This canto is devoted to the interview with the poet Statius, whose release from punishment was announced by the earthquake and the outcry at the end of the last canto. ↩
John 4:14, 15:—
“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. … The woman saith unto him. Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”
“Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst. … The woman saith unto him. Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.”
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