:59:14
  Speaker 4: I raised my hands and made myself the visor which
• 5:59:17
  Speaker 4: the excessive glare diminishes, as when from off the water
• 5:59:22
  Speaker 4: or a mirror, the sunbeam leaps unto the opposite side,
• 5:59:24
  Speaker 4: ascending upward in the self same measure that it descends
• 5:59:28
  Speaker 4: and deviates as far from falling of a stone in
• 5:59:30
  Speaker 4: line direct as demonstrate experiment and art. So it appeared
• 5:59:35
  Speaker 4: to me that by a light refracted there before me,
• 5:59:37
  Speaker 4: I was smitten, of which account my sight was swift
• 5:59:40
  Speaker 4: to flee. What is that, father, sweet, from which I
• 5:59:44
  Speaker 4: cannot so fully screen my sight? That it availed me,
• 5:59:47
  Speaker 4: said I, and seems towards us to be moving. Marvel
• 5:59:50
  Speaker 4: thou not if dazzle thee as yet the family of heaven,
• 5:59:53
  Speaker 4: He answered me, an angel tis who comes to invite
• 5:59:57
  Speaker 4: us upward? Soon will it be that to behold these
• 6:00:01
  Speaker 4: things shall not be grievous, but delightful to thee, as
• 6:00:04
  Speaker 4: much as nature fashioned thee to feel. When we had
• 6:00:07
  Speaker 4: reached the Angel Beneditte, with joyful voice, he said, here
• 6:00:11
  Speaker 4: enter into stairway far less steep than are the others.
• 6:00:15
  Speaker 4: We mounting were already thence departed, and Bayati Misrichordis was
• 6:00:19
  Speaker 4: behind us, sung, rejoice thou that o'er comest my master
• 6:00:24
  Speaker 4: and myself, we two alone were going upward. And I thought,
• 6:00:28
  Speaker 4: in going some prophet to acquire from words of his,
• 6:00:31
  Speaker 4: and I to him directed me thus asking what did
• 6:00:34
  Speaker 4: the spirit of Romagna mean mentioning, interdict and partnership? Whence
• 6:00:39
  Speaker 4: he to me of his own greatest failing. He knows
• 6:00:42
  Speaker 4: the harm, and therefore wonder not if he reprove us
• 6:00:45
  Speaker 4: that we less may rue it, because our thither pointed
• 6:00:48
  Speaker 4: your desires, whereby companionship each share is lessened. Envy doth
• 6:00:52
  Speaker 4: ply the bellows to your size. But if the love
• 6:00:55
  Speaker 4: of the supernal sphere should upwardly direct your aspiration, there
• 6:00:59
  Speaker 4: would not be that far within your breast. For there
• 6:01:02
  Speaker 4: as much the more as one says our so much,
• 6:01:05
  Speaker 4: the more of good each one possesses, and more of
• 6:01:08
  Speaker 4: charity in that cloister burns. I am more hungering to
• 6:01:12
  Speaker 4: be satisfied, said I, than if I had before been silent,
• 6:01:16
  Speaker 4: and more of doubt within my mind, I gather, how
• 6:01:19
  Speaker 4: can it be that boon distributed? The more possessors, can
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  Speaker 4: more wealthy make therein than if by few it be possessed?
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  Speaker 4: And he to me, because thou fixest still thy mind
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  Speaker 4: entirely upon earthly things, Thou pluckest darkness from the very light,
• 6:01:35
  Speaker 4: that goodness, infinite and ineffable, which is above there runneth
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  Speaker 4: into love as to a lucid body, comes the sunbeam
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  Speaker 4: so much it gives itself as it finds ardor so
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  Speaker 4: that as far as charity extends o'er it increases the
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  Speaker 4: eternal valor. And the more people thither word aspire, more
• 6:01:53
  Speaker 4: are there to love well, and more they love there,
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  Speaker 4: And as a mirror one reflects the other. And if
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  Speaker 4: my reasoning of please THEE not, thou shalt see Beatrice,
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  Speaker 4: and she will fully take from THEE this and every
• 6:02:05
  Speaker 4: other longing and ever, then that soon may be extinct,
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  Speaker 4: as are the two already. The five wounds that close
• 6:02:12
  Speaker 4: themselves again by being painful. Even as I wished to say,
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  Speaker 4: thou dost appease me, I saw that I had reached
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  Speaker 4: another circle, so that my eager eyes made me keep silence.
