“For the sun shall not lie Seven times upon the pillow which the Ram With all his four feet covers and bestrides, Before that such a courteous opinion Shall in the middle of thy head be nailed With greater nails than of another’s speech, Unless the course of justice standeth still”;

and those of Oderisi d’ Agobbio, Purgatorio XI 139:⁠—

“I say no more, and know that I speak darkly;

Yet little time shall pass before thy neighbors

Will so demean themselves that thou canst gloss it.”