tten the poor folk in ban,
I'd make him learn those lessons of the jail;
For then he'd know all a good ruler can:
He'd act like men who weigh by reason's scale,
Nor dare to swerve fr truth and right aside,
Nor would confusion in the realm prevail.
While I was bound in prison to abide,
Foison of priests, friars, soldiers I could see;
But those who best deserved it least I spied.
Ah! could you know what rage came over me,
When for such rogues the jail relaxed her hold!
This makes one weep that one was born to be!
I'll add no more. Now I'm bece fine gold,
Such gold as none flings lightly to the wind,
Fit for the best work eyes shall e'er behold.
Another point hath passed into my mind,
Which I've not told thee, Luca; where I wrote,
Was in the book of one our kith and kind. 注释标题 'Un nostro parente.' He says above that he wrote the Capitolo on the leaves of his Bible.
There down the margins I was wont to note
Each torment grim that crushed me like a vice:
The paste my hurrying thoughts could hardly float.
To make an O, I dipped the splinter thrice
In that thick mud; worse woe could scarcely grind
Spirits in hell debarred fr Paradise.
Seeing I'm not the first by fraud confined,
This I'll it; and once more seek the cell
Wherein I rack for rage bo
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