The Divine Comedy By Dante, Illustrated, Hell, volume 10
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The years are many that have pass'd away, Since to this fastness Branca Doria came. " "Now, " answer'd I, "methinks thou mockest me, For Branca Doria never yet hath died, But doth all natural functions of a man, Eats, drinks, and sleeps, and putteth raiment on. " He thus: "Not yet unto that upper fossBy th' evil talons guarded, where the pitchTenacious boils, had Michael Zanche reach'd, When this one left a demon in his steadIn his own body, and of one his kin, Who with him treachery wrought. B...ut now put forthThy hand, and ope mine eyes. " I op'd them not. Ill manners were best courtesy to him. Ah Genoese! men perverse in every way, With every foulness stain'd, why from the earthAre ye not cancel'd? Such an one of yoursI with Romagna's darkest spirit found, As for his doings even now in soulIs in Cocytus plung'd, and yet doth seemIn body still alive upon the earth. CANTO XXXIV "THE banners of Hell's Monarch do come forthTowards us; therefore look, " so spake my guide, "If thou discern him.
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