Purgatorio: Canto VII
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Dante Alighieri and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Not oftentimes upriseth through the branches The probity of man; and this He wills Who gives it, so that we may ask of Him.
Eke to the large-nosed reach my words, no less Than to the other, Pier, who with him sings; Whence Provence and Apulia grieve already
The plant is as inferior to its seed, As more than Beatrice and Margaret Costanza boasteth of her husband still.
Behold the monarch of the simple life, Harry of England, sitting there alone; He in his branches has a better issue.
He who the lowest on the ground among them Sits looking upward, is the Marquis William, For whose sake Alessandria and her war
Make Monferrat and Canavese weep.”