The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . s ! woe to you, His wretched followers ! who the things of God, Which should be wedded unto goodness, them. Rapacious as ye are, do prostitute For gold and silver in adultery. Now must the trunapet sound for you, since yours Is the third chasm. Upon the following vault We now had mounted, where the rock impends Directly oer the centre of the foss. Wisdom Supreme ! how wonderful the art, 10 Which thou dost manifest in heaven, in earth, 64 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xix And in the evil world, how just a meedAllotting by thy virtue
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . s ! woe to you, His wretched followers ! who the things of God, Which should be wedded unto goodness, them. Rapacious as ye are, do prostitute For gold and silver in adultery. Now must the trunapet sound for you, since yours Is the third chasm. Upon the following vault We now had mounted, where the rock impends Directly oer the centre of the foss. Wisdom Supreme ! how wonderful the art, 10 Which thou dost manifest in heaven, in earth, 64 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xix And in the evil world, how just a meedAllotting by thy virtue unto all. I saw the livid stone, throughout the sidesAnd in its bottom full of equal in their width, and circular ample less nor larger they appearedThan, in Saint Johns fair dome of me beloved,Those framed to hold the pure baptismal of the which I brake, some few years past,To save a whelming infant: and be thisA seal to undeceive whoever doubtsThe motive of my deed. From out the mouthOf every one emerged, a sinners feet, 20. And of the legs high upward as the calf. The rest beneath was hid. On either foot The soles were burning ; whence the flexile joints Glanced with such violent motion, as had snapped Asunder cords or twisted withes. As flame. Feeding on unctuous matter, glides along The surface, scarcely touching where it moves ; So here, from heel to point, glided the flames. Master ! say who is he, than all the restGlancing in fiercer agony, on whomA ruddier flame doth prey ? I thus inquired. If thou be willing, he replied, that ICarry thee down, where least the slope bank of himself shall tell thee, and his wrongs. I then: As pleases thee, to me is best. Lines 12-88] HELL 65 Thou art my lord ; and knowst that neer I quit 40Thy will: what silence hides, that knowst thou. Thereat on the fourth pier we came, we on our left descended to the depth,A narrow strait, and perforated from his side my leader set me
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