Thus come into his adversaries’ hands.” Near to the side of him my Leader drew, Asked of him whence he was; and he replied: “I in the kingdom of Navarre was born; 322 My mother placed me servant to a lord, For she had borne me to a ribald knave, Destroyer of himself and of his things. Then I domestic was of good King Thibault; 323 I set me there to practise barratry, For which I pay the reckoning in this heat.” And Ciriatto, from whose mouth projected, On either side, a tusk, as in a boar, Caused him to feel how one of them could rip. Among malicious cats the mouse had come; But Barbariccia clasped him in his arms, And said: “Stand ye aside, while I enfork him.” And to my Master he turned round his head; “Ask him again,” he said, “if more thou wish To know from him, before someone destroy him.” The Guide: “Now tell then of the other culprits; Knowest thou any one who is a Latian, 324