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Do not ask, Reader, how my blood ran cold
And my voice choked up with fear. I cannot write it;
This is a terror that cannot be cold

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And my guide in his direction: Babbling fool,
stick to your horn and vent yourself with it
When rage or passion stir your stupid soul.

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He first, I second, without thought of rest
we climbed the dark until we reached the point
where a round opening brought in sight the blest
and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars.
And we walked out once more beneath the Stars.

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somehow I felt a wind begin to blow,
whereat I said:"Master, what stirs this wind?
Is not all heat extinguished here below?"
Virgil:

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Whereat I turned and saw beneath my feet
and stretching out ahead, a lake so frozen
to seemed to be made of glass. So thick a sheet

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He first, I second, without thought of rest

we climbed the dark until we reached the point

where a round opening brought in sight the blest

and beauteous shining of the Heavenly cars.

And we walked out once more beneath the Stars.

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Now let all those whose dull minds are still vexed
By failure to understand what point it was
I had passed through, judge if I was perplexed

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I stood now where the souls of the last class
(with fear my verses tell it) were covered wholly;
they shone below the ice like straws in glass.

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And as I stared through that obscurity,
I saw what seemed a cluster of great towers,
whereat I cried: "Master, what is this?"

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"His babbling testifies the wrong
he did on earth: he is Nimrod, through whose evil
mankind no longer speaks a common tongue.

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When I heard my Master raise his voice to me,
I wheeled about with such a start of shame
that I grow pale yet at the memory.

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We both are Italian whose unending loss
You see before you" he replied in tears.
"But who are you who come to question us?"

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And my Guide in his direction: "Babbling fool,
stick to your horn and vent yourself with it
when rage or passion stir your stupid soul.

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See how Mahomet’s mangled and split open!

Ahead of me walks Ali in his tears,

His head cleft from the topknot to the chin.

And all the other souls that bleed and mourn

along this ditch were sowers of scandal and schism

as they tore others apart, so are they torn.

Dante puts his religious enemies further down the hell than his political enemies. This shows     that Dante considers political unright is less serious than religious unright.

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See how Mahomet’s mangled and split open!

Ahead of me walks Ali in his tears,

His head cleft from the topknot to the chin.

And all the other souls that bleed and mourn

along this ditch were sowers of scandal and schism

as they tore others apart, so are they torn.

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I stayed to watch those broken instruments,
and I saw a thing so strange I should not dare
to mention it without more evidence

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See how Mahomet's mangled and split open!
Ahead of me walks Ali in his tears,
his head cleft from topknot to chin.

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they shall be thrown from their ships into the sea
and drown in the raging tides near La Cattolica
to satisfy a tyrant's treachery.

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Behind us, warden of our mangled horde,
the devil who butchers us and sends us marching
waits to renew our wounds with his long sword
when we have made the circuit of the pit;
for by the time we stand again before him
all the wounds he gave us last have knit.

Everyone going back to class the next day only to have Ms. Keeports to assign another close reading analysis essay

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Is there peace in Romagna? for on earth
I too was of those hills between Urbino
and the fold from which the Tiber springs to birth."

Logic of things that the damned ask the living in Dante's inferno:

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One of the damned came racing round a boulder,
and as he passed us, a great snake shot up
and bit him where the neck joins with the shoulder.

Getting bit by a spider
vs Getting bit by a reptile

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When he had finished, the thief-to his disgrace-
Raised his hinds with both fists making figs,
And cried: "Here, God! I throw them in your face!"

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Precisely so, philosophers declare,
the Phoenix dies and then is born again
when it approaches its five hundredth year,

It lives on tears of balsam and of incense;
in all its life it eats no herb or grain,
and nard and precious myth sweeten its cerements.

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The smoke swelled up all about them all the while:
it tanned one skin and bleached the other; it stripped
the hair from the man and grew it onto the reptile.

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My lungs were pumping as if they could not stop;
I thought I could not go on, and I sat exhausted
the instant I had clambered to the top.

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"returned, I found my guide already mounted upon the rump of that monstrosity. He said to me: "now must you be undaunted:.."

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My guide and Master bore me on his breast,
as if I were not a companion, but a son.
And the soles of his feet had hardly come to rest...

