6 for where the faculty of the mind is added to evil will and to power, 57 the human race can make no defense against it. His face seemed to me long and huge as the pinecone of St. Peter’s at Rome, 60 and his other bones were in proportion with it; so that the bank, which was an apron from his middle downward, showed of him fully so much 63 above, that to reach to his hair three Frieslanders would have made ill vaunt: for I saw of him thirty great spans 66 down from the place where one buckles his cloak. “Rafel mai amech zabi almi,” began to cry the fierce mouth, 69 to which sweeter psalms were not befitting. And my Leader toward him: “Foolish soul! Keep to thy horn, and with that vent thyself, 72 when anger or other passion touches thee; seek at thy neck, and thou wilt find the cord that holds it tied, O soul confused! 75 and see it lying athwart thy great breast.” Then he said to me: “He accuses himself; this is Nimrod, because of whose evil thought 78 one language only is not used in the world. Let us leave him alone, and not speak in vain; for such is every language to him, 81 as his to others which is known to no one.”
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