. The vision; . sed, who strove in vainTo lift their forms. Then two I that satProppd gainst each other, as two brazen pansSet to retain the heat. From head to tetter barkd them round. Xor saw I eerGroom currying so fast, for whom his lordImpatient waited, or himself perchanceTired with long watching, as of these each onePlied quickly his keen nails, through furiousnessOf neer abated pruriency. The crustCame drawn from underneath in flakes, like scalesScraped from the bream, or fish of broader mail. •• O thou ! who with thy fingers rendest offThy coat of thus spake my gu
. The vision; . sed, who strove in vainTo lift their forms. Then two I that satProppd gainst each other, as two brazen pansSet to retain the heat. From head to tetter barkd them round. Xor saw I eerGroom currying so fast, for whom his lordImpatient waited, or himself perchanceTired with long watching, as of these each onePlied quickly his keen nails, through furiousnessOf neer abated pruriency. The crustCame drawn from underneath in flakes, like scalesScraped from the bream, or fish of broader mail. •• O thou ! who with thy fingers rendest offThy coat of thus spake my guide to one, And sometimes makest tearing pincers of them,-Tell me if any born of Latian landBe among these within: so may thy nails been drained by the Emperor Leopold n. The Chiana 1=mentioned as a remarkably slugfish stream, in the Paradise,Canto xiii. 21. 1 Mtucwumaspestilent fen.] See Xote to Canto xxv. v. 18. 2 In JBgnuL] He alludes to the fable of the ants changedinto Myrmidons. Ovid. Met lib. vii. j p. 87 131 HELL, Canto XXIX. 197 Serve thee for everlasting to this toil. -- Both are of Latium, weeping he replied, Whom tortured thus thou seest: but who art thotThat hast inquired of us? To whom my guide .u One that descend with this man, who yet lives,From rock to rock, and show him hells abyss Then started they asunder, and each turndTrembling toward us, with the rest, whose earThose words redounding struck. To me my liegeAddressd him . Speak to them whateer thou list And I therewith began : So may no timeFilch your remembrance from the thoughts of menIn the upper world, but after many sunsSurvive it, as ye tell me, who ye are,And of what race ye come. Your punishment,Unseemly and disgustful in its kind,Deter you not from opening thus much to me. Arezzo was my dwelling,1 answered one, And me Albero of Sienna broughtTo die by fire : but that, for which I died,Leads me not here. True is, in sport I told him,That I had learnd to wing my flight in air ;And he, admiring mu
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