With feet upon his footprints, are turned round So that they set the point upon the heel. 1510 And soon aware they will be of the harvest Of this bad husbandry, when shall the tares Complain the granary is taken from them. 1511 Yet say I, he who searcheth leaf by leaf 1512 Our volume through, would still some page discover Where he could read, ‘I am as I am wont.’ ’Twill not be from Casal nor Acquasparta, 1513 From whence come such unto the written word That one avoids it, and the other narrows. Bonaventura of Bagnoregio’s life 1514 Am I, who always in great offices Postponed considerations sinister. Here are Illuminato and Agostino, 1515 Who of the first barefooted beggars were That with the cord the friends of God became. Hugh of Saint Victor is among them here,
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