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The Divine Comedy of Dante

By: H. F. Cary

... right is merited: And look thou well to that ill gotten coin, Which against Charles thy hardihood inspir’d. If reverence of the keys restrain’d me no... ...7. This must fall.] The Bianchi. v. 69. Of one, who under shore Now rests.] Charles of Valois, by whose means the Neri were replaced. v. 73. The jus... ...face shalt thou eat bread.” v. 119. The wain.] The constellation Bootes, or Charles’s wain. CANTO XII v. 17. The king of Athens.] Theseus, who was e... ... garden of the empire to run waste. Come see the Capulets and Montagues, The Philippeschi and Monaldi! man Who car’st for nought! those sunk in grief,... ... of heav’n’s great Judge implore. Hugh Capet was I high: from me descend The Philips and the Louis, of whom France Newly is govern’d; born of one, who... ... by Alberto da Mangona, his uncle. v. 23. Peter de la Brosse.] Secretary of Philip III of France. The courtiers, envying the high place which he hel... ...he Venerable, was born in 672 at Wearmouth and Jarrow, in the bishopric of Durham, and died in 735. Invited to Rome by Pope Sergius I., he preferre...

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