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My Guide stood there
motionless for a while with a dark look.
At last he said: "He lied about this business,
who spears the sinners yonder with his hook."

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They turned along the left bank in a line
But before they started, all of them together
Had stuck their pointed tongues out as a sight

To their captain that they wished to pass,
And he made a trumped of his ass


Trying to figure out why no one uses the phrase "ass trumpet" in 2017 when it's been around for hundreds of years like

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Commanded four to fly to the other coast
at once with all their grapples. At top speed
the fiends divided, each one to his post

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And as soon as the grafter sank below the pitch,
Grizzly turned his talons against Hellken,
locked with him claw to claw above the ditch.

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my Guide and Master bore me on his breast,
as if I were not a companion, but a son.
And the soles of his feet had hardly come to rest

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the one beside him with the skinny shanks
was Michael Scott, who mastered every trick
of magic fraud, a prince of mountebanks.

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Reader, so may God grant you to understand
my poem and profit from it, ask yourself
how I could check my tears, when near at hand

I saw the image of our humanity
distorted so that the tears that burst from their eyes
ran down the cleft of their buttocks. Certainly...

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That chasm sinks so deep we could sight
its bottom anywhere until we climbed
along the rock arch to its greatest height.

HEY SPONGEBOB WHATS AN ABYSS?

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"And that flayed spirit, seeing me turn,
thought to hide his face, but I called to him:
"You there, that walk along with your eyes on the Ground--

This action of the sinner trying to hide his identity allows us to see Dante's view on how the sinner should be punished. It show that crimes became more severe towards the bottom of hell. This tercet is important because it tells the reader the severity of crimes in the view of Dante.

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“Ah Constantine, what evil marked the hour-

Not of your conversion, but of the fee

The first rich Father took from you in dower”

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that he passed Lemnos, where the women of wrath,
Enraged by Venus' curse that drove their lovers
out of their arms, put all their males to death



They had it coming

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I wept. I leaned against the jagged face
of a rock and wept so that my Guide said: "Still?
Still like the other fools? There is no place

for pity here. Who is more arrogant
within his soul, who is more impious
than one who dares to sorrow at God's judgement?

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An enormous purse, each marked without it's own beast and it's own colors like a coat of arms. On these their streaming eyes appeared to feast.

Looking about I saw one purse display azure on or, a kind of lion; another, on a blood red field, a goose whiter than whey.
The enemies of Dantes politically group used the lion on a field of azure and he's kind of calling them out.

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Leave us alone! And since you have not yet died,
I'll have you know my neighbor Vitaliano
has a place reserved for him here at my side.

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He bent far back to his right, and throwing it out from the edge, sent it in a long arc into the bottomless darkness of the pit.

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than I felt when I found myself in air,
afloat in space with nothing visible
but the enormous beast that bore me there.

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I think there was no greater fear the day
Phaëthon let loose the reins and burned the sky along the great scar of the Milky Way.

This tercet shows how Dante is still afraid of many things despite going on this journey through hell

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O Florence! your sudden wealth and your upstart
rabble, dissolute and overweening,
already set you weeping in your heart!

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I mounted the great shoulders of that freak
and tried to say "Now help me to hold on!"
But my voice clicked in my throat and I could not speak.

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Remember my Treasure, in which I shall live on:
I ask no more. He turned then, and he seemed,
across that plain, like one of those who run

for the green cloth at Verona; and those,
more like the one who wins, than those who lose.

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I examined several faces there among
that sooty throng, and I saw none I knew;
but I observed that from each neck there hung

an enormous purse, each marked with it's own beast
And it's own colors like a coat of arms
On these their streaming eyes appeared to feast.

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My Teacher heard their cries, and turning-to,
stood face to face. "Do as they ask," he said,
"for these are souls to whom respect is due;

This tercet is interesting because Virgil tells Dante that souls who are in the seventh circle of Hell need to be respected, despite their crimes that are viewed so negatively. This shows that perhaps Virgil does not agree the punishments.

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And I to him: "With all my soul I ask it.
Or let us sit together, if it please him
who is my Guide and leads me through this pit.

"My son!" he said, "whoever of this train
pauses a moment, must lie a hundred years
forbidden to brush off the burning rain.

