“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.”

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The words he heard “when descending into the dead world,” are those of Farinata, Inferno X 79:⁠—

“But fifty times shall not rekindled be

The countenance of the Lady who reigns here,

Ere thou shalt know how heavy is that art”;