Absorbed in his delight, that contemplator 2057 Assumed the willing office of a teacher, And gave beginning to these holy words: “The wound that Mary closed up and anointed, She at her feet who is so beautiful, 2058 She is the one who opened it and pierced it. Within that order which the third seats make Is seated Rachel, lower than the other, 2059 With Beatrice, in manner as thou seest. Sarah, Rebecca, Judith, and her who was Ancestress of the Singer, who for dole 2060 Of the misdeed said, ‘ Miserere mei ,’ 2061 Canst thou behold from seat to seat descending Down in gradation, as with each one’s name I through the Rose go down from leaf to leaf. And downward from the seventh row, even as Above the same, succeed the Hebrew women,