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Men we were, and now we are changed to sticks; well might your hand have been more merciful we were no more than souls of lice and ticks

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Chiron is standing there hard by your side;
our answer will be to him. This wrath of yours was always your own worst fate," my guide replied

This Tercet shows how Dante views wrath as one of the worst sins and that it can ruin you.

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And when my Master had drawn up to it
he said: "Who were you, who through all your wounds
blow out your. Look with your lament sad spirit?"

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for some were stretched supine upon the ground,
some squatted with their arms about themselves,
and others without pause roamed round and round.

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And over all that sand on which they lay or crouched or roamed, great flakes of flame fell slowly as snow falls in the alps on a windless day.

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But certainly, if I am not mistaken,
it was just before the coming of Him who took the souls from Limbo,
that all Hell was shaken

Here, "him" refers to Jesus Christ. Virgil is saying that the rocks of hell was calm until Jesus descended into Limbo and took with him to heaven the first human souls to be saved.

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Has often plunged to chaos. It was then,
That here and elsewhere in the pits of hell,
The ancient rock was stricken and broke open

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And after blood had darkened all the bowl
of the wound, it cried again: "Why do you tear me?
Is there no pity left in any soul?

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Men we were, and now we are changed to sticks; well might your hand gave been more merciful were we no more than souls of love and ticks"
As a green branch with one end all aflame
will hiss and sputters sal out of the other
as the air escapes---so from that trunk there came
words and blood together, gout by gout.

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I think perhaps he thought that I was thinking
those cries rose from among the twisted roots
through which the spirits of the damned were slinking

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blown out by his own stepson."I turned then
to speak to the Poet but he raised:
"Let him be the teacher now, and I will listen."

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Original Tercet:
blown out by his own stepson." I turned then
to speak to the Poet but he raised a hand:
"Let him be the teacher, and I will listen."

This tercet is significant because it shows the symbolism of human reason. Virgil telling Dante that he should let Nessus be the teacher shows that Human Reason does not always know the answer.

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Then, taking me by the hand across the wood,
my Master led me toward the bush. Lamenating,
all its fractures blew out words and blood:

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As a green branch with one end all aflame
will hiss and sputter sap out of the other
as the air escapes--so from that trunk there came

words and blood together, gout by gout.
Startled, I dropped the branch that I was holding
and stood transfixed by fear, half turned about

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Tercet:
At this my guide spoke with such vehemence.
As I had not heard from him in all of hell:
"O Capaneud, by your insolence

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And all together screamed, looking down at me:
"Call Medusa that we many change him to stone!
Too lightly we let Theseus go free."

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And I to him: "But if these waters flow
from the world, above why is this rill met only
along this shelf?" And he to me: "You know

the place is round, and though you have come deep
into the valley through the many circles,
always bearing left along the steep,

you have not traveled any circle through
its total round; hence when new things appear
from time to time, that hardly should surprise you."

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Turn you back and keep your eyes shut tight; for should the Gorgon come and you look at her , never again would you return to light.

This was my guides command. And he turned me about himself, and would not trust my hands alone, but, with his placed on mine, held my eyes shut

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you seem to in advance all time's intent,
if I have heard and understand you correctly;
but you seem to lack all knowledge of the present."

BOO!

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Suddenly there broke on the dirty swell
of the dark marsh a squall of terrible sound
that sent tremor through both shores of hell;

a sound as if to continents of air,
one frigid and one scorching,clashed head on
in a war of winds that stripped the forests bare,

ripped off whole boughs and blew them heater-skelter
along the range of dust it raised before it
making the beast and shepherds run for shelter.

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But tell me: those who lie in the swamp's bowels,
those the wind blows about, those the rain beats, and those who meet and clash with such mad howls--

why are they not punished in the rust-red city
if God's wrath be upon them? and if it is not, why must they grieve through all eternity?

Dante is questioning Virgil as to why people in the first couple circles aren't punished as harshly as the people lower down if they also sinned as well. Virgil tells him that The Ethics of Aristotle state that between incontinence, malice, and bestiality, that incontinence offends God the least.

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Canto XI lines 7-9

I saw an inscription in the stone, and read:
"I guard Anastasius, once Pope,
he whom Photinus led from straight road."

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And when he saw that I delayed a bit
in answering his question, he fell backwards
into the flame, and rose no more from it.

