“Among them do not wish me to conduct you. Better from off this ledge the acts and faces Of all of them will you discriminate, Than in the plain below received among them. He who sits highest, and the semblance bears Of having what he should have done neglected, And to the others’ song moves not his lips, Rudolph the Emperor was, who had the power 635 To heal the wounds that Italy have slain, So that through others slowly she revives. The other, who in look doth comfort him, Governed the region where the water springs, The Moldau bears the Elbe, and Elbe the sea. His name was Ottocar; and in swaddling-clothes 636 Far better he than bearded Winceslaus 637 His son, who feeds in luxury and ease. And the small-nosed, who close in council seems 638 With him that has an aspect so benign, 639 Died fleeing and disflowering the lily;