[Arnold.]
[78] "Nay, and thou too, old man, in former days wast, as we hear,
happy."--_Iliad_, XXIV, 543.[Arnold.]
[79] "I wailed not, so of stone grew I within;--_they_ wailed."--
_Inferno_, XXXIII, 39, 40.[Arnold.]
[80] "Of such sort hath God, thanked be His mercy, made me, that your
misery toucheth me not, neither doth the flame of this fire strike me."
--_Inferno_, II, 91-93.[Arnold.]
[81] "In His will is our peace."--_Paradiso_, III, 85.[Arnold.]
[82] _Henry IV_, part 2, III, i, 18-20.
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[83] _Hamlet_, V, ii, 361-62.
[84] _Paradise Lost_, I, 599-602.
[85] _Ibid._, I, 108-9.
[86] _Ibid._, IV, 271.
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[87] _Poetics_, Sec. 9.
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[88] ~Provencal~, the language of southern France, from the southern
French _oc_ instead of the northern _oil_ for "yes."
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[89] Dante acknowledges his debt to ~Latini~ (c. 1230-c. 1294), but the
latter was probably not his tutor. He is the author of the _Tesoretto_,
a heptasyllabic Italian poem, and the prose _Livres dou Tresor_, a sort
of encyclopedia of medieval lore, written in French because that
language "is more delightful and more widely known.
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