2 I have seen ere now horsemen moving camp, and beginning an assault, and making their muster, 3 and sometimes retiring for their escape; I have seen foragers over your land, O Aretines, and I have seen the starting of raids, 6 the onset of tournaments, and the running of jousts, now with trumpets, and now with bells, with drums, and with signals from strongholds, 9 and with native things and foreign — but never to so strange a pipe did I see horsemen or footmen set forth, 12 or ship by sign of land or star. We were going along with the ten demons. Ah, the fell company! but in the church 15 with the saints, and in the tavern with the gluttons. My attention was only on the pitch in order to see every condition of the pouch, 18 and of the people that were burning in it. Like dolphins, when they give a sign to the sailors by the arching of their back, 21 to take heed for the safety of their vessel, so, now and then, to alleviate his pain, one of the sinners would show his back 24 and hide it in less time than it lightens. And as at the edge of the water of a ditch the frogs lie with only their muzzle out, 27 so that they conceal their feet and the rest of their bulk,
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