10 As we turned our persons thither, voices sang Beati pauperes spiritu 111 in such wise that speech could not tell it. Ah, how different are these passes from those of Hell! for here with songs 114 one enters, and there below with fierce lamentations. Already we were mounting up over the holy stairs, and it seemed to me I was far more light 117 than I had seemed before upon the plain. Whereon I: “Master, say, what heavy thing has been lifted from me, so that almost no 120 fatigue, as I go on, is felt by me?” He answered: When the P’s which remain still on thy forehead, almost extinct, 123 shall be, as one is, quite erased, thy feet will be so conquered by goodwill that not only will they not feel fatigue, 126 but it will be delight to them to be urged upward.” Then I did like those who are going with something on their head unknown to them, 129 unless the signs of others make them suspect; wherefore the hand assists to ascertain, and seeks and finds, and performs that office 132 which cannot be accomplished by the sight; and with the fingers of my right hand outspread, I found six only of those letters which had incised 135 he of the keys upon my temples:
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