And I to him directed me, thus asking: “What did the spirit of Romagna mean, Mentioning interdict and partnership?” Whence he to me: “Of his own greatest failing He knows the harm; and therefore wonder not If he reprove us, that we less may rue it. Because are thither pointed your desires Where by companionship each share is lessened, Envy doth ply the bellows to your sighs. But if the love of the supernal sphere Should upwardly direct your aspiration, There would not be that fear within your breast; For there, as much the more as one says Our , 820 So much the more of good each one possesses, And more of charity in that cloister burns.” “I am more hungering to be satisfied,” I said, “than if I had before been silent, And more of doubt within my mind I gather. How can it be, that boon distributed The more possessors can more wealthy make Therein, than if by few it be possessed?”