For in him nede of sitting is, iwis; And in the, nede of sothe: and thus, forsothe, There mote necessite ben in you bothe. “But thou maist saine, the man sit nat therefore That thine opinion of his sitting soth is: But, rather, for the man sate there before, Therefore is thine opinion sothe iwis: And I say, Though the cause of sothe of this Cometh of his sitting; yet necessite Is enterchaunged bothe in him and the.” ↩

• As Hippolytus was banished from Athens on the false and cruel accusations of Phaedra, his stepmother, Dante shall be from Florence on accusations equally false and cruel. ↩