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Men if sound intellect and probity,
weigh with good understanding what lies hidden
behind the veil of my strange allegory!

Dante says intellectuals could understand his allegory of the Three Furies, but he probably refers to the allegory of his whole Commedia too.

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And he: "More than a thousand cram this tomb.
The secon Frederick is here, and the Cardinal
of the Ubaldini. Of the rest let us be dumb."

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Suddenly there broke on the dirty swell
of the dark marsh a squall of terrible sound
that sent a tremor through both shores of Hell;

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ledge by dark ledge. He is one who needs no guide,
and at his touch all gates must spring aside.

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That king whose perfect wisdom transcends all,

made the heavens and posted angels on them

to guide the eternal light that it might fall (Canto VII, lines 72-75).

This quote shows Dante's Christianity reference. Jesus once said "I am the light of the world", and the king mentioned here refers to Jesus. Dante traces the wisdom of human reasons to Jesus and shows his faith.

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Hoarding and squandering wasted all their light and brought them screaming to this brawl of wraiths. You need no words of mine to grasp their plight.

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No twanging bowspring ever shot an arrow that bored the air that rode dead to the mark more swiftly than the flying skiff whose prow

shot towards us over the polluted channel with a single steersman at the helm who called: "So do I have you at last, you whelp of Hell?"

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Stand by me now," I cried, "in my heart's fright.
And if the dead forbid our journey to them,
Let us go back together toward the light."

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So the sweet Guide and Father leaves me here, and I stay on in doubt with yes and no
Dividing all my heart to hope and fear.

In this tercet we see Dante trust for Virgil clash with his fear of the underworld. While Virgil didn't end up being gone long, it still shows how lost Dante would be without him

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"May you weep and wail to all eternity,
for I know you, hell-dog, filthy as you are."
Then he stretched both hands to the boat, but warily

In this tercet, Dante is watching Filippo Argenti suffering in the mud of Styx. He feels no pity seeing him suffer as he sits and watches in the boat. This is the first time the reader sees Dante not feeling pity, because he usually feels sympathetic towards the people suffering in the underworld.

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They were all shouting: "At Filippo Argenti!"
At this, the Florentine, gone wild with spleen,
began to turn his teeth against himself.

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Canto 7 line 125

sullen we lie forever in this ditch'
This litany they gargle in their throats
as if they sang, but lacked the words and pitch"

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"After Filippo Argenti!" all cried together.
The maddog Florentine wheeled at their cry
and bit himself for rage. I saw them gather.

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And as we ran on that dead swamp, the slime
rose before me, and from it a voice cried:
"Who are you that come here before your time?"

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And he to me: "Look to your science again
where it is written: the more a thing is perfect
the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.

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I turned to the sea of all intelligence
saying:"What is the signal and counter signal?
Who is it speaks with across the DIStance?"

(did you like what I did with the DIS?)

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Just as the surge of Charybdis hurls to sea
crashes and breaks upon its countersurge,
so these shades dance and crash eternally.
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I was swept by such a swoon as death is, and I fell, as a corpse might fall, to the dead floor of Hell

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Your citizens nicknamed me Cisco, The Hog:
gluttony was my offense, and for it I lie here rotting like a swollen log.

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and trembling sir of Hell. I pass from light
Into the kingdom of eternal night

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Love, which permits no loved one not to love,
Took me so strongly with delight in him
That we are one in Hell, as we were above.

This quote can be interpreted in many ways.
1. Love made Francesca and Pablo live like living in hell.
2. They add to each others' anguish that reminds each others' sin and love for each other.

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"I was still new to this state of tears when a Mighty One descended here among us,
Crowned with the sign of His victorious years."

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before the age of Christian mysteries,
and so they did not worship God's Trinity
in fullest duty. I am one of those.

This tercet is referring how even those born before the life of Jesus must go to hell. They have not sinned and were virtuous, but since they did not worship "God's Trinity" they can not see the light of heaven. Dante reveres Virgil, but he decided to add that Virgil was born before Jesus so he lives in hell, this might be to bring Virgil down from the pedestal that Dante has put him on.

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Tercet:
by such a swoon as death is, and I fell,
as a corpse might fall, to the dead floor of Hell