The Divine Comedy ~ English Edition, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Inferno

Canto XXX: Lines 49-64 of 148
English Edition, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Circle Eight: Bolgia Ten

The Falsifiers (Evil Impersonators, Counterfeiters, False Witnesses)

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49	I saw one made in fashion of a lute,
50	If he had only had the groin cut off
51	Just at the point at which a man is forked.

52	The heavy dropsy, that so disproportions
53	The limbs with humours, which it ill concocts,
54	That the face corresponds not to the belly,

55	Compelled him so to hold his lips apart
56	As does the hectic, who because of thirst
57	One tow'rds the chin, the other upward turns.

58	O ye, who without any torment are,
59	And why I know not, in the world of woe,
60	He said to us, behold, and be attentive

61	Unto the misery of Master Adam;
62	I had while living much of what I wished,
63	And now, alas ! a drop of water crave.

64	The rivulets, that from the verdant hills

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