4 unequally distressed, round and round and weary, along the first cornice, 30 purging away the sullies of the world. If good is always asked for us there, here what can be said and done for them 33 by those who have a good root to their will? Truly we ought to aid them to wash away the marks which they bore hence, so that pure and light 36 they may issue forth unto the starry wheels. “Ah! so may justice and pity disburden you speedily, that ye may be able to move the wing 39 which may lift you according to your desire, show on which hand toward the stairway is the shortest path; and, if there be more than one passage, 42 point out to us that which least steeply slopes; for this one who comes with me, because of the burden of the flesh of Adam wherewith he is clothed, 45 is chary, against his will, of mounting up.” The words which they returned to these that he whom I was following had spoken, 48 it was not manifest from whom came, but it was said: “To the right hand along the bank come with us, and ye will find the pass 51 possible for a living person to ascend. And were I not hindered by the stone which tames my proud neck, 54 so that I needs must carry my face low,
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