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  I saw a people smothered in a filth
  That out of human privies seemed to flow;

And whilst below there with mine eye I search;
  I saw one with his head so foul with ordure;
  It was not clear if he were clerk or layman。

He screamed to me: 〃Wherefore art thou so eager
  To look at me more than the other foul ones?〃
  And I to him: 〃Because; if I remember;

I have already seen thee with dry hair;
  And thou'rt Alessio Interminei of Lucca;
  Therefore I eye thee more than all the others。〃

And he thereon; belabouring his pumpkin:
  〃The flatteries have submerged me here below;
  Wherewith my tongue was never surfeited。〃

Then said to me the Guide: 〃See that thou thrust
  Thy visage somewhat farther in advance;
  That with thine eyes thou well the face attain

Of that uncleanly and dishevelled drab;
  Who there doth scratch herself with filthy nails;
  And crouches now; and now on foot is standing。

Thais the harlot is it; who replied
  Unto her paramour; when he said; 'Have I
  Great gratitude from thee?''Nay; marvellous;'

And herewith let our sight be satisfied。〃



Inferno: Canto XIX


O Simon Magus; O forlorn disciples;
  Ye who the things of God; which ought to be
  The brides of holiness; rapaciously

For silver and for gold do prostitute;
  Now it behoves for you the trumpet sound;
  Because in this third Bolgia ye abide。

We had already on the following tomb
  Ascended to that portion of the crag
  Which o'er the middle of the moat hangs plumb。

Wisdom supreme; O how great art thou showest
  In heaven; in earth; and in the evil world;
  And with what justice doth thy power distribute!

I saw upon the sides and on the bottom
  The livid stone with perforations filled;
  All of one size; and every one was round。

To me less ample seemed they not; nor greater
  Than those that in my beautiful Saint John
  Are fashioned for the place of the baptisers;

And one of which; not many years ago;
  I broke for some one; who was drowning in it;
  Be this a seal all men to undeceive。

Out of the mouth of each one there protruded
  The feet of a transgressor; and the legs
  Up to the calf; the rest within remained。

In all of them the soles were both on fire;
  Wherefore the joints so violently quivered;
  They would have snapped asunder withes and bands。

Even as the flame of unctuous things is wont
  To move upon the outer surface only;
  So likewise was it there from heel to point。

〃Master; who is that one who writhes himself;
  More than his other comrades quivering;〃
  I said; 〃and whom a redder flame is sucking?〃

And he to me: 〃If thou wilt have me bear thee
  Down there along that bank which lowest lies;
  From him thou'lt know his errors and himself。〃

And I: 〃What pleases thee; to me is pleasing;
  Thou art my Lord; and knowest that I depart not
  From thy desire; and knowest what is not spoken。〃

Straightway upon the fourth dike we arrived;
  We turned; and on the left…hand side descended
  Down to the bottom full of holes and narrow。

And the good Master yet from off his haunch
  Deposed me not; till to the hole he brought me
  Of him who so lamented with his shanks。

〃Whoe'er thou art; that standest upside down;
  O doleful soul; implanted like a stake;〃
  To say began I; 〃if thou canst; speak out。〃

I stood even as the friar who is confessing
  The false assassin; who; when he is fixed;
  Recalls him; so that death may be delayed。

And he cried out: 〃Dost thou stand there already;
  Dost thou stand there already; Boniface?
  By many years the record lied to me。

Art thou so early satiate with that wealth;
  For which thou didst not fear to take by fraud
  The beautiful Lady; and then work her woe?〃

Such I became; as people are who stand;
  Not comprehending what is answered them;
  As if bemocked; and know not how to answer。

Then said Virgilius: 〃Say to him straightway;
  'I am not he; I am not he thou thinkest。'〃
  And I replied as was imposed on me。

Whereat the spirit writhed with both his feet;
  Then; sighing; with a voice of lamentation
  Said to me: 〃Then what wantest thou of me?