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  Speaker 4: There it appeared to me that in a vision, ecstatic,
• 6:02:26
  Speaker 4: on a sudden, I was wrapt, and in a temple
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  Speaker 4: many persons saw, and at the door a woman with
• 6:02:31
  Speaker 4: the sweet behavior of a mother, saying, son, why in
• 6:02:34
  Speaker 4: this manner hast thou dealt with us? Lo sorrowing, Thy
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  Speaker 4: father and myself were seeking for thee and as here
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  Speaker 4: she seized that which appeared at first had disappeared, And
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  Speaker 4: I beheld another with those waters adown her cheeks with
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  Speaker 4: grief distills whenever from great disdain of others it is born,
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  Speaker 4: and saying, if of that city thou art, Lord, for
• 6:02:55
  Speaker 4: whose name was such strife among the gods, And whence
• 6:02:58
  Speaker 4: doth every science scintillate, avenge thyself on those audacious arms
• 6:03:02
  Speaker 4: that clasped our daughter, O pisistratus. And the Lord seemed
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  Speaker 4: to me benign and mild to answer her with aspect temperate,
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  Speaker 4: What shall we do to those who wish us ill?
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  Speaker 4: If he who loves us be by us condemned, and
• 6:03:16
  Speaker 4: then saw I people hot in fire of wrath with stones,
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  Speaker 4: a young man slaying clamorously, still crying to each other,
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  Speaker 4: Kill him, Kill him and him. I saw bow down
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  Speaker 4: because of death that weighed already on him to the earth,
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  Speaker 4: but of his eyes made ever gates to heaven, imploring
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  Speaker 4: the high lords so in great strife, that he would
• 6:03:36
  Speaker 4: pardon those his persecutors with such an aspect as unlocks compassion.
• 6:03:41
  Speaker 4: Soon as my soul had outwardly returned to things external
• 6:03:44
  Speaker 4: to it which are true, did I my not false errors,
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  Speaker 4: recognize my leader, who could see me bear myself like
• 6:03:51
  Speaker 4: to a man that rouses him from sleep? Exclaimed what
• 6:03:54
  Speaker 4: ails thee that thou canst not stand, but hast been
• 6:03:57
  Speaker 4: coming more than half a league, veiling thine eyes and
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  Speaker 4: with thy legs entangled in guise of one whom wine
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  Speaker 4: or sleep subdues. O, my sweet father, if thou listen
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  Speaker 4: to me, I'll tell THEE, said I, what appeared to
• 6:04:09
  Speaker 4: me when thus from me my legs were taken away?
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  Speaker 4: And he, if thou shouldst have a hundred masks upon
• 6:04:15
  Speaker 4: thy face from me would not be shut thy cogitations,
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  Speaker 4: howsoever small, What thou hast seen was what thou mayst
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  Speaker 4: not fail to open thy heart into the waters of
• 6:04:25
  Speaker 4: peace from which the eternal fountain are diffused. I did
• 6:04:29
  Speaker 4: not ask what ails thee as he does, who only
• 6:04:32
  Speaker 4: looketh with the eyes that see not when of the
• 6:04:34
  Speaker 4: soul bereft the body lies, but asked it to give
• 6:04:37
  Speaker 4: vigor to thy feet. Thus must we needs urge on
• 6:04:40
  Speaker 4: the sluggards slow, to use their wakefulness when it returns.
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  Speaker 4: We passed along athwart the twilight, peering forward as far
• 6:04:48
  Speaker 4: as ever I could stretch against the sunbeams, seroutine and lucent,
• 6:04:53
  Speaker 4: and lo by slow degrees. A smoke approached in our direction,
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  Speaker 4: somber as the night. Nor was there a place to
• 6:04:59
  Speaker 4: hide one's self therefrom this of our eyes and the
• 6:05:03
  Speaker 4: pure air bereft us end off cant