Another apple-tree, and not far distant, From having but just then turned thitherward. 1014 People I saw beneath it lift their hands, And cry I know not what towards the leaves, Like little children eager and deluded, Who pray, and he they pray to doth not answer, But, to make very keen their appetite, Holds their desire aloft, and hides it not. Then they departed as if undeceived; And now we came unto the mighty tree Which prayers and tears so manifold refuses. “Pass farther onward without drawing near; The tree of which Eve ate is higher up, 1015 And out of that one has this tree been raised.” Thus said I know not who among the branches; Whereat Virgilius, Statius, and myself Went crowding forward on the side that rises. “Be mindful,” said he, “of the accursed ones 1016 Formed of the cloud-rack, who inebriate Combated Theseus with their double breasts; And of the Jews who showed them soft in drinking,