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Rh 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 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,

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."