So that the pregnant air to water changed; The robust Archian found, and into Arno Thrust it, and loosened from my breast the cross I made of me, when agony o'ercame me; It rolled me on the banks and on the bottom; Then with its booty covered and begirt me." "Ah, when thou hast returned unto the world, And rested thee from thy long journeying," 120 125 130 135 CANTO VI WHENE'ER is broken up the game of Zara, One goes in front, and one behind doth pluck him, He pauses not, and this and that one hears; They crowd no more to whom his hand he stretches, And from the strong he thus defends himself. Even such was I in that dense multitude, Turning to them this way and that my face, And, promising, I freed myself therefrom. There was the Aretine, who from the arms Untamed of Ghin di Tacco had his death, And he who fleeing from pursuit was drowned. 15 There was imploring with his hands outstretched Frederick Novello, and that one of Pisa Who made the good Marzucco seem so strong. I saw Count Orso; and the soul divided By hatred and by envy from its body, As it declared, and not for crime committed; Pierre de la Brosse I say; and here provide While still on earth the Lady of Brabant, So that for this she be of no worse flock! As soon as I was free from all those shades Line 9. And from the throng he thus defends himself. 20 25 |