The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . lege of the mourning not to instruct us who thou art. By Arnos pleasant stream, I thus replied,* In the great city I was bred and grew,And wear the body I have ever who are ye, from whom such mighty now I witness, courseth down your cheeks ?What torment breaks forth in this bitter woe ? 100 * Our bonnets gleaming bright with orange hue/One of them answered, are so leaden gross, 80 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxiii That with their weight they make the balances To crack beneath them. Joyous fria
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri . lege of the mourning not to instruct us who thou art. By Arnos pleasant stream, I thus replied,* In the great city I was bred and grew,And wear the body I have ever who are ye, from whom such mighty now I witness, courseth down your cheeks ?What torment breaks forth in this bitter woe ? 100 * Our bonnets gleaming bright with orange hue/One of them answered, are so leaden gross, 80 THE VISION OF DANTE [Canto xxiii That with their weight they make the balances To crack beneath them. Joyous friars we were, Bolognas natives ; Catalano I, He Loderingo named ; and by thy land Together taken, as men use to take A single and indifferent arbiter, To reconcile their strifes. How there we sped, Gardingos vicinage can best declare. 0 friars ! I began, your miseries— *But there brake off, for one had caught mine to a cross with three stakes on the ground:He, when he saw me, writhed himself, throughoutDistorted, ruffling with deep sighs his beard. no. And Catalano, who thereof was ware, Thus spake: That pierced spirit, whom intent Thou viewst, was he who gave the Pharisees Counsel, that it were fitting for one man To suffer for the people. He doth lie 120 Transverse ; nor any passes, but him first Behoves make feeling trial how each weighs. In straits like this along the foss are placed The father of his consort, and the rest Partakers in that council, seed of ill And sorrow to the Jews. I noted then. How Virgil gazed with wonder upon him, Thus abjectly extended on the cross In banishment eternal. To the friar He next his words addressed: We pray ye tell, 130 If so be lawful, whether on our right Lies any opening in the rock, whereby We both may issue hence, without constraint Canto XXIV] HELL 81 On the dark angels, that compelled they come To lead us from this depth. He thus replied: Nearer than thou dost hope, there is a rock From the great circle moving, vvhich oe
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