If who I am thou carest so much to know;
  That thou on that account hast crossed the bank;
  Know that I vested was with the great mantle;

And truly was I son of the She…bear;
  So eager to advance the cubs; that wealth
  Above; and here myself; I pocketed。

Beneath my head the others are dragged down
  Who have preceded me in simony;
  Flattened along the fissure of the rock。

Below there I shall likewise fall; whenever
  That one shall come who I believed thou wast;
  What time the sudden question I proposed。

But longer I my feet already toast;
  And here have been in this way upside down;
  Than he will planted stay with reddened feet;

For after him shall come of fouler deed
  From tow'rds the west a Pastor without law;
  Such as befits to cover him and me。

New Jason will he be; of whom we read
  In Maccabees; and as his king was pliant;
  So he who governs France shall be to this one。〃

I do not know if I were here too bold;
  That him I answered only in this metre:
  〃I pray thee tell me now how great a treasure

Our Lord demanded of Saint Peter first;
  Before he put the keys into his keeping?
  Truly he nothing asked but 'Follow me。'

Nor Peter nor the rest asked of Matthias
  Silver or gold; when he by lot was chosen
  Unto the place the guilty soul had lost。

Therefore stay here; for thou art justly punished;
  And keep safe guard o'er the ill…gotten money;
  Which caused thee to be valiant against Charles。

And were it not that still forbids it me
  The reverence for the keys superlative
  Thou hadst in keeping in the gladsome life;

I would make use of words more grievous still;
  Because your avarice afflicts the world;
  Trampling the good and lifting the depraved。

The Evangelist you Pastors had in mind;
  When she who sitteth upon many waters
  To fornicate with kings by him was seen;

The same who with the seven heads was born;
  And power and strength from the ten horns received;
  So long as virtue to her spouse was pleasing。

Ye have made yourselves a god of gold and silver;
  And from the idolater how differ ye;
  Save that he one; and ye a hundred worship?

Ah; Constantine! of how much ill was mother;
  Not thy conversion; but that marriage dower
  Which the first wealthy Father took from thee!〃

And while I sang to him such notes as these;
  Either that anger or that conscience stung him;
  He struggled violently with both his feet。

I think in sooth that it my Leader pleased;
  With such contented lip he listened ever
  Unto the sound of the true words expressed。

Therefore with both his arms he took me up;
  And when he had me all upon his breast;
  Remounted by the way where he descended。

Nor did he tire to have me clasped to him;
  But bore me to the summit of the arch
  Which from the fourth dike to the fifth is passage。

There tenderly he laid his burden down;
  Tenderly on the crag uneven and steep;
  That would have been hard passage for the goats:

Thence was unveiled to me another valley。



Inferno: Canto XX


Of a new pain behoves me to make verses
  And give material to the twentieth canto
  Of the first song; which is of the submerged。

I was already thoroughly disposed
  To peer down into the uncovered depth;
  Which bathed itself with tears of agony;

And people saw I through the circular valley;
  Silent and weeping; coming at the pace
  Which in this world the Litanies assume。

As lower down my sight descended on them;
  Wondrously each one seemed to be distorted
  From chin to the beginning of the chest;

For tow'rds the reins the countenance was turned;
  And backward it behoved them to advance;
  As to look forward had been taken from them。

Perchance indeed by violence of palsy
  Some one has been thus wholly turned awry;
  But I ne'er saw it; nor believe it can be。

As God may let thee; Reader; gather fruit
  From this thy reading; think now for thyself
  How I could ever keep my face unmoistened;

When our own image near me I beheld
  Distorted so; the weeping of the eyes
  Along the fissure bathed the hinder parts。

Truly I wept; leaning upon a peak
  Of the hard crag; so that my Escort said
  To me: 〃Art thou; too; of the other fools?

Here pity lives when it is wholly dead;
  Who is a greater reprobate than he
  Who feels compassion at the doom divine?

Lift up; lift up thy head; and see for whom
  Opened the earth before the Thebans' eyes;
  Wherefore they all cried: 'Whither rushest thou;

Amphiaraus?  Why dost leave the war?'
  And downward ceased he not to fall amain
  As far as Minos; who lays hold on all。

See; he has made a bosom of his shoulders!
  Because he wished to see too far before him
  Behind he looks; and backward goes his way:

Behold Tiresias; who his semblance changed;
  When from a male a female he became;
  His members being all of them transformed;

And afterwards was forced to strike once more
  The two entangled serpents with his rod;
  Ere he could have again his manly plumes。

That Arun

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