And keep it to be glossed with other text 215 By a Lady who can do it, if I reach her. This much will I have manifest to you; Provided that my conscience do not chide me, For whatsoever Fortune I am ready. Such hansel is not new unto mine ears; Therefore let Fortune turn her wheel around As it may please her, and the churl his mattock.” 216 My Master thereupon on his right cheek Did backward turn himself, and looked at me; Then said: “He listeneth well who noteth it.” Nor speaking less on that account, I go With Ser Brunetto, and I ask who are His most known and most eminent companions. And he to me: “To know of some is well; Of others it were laudable to be silent, For short would be the time for so much speech. Know then, in sum, that all of them were clerks, And men of letters great and of great fame, In the world tainted with the selfsame sin. Priscian goes yonder with that wretched crowd, 217