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“The blessed angel, whom we had reached by now, with a glad voice said: ‘Here’s the entrance; nor is this stair half as steep as the other two’.”

“The blessed angel, whom we had reached by now, with a glad voice said: ‘Here’s the entrance; nor is this stair half as steep as the other two’.”

“‘O folk assured of seeing the light supreme’, turning to themI thus began, ‘the sum of all your prayers and their abiding theme’”

“‘O folk assured of seeing the light supreme’, turning to themI thus began, ‘the sum of all your prayers and their abiding theme’”

“Upon the stairway’s summit now we stood where for the second time is cut away the mount which, as one climbs, turns bad to good”

“Upon the stairway’s summit now we stood where for the second time is cut away the mount which, as one climbs, turns bad to good”

“Ah, vain Arachne, thee I saw distraught, already turned half spider, in the shreds of that which thou to thine own ill had’st wrought!”

“Ah, vain Arachne, thee I saw distraught, already turned half spider, in the shreds of that which thou to thine own ill had’st wrought!”

“My forbears’ feats set my proud blood on fire”

“My forbears’ feats set my proud blood on fire”

“and in her gesture were these words she said, ‘Ecce ancilla Dei’, as clearly impressed as is in wax the shape a seal hath made”

“and in her gesture were these words she said, ‘Ecce ancilla Dei’, as clearly impressed as is in wax the shape a seal hath made”