As came to Clymene, to be made certain 1657 Of that which he had heard against himself, 1658 He who makes fathers chary still to children, 1659 Even such was I, and such was I perceived By Beatrice and by the holy light That first on my account had changed its place. Therefore my Lady said to me: “Send forth The flame of thy desire, so that it issue Imprinted well with the internal stamp; Not that our knowledge may be greater made By speech of thine, but to accustom thee To tell thy thirst, that we may give thee drink.” “O my beloved tree, (that so dost lift thee, That even as minds terrestrial perceive No triangle containeth two obtuse, So thou beholdest the contingent things 1660 Ere in themselves they are, fixing thine eyes Upon the point in which all times are present,) 1661 While I was with Virgilius conjoined