10 The shade which had drawn close to the Judge when he exclaimed, through all that assault 111 had not for a moment loosed its gaze from me. “So may the lantern which is leading thee on high find in thine own free will so much wax 114 as is needed as far as to the enamelled summit,” it began, “if true news of Valdimacra or of the neighboring region 117 thou knowest, tell it to me, for there I once was great. I was called Corrado Malaspina; I am not the elder, but from him I am descended; 120 to mine own I bore the love which is here refined.” “Oh,” said I to him, “through your lands I have never been, but where does man dwell 123 in all Europe that they are not renowned? The fame that honors your house proclaims its lords, proclaims its district, 126 so that he knows of them who never yet was there. And I swear to you, so may I go on high, that your honored race does not despoil itself 129 of the praise of the purse and of the sword. Custom and nature so privilege it that though the guilty head turn the world awry, 132 alone it goes straight and scorns the evil way.” And he: “Now go, for the sun shall not return to rest seven times in the bed which the Ram 135 with all four feet covers and bestrides,
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