In hinding him, who might the master be I cannot say; but he had pinioned close Behind the right arm, and in front the other, With chains, that held him so begirt about From the neck down, that on the part uncovere] Of his own power against the Supreme Jove," The arms he wielded never more he moves." That of the measureless Briareus These eyes of mine might have experience." Whence he replied: "Thou shalt behold Antaus Close by here, who can speak and is unbound, And he is bound, and fashioned like to this one, Then we proceeded farther in advance, And to Antæus came, who, full five ells "O thou, who in the valley fortunate, Which Scipio the heir of glory made, And who, hadst thou been at the mighty war There where the cold doth lock Cocytus up. Make us not go to Tityus nor Typhoeus; This one can give of that which here is longed for; Still in the world can he restore thy fame; Because he lives, and still expects long life, If to itself Grace call him not untimely." 130 So said the Master; and in haste the other His hands extended and took up my Guide,— Said unto me: "Draw nigh, that I may take thee;" As seems the Carisenda, to behold Beneath the leaning side, when goes a cloud Watching to see him stoop, and then it was Judas with Lucifer, he put us down; Nor thus bowed downward made he there delay, But, as a mast does in a ship, uprose. 135 140 14.5 CANTO XXXII. IF I had rhymes both rough and stridulous, To sketch the bottom of all the universe, Who helped Amphion in enclosing Thebes, O rabble ill-begotten above all, Who're in the place to speak of which is hard, The semblance had of glass, and not of water. So thick a veil ne'er made upon its current Nor there beneath the frigid sky the Don, F'en at the edge 'twould not have given a creak. When round about me somewhat I had looked, I downward turned me, and saw two so close, The hair upon their heads together mingled. "Ye who so strain your breasts together, tell me," I said, "who are you;" and they bent their necks, Gushed o'er the eyelids, and the frost congealed So strongly; whereat they, like two he-goats, Butted together, so much wrath o'ercame them. And one, who had by reason of the cold Lost both his ears, still with his visage downward, Said: "Why dost thou so mirror thyself in us? If thou desire to know who these two are, The valley whence Bisenzio descends Belonged to them and to their father Albert. They from one body came, and all Caïna Thou shalt search through, and shalt not find a shade Not he in whom were broken breast and shadow So with his head I see no farther forward, And bore the name of Sassol Mascheroni; Well knowest thou who he was, if thou art Tuscan And that thou put me not to further speech, And wait Carlino to exonerate me." Then I beheld a thousand faces, made Purple with cold; whence o'er me comes a shudder. I know not; but in walking 'mong the heads That I through him may issue from a doubt; Who was blaspheming vehemently still: "Who art thou, that thus reprehendest others?" "Now who art thou, that goest through Antenora Smiting," replied he, "other people's cheeks, So that, if thou wert living, 'twere too much?" "Living I am, and dear to thee it may be," "if thou demandest fame, Was my response, That 'mid the other notes thy name I place." And he to me:"For the reverse I long; Take thyself hence, and give me no more trouble; And said: "It must needs be thou name thyself, I had his hair in hand already twisted, And more than one shock of it had pulled out, He barking, with his eyes held firmly down, When cried another: "What doth ail thee, Bocca? Is't not enough to clatter with thy jaws, But thou must bark? what devil touches thee?" "Now," said I, "I care not to have thee speak, Accursed traitor; for unto thy shame I will report of thee veracious news. "Begone," replied he, "and tell what thou wilt, But be not silent, if thou issue hence, Of him who had just now his tongue so prompt; He weepeth here the silver of the French ; 'I saw,' thus canst thou phrase it, 'him of Duera Of whom the gorget Florence slit asunder; Yonder with Ganellon, and Tebaldello Who oped Faenza when the people slept." Already we had gone away from him, When I beheld two frozen in one hole, So that one head a hood was to the other; And even as bread through hunger is devoured, The uppermost on the other set his teeth, There where the brain is to the nape united. Not in another fashion Tydeus gnawed The temples of Menalippus in disdain, Than that one did the skull and the other things. "O thou, who showest by such bestial sign Thy hatred against him whom thou art eating, That if thou rightfully of him complain, In knowing who ye are, and his transgression, CANTO XXXIII. HIS mouth uplifted from his grim repast, Of the same head that he behind had wasted. The desperate grief, which wrings my heart already But if my words be seed that may bear fruit gnaw, Speaking and weeping shalt thou see together. I know not who thou art, nor by what mode Thou hast come down here; but a Florentine And this one was Ruggieri the Archbishop; 5 15 |