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I would press out the juice of my conception
  More fully; but because I have them not;
  Not without fear I bring myself to speak;

For 'tis no enterprise to take in jest;
  To sketch the bottom of all the universe;
  Nor for a tongue that cries Mamma and Babbo。

But may those Ladies help this verse of mine;
  Who helped Amphion in enclosing Thebes;
  That from the fact the word be not diverse。

O rabble ill…begotten above all;
  Who're in the place to speak of which is hard;
  'Twere better ye had here been sheep or goats!

When we were down within the darksome well;
  Beneath the giant's feet; but lower far;
  And I was scanning still the lofty wall;

I heard it said to me: 〃Look how thou steppest!
  Take heed thou do not trample with thy feet
  The heads of the tired; miserable brothers!〃

Whereat I turned me round; and saw before me
  And underfoot a lake; that from the frost
  The semblance had of glass; and not of water。

So thick a veil ne'er made upon its current
  In winter…time Danube in Austria;
  Nor there beneath the frigid sky the Don;

As there was here; so that if Tambernich
  Had fallen upon it; or Pietrapana;
  E'en at the edge 'twould not have given a creak。

And as to croak the frog doth place himself
  With muzzle out of water;when is dreaming
  Of gleaning oftentimes the peasant…girl;

Livid; as far down as where shame appears;
  Were the disconsolate shades within the ice;
  Setting their teeth unto the note of storks。

Each one his countenance held downward bent;
  From mouth the cold; from eyes the doleful heart
  Among them witness of itself procures。

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;
  And when to me their faces they had lifted;

Their eyes; which first were only moist within;
  Gushed o'er the eyelids; and the frost congealed
  The tears between; and locked them up again。

Clamp never bound together wood with wood
  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 Caina
  Thou shalt search through; and shalt not find a shade
  More worthy to be fixed in gelatine;

Not he in whom were broken breast and shadow
  At one and the same blow by Arthur's hand;
  Focaccia not; not he who me encumbers

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;
  Know that I Camicion de' Pazzi was;
  And wait Carlino to exonerate me。〃

Then I beheld a thousand faces; made
  Purple with cold; whence o'er me comes a shudder;
  And evermore will come; at frozen ponds。

And while we were advancing tow'rds the middle;
  Where everything of weight unites together;
  And I was shivering in the eternal shade;

Whether 'twere will; or destiny; or chance;
  I know not; but in walking 'mong the heads
  I struck my foot hard in the face of one。

Weeping he growled: 〃Why dost thou trample me?
  Unless thou comest to increase the vengeance
  of Montaperti; why dost thou molest me?〃

And I: 〃My Master; now wait here for me;
  That I through him may issue from a doubt;
  Then thou mayst hurry me; as thou shalt wish。〃

The Leader stopped; and to that one I said
  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;〃
  Was my response; 〃if thou demandest fame;
  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;
  For ill thou knowest to flatter in this hollow。〃

Then by the scalp behind I seized upon him;
  And said: 〃It must needs be thou name thyself;
  Or not a hair remain upon thee here。〃

Whence he to me: 〃Though thou strip off my hair;
  I will not tell thee who I am; nor show thee;
  If on my head a thousand times thou fall。〃

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
  There where the sinners stand out in the cold。'

If thou shouldst questioned be who else was there;
  Thou hast beside thee him of Beccaria;
  Of whom the gorget Florence slit asunder;

Gianni del Soldanier; I think; may be
  Yonder with Ganellon; and Tebaldello
  Who oped Faenza when the people slep。〃

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;
  Tell me the wherefore;〃 said I; 〃with this compact;

That if thou rightfully of him complain;
  In knowing who ye are; and his transgression;
  I in the world above repay thee for it;

If that wherewith I speak be not dried up。〃



Inferno: Canto XXXIII


His mouth uplifted from his grim repast;
  That sinner; wiping it upon the hair
  Of the same head that he behind had wasted。

Then he began: 〃Thou wilt that I renew
  The desperate grief; which wrings my heart already
  To think of only; ere I speak of it;

But if my words be seed that may bear fruit
  Of infamy to the traitor whom I 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
  Thou seemest to me truly; when I hear thee。

Thou hast to know I was Count Ugolino;
  And this one was Ruggieri the Archbishop;
  Now I will tell thee why I am such a neighbour。

That; by effect of his malicious thoughts;
  Trusting in him I was made prisoner;
  And after put to death; I need not say;

 But ne'ertheless what thou canst not have heard;
  That is to say; how cruel was my death;
  Hear shalt thou; and shalt know if he has wronged me。

A narrow perforation in the mew;
  Which bears because of me the title of Famine;
  And in which others still must be locked up;

Had shown me through its opening many moons
  Already; when I dreamed the evil dream
  Which of the future rent for me the veil。

This one appeared to me as lord and master;
  Hunting the wolf and whelps upon the mountain
  For which the Pisans cannot Lucca see。

With sleuth…hounds gaunt; and eager; and well trained;
  Gualandi with Sismondi and Lanfianchi
  He had sent out before him to the front。

After brief course seemed unto me forespent
  The father and the sons; and with sharp tushes
  It seemed to me I saw their flanks ripped open。

When I before the morrow was awake;
  Moaning amid their sleep I heard my sons
  Who with me were; and asking after bread。

Cruel indeed art thou; if yet thou grieve not;
  Thinking of what my heart foreboded me;
  And weep'st thou not; what art thou wont to weep at?

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